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A Series of Unfortunate Events
Posted on July 24, 2009 by Jennifer in Adventure, Family Read-Aloud, Humorous Storiesby Lemony Snicket I finally finished the 13th book, The End, in Lemony Snicket’s popular Series of Unfortunate Events. I spread the books out because reading them all in a row got tedious for me, but I enjoyed the author’s wry sense of humor and playful use of language. Snicket (pen name for Daniel Handler) [...]
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Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: reflections on being raised by a pack of sled dogs
Posted on July 22, 2009 by Victoria in Adventure, animals, Family Read-Aloud, My Favorite, Nonfictionby Gary Paulsen This ranks with the best dog stories ever written. Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers is a wonderful account of Paulsen’s life in the remote Minnesota forest. Paulsen raised and raced sled dogs, often taking the dogs out for long solitary runs in the wilderness. Cookie, his lead dog, saved Paulsen’s life [...]
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We Can’t All be Rattlesnakes
Posted on July 20, 2009 by Victoria in animals, Humorous Storiesby Patrick Jennings We Can’t All be Rattlesnakes takes a fun spin by making a captive gopher snake the heroine of the story. “Crusher” is minding her own business in the desert when a very unlikable boy captures her. Crusher is added to the boy’s other pets– a tortoise, a lizard and a tarantula. They [...]
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The BFG
Posted on July 18, 2009 by Children's Department Staff in Classics, Family Read-Aloud, Fantasy, Humorous Storiesby Roald Dahl Meet the BFG or Big Friendly Giant, who collects dreams and has to eat snozzcumbers (nasty cucumber like vegetables) because he doesn’t like to eat children like the other giants (with names like Bonecruncher and Meatdripper.) A little orphan girl named Sophie befriends the BFG (after he kidsnatched her!) She is horrified [...]
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Kids Dish Cookbooks
Posted on July 17, 2009 by Victoria in Nonfiction, world culturesrecipes by Nick Fauchald, illustrated by Ronnie Rooney Roly-Poly Ravioli and Other Italian Dishes and Funky Chicken Enchiladas and Other Mexican Dishes are two of the Kids Dish series by Nick Fauchald. The series introduces kids to simple recipes, cooking tools, terms and processes. The ingredients aren’t hard to find or expensive, and the [...]
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The Tree
Posted on July 15, 2009 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Picture BooksBy Karen Gray Ruelle There is a giant elm in the middle of Madison Square Park in New York City. In its more than 250 year life-span, this tree has seen a lot of change. The land was first set aside as a public space in 1686, and in the years since, it has been [...]
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A Lithgow Palooza
Posted on July 14, 2009 by Molly in Nonfictionby John Lithgow Looking for creative ideas for a rainy day? John Lithgow, one of my favorite actors and childrens’ book author, has compiled 101 activities for kids of all ages that range from art to acting to dance to food to birthdays to vacations and more. This book is a great resource for [...]
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Interworld
Posted on July 14, 2009 by Rachel in Fantasy, My Favorite, Science Fictionby Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves Joey Harker discovers that he, along with the other versions of himself in an infinite number of possible universes, is a Walker: he can travel between these different worlds. Joey signs up to fight against the opposing but equally evil magic and science conglomerates who seek to use the [...]
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Tuck Everlasting
Posted on July 12, 2009 by Children's Department Staff in ClassicsBy Natalie Babbitt Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live forever? Well, the Tuck family never wondered until they realized, forever was their only option. Young Winnie Foster stumbles across the “youngest” boy of the Tuck family and embarks on the journey of hearing their story and all the mishaps that [...]
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Little Prince: the Story of a Shetland pony
Posted on July 9, 2009 by Victoria in animalsby Annie Wedekind This is the first book in the Breyer Horse Collection horse series. Each book tells the story of a particular horse breed. Shetland pony Phin comes from a long line of working ponies, and seems doomed to live out his life on the carnival route. But his fortunes change when a [...]
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