From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:16:08 -0600

Hello Again - I want to make certain you can locate the important book "Hitler Youth," and so here I've corrected the publisher error I made in the earlier message... GMK
 
****************************************************************** The season is so busy that there's no time to write why I appreciate each of these books. However I want to chime in before so many of you vanish into your holiday lives. These books are vastly different from each other, so it'll be impossible to drawing many or any conclusions from the list. Believe it or not, I'm not mentioning all the books I admire. Not at all! I began with the idea that I'd list a baker's dozen, but that became impossible.
  Incidentally, I also appreciated Summertime Waltz, as a couple of others in the CCBC-Net community have mentioned. Like so many other visually adventuresome books, I hope it doesn't get lost in the proverbial shuffle. So far no one has mentioned the newest Harry Potter book. I'm not trying to begin a dialogue about that, but it's a curious omission.
  Even though these books are NOT all gift-material, perhaps you'll find time during the next month or two to locate each one of them. My apologies for missing all necessary diacriticals and for all the typos, as well.
  Good Day, and Good Luck (reading and shopping), Ginny
  PRESCHOOLERS -
  1. Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt)
  2. Siesta by Ginger Fogelson Guy / artwork by Rene King Moreno (Greenwillow) color concepts
  3. So Happy! by Kevin Henkes / artwork by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow) picture story, also for newly independent readers
  4. Yum! Yuck! A Fold-out Book of People Sounds by Linda Sue Park & Julia Durango / artwork by Sue Rama (Charlesbridge)
  5. White Is for Blueberries by George Shannon / artwork by Laura Dronzek (Greenwillow) color concepts

  YOUNGER CHILDREN -
  1. Around the World by John Coy (Lee & Low) basketball literally the world 'round
  2. Stinky Stern Forever by Michelle Edwards (Harcourt) easy to read contemporary novel
  3. Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia McKissack and Jean Moss Onawumi / artwork by Kyrsten Brooker (Anne Schwartz / Atheneum)
  4. Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-ween by Ruth Sawyer, artwork by Max Grafe (Candlewick) new edition of a classic story
  OLDER CHILDREN -
  1. A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow) original poems
  2. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow) contemporary novel
  3. Friends of the Heart / Amici del Cuore by Kate Banks (Frances Foster / Farrar) contemporary novel set in Italy
  4. The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins) historical novel continuing the saga of an Anishinabe community
  5. The Girl from Chimel by Rigoberta Menchu with Dante Liano, artwork by Domi, Tr. from the Spanish (Groundwood) handsome memoir of childhood by the Guatemalan winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
  6. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt) picture story based upon an actual event
  7. Lies, and Other Tall Tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston, adapted with artwork by Christopher Myers (HarperCollins) visual version of the dozens
  8. Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter / artwork by Raul Colon (Atheneum) picture biography
  9. The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman with artwork by Peter Bailey (U.S. edition: Knopf) fantasy
  10. Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson / artwork by Hudson Talbott (Putnam) visual generational epic of survival and creativity
  11. White Flower: A Maya Princess retold by Victor Montejo / artwork by Rafel Yockteng (Groundwood) Guatemalan "Snow White"
  CROSS-OVER BOOKS: AGES, INTERESTS, POSSIBLY INCLUDING ADULTS -
  1. Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman (Clarion) history
  2. A Family of Poems compiled by Caroline Kennedy / artwork by Jon J Muth (Hyperion) anthology
  3. The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students by Suzanne Jermain (Houghton Mifflin) history
  4. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic) history
  5. Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal (Atheneum) history
  6. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out" edited by Ted Thompson with Eli Horowitz (McSweeney's) anthology defying categorization
  7. Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS by Deborah Ellis (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) interviews
  8. Poems to Dream Together / Poemas para sonar juntos by Francisco Alarcon / artwork by Paula Barrag?n (Lee & Low) original poems
  9. The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands by Sneed B. Collard III (Scientists in the Field / Houghton Mifflin) hope-filled nonfiction
  10. Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Frances Foster / Farrar) contemporary novel set in Afghanistan & Pakistan
  11. A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson / artwork by Philippe Lardy (Houghton Mifflin) original poems
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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