Children's Bookwatch articles from October 2004

Children's Bookwatch archives from October 2004

The End Of Forever.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The End Of Forever Denise Page Caraher Alexie Books PO Box 3843, Carmel, IN 46082 1578601282 $14.00 alexiebooks.com The End Of Forever: The Story Of Mekinges And William Conner by Denise Page Caraher is a novel for young...

EDC Publishing.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... EDC Publishing PO Box 470663, Tulsa, OK 74146-6515 www.edcpub.com www.ubah.com Sticker books are perennial favorites with young readers and a certain sure way to engage attention in a pastime activity that is as informative as it...

Spicy Hot Colors.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Spicy Hot Colors Sherry Shahan August House Little Folk 201 E. Markham, Little Rock, AR 72201 0874837413 $16.95 augusthouse.com From ballet to books: Sherry Shahan is a dancer/author who in Spicy Hot Colors is passionate...

Orchard Books.
October 1, 2004... Orchard Books 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 1-800-242-7737 www.scholastic.com Just in time for Halloween recommendation are some excellent exciting fiction titles! Tony Mitton's Spooky Hour (04396-03730, $16.95) receives the...

I Can, Can You?(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... I Can, Can You? Marjorie W. Pitzer Woodbine House 6510 Bells Mill Rd, Bethesda, MD 20817 1890627577 $10.95 www.amazon.com I Can, Can You? is a board book featuring bright color photographs of babies and toddlers with Down...

Way Cool Science: Space Trekkers.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Way Cool Science: Space Trekkers Thinkeroo 88 Valley Street, Bristol, CT 06010 1929944926 $14.95 www.amazon.com Intended for young people age 5 and up, Way Cool Science: Space Trekkers is an engaging introduction on DVD to the...

D Is For Democracy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... D Is For Democracy Elissa Grodin & Victor Juhasz Sleeping Bear Press 10911 Technology Place, San Diego, CA 92127 www.sleepingbearpress.com 1585362344 $16.95 1-800-231-5163 Clearly written by Elissa Grodin and...

Delacorte/Knopf Press.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Delacorte/Knopf Press 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids Peter Bailey provides the warm black and white embellishments to Allan Ahlberg's The Improbable Cat (0385731868 $9.95), a departure from his strictly...

Welcome To Lizard Lounge.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Welcome To Lizard Lounge Laura Hambleton Tuttle Publishing 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon, VT 05759-9436 1840593903 $7.95 tuttlepublishing.com Welcome To Lizard Lounge is an ideal children's picturebook where Laura...

Farrar Straus Giroux.
October 1, 2004... Farrar Straus Giroux 19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003 www.fsgkids.com Dayle Ann Dodds' Henry's Amazing Machine (0374329532, $16.50) features zany and fun drawings by Krysten Brooker and a story perfect for the amateur young...

Random House/Knopf.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Random House/Knopf 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids Four new arrivals are recommended picks for discriminating libraries seeking something different. A sampler of Raffi songs are included with his book...

Our Community Garden.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Our Community Garden Barbara Pollack Beyond Words 20827 N.W. Cornell Rd. #500, Hillsboro, OR 97214 No ISBN $TBA www.beyondword.com How is a community garden different from a personal backyard garden? Our Community Garden...

Harcourt.
October 1, 2004... Harcourt 525 B Street, #1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495 www.HarcourtBooks.com Judy Sierra's What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile? (0152164456, $16.00) is a recommended pick for ages 3-7, telling of monkeys who continually thwart Mr....

Candlewick Press.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Candlewick Press 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140 1-800-526-0275 www.candlewick.com John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell join forces in an excellent and highly recommended picturebook mystery for kids with good reading skills...

Penguin Group.
October 1, 2004... Penguin Group 345 Hudson St., New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com The Penguin Group has accumulated a host of imprints and fine picturebook writers and the result is an impressive seasonal list of fine authors and artists. Some of...

Little, Brown & Company.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Little, Brown & Company 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 1-800-759-0190 www.lb-kids.com Four new titles from Little, Brown provide kids with four exceptional stories and fun plots. David T. Greenberg's Snakes!...

Hazel Nutt Alien Hunter.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Hazel Nutt Alien Hunter David Elliott Holiday House 425 Madison, New York NY 10017 082341843X $16.95 holidayhouse.com Captain Hazel Nutt is a space explorer on a mission to explore uncharted realms--which includes here...

Celestine And The Magical Geranium.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Celestine And The Magical Geranium Barbara Sala Trafford Publishing 2333 Government Street, Suite 6E, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8T 4P4 1412019052 $19.95 www.trafford.com Imaginatively written and colorfully illustrated for...

Houghton Mifflin.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116 www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Arthur Geisert is true master of the wordless picturebook (especially when it involves pigs), and Pigaroons (0618410589, $16.00) doesn't disappoint,...

ZOOper Phonics.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
October 1, 2004... ZOOper Phonics Babyscapes Andrea Blain (publicity) PO Box 370238, Las Vegas, NV 89137-0238 www.babyscapes.com 0974430137 $14.95 1-888-441-5437 Part of the Babyscapes "ZOOper Phonics" series of instructional series of...

Families Of Vietnam.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Families Of Vietnam Master Communications, Inc. c/o Andrea Blain Public Relations, Inc. 9750 Crawford Ave., Skokie, IL 60076 www.familiesoftheworld.com 1888194456 $29.95 1-800-765-5885 The newest edition to the...

The A To Z Symphony.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
October 1, 2004... The A To Z Symphony Classical Fun Music Andrea Blain (publicity) 3067 Kapok Kove Drive, Clearwater, FL 33759 DVD $19.95 atozsymphony.com The A To Z Symphony is a music education oriented DVD comprised of twenty-six...

The Lerner Publishing Group.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Lerner Publishing Group 241 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55401-1607 1-800-328-4929 www.lernerbooks.com Cookbooks for kids are always popular, especially when they make learning opportunities in the kitchen as fun as they are...

Children's Press/Welcome Books.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Children's Press/Welcome Books 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 $16.95 each 1-800-242-7737 Welcome Books are excellent introductory picture books for young nonfiction readers: each includes 24 pages of large-print information...

Owl Puke.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Owl Puke Jane Hammerslough Workman Publishing Company 708 Broadway, NY, NY 10003-9555 0761131868 $13.95 www.workman.com Jane Hammerslough's multimedia kit Owl Puke isn't suitable for library lending, but that doesn't mean...

The Creative Company.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Creative Company 123 So. Broad St, Mankato, MN 56002 $18.95 each 1-800-445-6209 The Creative Company's "Looking At Small Mammals" series by Sally Morgan is a collection of six books, each of which focuses upon diverse species...

Marshall Cavendish/Benchmark.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Marshall Cavendish/Benchmark 99 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown NY 10591 $17.95 each www.marshallcavendish.com The bright, inviting covers of Benchmark Book's latest 'Animals' series additions are intended as much for browsing as for...

Idiot!(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Idiot! Colin Neenan Brown Barn Books 119 Kettle Creek Road, Weston CT 06883 www.brownbarnbooks.com 0974648116 $12.95 1-888-227-3308 Colin Neenan's engagingly written novel Idiot! is the story of a sixteen-year-old...

Here Today.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Here Today Ann M. Martin Scholastic 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 0439579449 $16.95 1-800-242-7737 Ellie is one of the Witch Tree Lane kids, living on the 'wrong side of town' with a mother who longs for a famous life...

Just Mrs. Goose.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Just Mrs. Goose Miriam Clark Potter Green Mansion Press 501 E. 79th St., #16-A, NY, NY 10021 www.greenmansionpress.com 0974645702 $12.95 www.amazon.com Written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter, Just Mrs.goose is...

Una's Jungle Journey.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Una's Jungle Journey Fred Otis Gibson Seven Locks Press 3100 West Warner Avenue, Suite 8, Santa Ana, CA 92704 www.sevenlockspublishing.com 1883697476 $14.95 1-800-354-5348 Una's Jungle Journey by Fred Otis Gibson is...

Runt The Brave.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Runt The Brave Daniel Schwabauer Clear Water Press PO Box 62, Olathe, KS 66051 www.clearwaterpress.com 0974297216 $16.99 1-888-481-4550 Runt The Brave by Daniel Schwabauer (Editor of Crosswind Comics) is a fantastic...

A Drop Of Rain.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A Drop Of Rain Heather Kirk Napoleon Publishing 1005-3266 Young Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3P6 www.napoleonpublishing.com 1894917103 $8.95 1-877-730-9052 A deftly written novel which is especially...

Daisy The Cripple Creek Donkey.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Daisy The Cripple Creek Donkey Lyn Bezek Western Reflections Publishing Co. 219 Main Street, Montrose, CO 81401 www.westernreflectionspub.com 1932738096 $7.95 1-800-993-4490 Daisy The Cripple Creek Donkey is author...

Professor Angelicus Visits The Big Blue Ball.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Professor Angelicus Visits The Big Blue Ball L. B. B. Ward MumbleFish Books PO Box 139, Pt. Pleasant, PA 18950 0975964909 $19.95 1-866-MUMBLES Professor Angelicus Visits The Big Blue Ball is a delightful adventure novel...

Aesock's Travels.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Aesock's Travels Gretchen McMasters Stargazer Publishing Company c/o Penny C. Sansevieri, Author Services 5485 Repecho Drive, Ste L204, San Diego, CA 92124 0971375690 $5.99 www.amazon.com Aesock's Travels is a...

The Week Of The Horse.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Week Of The Horse Jocelyn Reekie Raincoast Books 9050 Shaughnessy Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6P 6E5 1551926555 $8.95 raincoast.com The Week Of The Horse by author Jocelyn Reekie is a young adult novel, telling...

Fishing With Balloons.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Fishing With Balloons Dion Oxton House Publishers PO Box 209, Farmington, ME 04938 1881929345 $5.95 www.oxtonhouse.com In Fishing With Ballons, young readers are introduced to Sam, who is ten years old and has physical...

The Dark Dreamweaver.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Dark Dreamweaver Nick Ruth Imaginator Press 6400 Baltimore National Park, #194, Baltimore, MD 21228-3915 www.ImaginatorPress.com 0974560316 $16.95 1-888-203-4068 The first book of Nick Ruth's "The Remin...

Trek through Tangleroot.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Trek Through Tangleroot David Anthony & Charles David Sigil Publishing PO Box 824, Leland, MI 49654 www.sigilpublishing.com 097284614X $5.99 knightscares.com The fifth book of the "Knightscares" action fantasy...

I Am A Torah.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... I Am A Torah Beily Paluch & Patti Argoff Hachai Publishing 156 Chester Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218 1929628188 $5.95 www.hachai.com Brightly colored with the illustrations of Patti Argoff, I Am Torah by Beily Paluch is a...

The Lord Is My Shepherd.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Lord Is My Shepherd Christopher L. Webber Morehouse Publishing 15 East 26th Street, #17, New York, NY 10010-1505 www.morehousepublishing.com 081921986X $9.95 1-800-561-7704 Engagingly illustrated by Preston...

Baby Bible ABC.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Baby Bible ABC Robin Currie Cook Communications 4050 Lee Vance View, Colorado Springs, CO 80918 www.cookministries.com 0781439078 $10.99 1-800-323-7543 Cheerfully illustrated by Cindy Brownsberger Adams, Baby Bible...

Under A Big Bright Yellow Umbrella.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... Under A Big Bright Yellow Umbrella Yosi Yosi Music, LLC PO Box 354, Island Hts., NJ 08732 $14.99 www.YosiMusic.com Under A Big Bright Yellow Umbrella is a cheery music CD featuring the guitar play of Yosi, who happens to...

Christmas Favorites.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... Christmas Favorites Madacy Kids Andrea Blain (publicity) 6 Lansing Square, Suite 121, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M2J 1T5 MK2-50550 $7.98 1-416-756-2800 Christmas Favorites is a lovely collection of twenty gentle...

American Sign Language.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... American Sign Language Deborah Kent Franklin Watts 557 Broadway, New York NY 10012 053112018X $17.95 1-800-242-7737 American Sign Language blends facial, hand and body movements for communication with the deaf, yet many...

Bonjour les Amis, Volume 1.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Bonjour les Amis, Volume 1 Monterey Media Inc. 566 St. Charles Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-3901 1569946426 $19.95 1-800-424-2593 Bonjour Les Amis is volume one of a 3-DVD set, written and produced under the direction of...

Hola Amigos, Volume 1.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Hola Amigos, Volume 1 Monterey Media, Inc. 566 St. Charles Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-3901 1569946396 $19.95 1-800-424-2593 Hola Amigos is volume 1 of a 3-DVD set, written and produced by language experts specifically to...