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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 Five Sisters (Puffin Chapters)
Submitted by SarahKate on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:03. | author: Margaret Mahy rating:  asin: 0141303344 binding: Paperback list price: $3.99 USD amazon price: $3.99 |
A row of five linked paper dolls is whisked away by the wind before Sally's Nana can draw all their faces. Tossed by winds, drenched by water, and scorched by fire, the five sisters search for a mysterious island on the edge of the sea— and acquire their own names, faces and unique personalities along the way. "Mahy's multilayered tale pays loving tribute to the power of story and imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review
Gracie, The Pixie of the Puddle
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 08:16.SarahKate's Notes:
This the last book in the series that began with The Prince of the Pond, and it is a good ending. The first book is the best, and we enjoyed reading them all.
 | author: Donna Jo Napoli rating:  asin: 0525472649 binding: Hardcover list price: $16.99 USD amazon price: $16.99 USD |
The acclaimed Donna Jo Napoli's beloved and hilarious series about Pin, the (frog) Prince of the Pond, continues with more funny language, wild adventure, and magic. As Gracie the frog picks up the story, she knows her friend Jimmy is special, but even she can't believe his wild stories about his human father and his own adventures as a boy in the palace. Still, she follows him when he leaves the pond. But can she overcome a wicked hag-turned-crocodile, a bratty princess, a menacing cook, and her own froggy instincts to rescue Jimmy and win his love?
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 |
The Wheel on the School
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 16:33.SarahKate's Notes:
We listened to the audio version of The Wheel on the School (320 pages), a 1955 Newberry Winner that had all of us interested in riding in the car so we could hear it. It was really neat to hear about life in Holland, during a time when the village school had only 6 children, with only one girl - Lina. She surprises the teacher by independently writing a short composition, wondering why storks don't nest in their fishing village of Shora but they nest in all the neighboring villages. This inspires them to figure it out and they are are encouraged to spend their school time to work out the solution. It sounds dry but this is a very exciting book! This is a fantastic book about the power of hope, and the idea that it take a village to raise a child.
 | author: Meindert Dejong rating: asin: 0064400212 binding: Paperback list price: $6.95 USD amazon price: $6.95 USD |
Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren who first asked the question, and she set the others to wondering. And sometimes when you begin to wonder, you begin to make things happen. So the children set out to bring the storks back to Shora. The force of their vision put the whole village to work until at last the dream began to come true. Winner, 1955 Newbery MedalNotable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA)1963 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Jimmy, the Pickpocket of the Palace
Submitted by SarahKate on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 12:04.SarahKate's Notes:
This the 2nd book in the series that began with The Prince of the Pond. This book is fun, light reading that we all enjoy.
 | author: Donna Jo Napoli rating: asin: 0525453571 binding: Paperback list price: $15.99 USD amazon price: $15.99 |
Akimbo and the Lions
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 08:03.SarahKate's Notes:
A great story about how a boy wants to help his father capture a wild lion that has been attacking a farmer's animals. There is a scary part where the father thinks the lion has been captured but it has not, and the boy has to pick up the father's forgotten gun (loaded to put the lion to sleep) and shoot. He doesn't hit anything but he does frighten the lion away. We enjoyed this suspenseful story of this African boy and the lion cub he ends up raising.
| author: Alexander McCall Smith Performed by Alexander McCall Smith rating: asin: B000V9FPXM binding: Audio CD |
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The Trumpet of the Swan (4 CD Set)
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 07:51.SarahKate's Notes:
This story is read by the author E. B. White and is an outstanding book - 4 CDs worth! This is the same man that wrote Charlotte's Web, he is an amazing storyteller. I strongly recommend the audio version over the book, because we got to hear all the songs Louie the swan can play on his trumpet. Louie is a trumpeter swan that is born without a voice, but his father ends up breaking into a music store so he can have a trumpet to woo the swan of his desiring. It sounds a little wacky but E. B. White makes it work, and we all were so excited to get in the car so we could hear it.
 | rating: asin: 055345532X binding: Audio CD list price: $30.00 USD amazon price: $21.90 USD |
Although he lacks a voice in the traditional "Ko-hoh!" sense, trumpeter swan Louis learns to speak to the world with a trumpet stolen from a music store by his father. With the support of an unusual boy named Sam, who helps Louis learn how to read and write, the swan has some rather unswanlike adventures and ultimately wins the love--and the freedom--of a beautiful swan named Serena. For over 30 years, E.B. White's masterpiece has captured the fancy of countless readers.
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Betsy-Tacy)
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 13:45.SarahKate's Notes:
This is the 3rd book in the series - excellent!
 | author: Maud Hart Lovelace rating: asin: 0064400999 binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD |
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up--exciting things are bound to happen. And they do!
Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy)
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 13:42.SarahKate's Notes:
This is the 2nd book in the series. We loved it!
 | author: Maud Hart Lovelace rating: asin: 0064400972 binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD |
Three of a KindBetsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.They are not as good as they might be. They cook up awful messes in the kitchen, throw mud on each other and pretend to be beggars, and cut off each other's hair.