What's New
Selected new additions to the collection
Seduce Me at Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas
Winnie’s Midnight Dragon by Valerie Thomas
Angel Girl by Laurie B. Friedman
Ten Tiny Babies by Karen Katz
Kicking off with 1 tiny baby starts to run and ending with 10 sleeping babies tucked into their cribs, Katz (Princess Baby) once again puts her kewpie doll crew through their paces, this time enumerating all the fun things that babies do, from toe wriggling and noisemaking to eating with abandon. Giggles, smiles (both angelic and ever-so-slightly mischievous) and wide-eyed wonder abound as the babies frolic and accumulate additional compadres in nursery-hued settings. 4 noisy babies bang and shout!/ Along comes another... to sing right out! The second half of every couplet is split by a page turn, providing a gentle tease that encourages readers to flip the page and complete the rhyme. Ideally suited for read-aloud in both cadence and content, the book is a solid addition to Katz's extensive oeuvre of adorableness. Ages 1 5. (Sept.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar
Monsters on Machines by Deb Lund
Starred Review. Lund's (Dinosailors) rhyming story, about a team of ghoulish monsters who ride bulldozers and cranes, has just about everything a child could hope for, from fantastical characters to vehicles, from muck and mud to screams and shouts to monsteroni and cheese. The plot is uncomplicated a crew of monsters builds a Custom Prehaunted house and then cleans up and relayed with plenty of brio: Foreman Gorbert stomps over. He's huge and he's hairy./ He grunts out the orders and adds, Make it scary! Neubecker's (Wow! School!) bright, digitally colored full-bleed pictures of the workmonsters Dirty Dugg, Stinky Stubb, Gorbert and Melvina are reminiscent of Maurice Sendak's Wild Things, but rendered in an electric palette. A monster mama serves lunch, reads a story and oversees naptime, then withdraws: this quartet, apparently, doesn't view tidying up as fiendish (Without too much whining, they each do their share). The fun extends to the endpapers, which feature monsters in construction machines. Ages 3 7. (Aug.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wild About ATVs by Jamie Poolos
Cool Country Music: Create and Appreciate What makes Music Great! by Mary Lindeen
The Hero Twins: Against the Lords of Death by Dan Jolley
