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Noodlemania!

05/14/2013 by Leave a Comment

NoodlemaniaBy Melissa Barlow

You’ll go noodle crazy with the playful and colorful pasta recipes in Noodlemania! It’s filled with hot and cold main dishes, salads, and even desserts! Try Super Stuffed Monster Mouths made with jumbo pasta shells, Rapunzel Pastamade with extra-long spaghetti, Spider Cookies made with crunchy ramen noodles, or Gloppy Green Frog Eye Salad made with acini di pepe. Noodlemania! also teaches basic math skills and includes fun trivia. Which pasta name means “little ears”? What’s the world record for the largest meatball ever made? Kids will have fun in the kitchen while sharpening their cooking skills with Noodlemania!

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If You Want to See a Whale

05/07/2013 by Leave a Comment

If You Want to See a WhaleBy Julie Fogliano

If you want to see a whale, you will need to know what not to look at.

Pink roses, pelicans, possible pirates…

If you want to see a whale, you have to keep your eyes on the sea, and wait…

and wait…and wait…

In this quiet and beautiful picture book by Julie Fogliano and Erin E. Stead, the team that created the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book And Then It’s Spring, a boy learns exactly what it takes to catch a glimpse of an elusive whale.

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Fog Island

04/22/2013 by Leave a Comment

Fog IslandBy Tomi Ungerer

Dark and gloomy Fog Island is shrouded in mystery. Many have ventured there, but no one has ever returned to tell their tale. But one day, Finn and little sister Cara are blown off course and get cast away on its murky shores. However they soon find out that things are not always as they first appear on Fog Island. Will they ever corne back ? And if they do, will anyone ever believe what they have seen ? Fog Island is an imaginative tale of mystery and fear of the unknown by Tomi Ungerer, one of the world’s most acclaimed children’s authors.
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Stardines Fly High Across the Sky: And Other Poems

04/22/2013 by Leave a Comment

StardinesBy Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Carin Berger

The poet, author, and indomitable naturalist Jack Prelutsky, having returned safely from far-flung places with an extensive collection of unique creatures that are a blending of the animate and inanimate, has worked in close collaboration with the fine artist Carin Berger, who herself conducted considerable field operations in preparing Mr. Prelutsky’s specimens for exhibition and publication. While many creatures (two dozen species in all) were discovered and recorded and their precise qualities examined, we are presenting sixteen here for the first time and for the enjoyment and education of the general public.

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Cat Talk

04/22/2013 by Leave a Comment

Cat TalkBy Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan Charest, illustrated by Barry Moser

Princess Sheba Darling is a beauty queen. Romeo is a lover. Tuck knows the coziest spots to sleep. Eddie has a job to do.

From cuddler to troublemaker, kitten to tom, cats have a lot to say. Authors Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest and illustrator Barry Moser give voice to and celebrate our most opinionated furry friends in this spirited collection of feline poetry. Full of curiosity, mischief, and some secrets, too, Cat Talk is sure to make readers wonder what their own four-legged friends have to say.

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Penny and Her Marble

03/09/2013 by Leave a Comment

Penny and her MarbleBy Kevin Henkes

When Penny spots a marble in Mrs. Goodwin’s front yard, she picks it up, puts it in her pocket, and takes it home. It’s a beautiful marble – it’s big, shiny, blue, smooth, and fast, and Penny loves it. But does the marble really belong to Penny?

What do you think will happen?

Another wonderful little book in Kevin Henkes’ critically-acclaimed, award-winning Penny series.

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Sleep Like a Tiger

02/19/2013 by Leave a Comment

Sleep Like a TigerBy Mary Logue, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski

Winner of a 2013 Caldecott Honor!

In this magical bedtime story, the lyrical narrative echoes a Runaway Bunny-like cadence: “Does everything in the world go to sleep?” the little girl asks. In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a not-at-all sleepy child and understanding parents, the little girl decides “in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets,” she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger. The Caldecott Honor artist Pamela Zagarenski’s rich, luminous mixed-media paintings effervesce with odd, charming details that nonsleepy children could examine for hours. A rare gem.

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One Cool Friend

02/02/2013 by Leave a Comment

One Cool FriendBy Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by David Small

On a momentous visit to the aquarium, Elliot discovers his dream pet: a penguin. It’s just proper enough for a straight-laced boy like him. And when he asks his father if he may have one (please and thank you), his father says yes. Elliot should have realized that Dad probably thought he meant a stuffed penguin and not a real one…Clever illustrations and a wild surprise ending make this sly, silly tale of friendship and wish fulfillment a kid-pleaser from start to finish.

Recently named a 2013 recipient of the Caldecott Honor award for illustration!

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Twelve Kinds of Ice

02/02/2013 by Leave a Comment

Twelve Kinds of IceBy Ellen Bryan Obed, illustrated by Barbara McClintock

“This is a joyful, spirited gem of a book, as bracing and glorious as a perfect stretch of ice.” -Newbery Honor author Joyce Sidman

With the first ice – a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched – one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice, the third ice…perfect ice…the last ice…Twelve kinds of ice are carved into twenty nostalgic vignettes, illustrated in elegantly scratched detail by the award-winning Barbara McClintock.

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Chu’s Day

02/02/2013 by Leave a Comment

Chu's DayBy Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Adam Rex

Chu is a little panda with a big sneeze.

When Chu sneezes, bad things happen.

Will Chu sneeze today?

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