8/17/2008
A young fox makes a friend.
Adam Relf does wonderfully with his debut children's book, Fox Makes Friends. Young children will surely enjoy this heartwarming tale about making friends. The story is about a little fox who is sitting in his bedroom bored, when he decides the cure to his loneliness is to have a friend.The fox...
8/17/2008
A golden dragon seeks to find his identity.
Grace Chang's children's book, Jin Jin the Dragon, is a heartwarming tale about identity, as a golden creature seeks to find his. It is an ordinary day in spring when a golden egg by the water hatches. Born is a golden creature who is alone and seeks to belong.He is told by the fish that because...
8/17/2008
When Julius orders something different, change spreads throughout the town.
Fashion Designer Paul Frank brings his famous monkey, Julius, to the print world with the children's book, Wild West Bananza. Here, Julius is the sheriff of the town of Plainsville. As the name implies, the town is quite plain-for a Wild West town anyway-and everyone follows the same routines....
8/17/2008
A little bunny insists that what it has is not a box.
Not a Box, by Antoinette Portis, is a well-deserved Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. Bursting with originality and creativity, Portis wonderfully inspires and entices the imaginations of young readers with Not a Box. With an adorable bunny protagonist and wonderful creativity, all who read this...
8/17/2008
A little pig insists that what it has is not a stick.
Not a Stick, by Antoinette Portis, is a book that readers of all ages can appreciate. Full of imagination, the sky is the limit as readers witness an adorable pig turn something as ordinary as a stick into something extraordinary. After all, it is 'not a stick'!The book opens with the little pig...
8/17/2008
A duck is found at the front door.
To all fans of Jackie Urbanovic's Duck, Urbanovic brings you the debut of Duck with Duck at the Door. Urbanovic's Duck is a character hard to resist, just as his books are! Amusing and fun, all will fall in love with Duck!In a cozy house full of animals, all are asleep until they hear knocking on...
8/17/2008
A boy loses his best friend after his best friend chooses someone else over him.
Worst Best Friend, a children's book by Alexis O'Neill, is a story to which young readers will easily relate. Worst Best Friend tells the story of a friend who went from the best friend ever to suddenly the worst best friend overnight. Most elementary children who have 'lost' best friends will...
8/17/2008
A boy sent to his room uses his imagination to turn his surroundings into where the wild things live.
A timeless classic, all readers should get a chance to appreciate Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. With a well-deserved Caldecott Medal, Where the Wild Things Are bursts with wild pictures to accompany this wild adventure taken by a young boy.A young boy named Max slips into a wolf suit...
8/17/2008
A scaredy squirrel is afraid to go out into the unknown.
Though a hilarious book to be enjoyed by readers of all ages, any with obsessive compulsive tendencies will especially love Scaredy Squirrel, by Melanie Watts. Scaredy Squirrel is a hero to those who always stay in their comfort zone and like it like that. After all, who would want to leave the...
8/17/2008
A Siamese cat gets in trouble for his Chihuahua ways.
When will our favorite Siamese kitty realize that he's not really a Chihuahua? Certainly not in this Judy Schachner's Skippyjon Jones tale. With Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse, Skippyjon is still fully believing that he is a Chihuahua dog-much to his mother's chagrin.Always a bit of a...
