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Review of the Day – Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter

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Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook By Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter Illustrated by Matt Phelan Roaring Brook Press (a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-628-2 Ages 9-12 On shelves now I was child writer. Which is to say, I was one of those kids who wrote endless stories between the ages of nine [...]

Review of the Day: Born to Be Giants by Lita Judge

Born to Be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World By Lita Judge Flash Point / Roaring Brook (an imprint of Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-443-1 Ages 5 and up On shelves now. Just yesterday I had a very nice children’s author from North Carolina visiting me in my library. She wanted to look [...]

Review of the Day – Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet by Alexandra Siy

Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet By Alexandra Siy Charlesbridge ISBN: 978-1-57091-462-1 $18.95 Ages 9-12 Sometimes I think that adult authors of children’s non-fiction subjects get so wrapped up in their material that they forget (or, more likely, never knew how) to make the thing they are talking about palatable to kids. Here’s a [...]

Review of the Day – Dark Fiddler: The Life and Legend of Nicolo Paganini by Aaron Frisch

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Dark Fiddler: The Life and Legend of Nicolo Paganini By Aaron Frisch Illustrated by Gary Kelley Creative Editions $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-56846-200-4 Ages 9 and up On shelves now The picture book biographer is often a limited soul. If you are churning out biography after biography for a large company then I’m sure the job must [...]

Review of the Day: Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka

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Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka By Jon Scieszka Viking (a Penguin imprint) $12.99 ISBN: 978-0670011384 Ages 9-12 On shelves now To adults that don’t normally wander through the shelves of children’s literature the notion of the autobiography for kids is a pretty odd beast. You write a book about [...]

Review of the Day: George Washington Carver by Tonya Bolden

George Washington Carver By Tonya Bolden Abrams Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-8109-9366-2 Ages 8-12 On shelves now In New York City, the early months of the year are known for two things: Cheek chilling winds of a bitter nature, and assigned biographies of famous people. All [...]

Review of the Day: America Dreaming by Laban Carrick Hill

America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the ’60s By Laban Carrick Hill Little Brown & Company $19.99 ISBN: 978-0316009041 Ages 12 and up On shelves now Essentially what we have here is a book written about the children of the 50s and 60s for the children of the 00s, reviewed by a child of [...]

Review of the Day: Howtoons by Saul Griffith and Joost Bonsen

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Howtoons: The Possibilities Are Endless By Saul Griffith and Joost Bonsen Art by Nick Dragotta Harper Collins $15.99 ISBN: 978-0060761585 Ages 9 and up On shelves now Just this past summer my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were in town for a brief little vacation. Whenever relatives come to visit you in New York you end up [...]
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