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It's a Little Book

by Lane Smith

Board book, 24 pages

Published by Roaring Brook Press (2011-08-30)

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Now in diapers! For the youngest of readers who still prefer to chew on a book rather than read it, It's a Little Book asks what a book is for--Is it for chewing? Is it for wearing?--and answers the question in a warm and charming way. As funny and captivating as the bestselling It's a Book, It's a Little Book promises to delight a new generation of readers.

One Potato Review

In some ways better than the first: the one- and two-year-olds who are this distillation’s target readers may actually need the reminder. Weirdly un-ironic.

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Carolinda Clatter!

by Mordicai Gerstein

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Roaring Brook Press (2005-09-01)

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Carolinda Clatter is born noisy in a place where, legend says, loud noise will wake a sleeping giant and bring destruction. Her tale, and that of an old giant hopelessly on love with the icy moon, are told in this lovely new picture book by the 2004 Caldecott Medal winner. It's an energetic and touching story about a spirited child, the power of self-expression, and the mysterious ability of music to transform and soothe us, set out in rich, ebullient pictures.

One Potato Review

Epic and charming. This is the sort of thing that does Gerstein does better than anyone: taking a legend and making it personal, picaresque, often ambiguous. Here, the objects of our sympathy are the little girl who doesn’t know how to shut up, and the last surviving giant, besotted with the moon, and condemned by her indifference to an eternity of mournful slumber. He finds some consolation finally when the little girl sings him a lullaby, and her children, and their children to follow, learn to make music in the shadow of disappointment.

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Sneaky Sheep

by Chris Monroe

School & Library Binding, 32 pages

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Blossom and Rocky are sheep--very sneaky sheep. And they are not very good decision makers. Poor Murphy, the sheep dog, has rescued them from many adventures, like cliff diving and sunbathing on the railroad tracks. And then there was the unfortunate incident with the knitters....But Rocky and Blossom are always looking for greener grass, and there's no telling what they'll try next.

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A worthy follow-up to this author’s sneakily brilliant Monkey with a Tool Belt series. Here the main characters are a couple of self-destructive livestock (in contrast with the heroically self-sufficient Chico Bon Bon) and a purposeful herder named Murphy. You’re kind of rooting for the sheep to reach that higher, forbidden pasture, but they cannot seem to help themselves - gambling with hounds, skateboarding without helmets, sunbathing on train tracks - and in the end this reads like an argument for the wisdom of natural selection. Also featuring avalanches, old ladies rampaging with knitting needles, and even the odd tourist wearing a vaguely recognizable monkey T-shirt.

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Higher on the Door

by James Stevenson

Hardcover, 32 pages

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James Stevenson remembers what it was like growing up in a village, sometimes taking the train to New York City, and waiting to get older.

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The fond, accessible remembrances of a very grown-up writer. Here are vines to swing on in summer, and tunnels to build in the snow. Here are milkmen and icemen and trucks dumping coal in your cellar, and a trip to the top of the Empire State Building when there was nothing else like it in the world. Here are tough kids to be scared of, and Wanted posters that seem to describe every other person in your neighborhood, tricks you can’t master (whistling loud with two fingers), and tricks you can (falling on your face without getting hurt). This and Stevenson’s I Had a Lot of Wishes are a little like William Steig’s When Everybody Wore a Hat. Both writers have feet planted in two worlds: amazingly still young enough to remember the wonder and blessed gullibility of growing up, yet all the while equipped with the perspective of the most experienced journalist to be able to pick out the good parts. Funny, wise and wistful.

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Starlight Goes to Town

by Harry Allard

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The other hens in Farmer Brown’s Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule – (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) – is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it?

With antic illustrations by renowned cartoonist George Booth, Harry Allard’s funny story about a hen with outsize expectations is sure to crack up even the most hard-boiled of readers.

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The importance of dreaming big, yes, but also of keeping your options wide open if it turns out you’ve laid a big egg. Because even a fairy godmother has to take a vacation sometimes, and she might just leave her harebrained nephew at the switch. Witty and seemingly unrestricted by the logic that holds together more responsible fables. And cheeky and cheerful: Starlight may end up living in a junkyard, but at least she’s running the joint.

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Boing!

by Sean Taylor

Hardcover, 56 pages

Published by Candlewick (2004-06-03)

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Dynamic duo Sean Taylor and Bruce Ingman present a boinging, bouncing comedy — and a masterful display of emergency trampolining skills.

Holy moly! A terrible thing has happened to the Great Elastic Marvel, five times World Trampolining Champion. There he is, practicing his deadly difficult, quadruple headfirst flip, when suddenly he flips right out a window and plunges toward — gasp! — a zooful of lions, and — gasp! — a speeding railroad train — and, well, even more unthinkable dangers. Can his superduper springing skills save him from earning a title as the Man with Rubber Legs and His Bottom in Plaster?

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What is the difference between bouncing and flying? “Gadzooks!” as the Great Elastic Marvel might put it. Or “Hooplah!” Those and the fact that the bouncer is generally expected to return to more or less where they started, which even a five-time world trampolining champion must do, but not without consequences, and not without seeing the sights. It’s worth it.

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I Lost My Bear

by Jules Feiffer

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It's not under the bed, or on the chair, or beneath the couch, or behind the curtains. It's GONE!

What do you do when your favorite toy disappears, and you can't find it where you left it? What if your family is NO help at all? A determined little detective heads up the search, and discovers more than she ever expected!

00-01 Young Reader's Choice Award Program Masterlist

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Of a simple stuffed animal that is never more precious than when it’s lost - among Markers and purses and magnifying glasses, and many other tributes to the distracting powers of serendipity. By Jules Feiffer at his melodramatic best; the girl in this story is often depicted as though through the opposite end of a telescope: small and misshapen, and completely overmatched by the clutter of treasures unfound.

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Tell the Truth, B.B. Wolf

by Judy Sierra

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers (2010-08-24)

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Big Bad Wolf’s first visit to his local library (as related in Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf) was such a success that he returns to tell his version of “The Three Little Pigs.” His outrageous spin on the tale draws skeptical remarks from his audience: “Isn’t that wolf’s nose getting longer?” asks Pinocchio. “It’s a cooked-up, half-baked tale,” snaps the Gingerbread Boy. And “Tell the truth, B.B. Wolf!” squeal the Three Little Pigs. Caught in his own lie, B.B. explains that he is a reformed villain: “Now I’m begging on my knees, Little Pigs, forgive me, please!” How B.B. turns his bad old deed into a good new one provides a happy ending to this fun-to-read fractured fairytale.

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B.B. Wolf finally comes clean - and picks up some new middle names (Bodacious, Benevolent, Bookish) along the way. Seibold fills the edges of these pages with his usual mischief - witness Rumpelstilskin sloppily hammering on Fix-It-Up day at the Villain Villa - but the wonder is always the earnest expressiveness of his leading man: defensive, embarrassed, contrite, and finally determined to make things right. A lot of illustrators wring comedy from alternative fairy tales characters; Seibold makes his sympathetic.

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The Table Where Rich People Sit (Aladdin Picture Books)

by Byrd Baylor

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Aladdin (1998-07-01)

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As her family attempts to calculate the value of the desert hills, the colors of blooming cactus, and the calls of eagles and great horned owls, a young girl--who has been led astray by the family's lack of material wealth--realizes what really matters. Color illustrations.

One Potato Review

Weird, talky and ecstatic. From 1994: “I hate to bring this up,” says a girl to her hippie farmer parents, “but it would help if you both had a little more ambition.” What follows is sort of a balance sheet - the worth in hard dollars of witnessing nature: the call of an owl, the feel of the wind, the smell of the rain, but mostly the colors. With plain white backgrounds and watercolor figures containing bears and wolves and geological formations, this looks (and sounds) like nothing else in children’s picture books today. No pandering here. For older, more sophisticated readers.

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The Blue Stone: A Journey Through Life

by Jimmy Liao

Hardcover, 80 pages

Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2008-04-01)

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From internationally renowned author and illustrator Jimmy Liao comes a new enchanting and evocative journey.Breathtaking illustrations and a haunting story take readers on a wondrous voyage around the world.

A large, beautiful blue stone is discovered in a forest. It is cut in half, and one half stays in the forest while the other starts on a long and mystical journey through many places, many owners, and many transformations. It begins as a statue of an elephant, admired by museum goers, and then becomes a carved bird residing in an elderly woman's garden. It becomes a moon, a cat, a necklace, and more, until it finally returns to the forest. The Blue Stone is a powerful tale of different life paths and possibilities, a longing for home, and love.

One Potato Review

Things fall apart. Predictable but visually arresting: a giant blue stone meets the hands - and fleeting attentions - of many different sculptors. There’s probably a spiritual message buried here somewhere - but relax. The saturated colors and vividly imagined landscapes make this finally a rewarding round trip. Epic for many ages.

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Fortunately

by Remy Charlip

Paperback, 48 pages

Published by Aladdin (1993-03-31)

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Fortunately, Ned was invited to a surprise party.

Unfortunately, the party was a thousand miles away.

Fortunately, a friend loaned Ned an airplane.

Unfortunately, the motor exploded.

Fortunately, there was a parachute in the airplane.

Unfortunately, there was a hole in the parachute.

What else could go wrong as Ned tries to get to the party? Readers will cheer as Ned's luck turns from good to bad to good again, while clever illustrations tell the story of his wacky adventure and narrow escapes.

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Airplanes and parachutes, tigers and sharks. Fortunately Charlip isn’t commenting on anything more than the wonders of serendipity here in black and white disasters taking turns with colorful near-misses. The suitably named Ned remains a model of self-possession throughout - industrious when he needs to be, complacent when there isn’t any choice. An excellently uncomplicated fable for very young readers.

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Whale

by DAVID LUCAS

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers (2007-06-12)

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When a giant whale washes up on shore—on top of young Joe's town, in fact—no one knows what to do! The Mayor declares that the town is ruined. The Whale laments that all he's good for now is a large fish pie. The Fishmonger quickly agrees. But Joe is determined to set things right.

With the help of Joe, some impressive teamwork, invaluable wisdom from the Owl and the Innumerable Stars, and a whole lot of . . . singing, order is restored. Even better, Joe and his neighbors make a new—and very large—friend.

Critically acclaimed author-illustrator David Lucas has crafted another charming tale, paired with luminous illustrations, about the importance of determination, community, and friendship. Fans of Nutmeg and Halibut Jackson will be delighted to meet Joe as he and his neighbors join together to welcome an unexpected visitor and to rebuild their town.

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Monkey with a Tool Belt

by Chris Monroe

School & Library Binding, 32 pages

Published by Carolrhoda Books (2007-12-15)

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Whether you need a beebersaw or a chisel, Chico Bon Bon's your monkey. He can build or fix just about anything--from a dock for the ducks to a clock for the Clucks, even a small roller coaster for local chipmunks. But will his tools and his sharp wit save him when an organ grinder sets his sights on making Chico a circus star?

Chris Monroe's quirky hero and detailed illustrations will absorb readers in an entertaining adventure that shows there is an inventive way out of every problem--if you have the right tools.

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Bringing sexy back to home improvement. Not only does Chico Bon Bon perform creative chores around the house, and use screwdrivers to fix roller coasters, and drill bits to fix skateboard ramps, no, Chico also carries around stuff like a half-inch beebersaw, a small jimmy-jubber, and a bendy-extender with a rearview mirror attachment for all of those emergencies you can never really anticipate. Because who knows when you’ll be lured into a plastic banana sundae trap by an evil organ grinder, right? “His old monkey, Bobo, had run away earlier that week with the help of several circus tigers,” it turns out, an escape which this author delights in thoroughly illustrating as well (roller skates, helium balloon, surfboard), indeed there isn’t an element of this story, or a tool, which is ever deployed with anything less than maximum exuberance. A revelation.

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The Yellow Balloon

by Charlotte Dematons

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Lemniscaat USA (2004-04-09)

List Price: $15.95

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Amazon Description

Writer and illustrator Charlotte Dematons brings the same enchanting look to this picture book that made her Worry Bear and Looking for Cinderella so successful. Lovely watercolors portray a great and diverse planet teeming with life at all times of day and night. People and animals of every shape, color, size, and costume are seen, busy at work and play. As the yellow balloon floats through many time periods - ancient, medieval, and contemporary - and realms both natural and supernatural, young readers can also look for the small blue car, the fakir on his flying carpet, and the scoundrel in prison garb. This story will fascinate young readers as they embark on a lively and fun-filled journey around the globe.

One Potato Review

Transfixing. No words, but if there was ever a place where words were not welcome, it’s this. Because here is such a wealth of busy, magnificent landscapes - from city to mountain to desert to the plains of East Africa - and look! Is that a magic carpet hovering below us? Witches on brooms?! And there, among all of the multitudes - of skiers and sunbathers and eskimos and shepherds - is inevitably one very small intersection of humanity lucky enough to ever spot the balloon. Look closer.

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The Egyptian Polar Bear

by Joann Adinolfi

Hardcover, 1 pages

Published by Houghton Mifflin (1994-09-26)

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When a polar bear travels to ancient Egypt, he becomes the Royal Playmate of the boy-king Rahotep, and the two help each other overcome feelings of solitude and loneliness.

One Potato Review

Imagines the story behind the story – recorded in hieroglyphics – of an architect’s plans to build a burial vault for a polar bear in ancient Egypt. How the heck did a polar bear get to Egypt? On a wandering iceberg, of course. There’s a nice little fable here too about the burgeoning friendship between the bear and the boy-Pharoah, a brief stopover in homesickness, a sphinx, a griffin, but the wonder is the quality of the illustrations in this book, which are frequently true to the Walk-like-an-Egyptian dimensionality of art from that period, yet also so vivid and saturated you may wonder if the rest of your life is not spent behind sunglasses. Striking to stumble upon, wherever the shelf.

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Lost and Found

by Oliver Jeffers

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Philomel (2005-12-29)

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What is a boy to do when a lost penguin shows up at his door? Find out where it comes from, of course, and return it. But the journey to the South Pole is long and difficult in the boy’s rowboat. There are storms to brave and deep, dark nights.To pass the time, the boy tells the penguin stories. Finally, they arrive. Yet instead of being happy, both are sad. That’s when the boy realizes: The penguin hadn’t been lost, it had merely been lonely!

One Potato Review

Deep blue and beguiling, for starters. The boy in this story is the same as the one in Jeffers’ The Way Back Home, he never seems to smile (in fact, he doesn’t really have a mouth except when he gets excited, which is rare) and he’s conspicuously small in the vast, lonely world, which he is nevertheless able to negotiate with a paddle boat, a map, and impressive equanimity. This is to return a penguin, by the way, who happens to show up at his door. The destination is the North Pole, and the epic expanses of ocean - whether placid or roiling or scattered with ice - contribute to a story so peacefully, effortlessly charming you’re even tempted to be a little skeptical in the end. But forget it, because who can resist the spectacle of penguin floating around in an upside-down umbrella? The little surge of emotion at the end feels finally too earned not to share.

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Scaredy Squirrel

by Melanie Watt

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Kids Can Press, Ltd. (2006-02-01)

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Scaredy Squirrel never leaves his nut tree. It's way too dangerous out there. He could encounter tarantulas, green Martians or killer bees. But in his tree, every day is the same and if danger comes along, he's well-prepared. Scaredy Squirrel's emergency kit includes antibacterial soap, Band-Aids and a parachute. Day after day he watches and waits, and waits and watches, until one day ... his worst nightmare comes true! Scaredy suddenly finds himself out of his tree, where germs, poison ivy and sharks lurk. But as Scaredy Squirrel leaps into the unknown, he discovers something really uplifting ...

One Potato Review

Wit beyond its appearance. The “unknown” in this book is everything outside of Scaredy Squirrel’s tree, and it is possibly inhabited by killer bees, tarantulas, poison ivy, green Martians, sharks and (not insignificantly) germs. Emergency kits are assembled, exit plans conceived, and secret abilities discovered just in the nick of time. No wholesale reinventions though, which is probably how it should be, especially if you are planning on a sequel. From Canada. Welcome, Mélanie Watt! Never has playing dead looked like so much fun.

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The Pirate's Eye

by Robert Priest

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2005-05-02)

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After losing his glass eye, pirate Captain Black is at a loss. Not far away, Sandpiper, a pauper, finds a shiny, round object in the road. Peering through what appears to be a glass marble, Sandpiper is amazed by what he sees.

What is a glass eye without its pirate? And what is a pirate without his glass eye? Sandpiper is about to find out—but danger looms, for Captain Black is determined to find his missing eye . . . by hook or by crook!

Robert Priest offers another quirky take on pirate life in this surprising tale of adventure, reflection, and missing treasure.

One Potato Review

While joyously dueling, a salty old dog loses his prosthetic eyeball, which bounces and ricochets into the life of a pauper, who is able to catch a glimpse of the pirate’s “strange and interesting” experiences, and writes a book from what he sees - which the pirate himself finds on the shelves of his local library. “How can this be?” growls the pirate. “And how long will it be before they have me in shackles? Who dares tell the story of this pirate’s life!” Priest dares, with humor and romance.

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Where the Forest Meets the Sea

by Jeannie Baker

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Greenwillow Books (1988-05-16)

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My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia.

We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when extinct and rare animals lived in the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders?

Jeannie Baker's lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to an exotic, primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now being threatened by civilization.

One Potato Review

Another environmental reminder from Jeannie Baker (Window, Home, and The Hidden Forest being the others listed here). Not so much for narrative - a boy and his father arrive together at an unspoiled beach, and the boy continues his wandering and imagining by himself in a forest that dates back probably many thousands of aboriginal generations - though as usual there are so many mysterious details hiding among the indigenous materials (Is that sand? Is it clay? The actual bark from a tree?) you hardly notice you’re being lectured a little in the end. Worth the trip. With the past and the future looming - often translucently - in the foreground.

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Mary Had a Little Lamp

by Jack Lechner

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens (2008-04-01)

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Amazon Description

Updating the classic rhyme with “appliance humor,” gives this book a hilarious twist and a great new take on the “beloved transitional object” story. Mary has a little lamp that she takes everywhere: to school, the movies, the circus, the zoo, even a wedding. One day Mary heads off to summer camp without her bendy-necked lamp and discovers that life without a lamp isn’t so bad! In fact, when Mary returns home, her little lamp stays on her shelf for good. Now what will she find instead?

One Potato Review

Yes, why a lamp? And, more importantly, how a lamp? Lechner and the geometrically brilliant Bob Staake seem to have set this challenge for themselves based on nothing more than one letter, and the result is effortlessly funny - the lamp taken sledding, down slides at the playground, out for Chinese - but its also finally true to the often mystifying value we attach to material keepsakes. Really, why not a lamp? “She loved its quiet company - it never picked a fight. She loved its neck, she loved its cord. And most of all its light.” When you think about all of the other stupid stuff we buy…. With a happy, snappy ending that does not betray the guiding subversiveness.

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I Know Here

by Laurel Croza

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Groundwood Books (2010-02-23)

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The little girl in this story lives in a trailer near a forest where her father is building a dam. Everything in her world is familiar and precious to her. But the dam is nearly finished and the family is moving to the city, which the little girl knows only as a place marked by a big red star on the map at school. Have the city people seen what I have seen, she wonders? The teacher suggests that she draw something that she wants to remember to take away with her when she leaves, and the little girl decides to draw what she knows — her road and everything her world contains — so that she can keep it with her always.

One Potato Review

Small but soulful. The Here in this title refers to someplace in the Canadian outback where dams need building and the media consists of a rickety black and white set, but it’s a pretty great place for a girl to start collecting memories, even as her world is about to expand. A move to the city looms from the beginning, still you get the feeling she’ll be all right. No tears here, or phony consolations, just a couple of neat tricks of perspective.

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Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man (Picture Puffins)

by Robert McCloskey

Mass Market Paperback, 64 pages

Published by Puffin (1989-03-01)

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Whenever Burt Dow, who lives in a snug little house on the Maine coast, sets out to sea, his pet giggling gull goes along. But this time, it will take all his might and some plain old ingenuity to save him and the gull from a raging storm.

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Fandango Stew

by David Davis

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Sterling (2011-02-01)

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Amazon Description

Chile's good, so is barbecue, but nothing's finer than FANDANGO STEW!
No money? No problem! In this sunny, funny western-style take on the famous folktale “Stone Soup,” two penniless but wily vaqueros (cowboys) trick a whole town into cooking a giant pot of stew for everyone to share.
David Davis's deliciously colorful language and Ben Galbraith's delightful illustrations make this picture book a tasty confection.

Key Selling Points:
A great read-aloud trickster tale

Award-winning author whose books have twice appeared on the Children's Choice Top 100 list

Offers a gentle message about sharing and community-building

About the Author
DAVID DAVIS's picture books include Texas Zeke and the Longhorn, Librarian's Night Before Christmas, and A Southern Child's Garden of Verses. His Jazz Cats, and Ten Redneck Babies were both named to the Children's Choice Top 100 list. An active presenter at schools, conferences, and libraries, David lives in FORT WORTH, TEXAS. Learn more about him at www.davidrdavis.com.

About the illustrator
BEN GALBRAITH is author and illustrator of The Three Fishing Brothers Gruff, praised by PW: “Working very much in the vein of Lane Smith, Galbraith produces a book both visually hip and handsome.” Ben lives in NEW ZEALAND. Find out more at www.bengalbraith.co.nz.

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Fulsomely adapted from the classic Stone Soup - about making something out of nothing except community. Here is the treatment this fable has always deserved: crowded and picaresque, with a grifter’s flair for persuasion.

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Cowboy and Octopus

by Jon Scieszka

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Viking Juvenile (2007-09-06)

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Amazon Description

Peanut butter and jelly. George and Martha. Frog and Toad. Cowboy and . . . Octopus? Yes, that’s right. Meet Cowboy and Octopus—the next great pair to become a household name. Cowboy likes beans’n’bacon and bacon’n’beans. Octopus eats raw seafood. Octopus prefers knock-knock jokes, but Cowboy doesn’t get them. How will these two ever be friends?

Illustrated in funky, vintage-style cut-outs and told in several humorous mini-stories, the famous Stinky Cheese Man duo of Scieszka and Smith have created sweet—and of course hilarious—tales of an unlikely friendship.

Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.

One Potato Review

Deadpan and seemingly random. What came first, the pictures or the story? Or the fever dream? This is like something you jot down to remember in the middle of the night, but the miracle here is that it was ever seen to execution, by the author, the illustrator, and whatever junior editors probably had a lot of explaining to do. Because none of these stories (there are six, very short, and loosely connected) delivers a conflict exactly, or resolution, and the jokes never end where you’d think. Scieszka keeps you puzzling here, but it’s a pleasure to sort through the pieces. There’s certainly some kind of message about tolerance to be derived from all of the misunderstanding - over chow-time, the weather, knock-knock jokes, and halloween costumes - but the gift of this book, and its conclusion, rests finally in the honesty that makes even the unlikeliest of friendships worth preserving.

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Castles

by Colin Thompson

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Red Fox (2007-05-28)

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Enter world upon world, where castles emerge from thin air or spring up overnight in your own garden. Search the intricate pictures, and see if you can find the royal family hidden in the visually imaginative splendor of each castle. Then go back and look again—there are endless puzzles, mazes, tricks, and messages just waiting to be discovered. An ingenious picture book to pore over—again and again, inch by inch—from the acclaimed creator of Looking for Atlantis, The Paradise Garden, The Paperbag Prince, and The Last Alchemist.

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Traction Man Is Here! (Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Awards))

by Mini Grey

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers (2005-04-12)

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Traction Man—wearing combat boots, battle pants, and his warfare shirt—comes in a box, but very quickly finds the way into the imagination of his lucky boy owner. This superhero searches for the Lost Wreck of the Sieve as the boy makes a game of doing the dishes, and later in the bathtub, he conquers the Mysterious Toes that are stealing his pet, the brave little Scrubbing Brush. These are just a few of the action-packed adventures played out by the boy and his new toy that may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but can vanquish all manner of villains lurking around the house. Mini Grey’s story in words and pictures is an irresistible invitation to the private world of a child’s play.

Praise for The Very Smart Pea and the Princess-to-Be:

“A rib-tickling U.S. debut for Grey, with plenty of sight gags to complement the chatty narrative.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The Very Smart Pea and the Princess-to-Be delivers an entertaining spin and a great deal of visual wit.”—The Horn Book

One Potato Review

A boy and his doll. A doll and his dog (a scrubbing brush actually). Riotous throughout, but there’s even a little pathos in the second act when Traction Man receives a lovely all-in-one knitted green romper suit and matching bonnet for Christmas. Oh well, an action figure must do what an action figure must do. Simple text for very young readers, with knowing, irrepressible wit that is reason enough for everyone else to revisit.

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The Quiet Book

by Deborah Underwood

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2010-04-12)

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There are many kinds of quiet:

Quiet can be delicate.
Quiet can be thundering!
Quiet can be sweet,
and cozy,
and can most definitely help you fall asleep.

With kid-centric descriptions and irresistible artwork, this gentle picture book explores all the different quiets that can fill a child’s days from morning
to night.

One Potato Review

Shh. Please. And you will hear the sound of swimming underwater, and looking at your brand new haircut. Of trying to be invisible and playing with best friends. Surprising how many kinds of quiet there are when you think about it. Smart but simple. For very young readers.

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Nanook & Pryce: Gone Fishing

by Ned Crowley

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by HarperCollins (2009-10-27)

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Life is full of surprises.

One day you go out ice fishing for breakfast, and the next thing you know, you are adrift on the high seas, escaping sharks and giant squid, wriggling out of fishnets, dodging hungry pelicans, and having more adventures than you can shake a fishing pole at. Accidental tourists Nanook, Pryce, and their fearless dog Yukon's hilarious cruise around the world will have you laughing out loud.

One Potato Review

From the Polar North to Antarctica and back again, there are nautical crowd pleasers everywhere here: giant squid and sunken pirate treasure, circling sharks and mystified penguins. Through it all, a couple of ice-fishing eskimo boys remain too focused to ever consider turning back or ditching their little conveyance in the Caribbean, say, when pelicans make off with their spectacular haul. They’re perfect travel companions in a way: quiet, good sports. This book makes for an interesting companion with Dr. Seuss’s McGelligot’s Pool where a boy’s runaway imagination compensates for the puny appearance of a local watering-hole; here it’s the world which is manifestly big and eventful, and the characters’ tranquility which allows us to enjoy the ride.

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Scranimals

by Jack Prelutsky

Hardcover, 48 pages

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We're sailing to
Scranimal Island,
It doesn't appear on
most maps....
Scranimal Island
is where you will find
the fragrant RHINOCEROSE,
the cunning BROCCOLIONS.
And if you are really, really lucky
and very, very quiet,
you will spot
the gentle, shy PANDAFFODIL.
(You may even hear it yawning
If the morning's just begun,
Watch its petals slowly open
To embrace the rising sun.

So put on your pith helmet and prepare to explore a wilderness of puns and rhymes where birds, beasts, vegetables, and flowers have been mysteriously scrambled together to create creatures you've never seen before -- and are unlikely to meet again! Your guides -- Jack Prelutsky, poet laureate of the elementary school set, and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sis -- invite you to join them on an adventure you will never forget!

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Old Dog

by Jeanne Willis

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Andersen Press (2010-05-01)

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The Young Pups don't want to visit Grandpa—he is so boring, and only ever wants to talk about the olden days. They don't believe Grandpa was ever young or fun, so Grandpa sets out to prove them wrong, and show them that there is life in the old dog yet!

One Potato Review

Insolent pups: “Grandpa’s not himself. He’s barking, the old stick. It’s time he went into a home.” He’s also got dog breath, and tends to ramble too much about the old days (one of his flashbacks actually finds him in the trenches of World War I France), but don’t write off this geezer just yet. “I’ve had my moments,” he protests, and while his circus tricks seem to arrive from a bygone era, there’s something nevertheless refreshing about his determination to surprise. Spirited and frank. For many ages.

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Looking at Lincoln

by Maira Kalman

Hardcover, 32 pages

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Hits all its marks - reading by firelight, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address - so it’s surprising how stirring this is in the end. And not surprising. Kalman is obviously besotted with Lincoln like she is is besotted with Paris and mutty dogs and Grand Central Station, and this makes for a lot of childlike wondering between the eventfulness - about the notes Abe allegedly kept inside his famous hat, and who knows what else he might have kept in there too, and what sort of unstatesmanlike nicknames did he and Mary maybe have for one another. Linky? Little Plumpy? An excellent place to start learning history. By loving it.

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Sheep in Wolves' Clothing

by Satoshi Kitamura

Hardcover, 40 pages

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A comic mystery that will keep readers guessing

When Georgina, Hubert, and Gogol -- three sheep -- have their fleecy coats stolen from the beach while they are swimming, they suspect that some wily wolves have pulle dthe wool over their eyes. To catch the thieves, the sheep enlist the help of Elliott Baa, private detective. But will Elliott's street smarts, combined with the help of a gang of rugby-loving cats, be enough to crack this baa-ffling case? Satoshi Kitamura's colorful, antic illustrations bring this comic mystery to life.

One Potato Review

Deadpan, hilarious. Three sheep - none too bright - go for a dip at the beach, but not before removing their coats on the suggestion of a pack of golfing wolves who, it turns out, run a knitwear black market in the city. There’s a detective (Elliott Baa, someone’s elk-horned relation) and rugby playing cats in the middle, although it’s finally not the noirish plot elements which will keep you going, but Kitamura’s (and the sheep’s) innate suggestibility. Here is a tale told for children by a very big child who also happens to be an enormously gifted comic artist.

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Elbert's Bad Word

by Audrey Wood

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Sandpiper (1996-10-04)

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With humor and insight, Audrey Wood tells a tale certain to tickle anyone shocked to hear a child utter a bad word; and Elbert’s cure provides an ingenious solution. The vivid, hilarious illustrations rendered by Audrey and Don Wood together offer fans a new dimension to their previous collaborations.

One Potato Review

From the creators of that more famous examination of cause and effect, The Napping House, though every bit as resounding. The title here refers to an ugly, bristly word a boy hears at an elegant garden party, which grows bigger and more irresistible the longer the boy carries it around. The word is never spelled out, but its alternative (cooked up by a bumpkin gardener who is also a practicing wizard) proves sufficiently compelling we may hope that our children remember at least parts of it. “Blistering hop toads!” for example. Joyous and modestly important.

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The Boy Who Ate Around

by Henrik Drescher

Paperback, 40 pages

Published by Hyperion (Juv) (1996-09)

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To avoid eating his dinner of cheese souffle+a7 and string beans, Mo turns into a monster and proceeds to eat his home, his neighborhood, and even the world, but when he is done, his dinner is still waiting. Reprint. NYT. H. K.

One Potato Review

The boy of the title devours his parents, his country, indeed everything which has not been placed before him, and meanwhile reveals himself to be a monster living within a monster with a disposable head. This was never going to be pretty (Drescher’s grotesque puppets will alert you to that), still what’s impressive is just how far this author is willing to indulge his delightfully awful taste.

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My Travelin' Eye

by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (2008-04-01)

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Jenny Sue’s eyes are not the same as other people’s eyes. Her right eye looks in one direction, while her left eye sometimes wanders. Jenny Sue has a travelin’, lazy eye. Although it makes her different, it also helps her see the world in a special way.

Here is a charming story about one very inspiring little girl who overcomes her disability and offers inspiration to others.

My Travelin' Eye is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

One Potato Review

This is a book about a specific medical condition which is nevertheless variously described as wandering, traveling, or lazy eye, depending on who’s doing the describing. The girl with the condition doesn’t think it’s a problem at all (travelin’ is her approximation of how it helps her to be consider two things at once, not always constructively), in fact it’s easy to develop a rooting interest in her disability. Things work out okay in the end - after a couple of brushes with intolerant classmates, a slightly overbearing teacher, and the genially evangelizing Dr. Dave - though it’s tempting to also read this as a story of the scrapping, impractical artist’s concessions to society. Either way, there’s never a trace of self-pity here, and this is - importantly - an inspired bit of illustrating, especially the middle parts when Jenny Sue agrees (okay, she’s forced) to wear a patch over her travelin’ eye and thinks she sees an elephant in a tree, among several other mirages. Heart-breaking, if it weren’t so optimistic first.

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The Purple Kangaroo

by Michael Ian Black

Hardcover, 32 pages

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The monkey narrator in this humorous picture book gaurantees that he can READ YOUR MIND. What begins as a simple request to imagine the most spectacular thing in history turns into the story of a roller-skating, bubble-blowing purple kangaroo searching for his dear friend Ernesto on the moon. So by the time you finish this book, there's no chance you will be thinking of anything BUT the purple kangaroo.

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Cute. Yeah, maybe a little too cute for some tastes, but those tastes almost certainly do not extend to an audience of fidgeting First Graders at Friday morning read aloud. You may (as the designated reader) occasionally get your tongue tangled around some of these syntactical detours (many aforementioned’s and parentheses), still this fast-talking con-monkey is sufficiently imbalanced you might not figure out exactly where he is heading until you’re done. That monkey keeps wanting to stick it to you, and you may let him, more times than is possibly edifying.

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Dodsworth in London (A Dodsworth Book)

by Tim Egan

Hardcover, 48 pages

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Dodsworth and his duck have just arrived
in London via hot air balloon.
There is so much to see!
Double-decker buses!
Palaces!
Fog!

But a crowded bus stop leads to a hilarious case of
mistaken identity and . . . a lost duck.
Time to call in Scotland Yard?

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The Windy Day

by G. Brian Karas

Hardcover, 32 pages

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H-o-o-o-o Hummmm. It's another pleasant day in a quiet town, until a blustery gust whooshes in and causes quite a stir! As the townfolk lament the whirling wedding cakes, airborne alarm clocks, and bouncing bananas, one little boy thinks to greet this wonderful wind and gets a taste of how wide and exciting the world can be. Award-winning illustrator G. Brian Karas wreaks magnificient havoc in this wise story of routine turned upside down.

One Potato Review

As much as any children’s author and illustrator working today, Karas has a gift for believably relating the very little (kids) and the very big (a wind storm here) while finally diminishing neither. “My name is Bernard!” yells a boy to a gale that needed to pass through him as it did through long-ago kings and queens and dinosaurs and Viking’s sails and the Great Wall of China. This in the middle of a ho-hum day that started like any other. Magical.

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Hurricane

by David Wiesner

Paperback, 32 pages

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When a storm is raging, David and George are glad to be inside the house, snug and safe. In this spectacular picture book by Caldecott Honor recipient David Wisener, a fallen tree becomes the threshold to the limitless voyage of the imagination, which David and George share as only true friends--and brothers--can.

One Potato Review

Thrillingly captures the panic which accompanies the arrival of a major weather system, and the unforgettable details of a night spent holing up with your family - with flashlights and candles and dinner on the floor by the fireplace - until it’s passed. Still, this doesn’t stop there: the wreckage left behind in the morning becomes a vehicle - many vehicles really - for racing imaginations. That a massive fallen tree should eventually get carved into lumber and carted away hints at this author’s larger - if unspoken - intentions. Yes, these boys are free to wonder over the potential of future almost-disasters, but one family’s amusement park is very likely to become another family’s shelter.

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Mole Music

by David McPhail

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (1999-03-15)

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A Junior Library Guild Selection.

A Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Selection.

Mole has always led a simple life, but he begins to think that something is missing. When he hears a violin playing for the first time, he longs to make beautiful music. At first, Mole can only make horrible screeching noises on the new violin he gets, but he practices and practices. Finally, his patience and dedication are rewarded. Mole creates a magical gift that unbeknownst to him has the power to erase hatred from the hearts of all who hear his music.

One Potato Review

McPhail is prolific as a writer and illustrator; there’s hardly anyone whose books are more recognizable. This is one of his best: the sweet and simple story of a mole who orders, learns and assiduously practices his violin for the private joy that it gives him, entirely regardless of the effects his music is having on the world where he cannot see it. With a tree as a microphone. For anyone who’s ever spent hours banging on instruments, and wondered where it was taking them.

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The Giving Tree

by Shel Silverstein

Hardcover, 64 pages

Published by Harper & Row (1964)

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'Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy.'

So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.

Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.

This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.

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Boy Who Ate Words

by Thierry Dedieu

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Harry N. Abrams (1997-02-01)

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A charmingly illustrated story tells of a boy whose unruly relationship with words forces him to learn instead the language of nature, which allows him to communicate with flowers and ants but not with the little girl next door."

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A challenging book. The boy of the title may be autistic, or he may be a construct, but the author has accomplished something rare in either case: he’s made him sympathetic. And hopeful and heartbreaking. And unforgettable. Older readers might have an easier time following this, but the concept is pretty universal. Because which of us - young or old - hasn’t at times felt completely overwhelmed by the power of words?

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Grandpa Green

by Lane Smith

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Roaring Brook Press (2011-08-30)

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Double Tap to Zoom

From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love.Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.

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Strange Mr. Satie (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

by M.T. Anderson

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In Paris, at the turn of the twentieth century, when artists were experimenting with new ways of seeing things, Erik Satie had something new to say about music. Most people didn't understand his pieces; critics called his music surreal. But Erik Satie didn't care. He wanted to make music that followed no rules but its own. Satie's life was strange and wonderful, frenetic and lonely all at the same time. He was friends with Picasso, and with wizards and puppeteers; he scraped himself with a stone instead of bathing, and he once threw his acrobat girlfriend out a window. Now award-winning author M. T. Anderson tells the story of the irreverent French composer in a biography that is witty, accessible, and endlessly surprising, while Petra Mathers' fanciful illustrations capture all the vibrancy that was Erik Satie's topsy-turvy world.

Illustrations by Petra Mathers.

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The light - but also the considerable darkness - of one man’s artistic determination. “When will people get out of the habit of explaining everything?” fumes Satie. This is consistent with his sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious tantrums (he actually throws his girlfriend out of a window at one point; she’s an acrobat fortunately. Still, she leaves him). He plays the piano mostly, and participates in larger, conceptual spectacles which almost nobody understands. Furious audiences accompany these performances, and scandalized critics. There’s a little comprehension when he moves to Paris (of course), but Anderson is not romanticizing the perils of genius here - if that is what it is. Satie even chucks it for a while, or he tries to, “dropping in” to school again after twenty years, trying to get his act together, fix up, look sharp, though he cannot help himself in the end. Searching and sophisticated.

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My Cold Went On Vacation

by Molly Rausch

Hardcover, 32 pages

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Colds travel from person to person, so one little boy imagines all the places his cold might visit after it leaves him. This little cold germ rides the school bus, climbs mountains, sails across the ocean, and visits every continent before it reaches its final destination- right across the hall in his sister's room.

Nora Krug's bright, bold artwork makes for a very colorful travelogue, and Molly Rausch's funny story of a global expedition also celebrates imaginative thinking.

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Three by the Sea

by Mini Grey

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers (2011-04-05)

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Three friends, Dog, Cat, and Mouse, live happily—or so they think—in their beach hut by the sea until one night a mysterious Stranger, bearing gifts from the Winds of Change Trading Company, blows into their little world and turns it upside down. Soon Dog, Cat, and Mouse are fighting with each other. Is the foxy Stranger a troublemaker or does he mean well? And will Dog, Cat, and Mouse ever be happy again?

Children will find this thought-provoking picture book of true friendship from award-winning Mini Grey, author of Traction Man Is Here! and Traction Man Meets Turbodog, deeply satifying, a story they'll want to hear—and discuss—again and again.

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Wise but dependably giddy: A mouse who cooks dinner (fondue). A cat who keeps house (between naps). A dog who plants gardens (with bones). Everything’s cool, everything’s fine - or is it? A castaway fox (and wayward representative of the Winds of Change Trading Company) arrives with the tide, depositing his tiny seeds of doubt around this pebbly Eden, then finally, quite literally, seeds, when he is all of sudden called away in the middle of the night - just one of about a thousand improvisatory flourishes here which make for a livelier, wittier and more unpredictable fable than you would guess from its cover. This author and illustrator is full of surprises; sometimes she even appears to be surprising herself. A little marjoram in your fondue? And what’s the deal with cat and her buccaneer eye-patch?

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Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend

by Melanie Watt

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Kids Can Press (2007-03-01)

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That lovable little worrywart is back. And he's as scaredy as ever! In his latest adventure, Scaredy Squirrel sets out to make The Perfect Friend. And once he's spotted a perfectly safe candidate (with no teeth), Scaredy's ready. Armed with a name tag, mittens, a mirror and a lemon, he's prepared to make The Perfect First Impression. But just when every detail is under control, Scaredy's Action Plan takes a surprising -- and "toothy" -- turn. Will he survive this ordeal? Will he find his kindred spirit? Will he discover the true meaning of friendship? Read Scaredy's nutty story to find out ...

One Potato Review

For anyone worried about a letdown after the original Scaredy Squirrel - don’t. Watt’s formula may be the same - charts and maps and footnotes and emergency protocols - but this is surprisingly still light on its feet; you never get the feeling she’s coasting on the details. Here those include some pretty hysterical bugaboos: beavers, piranhas, Godzilla and walruses (“Beware… they’re fast on their flippers!”), not to mention a toothy, drooly, germy dog who is nevertheless estimated to be 83% safe, and significantly shares Scaredy Squirrel’s enthusiasm for playing dead.

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I Want My Hat Back

by Jon Klassen

Hardcover, 40 pages

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A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.

The bear s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that sparks the bear s memory and renews his search with a vengeance. Told completely in dialogue, this delicious take on the classic repetitive tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humor and winks at the reader with a wry irreverence that will have kids of all ages thrilled to be in on the joke.

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Brave Potatoes

by Toby Speed

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Putnam Juvenile (2000-05-22)

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See the mamas and the papas and the wee potato buds...
"It's refreshing to see something genuinely new sprouting under the sun." -The Bulletin, starred review

"A peck of bug-eyed prize potatoes tiptoe out of the 'Bud and Bean Arena' at the County fair...and roll through the midway on a daring rescue mission...Speed and Root bring plenty of panache to their task, stewing up a tasty goulash of a book...."
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"Any way you slice it, this tuberous triumph will have readers rolling in the aisles."
-Kirkus Reviews

One Potato Review

Operatic. The line readings here are often as unpredictable as the potatoes - spilling impulsively off of their shelves at the county fair for a late night ride at the amusement park - as though their creators had only the vaguest of notions on how to proceed within the outlines, which also include a megalomaniacal crosstown chef named Hackemup whom none of the other vegetables - complacent cabbages, terrified turnips - apparently have it in them to overthrow. The end looks a little shocking, and then it doesn’t. An ode to the underrated. We always knew they had it in them.

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Pomelo Begins to Grow

by Ramonoa Badescu

Hardcover, 48 pages

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What happens as a little one begins to grow? Do parts of the body grow unequally? If the outside grows, does that mean the inside is changing too? Children love it when they begin to grow! But they also have questions and maybe even worry a little too. Pomelo Begins to Grow explores this rich material with playfulness and humor, without undercutting the importance of the questions.

Ramona Badescu was born in Romania in 1980. She arrived in France at eleven and started to write for children at twenty-one. A busy, prolific writer, she currently lives in the wonderful city of Marseilles.

Benjamin Chaud has illustrated an impressive number of picture books and has written at least one as well.

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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

by Kevin Henkes

Hardcover, 32 pages

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Lilly loves everything about school, especially her cool teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly brings her purple plastic purse and its treasures to school and can't wait until sharing time, Mr. Slinger confiscates her prized possessions. Lilly's fury leads to revenge and then to remorse and she sets out to make amends.

Lilly, the star of Chester's Way and Julius, the Baby of the World, is back. And this time she has her name in the title - something she's wanted all along. If you thought Lilly was funny before, you are in for a treat. So hurry up and start reading. Lilly can't wait for you to find out more about her.

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Everything I Need to Know Before I'm Five

by Valorie Fisher

Hardcover, 40 pages

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Do you know your letters? Can you count to twenty? Learn all that and more in this all-in-one concept picture book. Perfect for kids heading to kindergarten, this book covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes, colors, and seasons. Award winning author-illustrator Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos of retro toys to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way. Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to basic concepts, while kids will learn, well, everything.

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Extra Yarn

by Mac Barnett

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Balzer + Bray (2012-01-17)

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This looks like an ordinary box full of ordinary yarn.

But it turns out it isn’t.

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Born and Bred in the Great Depression

by Jonah Winter

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Schwartz & Wade (2011-10-11)

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East Texas, the 1930s—the Great Depression. Award-winning author Jonah Winter's father grew up with seven siblings in a tiny house on the edge of town. In this picture book, Winter shares his family history in a lyrical text that is clear, honest, and utterly accessible to young readers, accompanied by Kimberly Bulcken Root's rich, gorgeous illustrations. Here is a celebration of family and of making do with what you have—a wonderful classroom book that's also perfect for children and parents to share.

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Stars

by Mary Lyn Ray

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Beach Lane Books (2011-10-04)

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A star is how you know it’s almost night.
As soon as you see one, there’s another, and another.
And the dark that comes doesn’t feel so dark.

What if you could have a star?

From acclaimed author Mary Lyn Ray and two-time Caldecott Honor winner Marla Frazee comes this tender, evocative—and profound—exploration of stars both near and far.

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Along a Long Road

by Frank Viva

Hardcover, 40 pages

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Follow that road!

Speed off on an eventful bicycle ride along the bold yellow road that cuts through town, by the sea, and through the country. Ride up and around, along and through, out and down.

Frank's striking graphic style is executed in just five joyous colors, and his spare, rhythmic language is infectious.

Hit a bump?
Get back on track!
Reach the end?
Start again!

One Potato Review

Something for everyone here: this book accomplishes the very rare trick of remaining simply, hypnotically accessible to even the youngest of readers, while also delivering plenty of worthy diversions for the parent who will probably be charged with returning here again and again. The glossy yellow road alone is diversion enough, bending and swooping and widening in front of the solitary cyclist who does not otherwise appear to be following any itinerary. Along and along and along, through harbors and tunnels, across bridges, past ice cream trucks, a dragonfly, a snail, an apple which proves briefly vexing - but never mind! Because look over there: at the people playing football, the swimmer lying on his back, the dog tied to hydrant outside the grocery store, laundry flapping on the line, electric poles, a roller coaster. Really, who needs a roller coaster?

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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

by William Steig

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One rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish that brings unexpected results. How Sylvester is eventually reunited with his loving family and restored to his own donkey self makes a story that is beautifully tender and perfectly joyful.

Illustrated with William Steig's glowing pictures, this winner of the 1970 Caldecott Medal is a modern classic beloved by children everywhere. Now reissued to celebrate the discovery of the original artwork, this deluxe edition contains painstakingly careful color corrections made from those watercolor originals -- the color you'll see within this book is as Mr. Steig had originally intended it to be. It also features his moving Caldecott Medal acceptance speech.

The New York Times Book Review wrote of Mr. Steig that "everything he does is magic." This deluxe edition of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble truly recaptures that magic for a whole new generation of readers.

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Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Seaside Shenanigans (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

by Chris Monroe

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Clark has an enormous problem. Someone is sabotaging his uncle's seaside resort! What does he do? He calls Chico Bon Bon, the Monkey with a Tool Belt.

Chico and his tools tackle Clark's problems, but as soon as Chico fixes one thing, something new breaks! If Chico can't stop these shenanigans, he'll never get to go surfing!

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Duck, Death and the Tulip

by Wolf Erlbruch

Hardcover, 36 pages

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In a strangely heart-warming story, a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death. Death, Duck and the Tulip will intrigue, haunt and enchant readers of all ages. Simple, unusual, warm and witty, this book deals with a difficult subject in a way that is elegant, straightforward, and thought-provoking.

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Granny Gomez & Jigsaw

by Deborah Underwood

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Disney Hyperion (2010-03)

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How do you live with a pet pig in your house? Easy! Granny Gomez’s baby pig Jigsaw is the perfect roommate. He eats watermelon and watches cooking shows—he even does puzzles. But Jigsaw grows up – and out, quickly. Soon he’s too big to get up Granny’s front steps (pigs are bad with stairs). It seems like the only thing they can do is to build Jigsaw a barn. But once the barn is built and Jigsaw moves in, they have another problem...they miss each other like crazy! Surely Granny and Jigsaw can find a solution, if they just put the pieces together...

Playful language, subtle repetition, and Scott Magoon’s signature watercolor art make this funny story of friendship a book that kids will want read aloud again and again.

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Hopper and Wilson

by Maria van Lieshout

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Philomel (2011-05-12)

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This begins with two stuffed toys – a bunny and an elephant – sitting at the end of a dock with their pet cactus and contemplating the possibilities that might await them if they ever got up the nerve to travel to “the end of the world.” Would there be a staircase to the moon? Infinite lemonade? Perhaps there are Inspiring Messages here somewhere floating around the edges of this story, but Van Lieshout’s nautical landscapes are so inviting and forbidding both, that readers might just be able to sit back and enjoy this for the right-size adventure it is.

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Meena

by Sine van Mol

Hardcover, 26 pages

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The children on Fly Street are convinced that Meena is a witch. She eats toads, after all, and drinks blood. And worst of all, one day it appears she has imprisoned a girl inside her house. But are things what they seem? The girl insists that Mina is only her grandma. Will Klaas, Christa, and Thomas overcome their fears and find a new friend?

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The Perfect Machine

by Lance Letscher

Hardcover, 56 pages

Published by University of Texas Press (2010-09-01)

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If you could build a perfect machine, what would it be? Would it be something that goes really fast, like a motorcycle, or something that uses sunlight to make fruit, like a tree? Or what about something that can write a book or paint a picture?

In this picture book for children of all ages, artist Lance Letscher tells a beguiling story of a boy who sets out to build the perfect machine and makes a surprising discovery. Letscher illustrates the story through collages that are themselves composed of pieces of other stories--children's storybooks, old school books and exercises, boxes that once held games. These intriguing collages, with their many layers of detail, encourage us to ponder where creative ideas come from.

An appealing way to introduce children to fine art, The Perfect Machine represents a new direction in Letscher's work, in which fragments of phrases in his collages summon up memories and associations without being specifically narrative. Combining images with a story for the first time, Letscher has created a delightful, thought-provoking book that adults and children alike will enjoy.

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Marshall Armstrong Is New to Our School

by David Mackintosh

Hardcover, 32 pages

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Marshall Armstrong is new to school and definitely stands out from the crowd, with his pale skin, perpetual hats, and special “space food” lunches that come in silver wrappers. He doesn’t play sports, and he doesn’t watch television. So when he invites everyone in class over for his birthday party, it’s sure to be a disaster. Or is it? Marshall Armstrong might have a trick or two up his long, “sun protective” sleeve.

David Mackintosh’s story, with its bold design and sharply humorous observations, is a highly original take on the popular theme of the difficulties of being the new kid and making friends.

Praise for Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School
« “Mackintosh’s beautifully underplayed text and genial drawings manage to be empathic to both the leery narrator and the serenely outré object of his misapprehension. Without a whiff of pedantry, Mackintosh (Rex) skillfully dismantles the narrator’s defenses and bonds him to Marshall Armstrong, all the while proving that fun doesn’t always fit within the confines of one’s comfort zone.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Where Is the Green Sheep? (Horn Book Fanfare List (Awards))

by Mem Fox

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There are red sheep and blue sheep, wind sheep and wave sheep, scared sheep and brave sheep, but where is the green sheep?

The search is on in this cozy, sheep-filled story from acclaimed author Mem Fox and popular Australian cartoonist Judy Horacek. Complete with sleepy rhymes and bright illustrations, this book is sure to delight children of all ages, from the very young to those just beginning to read.

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Yes, this is ostensibly a book designed to boost vocabulary through repetition, but Horacek’s feckless party animals make for a livelier (often anarchical) exercise than you might guess, and the green sheep of the title turns out to be the biggest slacker of them all.

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My Side of the Car

by Kate Feiffer

Hardcover, 32 pages

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Wishful thinking and a wonderful daughter-and-dad rapport drive this charming collaboration between Kate Feiffer and her father, Jules Feiffer.

Sadie has wanted to go the zoo forever, but something always gets in the way. Not today! Today they are finally on their way, and nothing can stop them - not a broken arm or a lost dog or a surprise visit. Not even her dad’s observation: "Sadie, it’s raining." Because when Sadie looks out her window, not only is it not raining on her side of the car, the sun is shining and people are watering their lawns and wearing sunglasses. Even when the road on Dad’s side starts looking more like a river, Sadie can barely see a raindrop fall on her side of the car. This warmhearted tale of a child’s optimism and a father’s loving patience is guaranteed to tickle the funny bone, no matter the weather.

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Delusional or optimistic? From the great Jules Feiffer and his writer-daughter Kate, here are the dueling observations (and recollections?) of the kind of day we all too often give up on. Featuring minor medical emergencies, a tiger on the roof, and other lame excuses. Merry and surprisingly suspenseful.

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Rover

by Michael Rosen

Hardcover, 26 pages

Published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers (1999-05-11)

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Relates the adventures of a dog and his pet girl, whom he calls Rover, featuring a trip to "an enormous sandpit" where Rover wanders away toward the sea and the dog sets out to find her.

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The Dream House

by Pirkko Vainio

Hardcover, 32 pages

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Lucas has dreamed for years of building himself a perfect house, and now he has found just the place to build it, on a tiny island. First he builds a kitchen, then a bedroom above. He is having such fun that he doesn't want to stop, but the island is quite small. All Lucas can do is build up, one room on top of another, until finally he has a wonderful tower-house. But something is missing. Lucas needs help from stormy winds and friendly children to transform his tower-house into the home of his dreams.

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Rotten Ralph's Rotten Christmas

by Jack Gantos

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Sandpiper (1987-09-21)

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Rotten Ralph is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

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Join Ralph for a very special Christmas celebration of sharing and forgiving. Naaahhh. “I’m not a goody-goody,” repeats Ralph, though here it is apparently an admonishment directed with equal relish to the reader and to his (temporary?) house guest, Percy, whom he ties onto toy train tracks, among other demonstrations of holiday fellowship. Churlish, self-centered, and unapologetic.

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Night's Nice

by Barbara Emberley

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2008-11-01)

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Hop into bed,
Turn over thrice,
And whisper this softly:
Night's nice, night's nice, night's nice.

Good Night.

NIGHT'S NICE will lull little ones to sleep with its soothing, sing-song text and picturesque, stunning nightscapes throughout.

From moonlit treetops and city streetlamps to luminous fireworks on the 4th of July, Ed's watercolor illustrations poignantly capture the beauty of nighttime in this reissue of his classic children's story. (1993)

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From small-town carolers to wide-awake owls to the “boom-popping racket” on the Fourth of July, here are some very good reasons to welcome in the night. In modest verse, with friendly representatives from the human and animal kingdoms, still the wonder of this book is in its saturated colors, like the world probably looks after cataract surgery. For younger readers, and anyone who just needs a jolt.

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Mrs. Biddlebox

by Linda Smith

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Harcourt Children's Books (2007-10-01)

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Her Bad Day . . . and What She Did About It!

Mrs. Biddlebox is having a bad day. A REALLY bad day. And then she comes up with a most
bewitching solution!

With a pinch of magic and a dash of humor, here is an enchantingly original tale that will charm anyone--young or old--who's ever woken up on the wrong side of the bunk.

One Potato Review

When life gives you stale crumpets and daytime television and waves of dreary gloom, get out there and whip it! Then roll it and stomp it and bake it at 375, preferably till it looks like a double-thick cheesecake. Well rhymed, and surprisingly sympathetic; old Mrs. Biddlebox may still be a little witchy at the end, but at least she doesn’t take it out on the children.

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Tough Cookie

by David Wisniewski

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by HarperCollins (1999-09-29)

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Sam Spade, move over! In his years on the force, Tough Cookie Busted the Ginger Snaps and broke up the Macaroons. Now living as a private eye at the bottom of the cookie jar, he learns that Fingers has gotten his old partner, Chips. With his best girl, Pecan Sandy, at his side, Tough Cookie sets out to put Fingers away, for keeps! This hilarious spoof will have readers rolling in the aisles.

00-01 Keystone to Reading Book Award Masterlist

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“Some call them crumbs. I call them friends. I like helping them out. Anybody makes trouble, I step in. That’s my job. I’m a tough cookie.” And who is the formidable nemesis in all this? Fingers, of course. Like the wrath of God, descending and randomly horrible. There’s not much deeper meaning here, but this book is worth reading for its noirish tough-guy language, and also because how many times have you considered life from the bottoms, tops and middles of a cookie jar? Filling on many levels.

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Now Everybody Really Hates Me

by Jane Read Martin

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Patty Jane's parents say she is in her room because she hit her brother on the head. She says she only touched him hard. Either way, now Patty Jane is in her room--maybe forever. Her elaborate plan for life from this moment on is hilaariously depicted in full-color cartoons.

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Yes, Roz Chast. As prolific as she is, and as eminent (a New Yorker doesn’t arrive anymore that doesn’t include at least two of her comics), you wish she’d collaborate on a bunch more of these books. Because such is her gift (and it is unique, with Gary Larson of The Far Side) that a lot of sensitive eight-year-olds can probably get to the heart of her characters’ jaggedy eruptions, and stormy discontents. Here it’s a girl, exiled to her room for calling her brother a dumbbell at his birthday party. Martin and Marx describe her determined to never come out again, and Chast imagines a gray-bunned old lady (“ME - AGE 40”), a very long leash, a series of nefarious tunnels, and many, many other prickly delights. In tone, this is similar to a lot of Kevin Henkes’s work, but you get the feeling - maybe hopeful - that each of these artists has a great deal more to contribute to this genre.

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Emma's Rug

by Allen Say

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Sandpiper (2003-05-12)

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In a story of warmth and surprise, Allen Say explores the origins of artistic inspiration. Elegant illustrations portray the journey of a child who discovers that creativity ultimately comes from within.

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The mysterious Allen Say, just this side of weirdness here. The rug is either metaphor or magic; as usual the author isn’t saying. Still, this is a story about where we get our inspiration - artistic or otherwise - so the mystery feels about right. Younger readers may recognize themselves in the six-year-old Emma, and older readers may feel more at home with the starkness of Say’s illustrations, but here is a subject to puzzle every age.

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Monster Mama

by Liz Rosenberg

Hardcover, 1 pages

Published by Philomel (1993-03-24)

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Despite the fact that his beloved Mama is a monster, Patrick Edward adores her, until, one day, when Patrick Edward is attacked by three bullies, he discovers that he might be more like his mother than he had thought.

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“No matter where you go, or what you do,” says Patrick Edward’s mother, “I will be there. Because I am your mother, even if I am a monster – and I love you.” That is about the measure of this story: syntactically a little odd, artistically extremely odd. The pictures look like painted strings dragged across the page, with here and there a brush-tip splatter and explosion, but this strikingly macabre vision of a normal school-going boy and his freakish, cave-dwelling Mama finally amounts to nothing more menacing than our best (if primal) notions of motherhood, and it shines brighter for all of the shadows.

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Mean Soup

by Betsy Everitt

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Harcourt Children's Books (1992-04-15)

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It has been a bad day for Horace. A very bad day. He’s come home feeling mean. But his mother knows just what to do! “For the book Mean Soup, the recipe is as follows: (1) clever text spiced with one or two outrageous bits; (2) a grand message about getting out anger instead of locking it inside; and (3) exciting artwork as full of life as the story.”--Booklist

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You had a lousy, grumpy, insufferable day - don’t deny it - and maybe it was Zelda’s fault for slipping you the love note, or dotty old Miss Pearl for almost running over three poodles on your drive home from school. No, maybe it was that flower for getting in the way of your foot, though you can’t just hurl yourself on the ground anymore - can you? - or stomp, or even bite someone, still there’s got to be a better alternative than a stiff upper lip. For anyone who’s ever worried about getting eaten up inside, or who is otherwise looking for a better, more productive reason to shout. Vivid and pragmatic.

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On Sand Island (Golden Kite Honors)

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2003-08-25)

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In the deep blue waters of Lake Superior lies a small island of hummingbirds, rabbits, and hardy Norwegian fishing folk. On that island lives a boy named Carl who wants nothing more than to be out on the water in a boat of his own making. So this is a story of sawing, nailing, and sanding. But because Sand Island neighbors are closer than cousins, this is also a story of picking strawberries, moving rocks, and mending fishing nets fine as lace.

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The beginning here promises something a little bit different: a boy growing up on an island in Lake Superior puts salt in his good-luck pocket every morning (for throwing on a live rabbit’s tail) and “green beach glass” (to remind him of his recently deceased mother) in his “keep-away-bad-luck pocket.” Like another of this author’s books - the very different Snowflake Bentley - this is a story completely rooted in historical and geographical detail. When Martin rattles off a line like “Hummingbirds ate from jewelweed flowers” it’s equally a measure of her fascination for the background of a story (here, the boy dreams of building a boat that “could take him out where the quiet was filled with water and sky,” and actually works to make that happen) as her taste for proper names that pop and dart, and also the occasional syntactical cartwheel. All of this makes for surprising reading, no matter the narrative arc. If it’s true that there are only so many stories in the world left to tell, then finally what matters is how real you can make them, and how personal. Deeply, and durably, felt.

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Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears and Other Amazing Alphabet Anecdotes

by Valorie Fisher

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Explore twenty-six amazing alphabet worlds, where every picture tells a tale! Meet Alistair, an alligator with an alarming appetite for acrobats; Igor, who sells irresistible...invisible...ice cream; and Holly, happily at home in her handbag. Visit Violet on vacation with a view of a volcano, marvel at Mario's mechanical moustache machine, and daydream with Dot about dainty dump trucks.

Children and adults alike will be delightfully dazzled by Valorie Fisher's creative and imaginative miniature worlds, as they have fun finding familiar objects all the way from A to Z.

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This is - not promisingly - a book built around the letters of the alphabet (“Carleton’s curious carousel captivated the colorful crowds”), but it’s also riveting to look at. Fisher photographs a miniature community of toys, and plastic figurines, and paper cut-outs, and many attics’ worth of junk and curiosities - all this against backgrounds (of stoops, and barns, and circus tents, and grocery aisles) that are often just a little unfocussed so as to bring each of these alliterative dioramas even closer to real life. Well, maybe not real, but whatever better vision it was you had in mind when you used to like to play with that dollhouse, that castle, that Playmobile garage. With some wacky, arty touches like a purse with a door and two windows (“Holly was hugely happy in her humble handbag home”) and a vocabulary that is not intimidated by children. In the acknowledgement the artist refers to this “enormously enjoyable endeavor,” which is every bit as fun to leaf through as it probably was to make.

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Rocks in His Head

by Carol Otis Hurst

Hardcover, 32 pages

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Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying, and labeling his rocks. The Depression forced the family to sell their gas station and their house, but his interest in rocks never wavered. And in the end the science museum he had visited so often realized that a person with rocks in his head was just what was needed.

Anyone who has ever felt a little out of step with the world will identify with this true story of a man who followed his heart and his passion.

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Modest, like the amateur mineralogist of the title - and important like that mineralogist too. Here is a story told from the perspective of an inconspicuous narrator (Hurst?) about her father, and it has the ring of historical truth, fit together like the pieces of Model T Ford which James Stevenson lovingly illustrates along the way. When the stock market crashes in 1929, the dad with “rocks in his head” needs to shutter the filling station which has furnished both a livelihood and a showcase for his life-long collection of stones, then takes a job as a janitor at a venerable museum of science where somebody finally recognizes his fascination with a future - college degree or not. This is about following your dreams and all that, but it’s equally a tribute to the sort of independent thinking which sometimes permits those dreams to illuminate others. Attention gatekeepers. Most of the really good stuff you can’t list on a resumé.

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Too Busy Marco

by Roz Chast

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2010-08-31)

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It's time for bed again, and Marco, a small red bird who lives with his (human) mother and father, simply has too much to do! He's got masterpieces to paint, underwater inventions to create, halfpipes to skate -- or better yet, inventions to create so that he can paint underwater while skateboarding at a world-class level! How can it possibly all get done? When one idea builds on top of another, and every object he encounters just screams inspiration, why would Marco ever want to put on his pajamas and brush his beak? With humor and a great deal of energy, this delightful new character from acclaimed illustrator Roz Chast will rev kids up and wear them out--just in time for bed.

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The mind races. Especially when it’s in a hurry to beat the clock. No one treads more thrillingly than Chast between elaboration and non-sequiturs: give this artist the idea of a fish and she will produce Pocket Whales, a Smiley Striper and a Cube-Headed La-Di-Dah. And don’t even get her started on potential careers. Bowler? Inventor? Banjo-playing space explorer? “Who could go to bed when there were trampoline-jumping records to be broken?” Oh, all of this is channeled through a bird. For many ages.

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The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 (Picture Puffins)

by Alice Provensen

Paperback, 40 pages

Published by Puffin (1987-08-01)

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"This book . . . recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel. . . . The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity. . . . The paintings . . . add the necessary texture and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen."--School Library Journal. Caldecott Medal.

One Potato Review

This is nominally a history of the aviator Louis Bleriot’s 1909 crossing of the English Channel, and at first it looks a little formal - Bleriot and his family sitting stiffly at the dinner table, then out for one of those excruciating Sunday drives where they are equal parts performers and spectators. Then - “clacketa clacketa clacketa” - overhead comes a zeppelin so immediately bewitching that Papa steers the automobile into a truck carrying pumpkins and cabbages. The crash is all slapstick, as are many of Bleriot’s preliminary attempts at a flying machine - “Alas! It flaps like a chicken. Never mind.” - though finally the triumph of Bleriot XI soars higher for all of the blundering. Like many triumphs probably. With a couple of charming syntactical oddities (“All is in readiness.”) along the way.

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Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel

by Leslie Connor

Hardcover, 32 pages

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The journey begins for a young immigrant named Miss Bridie. It is a journey of hope and uncertainty, a journey that will take her to a new land, a new home, andif she has chosen wiselya good life.
With elegant woodcuts, Caldecott medalist Mary Azarian brings to life Leslie Connor’s spare story of a life rich with blessings, yet not without challenges. Here is a lyrical tribute to the millions of immigrants who left their homes to begin anew in Americaand an enchanting look at how one woman carves out a life with the help of a common shovel.

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The mildness of this cover belies a pretty fierce story of one woman’s journey from the old world (where she could have chosen as her parting gift a chiming clock or a porcelain figurine: even these objects are invested with metaphorical significance far beyond their obvious prettiness) to New York, where she uses the eponymous shovel to plant (and sell) flowers, to the house in the country where she manages orchards, digs cellars, feeds stoves and builds dams against seasonal floods. And lest we remain doubtful of her formidable resolve, there is also considerable heartbreak in these pages, and multiple setbacks: even the shovel doesn’t make it through to the end without some reconstruction. The landscapes are also blessed with the obvious affection of Mary Azarian (who has illustrated Snowflake Bentley, and From Dawn Till Dusk, two other well chosen histories of rugged individualism), and if this all sounds a little like part of a Ken Burns documentary about feminism, or immigration, or nineteenth century American agriculture, this author and illustrator have nevertheless managed to tell an important and interesting story in thirty-two sparely written pages, and make it feel epic all the same. Like Barbara Cooney’s more famous (and similarly restless) Miss Rumphius here is a heroine who seems to be actually welcoming life’s challenges, and you don’t even have to sit through all the boring parts in between. Moving and memorable. Wow.

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The Lost and Found House

by Michael Cadnum

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Viking Juvenile (1997-10-01)

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We all saw the new house, in the new town far away, months ago, but now I can hardly imagine it. It's moving day. The empty house the family leaves behind is filled with memories watching TV curled up on the sofa, the space by the street where the pepper tree blew down, the dents on the stairs where the roller skates tumbled down all by themselves. At the new house a rubber ball hides in the tall grass and an orange Frisbee sails over the fence, thrown by strangers who might someday turn out to be friends. A lyrical text and soft-hued, intimate paintings capture the experience of a first move through a child's eyes.

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All of the private little things you notice upon moving to new town, a new house, a new neighborhood: this book is so deeply felt, and so specific, it might have just happened yesterday. There are moving men, yes, which everyone can remember, but also evocations so peculiar they can only be the product of one person’s very real, and relatable experience. Because that is the thing about moving that is worth remembering finally: the unaccountable strangeness of something as common as parsley with your scrambled eggs at the motel diner, “a rusty white bucket full of white flowers, and a faucet that won’t turn on no matter how hard I try.” And parents arguing over where to put a picture, and the sun busting in (since no curtains), still no one example, and no two, and no six, can finally do justice to the wonder of this accumulation. Honest, optimistic, and earned.

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Birdwatchers

by Simon James

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Walker Childrens Paperbacks (2003-05-05)

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Jess and Grandad return in this delightful follow-up to the popular The Wild Woods. "When I go birdwatching, things happen," Grandad says. Sometimes, he says, the birds draw him while he's drawing them. Sometimes, he says, the birds help him find their names in his bird book. "Birds are amazing," says Grandad. But Jess isn't sure. So one day she goes birdwatching with Grandad to see for herself! - Simon James's many bestselling titles include Dear Greenpeace and Leon and Bob, a Smarties Book Prize Silver Medal Winner. - Simon James's books often contain a message about respecting and caring for our natural world, and this is no exception. - Whimsical, witty and poignant, this is a wonderful follow-up to The Wild Woods.

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After the histrionics of Baby Brains, a peaceful return to the woods, and to the quiet wonders of an artist’s imagination. A nice little story about a girl and her grandfather that never panders to either one of them, or to us. Plus: Penguins!

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Watch the Stars Come Out (Picture Puffin Books)

by Riki Levinson

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Published by Puffin (1995-01-01)

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In this family story-within-a-story, a little red-haired girl curls up by her grandmother to hear how, long ago, another little girl and her brother crossed the Atlantic and came to America. An ALA Notable Children's Book, American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, Parents' Choice Award for Literature, NCTE Teachers' Choice, and NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. Full color.

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A plainspoken history of what it was like to emigrate to this country a hundred years ago - this when the advantages that awaited such hopeful Old Worlders were not immediately apparent. Here is a grandmother telling the tale.

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Pigaroons

by Arthur Geisert

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2004-09-27)

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Descended from Spanish pirates, the Pigaroons, like their pilfering ancestors before them, stole stuff. One night they steal a crystal-clear block of ice from their neighbors the River Patrollers, who had intended to carve it for entry in the annual ice festival sculpture contest. When the River Patrollers awake to discover the Pigaroons have taken their block of ice, they decide that enough is enough, and they set about devising a plan . . .
Arthur Geisert’s etchings will delight readers with their beautiful colors and intricate details in this celebration of another triumph for creative ingenuity.

One Potato Review

Pigs. A heist. An ice-carving. Hmmm. You could worry a little over some of Geisert’s recurring devices, or you could marvel at whatever fixations amount to work of such fanatical detail, both in his intricate etchings of landscapes and flying machines and dinner tables, and in his thoroughly imagined plots and machinations; there’s not enough time in the day to notice every peripheral happening in this book. So let’s marvel. Unapologetic and completely original.

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Scroobious Pip

by Edward Lear

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Harpercollins Childrens Books (1968-09)

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The lonesome, if approachable, freak who apparently made it over on Noah’s ark. Every illustration in this book looks like it should be hanging in a museum somewhere, and the text, by Edward Lear and Ogden Nash, will probably become embedded in even the youngest reader’s consciousness:

“Chippety tip
Chippety tip
Its only name is the Scroobious Pip.”

Please note: the artwork featured here comes from the opening pages, as no book-jacket representation was anywhere available that would do justice to these magnificent drawings.

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Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

by Dr. Seuss

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Three modern fables in humorous pictures and verse.

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Pictures from Our Vacation

by Lynne Rae Perkins

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Greenwillow (2007-05-01)

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Snap!

With their new cameras

Snap!

a brother and sister

Snap!

take pictures of their vacation.

But when they look at their photographs they see:

1. The back of Dad's head
2. Feet
3. A container of noodles

That's it?

Does 1 + 2 + 3 = summer vacation?

What about how it felt to swim in the lake? What about the stories their cousins told and the taste of a just-invented strawberry and whipped cream dessert?

For those memories—the memories of summer and the memories of family that mean the most—they need to look someplace else. Someplace deep inside. Someplace permanent.

One Potato Review

Surprisingly candid. Here are the desultory photographs in a notebook meant to document one family’s often rainy, sometimes tedious pilgrimage back to the old family farm to visit with relatives - and the very different pictures that continue to linger from all of those times when they were too busy to fiddle with the camera. Because what we remember - about a week, or a year, or a vacation - isn’t always so photogenic. For older, more experienced, readers.

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The Raft

by Jim LaMarche

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by HarperCollins (2000-04-05)

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A flock of birds was moving toward me along the river, hovering over something floating on the water. It drifteddownstream, closer and closer, until finally it bumped up against the dock. Though it was covered with leaves and branches, now I could tell that it was a raft. I reached down and pushed some of the leaves aside. Beneath them was a drawing of a rabbit. It looked like those ancient cave paintings I'd seen in books--just outlines, but wild and fast and free.

Nicky isn't one bit happy about spending the summer with his grandma in the Wisconsin woods, but them the raft appears and changes everything. As Nicky explores, the raft works a subtle magic, opening up the wonders all around him--the animals of river and woods, his grandmother's humor and wisdom, and his own special talent as an artist.

"Best Books 2000 (School Library Journal)" and Children's Books 2000-NY Public Lib.

One Potato Review

There’s a lot of good stuff here - art and nature, a sullen tween and a lively grandmother - yet as much as this is a story about a city slicker learning some good ol’ country wisdom, it’s really most persuasive when detailing one boy’s lunges at independence. Interesting: the boy in these pages is always wearing a life vest (and usually glasses) where the boy on the cover is advertising a more scenic approach. You know where this story is aiming from page one, though you might want to see how it gets there. It’s a halting journey finally - summer always gives way to the demands of school and after-school and after-that - but here is a landscape worth revisiting.

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Swimming Lessons

by Betsy Jay

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Rising Moon Books (1998-05)

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Although she has found many excuses for refusing to take swimming lessons, Jane finally faces the inevitable and jumps into the water for a very good reason.

One Potato Review

In which a rhinestone-glasses-wearing smart-aleck refuses to dip so much as her toes in the water, until she finally decides to set an example for someone younger and more genuinely terrified, when the legend she enjoys telling about herself becomes secondary to her truer, braver nature - or something like that. It’s a good little story, and a pretty funny book – someone wears a muumuu, the girl think she’s a cat – and there are probably children for whom it proves motivational. Otherwise, enjoy!

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THE MOON JUMPERS.

by Janice May. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. UDRY

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Bodley Head (1979)

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A book that is not well remembered about a time that many of us do - namely that magical hour or so on late summer nights before our parents came calling us in. “We climb the tree just to be in a tree at night,” writes Janice May Udry (A Tree is Nice) in lyric, self-evident prose. Sendak alternates black and white drawings with bursts of shadowy color, sunflowers giving way to moths and children who keep attempting to touch the moon, even if they know they never will - still nobody gets too fussed to about it. Warm and elegiac: this is one place the wild things definitely aren’t.

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Owen

by Kevin Henkes

Library Binding, 22 pages

Published by Greenwillow Books (1993-09-15)

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Owen had a fuzzy yellow blanket. "Fuzzy goes where I go," said Owen. But Mrs. Tweezers disagreed. She thought Owen was too old for a blanket. Owen disagreed. No matter what Mrs. Tweezers came up with, Blanket Fairies or vinegar, Owen had the answer. But when school started, Owen't mother knew just what to do, and everyone -- Owen, Fuzzy, and even Mrs. Tweezers -- was happy.

One Potato Review

The great, pragmatic Kevin Henkes addressing one of life’s most intractable dilemmas: when is it ever the right time to ditch that blankie, that thumb, those plastic knights, or favorite picture books? Full disclosure: this reader has forever regarded Owen’s busybody neighbor Mrs. Tweezers as one of the foremost villains of our times, for all of her sour insinuation. “Can’t be a baby forever,” she offers, and though the solution cooked up by Owen’s mother may strike some as unsatisfactory (or even a little traumatic) at least it does not ignore the possibility that being a baby has absolutely nothing to do with it. Is there a Mr. Tweezers around, or did he walk into an ocean?

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The Elephant and the Tree

by Jin Pyn Lee

Hardcover, 48 pages

Published by Running Press Kids (2009-04-14)

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Originally published in Singapore as part of the First-Time Writers and Illustrators Publishing Initiative, The Elephant and the Tree became an instant success, selling out its entire print run. Distinctly illustrated in black and green and orchestrated to a tuneful rhythm, this little picture book about the enduring friendship between an Asian Elephant and a tree promote friendship, conservationism, and ecological awareness.

Not since The Giving Tree or Owen and Mzee has such a simple and heartwarming tale been crafted to teach young readers about the power of friendship, adventure, and discovery. The Elephant and the Tree is sure to become a classic beloved by generations of readers, inspiring loyalty and love, as well as encouraging children to think for themselves. A modern-day tale of friendship, this story is unique and not to be missed!

The Elephant and the Tree is made with recycled materials.

One Potato Review

Sad but true. And small (you may think this is a CD arriving in your mailbox), and minimally illustrated (Shel Silverstein minus the diversions): the miracle is this book even made it to a display table a couple of years back - conceivably before some horrified store manager realized what it was about. An elephant and a tree grow up, grow huge, and tell each other stories from their privileged viewpoints (respectively mobility and great height), then finally remain linked in their bondage and recollections; yes, that’s about as consoling as it gets, so this book isn’t for everyone, but surely it’s for someone. The author won some kind of award apparently, in Singapore, which made her briefly visible over here, and this book is dedicated to “the voiceless” in the black opening pages. Fitting - and probably indelible for anyone just learning to read.

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Old Henry

by Joan W. Blos

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by HarperCollins (1990-08-22)

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The neighbors aren't too happy about Henry and his beat-up old house. Why doesn't he clean it up, and weed his garden and sweep his walk? Henry's got better things to do. Tired of being bothered, he finally gets fed up and moves away. The funny thing is, nobody's really happy when he does--not the neighbors, and not Henry. Here is a wise and witty tale about different kinds of people learning to get along.

One Potato Review

Weird - in a good way! For older readers especially, here is a thoughtful, sometimes unsettling portrait of the weird old guy who moves in down the street, doesn’t mow his lawn, refuses neighbors’ pies, and generally keeps to his ramshackle self. Those neighbors aren’t exactly hospitable either; their pies aren’t baked without a measure of calculation, and oh, do they gossip. Old Henry himself proves not altogether lovable, and what makes this story interesting finally is its ambiguity. Because sometimes people just don’t want to get along - until they’ve put a little distance between them. With regrets and second guessing, and exclamatory artwork by the reliably idiosyncratic Stephen Gammel: everyone looks a little crazy.

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There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky

by Teri Sloat

Hardcover, 32 pages

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When a child looks up to find drawings on the ceiling of a cave, she wonders how they were painted. Planets that spin, the birds and the beasts, woman and man—how did the old man in the sky paint it all? Based on the 1879 discovery of ceiling paintings in Spain’s Altamira Cave, this imaginative story expresses the awe of contemplating the creation of the world and locating beauty in an unexpected place. Children will revel in this timeless tale with truly breathtaking images.

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For those who like their divinities sweetened and light, here is one story of creation as witnessed by a girl who happened to stumble upon it painted across the ceilings of a Spanish cave. Who knows why they decided to write this in the cadence of There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, but at least they got Stefano Vitale to do the art. This rendering - of moon and stars, day and night, animals and people - seems to jump out of the darkness, as it would do. Mythic or metaphor? You decide.

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The Old Pirate of Central Park

by Robert Priest

Paperback, 32 pages

Published by Sandpiper (2008-05-05)

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Two stubborn soulsa retired pirate and a retired queendo battle in the sailboat pond in Central Park. Inspired by memories of his past, the Old Pirate has built a marvelous replica of his sailing ship, the Laughing Dog. But when he takes it to the park to launch it in the pond, he finds the waters are not so friendlythe S.S. Uppity Duchess is unwilling to share the seas. Who will rule the waves in this offbeat tale of high-seas adventure and friendship found in the heart of one of New York City’s most famous landmarks?

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A battle for the ages: the Laughing Dog versus the S.S. Uppity Duchess in Central Park’s model boat pond. The Queen and the Pirate actually call a truce when this starts to get hairy, little cannonballs flying up the avenues. No real hostility here, but habits - and codes - prove unbreakable. Good times.

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This Little Pirate

by Philemon Sturges

Hardcover, 40 pages

Published by Dutton Juvenile (2005-06-02)

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The team that created The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) is back with another insouciant takeoff and hilarious read-aloud, this time a freespirited invention around a favorite children’s rhyme: This little pirate spied the island.This little pirate saw the rocks.This little pirate dropped the anchor.And this little pirate found the box.Trouble is, another band of pirates is approaching from the island’s other side! Battle ensues—until, completely pooped, the two crews decide to cooperate. When they discover the box is filled with goodies . . . it’s party time! Amy Walrod’s amazingly intricate cut-paper piggies and Philemon Sturges’s zestful rhymes are pure pleasure for the preschool set.

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Here’s an idea for a fourth, or fifth, or sixth birthday party (and you can probably resume when you’re in your twenties): a small patch of sand and a chest to bicker over and bash open (like a pinata) full of drums and toy trumpets and cake-baking kits and fancy balloons and alternative hats for when you need to take a break from all the skull and bones nonsense, which is what this all is: exuberant, a little testy sometimes, and likely to send you to bed early after the inevitable sugar high.

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Woodpecker Forest

by Keizaburo Tejima

Hardcover, 42 pages

Published by Philomel (1989-04-13)

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Follows the activities of a woodpecker family living in the forest from the making of the nest and hatching of their young through the youngsters' growth and maturity.

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Simple, subtle, great. In striking wood-cut illustrations and modest, declarative prose, here is a story about leaving the nest that manages to cover what is gained, and what is lost, and a lot of the stuff in between. These woodpeckers don’t talk to each other, thankfully, but this isn’t conspicuously mystical either, indeed here is a reminder - increasingly rare - of nature’s ability to tell its own story, if only we leave it alone.

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Dexter Bexley and the Big Blue Beastie

by Joel Stewart

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