Showing posts with label Picture book of the week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picture book of the week. Show all posts
Friday, December 14, 2012

Three gems from the library

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Three recent and wonderful finds:   Achilles was loved by Number Six who has recently finished the real thing and attests to its accuracy--...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child

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Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child by  Jesse  Hartland,  Shwarts & Wade  2012 I did not grow up with Julia Child... and...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Three new Picture Books

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I continue to browse through new library picture books... it seems the good ones are becoming rarer, or it may be that my filters have becom...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Martin de Porrres, The Rose in the Desert

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Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert , by  Gary D. Schmidt  and illustrated by David Diaz. 2012 Clarion Books I just posted this o...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Zita The Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

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Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke , 2011 First Second Books, 192 pages Ben Hatke, known to Catholic homeschoolers for his illustrations in ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

How to Draw Pets

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How to Draw Pets by by Mark Bergin, 2011 Powerkids. This is a good book! I am always on the lookout at the library for how-to-draw books,...
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Thursday, March 08, 2012

Gifts From The Gods

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Gifts  From the Gods by Lise Lunge-Larsen, illustrated by Gareth Hinds, 2011 Houghton Mifflin Books for Children I picked a new Myth...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Irena's Jar of Secrets

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Irena's Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan, illustrated by Ron Mazellan , 2011 Lee& Low Books.   I  first  heard about Irena Send...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Finally! The story of the real "Father of Flight" told to American children!

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The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont by Victoria Griffith, illustrated by Eva Montanari, 2011 Abram Books for Young Reader...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

A Picture Book about J. R. R. Tolkien

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J. R. R. Tolkien by Alexandra and John Wallner, 2011 Holiday House. I had seen it on the library catalog while it was still on order... ...
Thursday, December 08, 2011

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature

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Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature , by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beth Krommes, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011. A nice find a...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Two animal-friendship picture books

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A friend for Einstein : the smallest stallion,   by Charlie Cantrell and Rachel Wagner. Suryia & Roscoe : the true story of an unlik...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

New Picture Book on Guadalupe

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Talking Eagle and the Lady of Roses by Amy Cordoba and Eugene Gollogly I don't usually post books with which I may have some quibble...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Two clever Picture Books!

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 A Filth of Starlings and   A Drove of Bullocks by Patrick George , May 2011 I loved Portuguese collective nouns as a child in...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Picture Book of the Week

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Out of Sight by Pitaus & Gervais , 2011 Chronicle Books   Number Seven has enjoyed this new title from the library immensely, opening...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Summer Picture Books!

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Here are a few new picture books we picked up from the library this late summer season and that were chosen family favorites: A Butterfl...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

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Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin, illustrated by Bill Farnsworth , 2011 Holiday House, NY. Among ...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Shipwrecked! by Rhoda Blumberg

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I am so excited to have found out this fascinating story of the first Japanese citizen ever in American soil... his being stranded in an isl...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux

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The Secret Cave, Discovering Lascaux , by Emily Arnold McCully , 2010 Farrar Straus Giroux, NY. Emily Arnold McCully's books, both writt...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Jeanne Birdsall's Picture Book

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Flora's Very Windy Day, by Jeanne Birdsall, illustrated by Matt Phelan , 2010 Clarion Books. Jeanne Birdsall is the award-winning autho...