Children's Bookwatch articles from September 2006

Children's Bookwatch archives from September 2006

Ice Cream: The Full Scoop.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Ice Cream: The Full Scoop Gail Gibbons Holiday House 425 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10017 0823420000 $16.95 holidayhouse.com Ice Cream: The Full Scoop describes the history of home and commercial ice cream making, from its...

Freaky Facts About Natural Disasters.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Freaky Facts About Natural Disasters T&N Children's Publishing 11571 K-Tel Drive, Minnetonka, MN 55343 1587285398 $13.95 tnkidsbooks.com Plenty of books discuss weather patterns and many survey single weather problems such as...

Nurturing Your Children Press.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Nurturing Your Children Press PO Box 5066, Larkspur, CA 94977 $15.00 each nurturingyourchildren.com Engagingly written by Brenda Bercuh (a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Child and Family Mental...

So You Think You Know His Dark Materials?(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... So You Think You Know His Dark Materials? Hodder Children's/Trafalgar Square PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257 www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com 0349811867 $8.96 1-800-423-4525 Any fan of Philip...

When the New Baby Comes, I'm Moving Out.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... When The New Baby Comes, I'm Moving Out Martha Alexander Charlesbridge Publishing 85 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472 1570916780 $9.95 charlesbridge.com Young Oliver is angry. His mother is giving away his high char and...

Vulnerable In Hearts.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Vulnerable In Hearts Sandy Balfour Farrar Straus Giroux 175 Fifth Avenue, #300, NY, NY 10010 www.fsgbooks.com 0374285721 $22.00 1-888-330-8477 While Vulnerable In Hearts easily reaches an adult audience, this memoir...

Room One.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Room One Andrew Clements Simon & Schuster Audio 1230 Avenue of Americas, NY NY 10020 0743555600 $19.95 www.simonsays.com Keith Nobbs has appeared in Broadway productions and also has film credits to his name: his voice...

Ulysses Moore: The Long-Lost Map.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Audiobook review)
September 1, 2006... Ulysses Moore: The Long-Lost Map Edzioni Piemme Brilliance Audio PO Box 887, Grand Haven, MI 49417 www.brillianceaudio.com 1423313267 $24.95 1-800-854-7859 Michael Page's reading brings to life the story of Jason,...

Full Cast Audio.(Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie)(Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie ()(Street Magic)(The Light Princess )(Brief article)(Children's review)(Audiobook review)
September 1, 2006... Full Cast Audio 618 Westcott Street, 1st Floor, Syracuse, NY 13210 www.fullcastaudio.com Three excellent audios are recommended for high school and public library holdings, appealing to teen audiobook listeners with unabridged...

The Disappearing TV Star.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Audiobook review)
September 1, 2006... The Disappearing TV Star Emily Rodda Bolinda 48 Oxord Woods, Falmouth, ME 04105 www.bolinda.com 1740937589 $28.00 1-888-235-2019 Richelle is delighted when the Teen Power gang is hired to be extras in a TV commercial...

Hey Diddle Diddle.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Hey Diddle Diddle Theresa Howell Rising Moon PO Box 1389, Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1389 www.risingmoonbooks.com 0873588967 $5.95 www.amazon.com It's 'hey diddle diddle' with a difference: Bobcat plays the fiddle and a...

The Adventures of Wonderbaby from A to Z.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Adventures Of Wonderbaby From A To Z Oliver Chin & Joe Chiodo Immedium PO Box 31846, San Francisco CA 94131 159702001X $8.95 immedium.com The Adventures Of Wonderbaby From A To Z board book by Oliver Chin provides...

Mrs. Wow Never Wanted A Cow.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Mrs. Wow Never Wanted A Cow Martha Freeman Random House 1745 Broadway, 10-1, NY, NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com 0375834184 $8.99 1-800-726-0600 Mrs. Wow Never Wanted A Cow receives Steven Salerno's fine drawings,...

Henry And Mudge And The Big Sleepover.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Henry And Mudge And The Big Sleepover Cynthia Rylant Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020 0689811713 $14.95 simonsayskids.com Level 2 readers are for kids reading independently and Henry And Mudge And...

Saddleback Publishing.(Aztec Life)(Chinese Life)(Egyptian Life)(Greek Life)(Inca Life)(Native American Life)(Roman Life)(Viking Life)(Brief article)(Young adult review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Saddleback Publishing 3 Watson, Irvine, CA 92618-2767 $9.95 each www.sdlback.com "The Life of..." series consists of eight 32-page books written on a fifth grade reading level with an interest level appropriate for grades 6-12 and...

Crabtree Publishing Company.(Inventing the Automobile)(Inventing the Television)(Inventing the Camera)(Inventing the Telephone)(Endangered Bats)(Endangered Manatees)(Endangered Frogs)(Endangered Butterflies)(Extreme Skydiving)(Extreme Skiing)(Extreme Mountain Biking)(Extreme Wakeboarding)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Crabtree Publishing Company 350 Fifth Avenue, #3308, NY, NY 10118 1-800-387-7650 www.crabtreebooks.com The Crabtree Publishing Company is a premier publisher of non-fiction books-in-series for young readers. With a grade 4 reading...

Picture Window Books.(Bamboo and Friends: The Bookseller Bird)(Bamboo and Friends: The Creeping Vine)(Bamboo and Friends: The Flower's Busy Day)(Bamboo and Friends: Marvelous Meals)(Bamboo and Friends: The Rainy Day)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Picture Window Books 5115 Excelsior Boulevard, Suite 232, Minneapolis, MN 55416 1-877-845-8392 picturewindowbooks.com Imaginatively written by Felicia Law and enhanced with the wonderfully colorful artwork of either Claire Philpott...

Morgan Reynolds Publishing.(England's Jane: The Story of Jane Austen)(Deep Woods: The Story of Robert Frost)(Eleanor of Aquitaine: Medieval Queen)(Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union)(Fearless Captain: The Adventures of John Smith)(John Paul Jones: America's Sailor)(Mother Jones)(Che Guevara: In Search of Revolution)(A Velvet Revolution: Vaclav Havel and the Fall of Communism)(Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories)(The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892)(The Ludlow Massacre of 1813-14)(The Pullman Strike of 1894)(Young adult review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Morgan Reynolds Publishing 620 South Elm Street, Suite 223, Greensboro, NC 27406 $26.95 each www.morganreynolds.com Morgan Reynolds publishers titles which easily reach from advanced elementary through middle school and perhaps...

Enslow Publishers.(Vietnam War)(Mexican-American War)(What Made the Wild West Wild)(The Mountain Gorilla)(St. Patrick's Day)(Celebrate Halloween)(Celebrate Thanksgiving Day)(Chinese New Year)(The Transcontinental Railroad and Western Expansion)(The Struggle for Equality: Women and Minorities in America)(The Industrial Revolution)(Witness the Salem Witchcraft Trials)(The 1930s)(The 1920s)(The Sickle Cell Anemia Update)(Inhalents = Busted!)(Melting, Freezing, and Boiling: Science Projects with Matter)(Sizzling Science Projects with Heat and Energy)(African-American Crafts Kids Can Do!)(Monarch Butterflies Up Close)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Enslow Publishers PO Box 398, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 www.enslow.com The series covering 'America's Wars Through Primary Sources' adds Kim A. O'Connell's Vietnam War (1598450018) and James M. Deem's Mexican-American War...

Stargazer Books/Creative Company.(Ecosystems)(My Town)(Getting Around)(Our Planet)(Seasons)(Sun)(Water)(Weather)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Stargazer Books/Creative Company 123 South Broad Street, Mankato, MN 56001 1-800-445-6209 www.amazon.com The eight volume series "Earthwise" provides elementary school students with an informative and engaging introduction to the...

Chrysalis Education/Creative Company.(Puppy)(Kitten)(Lamb)(Rabbit)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Chrysalis Education/Creative Company 123 South Broad Street, Mankato, MN 56001 1-800-445-6209 www.amazon.com Angela Royston's "Baby Animals" series 4 volumes: $135.50 list; $94.75 school/library, is comprised of 32-page,...

Reggie & Ryssa and the Summer Camp of Faery.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Reggie & Ryssa And The Summer Camp Of Faery Bo Savino Koboca Publishing 26345 Dayflower Boulevard, Wesley Chapel, FL 33543-6262 www.kobocapublishing.com 0974499757 $13.95 Reggie & Ryssa And The Summer Camp Of Faery is...

Vivian Untangled.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Vivian Untangled Sarah Hartt-Snowbell Napoleon Publishing 178 Willowdale Avenue, Suite 201, Toronto, Ontario M2N 4Y8 www.napoleonpublishing.com 1894917251 $8.95 1-877-730-9052 Sarah Hartt-Snowbell's Vivian Untangled...

Holiday House.(Drooling And Dangerous: The Riot Brothers Return!)(The Swan's Child )(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Holiday House 425 Madison Ave., New York NY 10017 www.holidayhouse.com Mary Amato's Drooling And Dangerous: The Riot Brothers Return (082341986X, $16.95) pairs black and white cartoon-style drawings by Ethan Long with another...

Witch Catcher.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Witch Catcher Mary Downing Hahn Clarion Books 215 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10003 0618504573 $16.00 clarionbooks.com Jen is thrilled when her widowed father inherits a castle-like estate in the West Virginia mountains but...

Knopf Delacorte Dell/Random House.(Letting Go of Lisa)(Sparrow)(The Intruders)(The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty Mcfearless)(The Fetch)(Burning City)(Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-HaHa!)(The Amazing Life of Birds: The 20-day Puberty Journal Of Duane Homer Leech)(King of The Creeps)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Knopf Delacorte Dell/Random House 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids Lurlene McDaniel's Letting Go Of Lisa (0385731590, $10.95) departs somewhat from her focus on teen diseases and death to tell of one...

Just Listen.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Just Listen Sarah Dessen Viking Press/Penguin Pub. Group 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 0670061050 $17.99 www.penguin.com Annabel portrays the girl who has it all in the commercial for Kopf's Department Store in...

Dear Max.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Dear Max D.J. Lucas aka Sally Grindley McElderry/Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10020 1416903925 $14.95 simonsayskids.com Ages 6-9 will appreciate this funny correspondence between Max and his...

Winnie at Her Best.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Winnie At Her Best Jennifer Richard Jacobson Houghton Mifflin 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116 0618472770 $15.00 www.amazon.com How can an ordinary girl shine in a family where everyone has a talent? Winifred faces...

Three Songs for Courage.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Three Songs For Courage Maxine Trottier Tundra Books 75 Sherbourne Street, 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5A 2P9 0887767451 $16.95 tundrabooks.com Older teens will find this a fine piece of historical fiction, set in...

Grimoire: The Curse of the Midions.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Grimoire: Curse Of The Midions Brad Strickland Sleuth/Dial/Penguin Pub. Group 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 www.penguin.com/youngreaders 0803730608 $11.99 www.amazon.com Jarvey Midion and his parents were...

Orchard/Scholastic.(Master Criminal Spy)(Icefire)(Children of The Lamp: The Blue Djinn of Babylon)(The Tenth Power)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Orchard/Scholastic 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 www.scholastic.com Older teen leisure readers will find plenty of depth and detail in these recommendations. Eleanor Updale's newest in the 'Montmorency and the Assassins'...

Fall of the Amazing Zalindas.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Fall Of the Amazing Zalindas Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin Scholastic 557 Broadway, NY, NY 10012-3999 0439828368 $16.99 scholastic.com This new Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars mystery series from Scholastic...

School Specialty Publishing.(The Building of the Great Pyramid)(Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada)(The Battle of Gettysburg)(The Life of Alexander The Great)(The Life of Julius Caesar)(The Life of Anne Frank)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... School Specialty Publishing 8720 Orion Place, 2nd floor, Columbus, OH 43240 1-614-880-6736 schoolspecialty.com Comics and graphic novels are an excellent, fun and effective way to encourage reluctant readers to acquire and practice...

Kiddie Village DVDs.(Fun with Dance: Exploring Dance and Creative Moment)(Mom and Tot Workout)(Let's Play Music)(Video recording review)
September 1, 2006... Kiddie Village DVDs 524 San Anselmo Avenue Suite 107, San Anselmo, CA 94960 $14.99 each www.kiddievillage.com Three fine new DVD releases pair fun with 'mom and tot' workouts and instructionals to involve the entire family in a...

Anchor Bay Entertainment.(Thomas Gets Bumped)(On Site with Thomas and Other Adventures)(Thomas, Percy and the Dragon and Other Stories)(What Do You Do with the Mad That You Feel?)(Video recording review)
September 1, 2006... Anchor Bay Entertainment 1699 Stutz Drive, Troy, MI 48084 www.anchorbayentertainment.com 'Thomas & Friends' DVDs ($17.98 Each) are outstanding Thomas the Tank adventures, each offering up a story or set of stories centered on the...

The Money Mammals.(Brief article)(Audiovisual review)
September 1, 2006... The Money Mammals Snigglezoo Entertainment c/o 411 Video Information, PO Box 1223, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 DVD $19.99 themoneymammals.com 'Saving money is fun': that's the early message of a treatise on saving for kids ages 2...

Schlessinger Media.(The Fall of Great Empires)(Video recording review)
September 1, 2006... Schlessinger Media 7 East Wynnewood Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096-0580 $39.95 each www.LibraryVideo.com "The Fall Of Great Empires" is an impressively informative, 8 volume series of DVDs superbly designed and produced for students in...

Fatima the Spinner And The Tent.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Fatima The Spinner And The Tent Idries Shah & Natasha Delmar Hoopoe Books PO Box 176, Los Altos, CA 94023 1883536421 $18.00 hoopoekids.com Fatima The Spinner And The Tent is based on a classical "Teaching-Story" well...

Across the Wall.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Across the Wall Garth Nix HarperCollins 10 E. 53rd Street, NY, NY 10022-5299 0060747153 $7.99 harpercollins.com Nicholas will do anything to get across the wall even exploring the source of a strange power that will...

Digory the Dragon Slayer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Digory The Dragon Slayer Angela McAllister Bloomsbury 175 - 5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 1582349126 $5.95 bloomsburyusa.com Nothing much ever happens to Digory during his forest walks until one day he finds a dragon's...

Room 207.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Room 207 Marnelle Tokio Tundra Books 75 Sherbourne Street, 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5A 2P9 0887766951 $12.99 tundrabooks.com Because their classroom has suffered an accident over the summer break, Miss Chimney and...

Candlewick Press.(Once Upon a Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verses)(Go Bugs Go!)(Mia's Story: A Sketchbook of Hopes and Dreams)(Miss Mingo and the First Day of School)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Candlewick Press 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140 www.candlewick.com J. Patrick Lewis' Once Upon A Tomb: Gravely Humorous Verses (0763618373, $16.99) provides over twenty poems which tell of untimely deaths, from a...

No More Eee-Orrh!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... No More Eee-orrh! Lydia Monks Egmont Books/Trafalgar Square, dist. PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257 www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com 1405217391 $19.99 1-800-423-4525 Dicky Donkey drives everyone...

The Giraffe Who Was Afraid Of Heights.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights David A. Ufer & Kirsten Carlson Sylvan Dell Publishing 976 Houston Northcutt Boulevard, Suite 3, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 www.SylvanDellPublishing.com 0976882302 $15.95 www.amazon.com...

Random House.(I'm Not a Baby!)(Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie)(Jackie and the Shadow Snatcher)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Random House 1745 Broadway, 10-1, NY, NY 10019 1-800-726-0600 www.randomhouse.com Words and pictures by Jill McElmurry in I Am NOT a Baby! (0375836144 $16.95) spice a fine tale which pairs Victorian-style illustrations and funny...

How The Sea Came To Marissa.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... How The Sea Came To Marissa Anne Renaud Beyond Words 20827 N.W. Cornell Road, Suite 500, Hillsboro, OR 97124 1582701296 $15.95 beyondwords.com Ages 4-9 will find a lovely story, illustrate by Maud Durland, in How The Sea...

My Grampy Can't Walk.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... My Grampy Can't Walk Vanita Oelschlager, author Robin Hegan and Kristin Blackwood Cleveland Clinic Press 9500 Euclid Avenue, NA32, Cleveland, OH 44195 www.clevelandclinicpress.com 1596240156 $17.95 1-216-444-1158 ...

Dial/Dutton/Penguin.(Charlie Cook's Favorite Book)(Road Trip)(Book Fair Day)(Miss Smith Reads Again!)(First Grade, Here I Come!)(Lucille Lost: A True Adventure)(A Promise is a Promise)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Dial/Dutton/Penguin 345 Hudson, New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com/youngreaders Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Charlie Cook's Favorite Book (0803731-426, $16.99) tells of a boy with a favorite book about a pirate whose...

Reindeer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Reindeer R.M. Cuthbert Shooting Star/American Literary Press 8019 Belair Road, Suite 10, Baltimore, MD 21236 www.americanliterarypress.com 1561679089 $12.95 www.amazon.com Plenty of books are written about Christmas...

Dinosaur Chase!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Dinosaur Chase! Benedict Blathwayt Hutchinson/Trafalgar Square, dist PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257 www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com 0091892937 $16.99 1-800-423-4525 Ages 3-6 will relish Dinosaur...

Do Princesses Scrape Their Knees?(Lupe Vargas and her Super Best Friend)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Do Princesses Scrape Their Knees? Carmela LaVigna Coyle Rising Moon PO Box 1389, Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1389 www.risingmoonbooks.com 0873589092 $15.95 www.amazon.com This isn't your ordinary princess: she does yoga,...

Kane/Miller.(Singing Shijimi Clams)(Kali and the Rat Snake)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kane/Miller PO Box 8515, La Jolla, CA 92038 www.kanemiller.com Naomi Kojima's Singing Shijimi Clams (193360512X, $15.95) tells of an older, not-so-wicked witch, a grouchy cat, and a bucket of singing clams: hardly the ordinary...