Reviews Of The Week
Machines Go to Work in the Cityby William Low; illus. by the authorPreschool Holt 32 pp.6/12 978-0-8050-9050-5 $16.99Books don’t get much better than this for machinery-loving preschoolers. Listeners are first introduced to a particular situation involving vehicles, from a garbage truck to...
Daniel Striped Tiger, you've come a long way, baby. Introduced on the show The Children's Corner in the 1950s, shy Daniel went on to be one of many puppet inhabitants of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Earlier this month PBS debuted an animated spin-off series featuring his four-year-old...
A Certain Octoberby Angela JohnsonHigh School Simon 158 pp.8/12 978-0-689-86505-3 $15.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4424-1726-7 $9.99At the start of the book, Scotty is an average high school junior living in East Cleveland. She hangs out with friends, makes plans for the homecoming dance, and avoids writing a book report on Anna...
This Is Not My Hatby Jon Klassen; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.10/12 978-0-7636-5599-0 $15.99 gThe eyes have it in Klassen’s latest hat book (I Want My Hat Back, rev. 11/11). Klassen manages to tell almost the whole story through subtle eye movements and the tilt of seaweed and...
"Once upon a time there was no alphabet... only numbers." William Joyce's app The Numberlys (Moonbot Studios, January 2012) introduces users to a highly detailed, Metropolis-inspired city scape, where a society of cute blobby creatures manufactures numbers. Numbers form the basis of all organization and communication, but this world, though...
Pirateria: The Wonderful Plunderful
Pirate Emporiumby Calef Brown; illus. by the authorPrimary Atheneum 40 pp.7/12 978-1-4169-7878-7 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-3897-2 $12.99Brown presents a book-length advertisement for an imaginary emporium of all things pirate. Whether you need rags or pantaloons, spinnakers or planks, you can be sure to find them at Pirateria....
At first glance, the premise of the Lazoo Squiggles! (August 2012) app sounded as if it might be interesting for about ten minutes, tops: draw squiggles to make cars go fast, rockets zoom into space, clouds rain, and flowers grow.After a thirty-minute first glance, however, I realized the creators are...
Penny and Her Dollby Kevin Henkes; illus. by the authorPrimary Greenwillow 32 pp.8/12 978-0-06-208199-5 $12.99Naming things, whether children, pets, or toys, is serious business, and in this follow-up to Penny and Her Song (rev. 3/12) Henkes doesn’t take that task lightly. Gram sends mouse Penny a doll: “The doll had...
Jangles: A Big Fish Storyby David Shannon;
illus. by the authorPrimary Blue Sky/Scholastic 32 pp.10/12 978-0-545-14312-7 $17.99 gShannon takes the one-that-got-away story and spins it out into a big-fish tall tale as recounted by a father to his son. Jangles, the legendary trout of Big Lake, had “broken so many...
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