February 2004

39 Reviews

Thanks to the publishers sending books: Aladdin (Simon & Schuster), Athenaeum, Candlewick, Doubleday, Hutchinson (Random House UK), Knopf, Philomel (Penguinputnam), Prometheus, Tundra.

Entries this month:

ABC's | Picturebooks—Fiction, Nonfiction | Classics | Non-Fiction—4th grade+ | Young Adult | Teacher/Parent Resources

Reviewers: Alida Allison, Alexandra Bashkatova, Rhonda Brown, Frank H. Sweeney, and Cameron Yeager

 

ABC's

• Demarest, Chris. Firefighters A to Z. New York: Aladdin, 2003. $6.99. ISBN 0-689-85999-6.
  


• Ehlert, Lois. Eating the Alphabet. San Diego: Harcourt, 1989. Paperback. $7. ISBN 0-15-224436-0.
  


• Floca, Brian. The Racecar Alphabet. New York: Atheneum, 2003. $15.95. ISBN 0-689-85091-3.
  


• Polacco, Patricia. G is for Goat. New York: Philomel (Penguin Putnam), 2003. $16.99. ISBN 0-399024018-7.

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Picturebooks—Fiction

• Browne, Anthony. The Shape Game. London: Random House, 2003. Hardback, no price. ISBN 0-385-60136-0.
  


• Deedy, Carmen Agra. Agatha's Feather Bed: Not Just Another Wild Goose Story. Illus. Laura L. Seeley. Atlanta: Peachtree, 1991. $14.95. ISBN 1-56145-008-1.
  


• Dunrea, Olivier. Ollie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Ollie the Stomper. Small hardbacks: $9.95. ISBN 0-618-33928-0, 0-618-33930-2
  


• Falconer, Ian. Olivia and the Missing Toy. New York: Atheneum, 2003. $16.95. ISBN 0-689-85291-6.
  


• French, Marilyn. Diary of a Wombat. Illus. Bruce Whatley. New York: Clarion, 2002. $14. ISBN 0-618-38136-8.
  


• Graham, Bob. Benny, An Adventure Story. Cambridge: Candlewick, 1999. $16.99. ISBN 0-7636-0813-0.
  


• -----. Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child. Cambridge: Candlewick, 1999. $15.99. ISBN 0-7636- 1772-5.
  


• -----. Max. Cambridge: Candlewick, 1999. $15.99. ISBN 0-7636-1138-7.
  


• Landry, Leo. The Snow Ghosts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. $9.95. ISBN 0-618-19655-2.
  


• Landstrom, Lena. The New Hippos. Stockholm/New York: R&S Books (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), 2003. $15.
  

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Picturebooks—Nonfiction

• Jordan, Deloris, with Roslyn M. Jordan. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Search of A Dream. Illus. Kadir Nelson. New York: Aladdin (Simon & Schuster, 2003. $6.95. ISBN 0-689-83419-5.
  


• Priceman, Marjorie. It's Me, Marva!: A Story about Color and Optical Illusion. New York:Knopf (Random House), 2001. $15.95. ISBN 0-679-88993-0.
  


• Singer, Marilyn. TOUGH Beginnings: How Baby Animals Survive. Illus. Anna Vojech.New York: Henry Holt, 2001. $16.95. ISBN 0-8050-6164-9.
  

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Classics

• Creswick, Paul. Robin Hood. Illus. N.C. Wyeth. New York: Atheneum, 2003. $18.95. ISBN 0-689-85467-6.
  


• Mulherin, Jennifer and Abigail Frost. The Best-Loved Plays of Shakespeare. Illus. various artists. New York: Star Bright Books, 2000. $24.95. ISBN 1-887734-62-7.
  


• Nicklin, Madeleine. The Hutchinson Treasury of Fairy Tales. London: Hutchinson,1999. Approx. $32. ISBN 0-09-176793-8.
  


• Steig, William. C D B ! New York: Aladdin (Simon & Schuster), 1968, revised format 2000. $6.99. ISBN 0-689-85706-3.
  

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Non-Fiction—4th Grade+

• Curlee, Lynn. Capital. New York: Atheneum, 2003. $17.95. ISBN 0-689-84947-8.
  


• Fleming, Candace. Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life. New York: Atheneum, 2003. $19.95. 120 pp., large format. ISBN 0-689-83549-3.
  


• Ross, Val. The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories. Toronto: Tundra, 2003. $19.95. ISBN 0-88776-621-8.
  

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Young Adult

• Anderson, Matthew T. Feed. Cambridge: Candlewick, 2002. ISBN: 0-7636-1726-1. Hardback. 237 pages. $16.99.
  


• Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Hawksong. New York: Delacorte Press, 2003. $9.99. ISBN 0-385-73071-3.
  


• Barrett, Tracy. Cold in Summer. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. ISBN 0-8050-7052-4. PZ7.B275355 Hard back, 203 pp.
  


• Cormier, Robert. The Rag and Bone Shop. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2001, $5.99. ISBN 0-440-22971-5. Young adult and up, fiction.
  


• Daly, Maureen. Seventeenth Summer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. ISBN: 0-689-85383-1. Hardback. 311 pages. $17.95.
  


• Faas Rice, Bebe. The Place at the Edge of the World. New York: Clarion Books, 2002. $15. ISBN 0-618-15978-9
  


• Galloway, Priscilla. The Courtesan's Daughter. New York: Delacorte Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-385-90052-X, PZ7.G1385. Hardcover. 256 pages. $16.95.
  


• Giff, Patricia Reilly, Maggie's Door. New York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2003, $16.95 Hardcover. ISBN 0-385-32658-0. For Middle Grade Readers, fiction
  


• Littke, Lael. Lake of Secrets. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. $16.95.ISBN 0-8050-6730-2.
  


• Lubar, David. Dunk. New York: Clarion Books, 2002. $15. ISBN 0-618-19455-X.
  


• Nolan, Han. Send Me Down a Miracle. Orlando: Harourt, 1996, $6.95. ISBN 0-15-204680-1. For ages 12 and up, fiction
  


• Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. New York: Knopf, 2003. ISBN: 0-375-92668-2, PZ7.P19535. Hardcover. 509 pages. $18.95.
  


• Torrey, Michele. To the Edge of the World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. $15.95. ISBN 0-375-82338-7.
  


• Wright, Randall. A Hundred Days from Home. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. ISBN 0-8050-6885-6. PZ7.W95827 Hu . Hard back, pp 154.
  

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Parent/Teacher Resource

• Humphrey, Sandra McLeod. More If You Had to Choose, What Would You Do? Illus. Brian Strassburg. Amherst NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. ISBN 1-59102-077-8. Ages 7+. www.prometheus books.com