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Madeline's Christmas
Submitted by rob on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 22:03. | author: Ludwig Bemelmans rating:  asin: 0670806668 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.99 USD amazon price: $10.87 USD |
Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapes™ audio program and convert the cassette tapes to compact discs. This season, we’re adding two more titles to our list of Puffin Storytime™ packages. Madeline’s Christmas, Ludwig Bemelmans’ classic tale of a little French girl named Madeline as she celebrates Christmas, is perfect for this holiday season.These Puffin picture books will be accompanied by a compact disc that features a professional reading of the unabridged story. Perfect for road trips or quiet bedtime reading, as well as story time, preschool, and home school,Puffin Storytime: Madeline’s Christmas is sure to please children and parents alike.
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 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
Loud Emily
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 18:56.SarahKate's Notes:
We laughed out loud at how silly Emily sounds as she loudly declares everything. A great book about turning a vice into a virtue.
 | author: Alexis O'Neill rating:  asin: 068984669X binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Poor Emily. She doesn't mean to be loud, but whenever she says anything in her Emily voice, plates shatter, neighbors are astonished, and birds are frightened right out of the trees. It seems like there's nowhere she fits in. Until the day she sees a ship with a sign that reads: LOUD HELP NEEDED. NOW. So Emily sets sail for an adventure on the high seas, where perhaps there is a place for her after all...
Too Many Tamales
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 13:35. | author: Gary Soto rating: asin: 0698114124 binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Maria is feeling so grown-up, wearing her mother's apron and helping to knead the masa for the Christmas corn tamales. Her mother even let Maria wear some perfume and lipstick for the big family celebration that evening. When her mother takes off her diamond ring so it won't become coated with the messy masa, Maria decides that life would be perfect if she could wear the ring, too. Trouble begins when she sneakily slips the sparkly ring on her thumb and resumes her kneading. Uh oh.
Going West: Adapted from the Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (My First Little House Books)
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 23:03. | rating: asin: 0060271671 binding: Hardcover list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95 |
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 23:04. | author: Laura Ingalls Wilder rating: asin: 0064400042 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 |
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle.
Little House in the Big Woods
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 23:04. | author: Laura Ingalls Wilder rating: asin: 0064400018 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 |
Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest.
Summertime in the Big Woods (My First Little House)
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 23:04. | author: Laura Ingalls Wilder rating: asin: 0064434974 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
Summer is here!The warm days of summer have arrived, and that means Laura gets to spend fun-filled days outdoors!The winter is finally over, and now it is summertime!
Prairie Day (My First Little House)
Submitted by SarahKate on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 23:01. | author: Laura Ingalls Wilder rating: asin: 0064435040 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
Join Laura and her family on their journey across the flat Kansas prairie. There are gophers and rabbits to play with in the daytime, and a cozy camp awaits at night. Renée Graef's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth Williams' classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in this ninth title in the My First Little House Books series, picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks.