January 2006

31 New Reviews

Thanks to The Parents' Choice Foundation for permission to post these reviews. Additional reviews by SDSU faculty and students can be found at this outstanding national site for evaluation of children's culture: parents-choice.org.

Entries this month: || Picturebooks- Fiction and Non-Fiction  || Beginning Readers Fiction and Non-Fiction ||Middle Grades Fiction and Non-Fiction|| Humor || Fantasy/ Fairy Tale ||Adolescent/ YA- Fiction

Book Reviewers: Alida Allison, Mark Janssen, and Toni Rowden

Picturebooks- Fiction 

• Bertram, Debbie and Susan Bloom. The Best Time to Read. Illus. Michael Garland. New York : Random House, 2005. ISBN 0-375-85025-1

• Lionni, Leo. Fish Is Fish. New York: Random House Children's Books, 1998. ISBN0-394-80440-6

• Lowe, Joseph. Mice Twice. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005. ISBN ISBN 0-689-87832-X

• McKay, Hilary. There's A Dragon Downstairs. Illus. Amanda Harvey. New York : Margaret K. McEldberry Books, 2005. ISBN 0-689-86774-3

• McKissack, Patricia C. and Onawumi Jean Moss. Precious and the Boo Hag. Illus. Kyrsten Brooker. New York : An Anne Schwartz Book. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.

• Pirotta, Saviour. Aesop's Fables. Illus. Richard Johnson. Boston : Kingfisher, 2005. $12.95

• Stutson, Caroline. Pirate Pup. Illus. Robert Rayevsky. San Francisco , Ca: Chronicle Books, 2005. ISBN 0-8118-4239-8

• Wiesner, David. The Loathsome Dragon. Retold by David Wiesner and Kim Kahng. New York : Clarion Books, 2005. ISBN 0-618-54359-7

 

Picturebooks- Non-Fiction 

• Johnson, Angela. A Sweet Smell of Roses. Illus. Eric Velasquez. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005. ISBN 0-689-83253-4

• Thomson, Sarah l. Imagine A Day. Illus. Rob Gonsalves. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-689-85219-3

• Sidman, Joyce. Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems. Illus. Beckie Prange. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. ISBN 0-618-13547-2

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Beginning Readers- Fiction 

• Rylant, Cynthia. The Lighthouse Family: The Turtle . Illus. Preston McDaniels. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005. ISBN 0-689-86244-X

• O'Malley, Kevin. Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery. Illus. Patrick O'Brien. New York : Walker & Co., 2005. ISBN 0-8027-8935-8

 

Beginning Readers- Non-Fiction 

• Fradin, Dennis Brindell. Let It Begin Here! Lexington & Concord First Battles of theAmerican Revolution. Illus. Larry Day. New York : Walker & Co., 2005. ISBN0-8027-8945-5

• Gibbons, Gail. Dinosaur Discoveries. New York: Holiday House, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8234-1971-1

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Middle Grades- Fiction 

• Jenkins, Martin. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver. Illus. Chris Riddell. Cambridge , Mass: Candlewick Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7636-2409-8

 

Middle Grades- Non-Fiction 

• Johnson, Rebecca L. Nanotechnology. Minneapolis: Lerner Books, 2006. $25.26

• Moses, Shelia P. I, Dred Scott. Illus. Bonnie Christensen. New York: McElderry Books, 2005. $16.95

• Poole , Josephine, Joan of Arc. Illus. Angela Barrett. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. ISBN 0-679-89041-6

 

Humor

• Dahl, Roald. Vile Verse. Illus. by many artists and with a Foreword by Quentin Blake, Illus. of most of Dahl's books. New York: Viking, 2005. $25.

• Brooks, Mel and Carl Reiner. The 2000 Year Old Man Goes to School. Illus. James Bennett. New York: Harpercollins, 2005. $17.99

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Fantasy/ Fairy Tale

• Bernstein, Nina. Magic by the Book. Illus. Boris Kulikov. New York: Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. ISBN 0-374-34718-2

• Cooper, Susan. The Magician's Boy. Illus. Serena Riglietti. New York: McElderry Books, 2005. $14.95

• Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, The Conch Bearer. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-689-87242-9. $5.99

• Fleischman, Sid. The Giant Rat of Sumatra or Pirates Galore. Illus. John Hendrix. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2005 (Re-issue). $15.99

• Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. New York : Scholastic, 2005. $19.95

• McNaughton, Janet. Brave Jack and the Unicorn. Illus. Susan Tooke. Plattsburgh , NY: Tundra Books of Northern New York , 2005. ISBN 0-8876-677-3

• McNish, Cliff. The Silver Child. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2005. $15.95

• Smith, Sherwood. The Emerald Wand of Oz. Illus. William Stout. HarperCollins: New York , 2005. $16.99

 

Adolescent/ YA- Fiction 

• de la Pena, Matt. Ball Don't Lie. New York: Delacorte, 2005.

• Hiaasen, Carl. Flush. New York: Knopf, 2005. $16.95

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