Reviews Of The Week
The cleverly designed Disney American Presidents app (Disney Learning, October 2012) invites users to peruse "The Unofficial Oval Office Scrapbook."A scrapbook-like spread devoted to each president features the man's portrait, birth and death dates, signature, and awards received. A "bookmark" sidebar provides his presidential number, term(s) served, corresponding historical era,...
Trick or Treatby Leo Landry; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Houghton 32 pp.8/12 978-0-547-24969-8 $12.99Landry’s cheery watercolor and pencil illustrations and calm palette signal that this Halloween story is more treat than trick; together, the straightforward text and simple compositions build suspense and inject...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. How, you may ask, does this connect with children’s books?Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project (Easton Studio Press, May 2012) includes a book of illustrated poems/lullabies, two CDs of the songs, and an e-book. Actress Kate Dawson developed this project to honor her...
The Peanuts gang is back in two new interconnected Loud Crow Interactive apps.A follow-up to last fall’s fabulous A Charlie Brown Christmas app, Loud Crow's latest story app It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! (October 2012) is based on the 1966 animated holiday TV special of the same name. Linus...
Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroadby Henry Cole; illus. by the authorPrimary Scholastic 40 pp.11/12 978-0-545-39997-5 $16.99This wordless picture book opens with a calm scene: a quilt hangs over a rural split-rail fence. A young girl enters the scene on the next double-page spread, leading a cow and watching...
"Everyone’s story matters," according to Morris Lessmore, a lifelong lover of books and the title character of William Joyce’s The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. That's certainly a worthy notion, and it has made me a champion of this particular story since the animated short film first won...
What Came from the Stars by Gary D. SchmidtMiddle School Clarion 293 pp.9/12 978-0-547-61213-3 $16.99 gSchmidt brings high heroic fantasy and contemporary realism together in this novel of a bereaved family. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, Tommy grieves for his mother, who died...
illustration by Pat Marriott, from The Wolves of Willoughby ChaseJoan Aiken's daughter Lizza is hosting an evening in New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. You should go.The anniversary has also prompted a new audio edition of the novel (Listening Library) about which...
David A. Carter and Noelle Carter's Bot Garage (Random House/Smashing Ideas, 2011), a companion to their 2011 counting pop-up book Lots of Bots, invites users to recreate the wacky robots showcased in the book and create their own inventions.Build a robot by selecting from a gallery of ten brightly colored options...
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