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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
Tatterhood and Other Tales
Submitted by SarahKate on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 22:13. | rating: asin: 0912670509 binding: Paperback list price: $10.95 USD amazon price: $8.76 USD |
All the central characters in these folk tales are spirited females-decisive heroines of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some eerie, and some magical. The 25 traditional tales come from Asia, Europe, India, Africa, and the Americas; detailed information about their sources is given. "A sparkling gathering or traditional, yet little-known tales."-Chicago Sun Times
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 |
Russian Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
Submitted by SarahKate on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 14:59.SarahKate's Notes:
This collection of classic Russian fairy tales is fascinating. Expect this book to be as violent as other classic fairy tales, complete with witches that threaten to eat you if you don't do her chores, heros that get cut up in pieces but somehow come back to life, evil step mothers and step sisters are burnt to ashes from a glowing skull, and so on. There aren't too many pictures, but the ones they do have are exquisite. This was a favorite of our (then) 5 year old, who was particularly fond of the tale "Vassilissa the Beautiful and the Witch Baba Yaga", which I think I've read over a dozen times.
 | author: Gillian Avery Ivan Bilibin rating: asin: 0679436413 binding: Hardcover list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD |
Notable for their magnificent, jewel-like color illustrations by Bilibin, these traditional tales include "The Frog Princess," "Vassilissa the Beautiful," and "The White Duck." Though Russian Fairy Tales in the Pantheon Folklore Library is a book for adults, it has sold over 30,000 copies.
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 |
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.
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 20:41.SarahKate's Notes:
This beautifully illustrated book has a wide variety of poems. Our girls (then ages 5 & 8) picked a few out to commit to memory, such as The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The book also has less familiar poems such as The Beautiful by W.H. Davies:
Three things there are more beautiful
Than any man could wish to see:
The first it is a full-rigged ship
Sailing with all her sails set free;
The second, when the wind and sun
Are playing in a field of corn;
The third, a woman, young and fair
Showing her child before it is born.
 | rating: asin: 1905236565 binding: Hardcover list price: $19.99 USD amazon price: $13.59 USD |
The 74 poems in this exquisite collection trace our journey through life from birth to old age. Along the way, the works of some of the finest poets in the English language celebrate all kinds of human experience: the wide-eyed wonder and adventure of childhood, the magnificence of the natural world and the animal kingdom, the mystery of love and the tragedy of war.Each page is superbly illustrated by Jackie Morris, making it a feast for the eyes as well as the ears.
The Dwarf, the Giant, and the Unicorn: A Tale of King Arthur
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 12:29. | author: James Cross Giblin rating:  asin: 0395605202 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95 |
This tale about King Arthur, a dwarf, the dwarf's giant son, and a mother unicorn was originally the concluding episode of an Arthurian romance written in France in the Middle Ages, Le Chevalier du Papegau ("The Knight of the Parrot").
Three Sacks of Truth: A Story from France
Submitted by SarahKate on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 12:29. | author: Eric A. Kimmel rating: asin: 082340921X binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $15.95 USD |