A Boy Named Beckoning : the True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 2?5?Capaldi uses Montezuma's own words to tell this gripping story of a Yavapai boy who was captured by the Pima in 1871 and grew up to become a prominent doctor and Native American spokesperson. Solidly researched, the well-written text follows Wassaja (later renamed Carlos Montezuma) as he was […]
The Iranian Revolution
Synopsis: In the Middle Eastern nation of Iran, discontent simmered for decades. The Iranian people despised their leader, Reza Shah, who catered to foreign businesses while ruling Iran as a dictator. In 1979 discontent boiled up into all-out revolution. Led by the charismatic Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian people seized control and created a new government […]
Monkey and Me
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Allie Ann Marie Clement. Synopsis: A little girl and her toy monkey love imitating different animals, everything from jumping like kangaroos to waddling like penguins! Open this book and play along with them.
Gallop
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Jonathan Stephen Simpson. Synopsis: There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not […]
Big Bad Bunny
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Eliahna Pearl Simpson. Publishers Weekly Review :At first glance, Big Bad Bunny seems like a creature that haunts the dreams of sleeping children: Fearlessly crossing "mucky swamps" and "rushing streams" ("Big Bad Bunny can go anywhere"), the monster has furiously knitted eyebrows, […]
Flamingos On the Roof : Poems and Paintings
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Johnson Nahum Anthony Lemire. Synopsis: In the very near future you will find yourself dining on Snow Flurry at the famous Weatherbee's Diner. Everyone will be there?Bob and Bossy Casey, Medusa's sister Sally, both of the Appleton Twins, and Mr. Andy Mandolin […]
Say Cheese!
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Emily Rose Mitton. Synopsis: Lola has promised her mother that she will stay clean and tidy for school picture day. "It will be easy peasy, lemon squeezy!" says Lola. But staying clean and tidy is not so easy, especially when there is […]
I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Haley Elizabeth Cavanaugh. Synopsis: Night owl Lola likes to stay up coloring and scribbling and wriggling and bouncing and chattering. Lola never gets tired. How can big brother Charlie convince her it's time for bed? Heralded by the WASHINGTON POST as "a […]
My Friend, the Starfinder
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Dino Boissonneault. Publishers Weekly Review: Stories and the people who tell them form one of the main themes of much of Lyon's poetic work, and this sumptuously illustrated book, perhaps Gammell's finest, is no exception. The narrator begins conversationally, "Once there was […]
Zen Ties
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Troy Boissonneault. Synopsis: Summer has arrived — and so has Koo, Stillwater's haiku-speaking young nephew. And when Stillwater encourages Koo, and his friends Addy, Michael, and Karl to help a grouchy old neighbor in need, their efforts are rewarded in unexpected ways. […]