Children's Bookwatch articles from May 2005

Children's Bookwatch archives from May 2005

After You Lose Someone You Love.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... After You Lose Someone You Love Amy, Allie, and David Dennison Free Spirit Publishing, Inc. 217 Fifth Avenue North, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401-1299 1575421690 $9.95 www.freespirit.com After You Lose Someone You Love:...

Saying Goodbye to a Grandparent.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Saying Goodbye To A Grandparent Chrysalis/Smart Apple Media 1980 Lookout Dr, N. Mankato, MN 56003 1932333169 $27.10 www.amazon.com The Chrysalis 'Saying Goodbye To...' series from Smart Apple Media teaches children how to...

Color, Color, Where Are You, Color?(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Color, Color, Where Are You, Color? Mary Koski Trellis Publishing PO Box 16141, Duluth, MN 55816 1930650353 $14.95 www.amazon.com The color virtually explodes from the pages of Color, Color, Where Are You, Color? by Mary...

For the Love of Chimps.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... For The Love Of Chimps Martha E. Kendall Perfection Learning Corporation 10520 New York Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50322 0789164027 $8.95 perfectionlearning.com Packed with color photography throughout, For the Love of...

Crabtree Publishing Company.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Crabtree Publishing Company 350 Fifth Avenue, #308, NY, NY 10118 1-800-387-7650 www.crabtreebooks.com Two new series sets by Crabtree provide thematic animal study topics for picturebook learners in grades 2-4. The 'Endangered'...

All About Sharks!(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... All About Sharks! Jim Arnosky Scholastic Press 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 0590481665 $15.95 www.scholastic.com Jim Arnosky's All About Sharks deserves ongoing attention for its attraction for younger picturebook...

The Legend of the Old Man of the Mountain.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Legend Of The Old Man Of The Mountain Denise Ortakales & Robert Crawford Sleeping Bear Press 10911 Technology Place, San Diego, CA 92127 www.sleepingbearpress.com 1585362360 $17.95 1-800-231-5163 Enhanced...

Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
May 1, 2005... Our Principal Promised To Kiss a Pig Kalli Dakos & Alicia DesMarteau Albert Whitman & Company 6340 Oakton Street, Morton Grove, IL 60053-2723 www.albertwhitman.com 0807566292 $15.95 1-800-255-7675 Carl DiRocco...

Do Princesses Really Kiss Frogs?(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Do Princesses Really Kiss Frogs? Carmela LaVigna Coyle Rising Moon/Northland Publishing PO Box 1389, Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1389 0873588800 $15.95 risingmoon.com Mike Gordon's large and appealing drawings adeptly illustrate...

Farrar Straus Giroux.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Farrar Straus Giroux 19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003 www.fsgkidsbooks.com Jane Cutler's deftly written Rose And Riley (0374363404, $15.00) includes engaging color drawings by Thomas F. Yezerski as it tells of a vole and a...

Brothers and Sisters.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Brothers And Sisters Rob Lewis Hodder/Trafalgar Square, Dist. www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com 0340866004 $16.99 1-800-423-4525 He's energetic and untidy; she's tricky and gets him into trouble Brothers And Sisters uses two...

Whuppity Storrie.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Whuppity Storrie John Warren Stewig Holiday House 425 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10017 0823417492 $16.95 holidayhouse.com Preston McDaniels has illustrated many other children's books, and kids with good reading skills...

Hyperion Books.(My Kindergarten)(The Secret Seder)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Hyperion Books 77 West 66th St., NY, NY 10023-6298 www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com Emily, Roger and their classmates are having a fine kindergarten year: Miss Cribbage always has fun activities for them to do, and learning...

The Money in the Honey.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Money In The Honey Aidel Backman Merkos Publications 291 Kingston Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11213 0826600301 $13.00 kehotonline.com Aidel Backman adapts and illustrates The Money In The Honey, which requires good reading...

Joe Van Der Katt and the Great Picket Fence.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Joe Van Der Katt And The Great Picket Fence Peter J. Welling Pelican Publishing 1000 Burmaster St., Gretna, LA 70053 www.pelicanpub.com 9781589802810 $15.95 1-800-843-1724 The working cats in the New York Dutch...

Abrams.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Abrams 115 W. 18th St., New York NY 10011 www.abramsbooks.com Laurent de Brunhoff's Babar's Busy Year (0810958643, $9.95) tells of Babar's seasonal routines, from gathering apples and corn in the fall and skiing in winter to...

Boyds Mills Press.(A Splendid Friend)(Over In The Pink House)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Boyds Mills Press 815 Church St., Honesdale, PA 189431 Bear wants to read, write and think: his friend Goose wants to talk, talk talk. How can they be friends? Suzanne Bloom's A Splendid Friend, Indeed (1590782860 $15.95) provides a...

Zoo School.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Zoo School Laurie Miller Hornik Clarion Books 215 Park Avenue S., NY, NY 10003 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com 0618342044 $16.00 1-800-225-3362 Kitty and friends have just entered a strange Zoo School where something...

Simon & Schuster.(The Magician's Boy)(The Wedding Planner's Daughter)(The Valley Of Secrets)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Simon & Schuster 1230 Ave. of Americas, NY, NY 10020 www.simonsayskids.com Susan Cooper's The Magician's Boy (06-8987622X, $14.95) tells of Boy, who does all the grunt work for a magician who puts on a puppet play. One day he...

Random/Knopf/Delacorte Press.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... Random/Knopf/Delacorte Press 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids If it's leisure choices that are needed for elementary through middle school readers, be sure to check out these latest publications from...

Orchard Books.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... Orchard Books 557 Broadway, NY, NY 10012-3999 www.scholastic.com Orchard Books offers some of the best leisure reads available for advanced elementary to middle school grade levels: these picks from their latest list represent...

Houghton Mifflin.(Falcon And The Carousel Of Time)(Lessons)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Luli Gray's Falcon And The Carousel Of Time (0618448950, $15.00) tells of pre-teen falcon, who is too old for magic and fantasy but has a family...

Lost in America.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Lost In America Marilyn Sachs Roaring Brook Press c/o The Millbrook Press 2 Old New Milford Road , Brookfield, CT 06804 1596430400 $16.95 1-800-462-4703 Set just after World War II, Lost In America is the story of a...

Harcourt.(Ice Drift)(Brooklyn Rose)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Harcourt 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495 www.harcourtbooks.com Theodore Taylor's Ice Drift (0152050817, $16.00) is set in 1868: teen Alika and his younger brouther are hunting seals on an ice floe attached to...

Candlewick Press.(No Small Thing)(Hattie On Her Way)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Candlewick Press 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140 www.candlewick.com Natalie Ghent's No Small Thing (07636-24225, $15.99) tells of three siblings who discover an ad for a free pony, and who find their struggling single...

Kick to Get Fit Jr. For Kids.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
May 1, 2005... Kick To Get Fit Jr. For Kids Rich Grogan Grogan Fitness c/o 411 Video Information PO Box 1223, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 www.grogansfitness.com $18.95 1-877-438-6348 411videoinfo.com Led by Rich Grogan, a certified...

Off Da Hook F-Troop Style.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
May 1, 2005... Off Da Hook F-Troop Style Fenton "F-Troop" Fulgham Well Go USA c/o 411 Video Information PO Box 1223, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 www.411videoinfo.com $24.95 www.wellgousa.com Off Da Hook F-Troop Style is an exciting...

The Declaration of Independence.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
May 1, 2005... The Declaration Of Independence Goldhil Home Media International 5284 Adolfo Road, Camarillo, CA 93012 www.goldhil.com 1594435332 $24.95 1-800-250-8760 The latest in the "Just the Facts" learning series, The Declaration...

KOCH Vision.(X-Treme Sports & Other Action Adventures)(Gators & Dragons And Other Wild Beasts )(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
May 1, 2005... KOCH Vision 22 Harbor Park Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050 www.kochvision.com www.popularmechanics.com KOCH Vision presents two brand-new releases in the Popular Mechanics for Kids DVD series, which as won multiple awards...

Rachel Carson.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Rachel Carson Thomas Locker & Joseph Bruchac Fulcrum Publishing 16100 Table Mountain Parkway, #300, Golden, Colorado 80403 www.fulcrum-books.com 1555914829 $17.95 1-800-992-2908 Rachel Carson was best known for her...

Morgan Reynolds.(Ulysses S. Grant, Defender Of The Union)(Robert E Lee: First Solider Of The Confederacy)(A. Philip Randolph And The African-American Labor Movement)(Victory In Destruction: The Story Of William Tecumseh Sherman)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Morgan Reynolds 620 S. Elm St. #223, Greensboro, NC 27406 $24.95 Each morganreynolds.com Four new biographical guides are good solid picks for middle school grades, each offering almost two hundred pages of facts on major U.S....

Benchmark/Marshall Cavendish.(Samuel De Champlain)(Vasco Nunez De Balboa)(Juan Ponce De Leon)(Zebulon Pike)(Vasco De Gama)(Francisco Pizarro)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Benchmark/Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown NY 10591 $20.95 each www.marshallcavendish.com The third set of Benchmark's 'Great Explorations' series is out, this reaching grades 4-6 with an excellent series of...

Blackbirch Press/Gale.(Abenaki)(Pima)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Blackbirch Press/Gale PO Box 9081, Farmington Hills MI 48333 www.gale.com/blackbirch Two new additions to the 'Tribes of Native America' series collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Marla Felkins Ruan & Linda Schmittroth for...

Revealed Rainforest.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Revealed Rainforest Jen Green DK Publishing 375 Hudson Street, NY, NY 10014-3657 0756605385 $12.99 www.dk.com Lovely see-through pages present a transparent layer of color over each fine section of graphics and photos,...

Cool Woods.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cool Woods Jane Drake & Ann Love Tundra Books PO Box 1030, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 0887766080 $19.95 tundrabooks.com There are plenty of children's books about forests, but Cool Woods: A Trip Around The World's Boreal...

Art ABCs.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 1, 2005... Art ABCs Patricia Kodet Art ABC, Inc. c/o Crystal Productions, dist. 1812 Johns Dr., Glenview, IL 60025-1681 www.artabcs.com crystalproductions.com CP1940 $175.00 1-800-255-8629 An educational CD-ROM compatible...

Imagine That!(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Imagine That! Joyce Raimondo Watson Guptill 770 Broadway, New York N 10003 www.watsonguptill.com 0823025020 $12.95 1-800-451-1741 Joining others in the 'Art Explorers' series for elementary-level readers is Imagine...

Beliefs and Cultures: Sikh.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Beliefs And Cultures: Sikh Catherine Chambers Sea to Sea 1980 Lookout Dr, N. Mankato, MN 56003 1932889140 $27.10 www.amazon.com Pair an information book with an activity guide of supporting hands-on projects, pack it into...

Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc.(A Little Green Dandelion)(So Many Strawberries)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc. PO Box 585, Katonah, NY 10536 www.RCOwen.com 1-800-336-5588 Two new, spineless paperback, easy reader picturebooks from Richard C. Owen Publishers are sure to delight the very young. A Little Green...

Creative Education.(The Mona Lisa)(Fighting Back)(Life at Night)(The Light Bulb)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Creative Education 123 S. Broad St., Mankato, MN 56001 Two fine new additions to the series What In The World ($28.50 Each ) will reach grades 4-6 with coverages which lend to understanding. Jill Kalz's The Mona Lisa (1583412727)...

Enslow Publishers.(Gloria Estefan: Never Give Up)(The Sioux: A Proud People)(What Does A Police Officer Do?)(The Pacific Ocean)(Venus)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Enslow Publishers PO Box 398, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 www.enslow.com Three new titles provide youngsters in grades 3-5 with excellent reads. Barbara Kramer's Gloria Estefan: Never Give Up (076602380X, $23.93) provides 48 pages...

Thomson/Gale.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Thomson/Gale PO Box 9081, Farmington Hills MI 48333 www.gale.com/kidhaven Almost fifty pages of basic introductory information per book makes the "Life During The Great Civilizations" series ($23.70 each) most accessible to grades...

Millbrook Press.(More Than Meets The Eye: Seeing Art With All Five Senses)(Grandma Hekmatt Remembers)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Millbrook Press 2 Old New Milford Road, Brookfield, CT 06804 www.millbrookpress.com Bob Raczka's More Than Meets The Eye: Seeing Art With All Five Senses (0761327975) is a top pick for any elementary- grade library seeking...

Stargazer Books.(Volcanoes)(Earthquakes)(Spain And The Spanish )(Italy And The Italians)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Stargazer Books PO Box 227, Mankato, MN 56002 Two new series collections provide kids in grades 3-5 with excellent reference materials suitable for reports. New to the 'Natural Disasters' series ($27.10 each) are Volcanoes...

Gareth Stevens.(Using Math To Be A Zoo Vet)(Using Math To Win A Grand Prix)(Using Math To Solve A Crime)(Using Math To Fly A Jumbo Jet)(Using Math To Conquer Extreme Sports)(Using Math To Create A Movie Stunt)(Figures In Art)(Faces in Art)(Food in Art)(Houses in Art)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Gareth Stevens 330 W. Olive #100, Milwaukee, WI 53212 www.garethstevens.com How do you use math in everyday life? Plenty of books provide problems to solve and formulas to memorize, but the "Mathworks" series ($18.50 each) goes a...

Lerner Publishing Group.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Lerner Publishing Group 1251 Washington Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401-1036 1-800-328-4929 www.lernerbooks.com "Continents" is a new and informationally impressive series for children grades K-3 showcasing the culture,...