December 2006

18 new reviews

Entries this month: Picturebooks- Fiction and Non-fiction || Chapter Books || Folklore || Poetry || Cookbooks || Middle-grades Fiction and Non-Fiction || Young Adult || Parent/Teacher Reference

AGE GUIDES: these are approximate recommendations:

• Picturebooks, 3-6 years old (though often enjoyed by older children, too)
• Chapter Books, Beginning Readers-5-8 years old
• Middle Grade Books-7-11 years old
• Young Adult-11-18 years old

REVIEWERS: Alida Allison, Shelley Moreno

Picturebooks- Fiction

• Look, Lenore. Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding. Illus. Yumi Heo. New York: Atheneum, 2006. $16.95. ISBN 0-689-84458-1.

Picturebooks- Non-Fiction

• Rawson, Katherine. If You Were a Parrot. Illus. Sherry Rogers. Mt. Pleasant, NC: Sylvan Dell, 2006. ISBN 0-9764943-9-6. $15.95.

• Seurat, Georges./Art Institute of Chicago. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Tunnel Book. Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago , 2006. ISBN 0-9754150-0-X. $9.95.

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Chapter Books

• Marsden, Carolyn and Virginia Shin-Mui Loh. The Jade Dragon. Boston : Candlewick, 2006. $15.99. ISBN 0-7636-3012-8. Ages 7-10.

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Folklore

• Said, Salah Ahmed. The Lion's Share/Qayb Libaax: A Somali Folktale. St. Paul, MN: Somali Bilingual Book Project, Minnesota Humanities Commission, 2006. $15.95. ISBN 1-931016-12-7.

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Poetry

• Wilbur, Richard. Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000 (originally pub. 1973 and 1991). $10.95. ISBN0-15-205612-2.

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Cookbooks

• Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins in the Kitchen. Illus. Mary Shepard. San Diego: Harcourt, 2006. First pub. 1975. ISBN 0-15-206080-4. $14. Hardcover. 80 pp.

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Middle-grades Fiction

• Price, Robin. I Am Spartapuss. Mogzilla: www.mogzilla.co.uk . Paperback edition 2005. ISBN 0954657608. $10.95. 192 pp.

• Vejjajiva, Jane. The Happiness of Kati. Trans. Prudence Borthwick. Aus: Allen and Unwin, 2006. ISBN 974-94312-0-0.

Middle-grades Non-Fiction

• Love, Ann and Jane Drake. Trash Action: A Fresh Look at Garbage. Illus. Mark Thurman. Toronto: Tundra, 2006. ISBN 0-88776-721-4. $14.95. www.tundrabooks.com. 76 pp.

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Young Adult

• Freymann-Weyr, Garrett. Stay with Me. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

• Gantos, Jack. Desire Lines. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2006.

• Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006

• Kidd, Ronald. Monkey Town : The Summer of the Scopes Trial. New York : Simon and Schuster, 2006. $15.95. ISBN 1-4169-0572-3. 260 pp.

• Lester, Julius. Cupid. San Diego: Harcourt, 2007. ISBN 0-15-202056-X. $17.

• Oates, Joyce Carol. Freaky Green Eyes. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.

• Portman, Frank. King Dork. New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.

• Trottier, Maxine. Three Songs for Courage. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2006.

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Parent/Teacher Reference

• Hagar, Kristy, Sam Goldstein, and Robert Brookes. Seven Steps to Improve Your Child's Social Skills: Teaching Social Skills for Children 5-14. Plantation , FL :Specialty Press, 2006. ISBN 1-886941-60-2. $18.95. 100 pp.

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