Fiddlers
Snowleg
The Work of Wolves
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
In a Blue Room
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Emillie Marie Smith. School Library Journal: PreS- This dreamy bedtime book doesn't have a single unnecessary word. Alice bounces on her bed, wide awake and making demands. She will only sleep in a room in which everything is blue. Mama brings in flowers, a cup […]
Only You
Publishers Weekly: Cruise's (Little Mam? Forgets) parental cooing provides soothing accompaniment to another sumptuous series of domestic portraits from Caldecott Honor artist Chodos-Irvine (Ella Sarah Gets Dressed). The book visits three parent-child pairs (including one father-son duo) at different points during the day and year. Evening finds a mother lovingly ushering her preschool-age daughter from […]
Jazz Baby
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Linnea Marge Trudell Pokropowicz. Synopsis: One swinging, singing, hip-hop-bopping family romps with their new baby.
Merle's Door : Lessons From a Freethinking Dog
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. The trend in best-selling memoirs about dogs sparked by John Grogan's Marley & Me bodes well for this engaging new work by National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Kerasote, who introduces readers to a stray Labrador retriever mix to whom he became attached while on a camping trip in Utah. Their […]
Saint Iggy
Children's Literature: Sixteen-year-old Iggy Corso is hardly anyone's idea of a hero. He is kicked out of high school (terminated this time, Principal Olmos says, because of his long disciplinary history). Iggy's had a lot to overcome in his short sixteen years: He lives in the projects in New York City. His dad is usually […]
Please, Mr. Einstein
Publisher Weekly Review: French screenwriter Carri?re (he worked on Belle de Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) sets out to make the elegant beauty of Einstein's ideas manifest to lay readers in this thin, pleasant novel-dialogue. It is the early 21st century, and a young, nameless student intent on learning more about Einstein […]