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Create Your Own Millennium Time Capsule

By Sheryl Shapiro and Tina Forrester

Here is an inexpensive New Year’s present: a do-it-yourself scrapbook project for pre-teens to amuse their future selves in 10 or 20 years. The scrapbook features 10 blank pages to fill in and 10 matching ... Read More »

February 10, 2004

Sunwing

By Kenneth Oppel

Kenneth Oppel’s first bat fantasy, Silverwing, ends with an explicit sequel teaser: “Within two sunsets he’d be starting on another journey, and maybe the greatest of all.” The book ends there but not the story. ... Read More »

February 10, 2004

Nightgown Countdown

By Frank B. Edwards, John Bianchi, illus.

Part of a series of rhyming picture books, these are designed to help four- to six-year-olds learn to read. They certainly do not help them learn about scansion, as most of the rhymes are off ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Snug as a Big Red Bug

By Frank B. Edwards, John Bianchi, illus.

Part of a series of rhyming picture books, these are designed to help four- to six-year-olds learn to read. They certainly do not help them learn about scansion, as most of the rhymes are off ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Crowded Ride in the Countryside

By Frank B. Edwards, John Bianchi, illus.

Part of a series of rhyming picture books, these are designed to help four- to six-year-olds learn to read. They certainly do not help them learn about scansion, as most of the rhymes are off ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Lucy Doll

By Diane Jarvis Jones

Lucy, a charmingly photogenic doll, narrates this account of the physical abuse a nine-year-old girl suffers at the hands of mean-spirited children. Jones’s books are consciousness-raising material. This one is endorsed by Meg Hickling, an ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Tangled in the Bay: The Story of a Baby Right Whale

By Deborah Tobin, Jeffrey C. Domm, illus

A whale researcher on a routine mission catches sight of a baby whale tangled in a fishing net in the Bay of Fundy. Special whale rescuers are called in from Cape Cod to free Pasha, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Barnyard Bestiary

By David Bouchard, Kimball Allen, illus.

The medieval bestiary was an illustrated book that described animals – many of them exotic, some imaginary and fantastic – for an insatiably curious western audience. Bouchard has adapted this concept to present a collection ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Great Poochini

By Gary Clement

The Great Poochini is the story of Signor Poochini, known to his human master as Jack and to the canine opera world as a world-famous lyric tenor. The book begins with Poochini set to star ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Frame of the Book

In recent years, Erin Mouré’s poetry has had the reputation of being a kind of playground for grad-school students. As the title suggests, her eighth book of poetry, A Frame of the Book, is heavily ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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