Kids Recommended and Coming Soon

January 2006

Small Steps by Louis Sacher (Delacorte Press, Hardback, $16.95).
For ages ten years and up. Sacher's first major novel since his Nebery novel Holes in Small Steps. Stanley's pal in Holes, Armpit, meets Kaira, a pop sensation.

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, Illustrated by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt, Hardback, 16.95)
Rosa a Caldecott Honor Book is a picture book for Children 4-8 years. In Rosa we get a unique view of the courageous woman who's defiance sparked a revolution.

Pezzettino by Leo Lionni (Knopf, Hardback, $15.95)
For children ages 4-8 years. Leo Lionni has created a beautiful fable that captures how a smal child feels in a world of adults.

April 2004

Chapter Book:
The Princess Diaries: Volume V: Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot (HarperCollins, H, $15.99). April 2004.

Girls will be overjoyed with this absolutely hilarious addition to their favorite series, which involves seven minutes in heaven, citywide strikes and, most importantly, Mia's mission to be asked to the senior prom. Ages 12 (7th grade) and up.

May 2004

Picture Book:
Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle (Penguin, H, $16.99). May 2004.

Eric Carle has done it again, with astonishingly beautiful collage illustrations and story that introduces the very young to the wonders of aquatic life &and some special daddies. Hide and seek features with acetate overlays adds a colorful surprise. Ages 4 (preschool) and up.


Non-Fiction:
Remember D-Day by Ronald Drez. Foreword by David Eisenhower. (National Geographic, H, $17.95). May 2004.

Remember D-Day combines compelling narrative, dramatic archival photographs and memorabilia, detailed maps, and a timeline to bring readers the exciting story of one of the world's most daring invasions. Ronald Drez reveals the story of D-Day from January 1944--five months before the invasion at Normandy--through the attack itself. Readers learn of the careful planning, daring missions, and elaborate schemes that helped launch the raid that was the key to the Allied victory against Nazi Germany in World War II. They'll go behind the scenes and witness Operation Doublecross in which captured German soldiers were forced to become double agents and deliver false information to their commanders; and Operation Mulberry, in which the Allied forces created their own ports to tow across the English Channel. First-person accounts from survivors on both sides help paint a vivid portrait of what it was like to plan, participate in and live through D-Day. Ages 10 and up.

June 2004

Chapter Book:
Away Laughing On a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison (HarperCollins, H, $15.99). June 2004.

Georgia is boyfriend-less now that Robbie the Sex God has gone off to New Zealand to tend sheep. Just when Georgia thinks her snogging skills are about to dry up, she meets the new lead singer for the Stiff Dylans--a deliciously snoggable Italian-American boy named Massimo! But it's not love at first sight for Massimo. Teen fiction.

Arts & Crafts:
Usborne Book of Art Projects by Fiona Watt (Usborne, P, $18.00). June 2004.
Packed full of inspiring projects that use of variety of art materials, with simple step-by-step instructions to follow exactly or to use for inspiration.

July 2004

Picture Book:
Catalina Magdalena Hoopen-Steiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name by Tedd Arnold (Scholastic, H, $10.95). July 2004.

Though she had arms that drag along the ground, feet bigger than bathroom mats, and just two teeth in her mouth (one going north, one going south), life for Catalina is full and fun. Her parents adore her; she's a cheerleader, graduates from high school, gets a job, marries.

September 2004

Young Adult Fiction:
A Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum Books, H, $17.95). September 2004.
Juvenile fiction.

Picture Book for All Ages:
Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (Random House, H, $19.95). September 2004.
Beautiful book with a fully orchestrated and narrated CD. A new retelling by Janet Schulman follows the basic story, but with a kinder ending for both the wolf and the duck.

Picture Book:
Pinduli by Janell Cannon (Harcourt Children's Books, H, $16.00). September 2004.
From the author of Stellaluna, this new title features an endearing young hyena.


October 2004

Poetry for All Ages:
Omnibeasts by Douglas Florian (Harcourt Children's Books, H, $18.00). October 2004.
With forty-four of Douglas Florian's favorite animal poems and paintings.

Young Adult Fiction:
Children of the Lamp, Akhenaten Adventure #1 (Scholastic, H, $16.95). October 2004.
John and Philippa Gaunt are twelve-year-old twins of an affluent New York couple. Only when their wisdom teeth appear do they learn of their extraordinary gift: the twins are genies. They can grant wishes and make themselves disappear.