Children's Bookwatch articles from November 2007

Children's Bookwatch archives from November 2007

Favorite Nursery Rhymes From Mother Goose.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Favorite Nursery Rhymes From Mother Goose Scott Gustafson, illustrator The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. 151 Main Street, Seymour, CT 06483 9780867130973, $19.95 www.greenwichworkshop.com Graced with museum quality artwork by...

Gustafer Yellowgold's Have You Never Been Yellow?(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Children's review)
November 1, 2007... Gustafer Yellowgold's Have You Never Been Yellow? Morgan Taylor Apple-Eye Productions c/o Waldmania! 130 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 AEP-002, $16.99 www.gustaferyellowgold.com A DVD/CD production showcasing...

Oh No, Domino.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Oh No, Domino Kim Adlerman, author Danny Adlerman, musician The Kids at Our House 47 Stoneham Place, Metuchen, NJ 08840 9780970577375, $17.95 Oh No, Domino is a delightful children's picturebook with an accompanying...

The Farmhouse Adventures Of Norm, The Ninja River Mouse.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Farmhouse Adventures Of Norm, The Ninja River Mouse Don Arends Mission Manuscripts Inc. 1000 Jorie Boulevard, Suite 206, Oak Brook, IL 60523 9780976888017, $9.00 www.missionmanuscripts.com "The Farmhouse Adventures Of...

My Favorite Sounds.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... My Favorite Sounds Peggy Snow, author Brian Barber, illustrator Maren Green Publishing Inc. 5525 Memorial Avenue North, Suite 6, Oak Park Heights, MN 55082 9781934277027, $15.99 www.marengreen.com My Favorite Sounds:...

How the Elephants Saved Christmas.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... How the Elephants Saved Christmas Linda L. Olson, author Greta Gretzinger, illustrator Gold Star Press PO Box 1866, Wilson, WY 83014 978142434048, $18.95 www.goldstarpress.com How the Elephants Saved Christmas is a...

When Mother Was Eleven-Foot-Four.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... When Mother Was Eleven-Foot-Four Jerry Camery-Hoggatt, author Mark Elliot, illustrator Baker Publishing Group PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 9780800718367, $18.99 www.bakerpublishinggroup.com When Mother Was...

Christmas Lullabies To Create Memories.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Children's review)
November 1, 2007... Christmas Lullabies To Create Memories Paige Stroman Extreme Dreams, LLC c/o Waldmania! 130 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 PS4630, $15.00 http://www.lullabyland.net/ Showcasing twelves superbly performed songs...

More Feelings Only I Know.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... More Feelings Only I Know Susan McKenna Wayfarer Press, LLC PO Box 948, Union Lake, MI 48387-0948 9780978996512, $14.95 www.wayfarebooks.com Pediatric nurse Susan McKenna has created another helpful picturebook for both...

Why are You My Mother?(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Why are You My Mother? Deborah Hamilton, author Jamie L. Andrules, illustrator Dreams Due Media Inc. PO Box 1018, Firestone, CO 80520 9780978920203, $9.99 www.dreamsdue.com Written by Deborah Hamilton to serve as a...

Incredibly Lonely, That's Me.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Incredibly Lonely, That's Me Ben Keckler, author Dick Davis, illustrator Eagle Creek Publications PO Box 781166, Indianapolis, IN 46278 9780976909323, $17.95 www.eaglecreekpubs.com Incredibly Lonely, That's Me is a...

Still My Grandma.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Still My Grandma Veronique Van den Abeele, author Claude K. Dubois, illustrator Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2140 Oak Industrial Drive, NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505 9780802852233, $16.00 www.eerdmans.com/youngreaders...

Benjamin Franklin.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Benjamin Franklin L. L. Owens ABDO Publishing Company 8000 West 78th Street, Edina, MN 55439 18730 SE 45th Place, Issaquah, WA 98027 (author) 9781599288406, $32.79 Part of the "Essential Lives" biography series of...

Barack Obama.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Barack Obama William Michael Davis OTTN Publishing 16 Risler Street, Stockton, NJ 08559 9781595560247, $16.99 www.amazon.com Part of the "Shapers of America" series, Barack Obama: The Politics of Hope is a remarkably...

Kellie's Book.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Kellie's Book Kellie Greenwall Rayve Publlications PO Box 726, Windsor, CA 95492 9781877810428, $24.95 www.rayveproductions.com Kellie's Book: The Art of the Possible is the children's picturebook autobiography of Kellie...

Dov's Mitzvah.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Dov's Mitzvah Risa Rotman, author Ariel Bauer, illustrator Hachai Publishing 762 Park Place, Brooklyn, NY 11216 9781929628360, $10.95 www.hachai.com Dov's Mitzvah is a rhyming, brightly illustrated children's...

Letter on the Wind: A Chanukah Tale.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Letter on the Wind: A Chanukah Tale Sarah Marwil Lamstein Boyds Mills Press 815 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431 9781932425741, $16.95 www.boydsmillspress.com Ages 4-8 will find here a compelling folk story of a year...

Animals of the Bible from A to Z.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Animals of the Bible from A to Z Alice Camille, author Sarah Evelyn Showalter, illustrator ACTA Publications 5559 West Howard Street, Skokie, IL 60077 9780879463311, $16.95 www.actapublications.com 1-800-397-2282 ...

The Toucan, the Tiger, & the Elephant.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Toucan, the Tiger, & the Elephant Erin Kathleen MacKenzie, author Stephen Adams, illustrator Author House 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403-5161 9781425988067, $18.49 www.authorhouse.com...

Karna.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Karna Vatsala Sperling, author Sandeep Johari, illustrator Inner Traditions International, Ltd. One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767 9781591430735, $15.95 www.innertraditions.com 1-800-246-8648 Karna: The Greatest...

Discovering Black Bears.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Discovering Black Bears Margaret Anderson, Nancy Field, & Karen Stephenson, authors Michael Maydak, illustrator Dog-Eared Publications PO Box 620863, Middleton, WI 53562-0863 9780941042376, $8.95 www.dog-eared.com ...

The Movement.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Children's review)
November 1, 2007... The Movement Figureheads Kiddo Publishing 6506 Schroeder Road, Madison, WI 53711 CD $16.00 www.kiddopublishing.com Winner of a 2007 Parents' Choice Gold Award, The Movement is a music CD of positive-themed hiphop music...

Under The Mystic Sea.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Children's review)
November 1, 2007... Under The Mystic Sea Maria Sangiolo Long Night Moon Music PO Box 285, Pomfret, CT 06258 Waldmania! (publicity) 130 Maywood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 RRR106, $17.99 www.amazon.com Maria Sangiolo is an...

Audacious Audiopuzzles Book #1.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Audiobook review)
November 1, 2007... Audacious Audiopuzzles Book #1 Karen Richards AudioPuzzles 2555 Lincoln Street, Eugene, OR 97405 (author) Leave a Little Room Foundation No ISBN $14.99 www.audiopuzzles.com Written by Karen Richards, a former editor...

A Crooked Kind of Perfect.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)(Children's review)
November 1, 2007... A Crooked Kind of Perfect Linda Urban, author Tai Alexandra Ricci, narrator Listening Library, Inc. 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 9780739359617, $25.00 www.listeninglibrary.com 1-800-726-0600 A Crooked Kind of...

Shout Factory.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Video recording review)
November 1, 2007... Shout Factory c/o Beth Blenz-Clucas Publicity 5505 SW Illinois Street, Portland, OR 97221 www.amazon.com blenzb@aol.com Two delightful DVDs in the "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast" series are sure to entertain young children....

Thomas' Halloween Adventures.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Video recording review)
November 1, 2007... Thomas' Halloween Adventures Anchor Bay Entertainment 1699 Stutz Drive, Troy, MI 48084 DVD $14.98 www.anchorbayentertainment.com www.starzhoment.com Thomas' Halloween Adventures is the latest DVD in the Thomas & Friends...

Just the Facts: Microwave Ovens.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
November 1, 2007... Just the Facts: Microwave Ovens Learning ZoneXpress PO Box 1022, Owatonna, MN 55060 1571754636, $49.95 www.learningzonexpress.com Chef Jonathan Locke explains how basic microwave ovens cook food in Just the Facts: Microwave...

Suzi Shelton Live at Southpaw.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)(Children's review)
November 1, 2007... Suzi Shelton Live at Southpaw Sur Media Services c/o Beth Blenz-Clucas Publicity 5505 SW Illinois Street, Portland, OR 97221 DVD $20.00 www.suzishelton.com www.amazon.com blenzb@aol.com Suzi Shelton Live at Southpaw is a...

Let The Kids Cook!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Let The Kids Cook! Jo Anne Larzik Now We're Cookin'! Kids PO Box 122, Monmouth Beach, NJ 07750 9780978921309, $12.95 www.nowwerecookinkids.com A soft cover cookbook for children with a spiral binding that allows for the...

The Usborne Yummy Little Cookbook.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Usborne Yummy Little Cookbook Rebecca Gilpin & Catherine Atkinson EDC Publishing PO Box 470663, Tulsa, OK 74146-6515 9780794516550, $7.99 www.edcpub.com 1-800-475-4522 The collaboration of Rebecca Gilpin and Catherine...

Smart Apple Media.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Smart Apple Media c/o Black Rabbit Books PO Box 3263, Mankato, MN 56002 www.blackrabbitbooks.com Dinosaurs are the perennial favorites of curious children. Six representative categories of dinosaur are showcased for elementary...

Marshall Cavendish.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 $19.95 each www.marshallcavendish.us 'The Elements' series expands with more excellent element-by-element coverages young scientists in grades 3-5 will appreciate. The...

How Many Spots Have I Got?(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... How Many Spots Have I Got? Lauren A. McCabe & Nancy Pelham Foulke Our Child Press PO Box 4379, Philadelphia, PA 19118-8379 1893516024, $16.00 www.ourchildpress.com Engagingly written by Lauren A. McCabe and enhanced with...

Life's a Ball with Billy the Baseball.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Life's a Ball with Billy the Baseball Mark Cervasio Llumina Stars 7915 W. McNab Road, Tamarac, FL 33321 160 West Myrtle Avenue, Lower Southhampton, PA 19053 (author) 9781933626161, $12.95 www.llumina.com Written by...

Mishka.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Mishka Adrienne Ehlert Bashista, author Miranda R. Mueller, illustrator DRT Press PO Box 427, Pittsboro, NC 27312 9781933084015, $16.95 Mishka: An Adoption Tale is a children's picturebook about a Western family's...

Tenzin's Deer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Tenzin's Deer Barbara Soros, author Danuta Mayer, illustrator Barefoot Books 3 Bow Street, 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 9781905236572, $16.99 www.barefootbooks.com Tibetan medicine student Barbara Soros presents...

Armando and the Blue Tarp School.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Armando and the Blue Tarp School Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinkerton Josephson, authors Hernan Sosa, illustrator Lee & Low Books 95 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 9781584302780, $16.95 www.leeandlow.com Armando...

The Paper Dragonfly.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Paper Dragonfly Mary Watson Shenanigan Books 129 West End Avenue, Summit, NJ 07901 9780972661430, $15.95 www.sheniganbooks.com The Paper Dragonfly is a simple children's picturebook set in feudal Japan. A young boy...

The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a P.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a P Jim Peluso Angelcrest Publishing PO Box 27, Syosset, NY 11791 9780979517211, $14.95 The Purple Porpoise Preserves the Planet with a P is a rhyming children's picturebook...

The Kaleidoscope Kid.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Kaleidoscope Kid Elaine Marie Larson, author Vivian Strand, illustrator APC PO Box 23173, Shawnee Mission, KS 66283-0173 9781931282413, $19.95 www.asperger.net The Kaleidoscope Kid: Focusing on the Strengths of...

The Little Germ That Could ... Creations.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Little Germ That Could... Creations 6815 Edgewater Drive, #108, Coral Gables, FL 33133 1-305-775-0181 altoffoli@yahoo.com When author and illustrator Andrew Toffoli became aware of a lack of suitable teaching tools for...

Houghton Mifflin.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Ewetopia isn't comfortable in her own wool, and is determined to impress others--but all her attempts fall flat, until the Woolyones' Costume Ball...

Harry Abrams.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Harry Abrams 115 West 18th Street, New York NY 10011 www.abramsyoungreaders.com Andrea Beaty's IGGY PECK, ARCHITECT (081091106X, $15.95) tells of an architect who has been one 'since age two' when he builds a great tower in an...

Tundra Books.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Tundra Books Box 1030, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 www.tundrabooks.com Marie-Danielle Croteau's MR. GAUGUIN'S HEART (9780887768248, $18.95) is a winning story translated by Susan Ouriou and illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, telling of...

Farrar Straus Giroux.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Farrar Straus Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York NY 10003 www.fsgkidsbooks.com It's lunchtime in the old white cabin but Cat, Duck and Squirrel haven't got a ripe pumpkin for the Pumpkin Soup in Helen Cooper's Delicious!...

Greenwillow.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Greenwillow c/o HarperCollins Children's Books 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 www.harpercollinschildrens.com 1-800-242-7737 A watchful wizard waits alone within his tower and ponders evil in Jack Prelutsky's...

Marshall Cavendish.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 $16.99 each www.marshallcavendish.us Jacqueline Davies' THE HOUSE TAKES A VACATION (9780761453314) receives Lee White's drawings and tells of a house who decides it...

Simon & Schuster/McElderry Books.(Bear Feels Sick; Clorinda Takes Flight)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Simon & Schuster/McElderry Books 1230 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10020 www.simonsayskids.com Kids ages 3-7 will relish the fine story of autumn which has come to the woods, making poor Bear feel sick--too sick to play with his...

Harcourt Children's Books.(Little Rat Makes Music; Psst!)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Harcourt Children's Books 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495 www.harcourtbooks.com 1-800-543-1918 Monika Bang-Campbell's LITTLE RAT MAKES MUSIC (9780152053055, $15.00) will reach ages 6-9 with its easy reader about...

Random House/Knopf.(Donkey Donkey; Young Pele: Soccer's First Star; Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Random House/Knopf c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids 1-800-726-0600 Roger Duvoisin's DONKEY DONKEY (9780375840654, $15.99) tells of a donkey who has the...

G.P. Putnam's Sons.(The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes!)(Leaves)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... G.P. Putnam's Sons 345 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com/youngreaders Lynn Truss' THE GIRL'S LIKE SPAGHETTI: WHY YOU CAN'T MANAGE WITHOUT APOSTROPHES (9780399247064, $16.99) is an excellent grammar fun book which...

Kane/Miller Book Publishers.(Ziba Came on a Boat; Incredibly Happy Life of Riley; Bobbie Dazzler)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Kane/Miller Book Publishers Box 8515, La Jolla, CA 92038 www.kanemiller.com Liz Lofthouse's ZIBA CAME ON A BOAT (9781933605524, $15.95) receives Robert Ingpen's dark but involving drawings as it tells of a girl who remembers all...

Way Up in the Arctic.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Way Up in the Arctic Jennifer Ward Rising Moon Box 1389, Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1389 0873589289, $15.95 www.risingmoonbooks.com WAY UP IN THE ARCTIC is set to the tune of 'Over in the Meadow' and provides kids with a...

A Child's Guide to Common Household Monsters.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... A Child's Guide to Common Household Monsters James Otis Thach Front Street 815 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 19431 9781932425581, $16.95 www.frontstreetbooks.com What can a young girl do when she realizes her house is full...

Dinosaurs across America.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Dinosaurs Across America Phi Yeh NBM Publishing 40 Exchange Place, Suite 1308, New York NY 10005 156163509X, $12.95 www.nbmpublishing.com What is the best way to learn U.S. geography? Through Patrick Rabbit and a fun...

Converting Kate.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Converting Kate Beckie Weinheimer Viking Press 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 TCI Smith Publicity (publicity) 2 Split Rock Drive, Suite 12, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 0670061522, $16.99 www.penguin.com...

Marshall Cavendish.(simply Sarah: Patches and Scratches)(Emma Dilemma and the Two Nannies)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591 www.marshallcavendish.us Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's SIMPLY SARAH: PATCHES AND SCRATCHES (9780761453475, $14.99) provides elementary to middle school fiction readers with...

Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.(The Hoboken Chicken Emergency; Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Atheneum/Simon & Schuster c/o Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 1230 Avenue of the Americas, 4th floor, New York, NY 10020 www.simonsayskids.com 1-800-223-2336 Daniel Pinkwater's THE HOBOKEN CHICKEN EMERGENCY (141692809X,...

The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands In California.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands In California Mary Hershey Penguin Group 345 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014 9781591541507, $15.99 www.penguin.com/teens Alastair Hudson is a teen with a...

Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer Thatcher Heldring Delacorte Press c/o Random House Children's Books 1745 Broadway, 10-1, New York, NY 10019 9780385733908, $14.99 www.randomhouse.com/kids 1-800-726-0600 Toby...

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane Polly Horvath Farrar Straus Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York NY 10003 0374315531, $17.00 www.fsgkidsbooks.com An accident leaves teen cousins Meline and Jocelyn parentless and they...