Celebrate National Poetry Month by reading lots of verse for children. A new book of poems all by Kate Coombs entitled Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems will appeal to children who love the beach. The author grew up near the Pacific Ocean in...
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Wednesday, Apr 3, 2013
Nicola Davies is a zoologist and an award-winning author who's written many books for children. Of writing Outside Your Window, she says, "I cast off my grown-up self and found the me I was at five or six. From inside that younger self I could...
Friday, Mar 29, 2013
Edited by J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate, this new volume of children's poetry about the animal world is a stand-out. 200 poems with beautiful color photographs of each animal comprise this collection produced by the National...
Friday, Mar 29, 2013
Julie Andrews' Treasury For All Seasons; Poems and Songs to Celebrate the Year is a new compilation of children's poems by many poets that have made a name for themselves. The poems are fairly short and would be good for elementary school...
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013
The author of Blue Highways, Roads to Quoz, and PrairyErth, William Least Heat-Moon, has written his newest book called Here, There, Elsewhere; Stories From the Road. This volume is a series of chapters, each one unique, about his lifetime of...
Thursday, Aug 9, 2012
Subtitled, The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat , by Susanna Reich, this new picture book comes out just in time for the celebration of what would be the famous cook's 100th birthday on August 15th. In a picture book biography for young...
Monday, Jul 2, 2012
Bestselling author of the Clementine chapter books, Sara Pennypacker has written a great new novel for kids (suggested for readers in grades 4-6). This is the story of two adolescent girls who are thrown together on a temporary basis at a home on...
Friday, Jun 29, 2012
The Shoemaker's Wife is the newest book written by New York Times bestselling author, Adriana Trigiani, and was inspired by her own family history. This is the first novel I've read by the author but it definitely won't be the last. I...
Friday, Jun 29, 2012
If you remember Helen Cresswell's Bagthorpe series, now sadly out of print, you will love Hilary McKay's stories about the Casson family in England with its wonderfully quirky characters. In this newest story which is a prequel to the other five...
Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012
I have been enjoying my annual supply of Girl Scout cookies while reading the brand new adult biography called, Juliette Gordon Low; The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts, written by Stacy A. Cordery. Today, March 12, 2012, marks the...
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