Angelo

Author	Masako Matsuno
ISBN	1930900201

A child's delight in a new pair of shoes is the same all over the world, whether the shoes are patent-leather sandals, straw alpargatas, deerskin moccasins or wooden clogs. For Mako, a little Japanese girl, the new shoeswere clogs painted with red lacquer that shone beautifully. This is the story of...

Author	Helen Oxenbury
ISBN	0763649708

What could be better than sharing a birthday cake with the friends who helped to bake it?

It's one lucky toddler's birthday, and of course there must be a cake. So the child asks some animal friends to gather ingredients, one by one: the chicken an egg, the bear some flour, the cat the butter and...

Author	Doreen Rappaport
ISBN	0786851414

Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent...

Author	Frank R. Stockton
ISBN	0763622397

Written at the turn of the 20th century, The Bee-Man of Orn shurgs off the didactic noose which threatened a lot of children's literature at the time and, instead, seems to honour the themes and ideas prevalent in the earlier traditional tales in which it feels like it has been based. Here we encounter...

Author	Robbin Gourley
ISBN	0618158367

Long before the natural-food movement gained popularity, before greenmarkets sprouted across the United States, Edna Lewis championed purity of ingredients, regional cuisine, and the importance of bringing food directly from the farm to the table. She was a chef when female chefs—let alone...

Author	Andrea Zimmerman
ISBN	0152167854

Dig up rock and dig up clay! Dig up dirt and dig all day!

Mr. Rally and his faithful dog, Lightning, have a busy day ahead of them, but they don't mind. What could be more fun than using a big yellow backhoe to build a pool at the school and a drain for the rain? Follow Mr. Rally through his day as he travels...

Author	Tanya Lee Stone
ISBN	0670062685

As a boy, Alexander (Sandy) Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between...

Author	Marjorie Flack
ISBN	0020430906

A sweet picture book where Danny teams up with the animals to find his mother the perfect gift.

Trying to find the perfect birthday present for his mother isn’t easy for Danny. The hen offers eggs, the goose feathers, and the sheep wool. But mother already has those things. Then the cow suggests...

Author	Carol Otis Hurst
ISBN	0060294035

Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying,...

Author

Margaret Hodges

In this collection of three exciting Arthurian legends, Merlin the magician watches over young Arthur as he rises to become king of all England. But many threats befall Arthur in the kingdom of Camelot: the evil witch Morgan le Fay, the traitor Mordred, and even his best friend, Sir Launcelot. Will the...

Author	Eileen Spinelli
ISBN	0761452230

Five tiny kittens cry for their mama, as smoke begins to fill the abandoned warehouse that has been their home. But Mother Cat has left her cozy heap of kittens to go in search of food. Determined to save her babies, Mother Cat dashes into the burning building and follows the sounds of frightened mewing....

Author	Patricia Lauber
ISBN	0064451305

Informative and intriguing, this science book teaches children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival, no matter how big or how small. Lively drawings from Holly Keller illustrate...

Author

Jan Andrews

Eva Padlyat lived in an Inuit village on Ungava Vat in northern Canada. In winter, when people wanted mussels to eat, they searched along the bottom of the seabed. Eva had often walked on the bottom, helping her mother, but today – for the very first time – she was to go down below the thick sea ice herself....

Author	Patricia C. McKissack
ISBN	0689853955

If telling the truth is the right thing to do, why is the whole world mad at Libby?

“Tell the truth and shame the devil,” Libby’s mama has told her. So whatever is Libby doing wrong? Ever since she started telling only the truth, the whole world seems to be mad at her. First it’s her best friend,...

Author	Brian Floca
ISBN	0689850913

A is for Automobiles, machines on wheels.
B is for Belts turning, fuel burning, the buzz and bark of engines.
C is for Curves and crowds and cars, of course --
A century of racecars, from bare beginnings to present-day marvels, from stock cars to Formula 1, from Ford to Ferrari, caught in crackling...

Author	Franklyn Mansfield Branley
ISBN	0064451666

Starts with the idea of water vapor being something that is in the air but that you can't see, or smell or feel it. It then explains evaporation by suggesting putting a teaspoon of water in a saucer in the morning and that it will have evaporated by later in the day or a boiling tea kettle. It explains that sometimes...

Author

Tasha Tudor

Every year I try to find one book and one CD of music to add to our Christmas collection. I try to find something we will want to read over and over again, or listen to every year. Unlike "The Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote (bleah!), which I found recommended in a children's catalog (see my review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/......

Author	Ingri d'Aulaire
ISBN	0385241062

It sort of pains me to only give this book 4 stars; it is really so good. (I am one of those people who either passionately loves a book or hates it. There is rarely an in between.)

These d'Aulaire books are GORGEOUSLY illustrated, and I feel like I am looking at a work of art as I flip through the pages....

Author	Jim LaMarche
ISBN	0064438562

Inspired by various experiences from his childhood, Jim LaMarche, beloved illustrator of A Story for Bear and The Elves and the Shoemaker, brings this touching story about one boy's unexpected summer as a river rat to life with his bold, picturesque paintings.

Nicky isn't one bit happy about...

Author	Michael O. Tunnell
ISBN	0688128785

Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a...

Author	Thomas Locker
ISBN	0140546138

Beautiful illustrations reminiscent of the Dutch masters. My only criticisms are that they never show the hole in the dike, meaning that children who are unfamiliar with the concept will have difficulty picturing it. Also, the text prefers to describe what characters said instead of having actual...

Author	Byron Barton
ISBN	0694006009

This little "board book" introduces many kinds of boats. When I share this with children, either one-on-one or in a group, I like to have a conversation with them rather than simply reading aloud the text. For instance, the first double-page spread shows sky and waves and the text is--"on the water"....

Author	Donna Jo Napoli
ISBN	0152052496

Such a wonderful, beautiful, touching story! I'm struggling to write a review because I just loved this so much and it's hard to put into words all the feelings I experienced while reading it. On the one hand, it's a very real story about a young man who struggles with anxiety about leaving his home--he...

Author	Don Freeman
ISBN	0140503269

The little adventures this boy goes on are adorable! I can personally relate to this book becuase I have a family member who absolutely hates getting his hair cut. He would rather deal with having a "mop top" than going to get his hair cut at the barber shop.
This book is a fun little text for children...

Author	John Steptoe
ISBN	0064434427

One day my momma told me, "You know you're gonna have a little friend come stay with you." And I said, "Who is it?" and "For how long?" That's when Stevie moved in with his crybaby self. He played with my toys and broke them, and he left dirty footprints all over my bed. But then Stevie left again, and I missed...