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Hitty Her First Hundred Years
Submitted by SarahKate on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 15:59.SarahKate's Notes:
Published in 1929 this book is a classic, a story of a wooden doll carved in the early 1800s. In 262 pages we read about her first 100 years, being lost and found by one little girl after another. Her adventures were fascinating and the girls (ages 5 & 8) begged for more each time. In each chapter we encountered at least 2 words we had to look up in the dictionary. This is an outstanding story! We each give it 5 stars.
 | author: Rachel Field rating:  asin: 0689822847 binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD |
Presented for the first time in audio, here are the charming and adventurous memoirs of an exceptional doll named Hitty. Her story begins in Maine in the early 1800s, where she is transformed from a piece of sturdy mountain-ash wood into the valued playmate of a young girl named Phoebe Preble. When the inseparable pair join Phoebe's father on a journey aboard his whaling ship, Hitty's one hundred years of exciting adventures begins! Join this doll of great charm and character as she travels all over the world, from India to Philadelphia to New York. Whether she is traveling with a snake charmer, attending the opera, meeting Charles Dickens, becoming a doll of fashion, posing as an artists' model, or being stolen away on a Mississippi riverboat, one thing is certain... no doll has led a life like Hitty's! The 1930 Newbery Award winner.
The Town in the Library
Submitted by SarahKate on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 15:12. | author: E. Nesbit rating:  asin: 0803704771 binding: Hardcover list price: $10.95 USD amazon price: $10.95 |
Cinderella (Golden Kite Honors (Awards))
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 16:44.SarahKate's Notes:
Cinderella is a favorite in our home, and this one is full of the tiniest, beautiful details.
 | rating:  asin: 0439561450 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.99 USD amazon price: $11.99 USD |
Poor Cinderella, who is relegated to a dingy garret room by her duplicitous stepmother and beleaguered by her nasty stepsisters, never gives in to hostility or revenge. Instead, this sweet heroine remains steadfast in her kind, gentle ways, and her generosity flows like a mountain stream. This tale of virtue rewarded is as charming and rich as any prince. McClintock's warm, humorous, and lucious artwork that reflects the story's French roots, coupled with her disarming text will insure that this book will be loved and cherished -- happily ever after.
Melisande
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 16:38.SarahKate's Notes:
This is an excellent fairy tale from E. Nesbit, written about a hundred years ago. A evil fairy who wasn't invited to the princess's christening declares that she shall be bald.... an amusing tale of her wish for ever growing hair follows. This book is a favorite of both our girls (then ages 5 & 8).
 | author: Edith Nesbit rating:  asin: 0152531645 binding: Hardcover list price: $13.95 USD amazon price: $13.95 |
The Fortune-Tellers (Picture Puffin Books)
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 16:28. | author: Lloyd Alexander Trina Schart Hyman rating: asin: 0140562338 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
Bernal and Florinda: A Spanish Tale
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 16:22. | author: Eric A. Kimmel rating: asin: 0823410897 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95 |
Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 12:31. | author: Gloria Rand rating: asin: 0735815399 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95 |
Games of tag on the deck; swings tied to the masts; a floating farmyard filled with chickens and ducks and even a pig; exotic pets, including a mongoose, a monkey, a kangaroo; studying astronomy and celestial navigation under the stars and geography with firsthand visits all over the world. This was the childhood of the four Madsen children who made their home aboard a four-masted sailing bark that carried cargo in the 1800s. Based on the journal kept by Captain Madsen and his daughter Ena, the story of this seafaring family is brought to life for modern children by Gloria and Ted Rand.
Up the Chimney
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 12:32. | author: Margaret Hodges rating:  asin: 0823413543 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95 |
The tale of a courageous girl with quick feet and a generous heart.
The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin
Submitted by SarahKate on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 12:04.SarahKate's Notes:
We laughed out loud throughout this book, it was so much fun to read. It was fascinating to hear about life from a frog's perspective and the girls were so very eager to hear more chapters from this book. It is the first in a series.
Note of caution: The fact that frogs mate is brought up, though saying that males have suckers on their 'hands' so that they can hold on is as far as they go to describe the process.
 | author: Donna Jo Napoli rating: asin: 0140371516 binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD |
And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 22:53. | author: Janet Stevens Susan Stevens Crummel rating: asin: 0152022988 binding: Hardcover list price: $17.00 USD amazon price: $11.90 USD |
Every night the rhyme gets read. Every night Dish and Spoon run away. And every night they return--until tonight! Where can Dish and Spoon be? The rhyme can't go on without them, so Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to search for their missing friends. But where to start? Should they go north? East? Northeast? They'll just have to read Fork's map, ask directions, and try not to get lost in Little Boy Blue's haystack or under Miss Muffet's tuffet or in Big Bad Wolf's kitchen--"FEE, FI, FO . . ." Oh no. Could that be the giant?