October 2004

28 New Reviews 

Thanks to the publishers sending books: Clarion, Crown, Doubleday, Harpercollins, Kingfisher, Knopf, Morgan Reynolds, McElderry, Simon and Schuster, Sleeping Bear, Usborne

Entries this month:

ABCs | Picturebooks—Fiction and Non-Fiction | Fairy Tales | Middle Grades—Fiction and Non-Fiction | Mythology, Fables, Folklore | Adolescent/YA—Fiction and Non-Fiction

 

ABCs

• Domeniconi, David. G Is for Golden: A California Alphabet. Illus. Pam Carroll. Chelsea: MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2002. $17.95. ISBN 1-58536-045-7.


• Scillian, David. P Is for Passport: A World Alphabet. Illus. various Sleeping Bear artists in various media. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2002. $19.95. ISBN 1-58536-157-7.


• Silverstein, Shel. Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1961 (in print). $11. ISBN 0-671-21148-X. Large quality paperback.


• Whitney, Louise Doak. C Is for Centennial: A Colorado Alphabet. Illus. Helle Urban. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2002. $17.95. ISBN 1-58536-058-9.

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Picturebooks—Fiction

• Amery, Heather. Little Red Riding Hood. Illus. Stephen Cartwright. London: Usborne Publishing Ltd, 2003. $4.95. ISBN 0 7945 0607 0. 15 pp.


• Blake, Quentin. Mrs. Armitage Queen of the Road. Illus. Quentin Blake. Great Britain: Jonathan Cape, 2003. _10.99. ISBN 0-224-06472-X. 27pp.


• English, Karen. Hot Day on Abbott Avenue. Illus. Javaka Steptoe. New York: Clarion Books, 2004. $15.00. ISBN 0-395-98527-7. 32 pp.


• English, Karen. Speak To Me (And I Will Listen Between The Lines). Illus. Amy June Bates. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004. $16.00. ISBN 0-374-37156-3. 27 pp.


• French, Vivian. The Kingfisher Book of Nursery Tales. Illus. Stephen Lambert. Boston: Kingfisher (HM), 2003. $15. ISBN 0-7534-5482-3.


• Gay, Michel. Zee is Not Scared. Illus. Michel Gay. New York: Clarion Books, 2004. $15.00. ISBN 0-618-43931-5. 29 pp.


• Gibert, Bruno. The King Is Naked! NY: Clarion, 2004. $14. ISBN 0-618-41067-8.


• Hassett, John and Ann. Mouse in the House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, $15.00. ISBN 0-618-35317-8. 31 pp.


• Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon. New York: HarperCollins, 1955. $5.99. ISBN 0-66-443022-7.


• Pinkwater, Daniel. Bad Bears in the Big City. Illus. Jill Pinkwater. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. $16. ISBN 0-618-25208-8.

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Picturebooks—Non-Fiction

• Rockwell, Lizzy. The Busy Body Book. A Kid’s Guide to Fitness. New York: Crown Publishers, 2004. $15.95. ISBN 0-375-82203-8. 29 pp.

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Fairy Tales

• Andersen, Hans Christian. The Emperor’s New Clothes. Illus. Virginia Lee Burton. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. $16. ISBN 0-618-34421-7.


• Sedgwick, Marcus. (Hans Christian Andersen’s) The Emperor’s New Clothes. Illus. Alison Jay. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2004. $16.95. ISBN 0-8118-4569-9.

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Middle Grades—Fiction

• Cavendish, Lady Grace (Patricia Finney). The Lady Grace Mysteries: Book I Assassin. Book II Betrayal. London: Doubleday Random House, 2004. Hardback. $9.95. ISBN 0-385-60644-3, 0-385-60645-1.


• Stauffacher, Sue. Donuthead. New York: Knopf, 2003. $15.95. ISBN 0-375-82468-5. 144 pp.


• Stewart, Paul and Chris Riddell. Beyond the Deepwoods: The Edge Chronicles. London: David Fickling Book, 1998. $12.95. ISBN 0-385-75068-4. 278pp.

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Middle Grades—Non-Fiction

• Cooper, Michael L. Dust To Eat Drought and Depression in the 1930s. New York: Clarion Books, 2004. $15.00. ISBN 0-618-15449-3. 81pp.


• Morrison, Toni. Remember The Journey to School Integration. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. $18.00. ISBN 0-618-39740-X. 78pp.


• Rhynes, Martha E. I, Too, Sing America The Story of Langston Hughes. North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds Publishers, Inc., 2002. ISBN 1-883846-89-7. 144pp.


• Wilkes, Angela and Fiona Watts. The Usborne Internet-Linked Children’s World Cookbook. Usborne Publishers: www.usborne.com $13.95. ISBN 07945-0098-6.

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Mythology, Fables, Folklore

• Llewellyn, Claire. Saints and Angels. Illus. by medieval, Renaissance, and other painters. Boston: Kingfisher (HM), 2003. $14.95. ISBN 0-7534-5588-9.


• McCaughrean, Geraldine. Starry Tales. Illus. Sophie Williams. NY: McElderry (S&S), 1998. $21. ISBN 0-689-83015-7.

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Adolescent/YA Fiction

• Feiffer, Jules. The Man in the Ceiling. Harper Collins, 1993. $7.95. ISBN 0-06-205907-6. 185 pp.

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Adolescent/YA Non-Fiction

• The Usborne World of Shakespeare. London: Usborne, 2001. $9.95. ISBN 07945-0014-5. Large quality trade book, winner of the Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award. With over 50 Internet links.

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