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Emma's Yucky Brother |
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Jean Little |
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When Emma learns that her family is about to adopt a 4-year-old boy, she is thrilled. She has always wanted a little brother and is convinced Max will be the best brother ever. Her friend Sally isn't so sure. "He will be a pest," she says. "All brothers are pests." When Max finally arrives, Emma is stunned that things don't go the way she expects them to. Max had looked little and sweet in the photograph. In real life he looks big, he doesn't smile at her, and he says her homemade cookies are yucky. It's going to take a lot of understanding and some changes in perception for Emma and her new brother to find a way into each other's hearts. Jean Little's superb early chapter book captures all the emotional ups and downs of adoption and sheds some light on the complex and stressful transition from foster home to... |
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Story of Babar: The Little Elephant |
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Jean de Brunhoff |
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The Story of Babar--the early adventures of the enduring, endearing elephant--was written in 1931 by French writer Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937). Since then, it has been translated into at least 12 languages. It's amazing how much can happen to one little elephant in the course of one little book: Babar loses his mother to a hunter, wanders into the city, gets a new wardrobe, becomes the hit of high society, marries his cousin Céleste (totally acceptable in contemporary Elephantine society), and is crowned King of the Elephants. The Story of Babar is essentially the tale of a country boy who comes to the city and, while there, comes of age. In the end, he returns home to share his knowledge and experiences with family and friends. The beautiful, delightfully detailed illustrations--de Brunhoff was a painter by... |
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Emma's Strange Pet |
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Jean Little |
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From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2-Despite her allergies, Emma wants a pet as a birthday gift. Her parents agree to her request-as long as she selects an animal without fur. Emma chooses a lizard, and she and her brother Max delight in its eating habits and changing color. When Emma realizes that Max is unhappy because he doesn't have his own pet, she convinces her father to get him a lizard. Little portrays real characters who bring everyday problems to satisfying conclusions. Simple, full-color line-and-watercolor illustrations do a great job of capturing expressions of confusion, worry, anger, and joy. An exceptional beginning reader.Anne Knickerbocker, formerly at Cedar Brook Elementary School, Houston, TXCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood: Wise and Witty Advice on Everything from Coping with Postpartum Mood Swings to Salvaging Your Sex Life to Fitting into That Favorite Pair of Jeans |
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Vicki Iovine |
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Just had a baby? Lie down, rest your weary womb, and muster up a rousing cheer! (Shh! Don't wake the baby!) Now, from the author of The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy, comes the book all new moms have been waiting for, whether they know it or not. Vicki Iovine talks turkey ... and stitches, and weight loss, and depression, and sex (trying it for the first time after labor and delivery? "Inebriate and Lubricate"). Vicki--yeah, I know I'm calling her by her first name but after reading this book you'll be on a first-name basis with her, too--is funny, informative, and utterly (udderly?) irreverent. New mothers have never had it so good.
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Iovine follows up her successful The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy (Pocket, 1995) with this breezy,... |
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Emma's Yucky Brother |
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Jean Little |
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When Emma learns that her family is about to adopt a 4-year-old boy, she is thrilled. She has always wanted a little brother and is convinced Max will be the best brother ever. Her friend Sally isn't so sure. "He will be a pest," she says. "All brothers are pests." When Max finally arrives, Emma is stunned that things don't go the way she expects them to. Max had looked little and sweet in the photograph. In real life he looks big, he doesn't smile at her, and he says her homemade cookies are yucky. It's going to take a lot of understanding and some changes in perception for Emma and her new brother to find a way into each other's hearts. Jean Little's superb early chapter book captures all the emotional ups and downs of adoption and sheds some light on the complex and stressful transition from foster home to... |
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I Spy Little Bunnies |
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Jean Marzollo |
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Tiny tots will love the satisfaction of spying a whole array of toy bunnies and other intriguing items in this cute addition to Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick's popular I Spy series. I spy a bunny mask,
a bride in a gown,
An apple with a bite,
and a bunny upside down.
Wick's crisp photographs, specially adapted from the numerous I Spy books (I Spy, I Spy Funhouse, I Spy Fantasy, etc.), feature old-fashioned toys and the kind of odds and ends you might find in Grandma's cupboard drawers. Wooden tops, marbles, old ticket stubs, harmonicas, tin cars, and jars full of buttons fill the right-side pages of this sturdy little board book. On the left is the minimal text, with each featured object pulled out of the context of the opposite page to help young readers pick it out from the ... |
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I Spy Little Letters |
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Jean Marzollo |
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Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick team up yet again for another perfect little I Spy picture book. In this one, kids who are just learning to read can practice their ABC's with Wick's special photo illustrations and Marzollo's clever alphabetical rhymes: "I spy an L wearing lacy white, and a metal M that's screwed on tight." Borrowing from some of their previous books (I Spy, I Spy School Days, and others), the author-illustrator team adds an original twist to the usual alphabet book, with each letter covered in its own letter-inspired design. P is plaid, E is a pink eraser, V is veiled with vines. Surrounding each letter are pictures of objects beginning with that letter (octopus, orange, ostrich). Young children will enjoy identifying the crisp, detailed pictures and reciting the bouncy rhymes. (Ages 2 to 5)... |
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Emma's Strange Pet |
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Jean Little |
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From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2-Despite her allergies, Emma wants a pet as a birthday gift. Her parents agree to her request-as long as she selects an animal without fur. Emma chooses a lizard, and she and her brother Max delight in its eating habits and changing color. When Emma realizes that Max is unhappy because he doesn't have his own pet, she convinces her father to get him a lizard. Little portrays real characters who bring everyday problems to satisfying conclusions. Simple, full-color line-and-watercolor illustrations do a great job of capturing expressions of confusion, worry, anger, and joy. An exceptional beginning reader.Anne Knickerbocker, formerly at Cedar Brook Elementary School, Houston, TXCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I Spy Little Animals |
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Jean Marzollo |
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Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects and toy animals in the photographs.
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From Anna |
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Jean Little |
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-- Children's Book Review Service
"This is a special book. Like a warm friendship, it makes one different."
-- School Library Journal
"Jean Little has again created realistic characters whose interactions make this a touching story with which children will readily identify."
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I Spy Little Christmas |
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Jean Marzollo |
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"I spy a lady and a wooden kitty cat; an angel and a snowman's hat." The award-winning team of wordsmith Jean Marzollo and photographer Walter Wick maintains a perfect balance of simple text and engaging, colorful images in this holiday board book based on the favorite childhood game "I spy." Repetitive rhyming words in big print invite kids to seek out Christmastime objects. To reinforce the learning (and assist the youngest reader), the items in question are pulled out of the holiday setting on the right page and repeated on the opposite page with the text. Seekers match the bright red boot with its double in the wintertime setting of holly and snow, or pick out the three green Christmas tree cookies from a pile of cookie horses, hearts, and stars. This little board book is not only enchanting, but also an ideal... |
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Hey World, Here I Am! |
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Jean Little |
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From Publishers Weekly
Poetry-writing Kate Bloomfield, star of Kate and Look Through My Window , returns to share--in both poetry and prose--her views on love, life and other adolescent experiences. Ages 9-up. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Grade 5-9-- A funny and poignant collection of poems, observations, and vignettes about life, friendship, family, identity, and love, as if from the journal of Kate, a young teenager who also springs to life in two other books by Little. It's a difficult task to evoke an adolescent's voice without writing painfully (for readers) like one. Fortunately, whenever the style is in danger of becoming too polished, an ingenuous phrase saves it; and whenever it leans too much to the adult perspective, a poem straight from... |
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I Spy Little Book |
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Jean Marzollo |
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There's certainly not much imagination in the I Spy books, but every parent knows that they are ideal material for getting a 2- or 3-year-old through a restaurant meal or a trip. Probably too simple for children older than 3, the puzzles in this board book have the usual two parts. On the left-hand pages are rhymed couplets ("I spy a spoon and a golden key / I spy a butterfly just for me!") paired with illustrative pictures of the objects named. On the right-hand side is a more complex picture containing the objects on the left, and the task at hand is to pick them out. The objects are simple, the photos are clear, and primary colors predominate. As always, there's extra mileage to be had in discussing the other objects in the pictures--even in making up stories about them. (Baby to preschool) --Richard Farr
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Emma's Magic Winter |
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Jean Little |
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-An enjoyable, gentle story about making friends and overcoming fears. Emma is a painfully shy child who likes to read, but not out loud or in front of her class. After some nudging by her parents, she goes next door and introduces herself to her new neighbor, Sally. Emma comes up with the idea that their winter boots (they have identical pairs) are magical, and it almost seems that they are. Thanks to the boots, both girls overcome their awkwardness and become good friends. Many children will identify with these familiar childhood situations. The idea of magic boots will surely inspire some wintertime adventures. The easy-to-read text and bright, lively watercolor illustrations work together in perfect harmony. A magical selection in any season.Dina Sherman, Brooklyn Children's Museum,... |
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This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls before Swine Collection |
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Stephan Pastis |
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Pearls Before Swine is an impressive comic strip success story. In syndication for less than two years, it currently appears in more than 150 newspapers worldwide, was nominated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society in its debut year-an unprecedented achievement-and its first book collection, BLTs Taste So Darn Good, has sold through four printings. This Little Piggy Stayed Home continues the adventures of Rat and Pig, who couldn't be more different-or more surprising. Rat is your typical Everyrodent: scheming, self-centered, and more than occasionally manipulative. By contrast, Pig is sensitive, kindly, and-even on his best days-just plain stupid. Together with Zebra and Goat, they confront the strange and wonderful world around them, a place that looks suspiciously like our own. By turns... |
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Different Dragons |
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Jean Little |
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Grade 3-6 A sincere, charming story of a child overcoming fears. On his first stay away from home without his family, timid Ben faces many challenges: Aunt Rose, whom his brother said was mean; sleeping alone; the bossy girl next door; a thunderstorm; but most of alla big dog. His aunt had planned Gully as a surprise and later for a birthday present, but Ben is terrified of the dog until a thunderstorm brings them quivering together under the same bed. During that weekend, Ben proves that he can be brave when he and Hana become trapped in the attic until Gully brings his aunt to their rescue. The simple plot is realistically portrayed with genuine children's emotions and reactions. The message that everyone has dragons to fight is evident as a natural element of Ben's dilemma, with the expected resolution of... |
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Pippin the Christmas Pig |
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Jean Little |
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PreSchool-Grade 1–When the animals in the barn boast about the important roles their ancestors played during the first Christmas, Pippin the pig is so upset to learn that her ancestors didn't give a gift that she runs off into the snow. Miraculously (and a bit jarringly), she meets a homeless mother and her baby and leads them to the stable, where she convinces the other animals to help them. The point about the best gift being kindness and love may be lost on small children, who will like this book for the interplay among the animals and for the sweet portrayal of the endearing Pippin. The atmospheric watercolor-and-pencil illustrations are full of child appeal, with Pippin (who looks like a cross between Wilbur and Olivia) standing out pinkly against the dark barn and snowy fields.–E. M.... |
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I Spy Little Wheels |
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Jean Marzollo |
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The brightly colored photographs and simple rhymes of the I Spy books have a perennial appeal, as does the straightforward task they put before the child: see objects clearly on the left-hand page and pick them out from the complicated jumble on the right-hand page. The degree of difficulty varies widely from book to book, and this example from the board-book series is one of the very simplest, using for its images small areas of detail from the more complex photographs in books like I Spy Gold Challenger. Here, a 3-year-old is likely to go through the book in minutes, seeing all the answers very quickly. Some of the later pages up the ante slightly, for example when a cat, shown in full on the left, is almost completely hidden on the right. This simple interactive board-book is a good choice for the I Spy beginner. (Baby... |
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Gloria Jean |
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Scott Macgillivray |
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Kirkus Discoveries, December 8, 2005
[Authors] bring great sensitivity and authority to their subject, and Gloria Jean provides fascinating anecdotes… A must-read for film buffs.
Classic Images, January 2006
Primarily a biography, it also serves as an excellent history of Hollywood, particularly Universal Studios during the 1940s… highly recommended.
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Exquisite Little Knits: Knitting with Luxurious Specialty Yarns |
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Iris Schreier |
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From Booklist
Every craft book must have a hook, and here it's the luxury yarns so readily available today. In the past, knitters had to rely on cables and other fancy stitches to spark up their projects, but today they can let a wide selection of glittery and glam yarns do much of the work. Displayed in sharp color photographs in a clean design, the fancy yarns are on display here by brand name. The book is divided by both project and type of yarn. Much information is given about each yarn and how it knits up, and several projects are offered for each. There is nothing very complicated among the projects: lots of scarves, shawls, and caps. But by using yarns as varied as lattice, mohair, eyelash, and fur, everything ends up looking great. Glossary and abbreviations are appended. Ilene Cooper
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