Pirates Don't Change Diapers
Publisher Weekly Review: Plucky young Jeremy Jacob is reunited with Captain Braid Beard and his crew of daft, dentally challenged buccaneers in a follow-up to the bestselling How I Became a Pirate. This time, Jeremy clearly has the upper hand: he won't let the pirates dig up the treasure they buried in his backyard at […]
A Good Day
School Library Journal Review: tarred Review. PreS-Gr 1?Employing the thick lines and uncluttered illustrations reminiscent of his work in Kitten's First Full Moon (Greenwillow, 2004), Henkes tells the story of four creatures who start out having a bad day. A bird loses his favorite feather, a dog gets her leash tangled in a fence, a […]
The Moon Might Be Milk
Rosie wonders what the moon is made of. Using milk, butter, sugar, and other ingredients, Gran shows Rosie how to bake moon-shaped cookies and captures a magical piece of the moon in her very own kitchen. Full color.
Little Moon Dog
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The team behind The Tin Forest delivers another otherworldly tale with a magical bent and a moral. Mischievous fairies, paying their yearly visit to the moon to plunder its gardens and beaches for "sticky moon candy," entice Little Moon Dog away from the Man in the Moon, a bespectacled, long-haired, […]
Half a World Away
School Library Journal Review: K-Gr 2?Best friends Amy and Louie build pretend towers, see magical creatures in the clouds, and regularly climb through a hole in the fence into one another's yards. The special "Coo-ee Am-ee" or "Coo-ee Lou-ee" call is enough to bring one or the other running. But then Amy's family moves "to […]
Rainstorm
Publishers Weekly Like her previous titles (Museum Trip; The Red Book), Lehman's new book follows a lone child on a magical wordless journey. But this one celebrates a slightly more plausible trip, and offers its hero friendship. As the book opens, a boy dressed neatly in short pants and a tie listlessly kicks his ball […]
Specials
School Library Journal Review: Gr 8 Up?This final installment in the series is a warning of the dangers of overconsumption and conformity. Set some time in the future, after a human-made bacteria destroyed the modern world, the trilogy tells of new cities established and tightly controlled through brainwashing and a series of operations leading to […]
The Sword of Cort
Jack Sparrow number four.
The Age of Bronze
Jack Sparrow and his crew must recover a stolen amulet.
Silver
After Jack Sparrow and his crew get aboard the Fleur de la Mort, they find that it will be much more difficult to leave this ship.