Knucklehead

Title: Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka Author: Jon Scieszka ISBN: 9780670011063 Pages: 106 pages Publisher/Date: Viking, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, c2008. The first time I heard the name Knucklehead, it wasn’t being used as a particularly good name. I think it was my dad, finding that [...]

Heart and Soul

Title: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Author/Illustrator: Kadir Nelson ISBN: 9780061730740 Pages: 108 pages Publisher/Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2011. Awards: Won Coretta Scot King Author Award, 2012 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2012 Most folks my age and complexion don’t speak much about the past. Sometimes it’s [...]

Pocketful of Posies

Title: Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes Author: Salley Mavor ISBN: 9780618737406 Pages: 62 pages Publisher/Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2010. All households should have at least one collection of nursery rhymes for parents and caregivers to expose their children. This collection of nursery rhymes is a must have for [...]

Amelia Lost

Title: Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Author: Candace Fleming ISBN: 970375814989 Pages: 118 pages Publisher/Date: Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House, c2011. The fear in Earhart’s voice made Leo Bellarts’s skin prickle. “I’m telling you, it sounded as if she would have broken out in a scream. . . [...]

September 11th in Picture Books

I debated with myself whether or not I should do this post. Not just because I figured that other websites would be doing similar tributes on the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center Attacks and would probably do it better than I ever could. And I realize that it is timely, it’s relevant, and [...]

Celebritrees

Title: Celebritrees: Historic and Famous Tress of the World Author: Margi Preus Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon ISBN: 9780805078299 Pages: 40 pages (Picture Book format) Publisher/Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC c2010. Published: March 1, 2011 “Trees inspire people to extraordinary achievements. Treaties have been signed, justice dispensed, and the seeds of the [...]

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

Title: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night Author: Joyce Sidman Illustrator: Rick Allen ISBN: 9780547152288 Pages: 32 pages Publisher/Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, c2010. “To all of you who crawl and creep, who buzz and chirp and hoot and peep, who wake at dusk and throw off sleep: Welcome to the night.” [...]

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood

Title: The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood Author: Jeff Kinney ISBN: 9780810996168 Pages: 199 pages Publisher/Date: Amulet Books, c2010. “This book is the story of how a little idea got turned into a major motion picture, and how a fictional cartoon character became a real boy.” (1) I don’t think you [...]

Mirror, Mirror

Title: Mirror, Mirror Author: Marilyn Singer Illustrator: Josee Masse ISBN: 9780525479017 Pages: Unpaged Publisher/Date: Dutton Children’s Books, c2010. Cinderella’s Double Life Isn’t life unfair? Stuck in a corner, while they’re waiting for a chance with the prince, dancing waltz after waltz at the ball, I’ll be shining these shoes till the clock strikes midnight. Till [...]

Friday Feature: Russell Freedman’s Books

As promised, to finish up my week of Russell Freedman, I’m supplying a bibliography with a list of his books and the awards they have won. I compiled this list using the Alliance for the Study and Teaching of Adolexcent Literature at Rhode Island College website, which provided a wonderful starting point for this list [...]