From: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka <cathys>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:52:56 -0500 (EST)

A few favorites in addition to so many wonderful books already mentioned:

(* are my very favorites)

Picture books:

Circles of Hope by Karen Lynn Williams (very moving) Adventures of Cow by Lori Korchek (very silly)
*The Problem With Chickens by Bruce McMillan (exquisite folk art set in Iceland, very humorous) That New Animal by Emily Jenkins Nora's Ark by Natalie Kinsey Warnock

Poetry: Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George (awesome combination of poetry and art)

A little bit older kids:

Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole by Wong Herbert Yee (sweet early chapter/reader with a friendship theme. Reminds me of O'Henry's Gift of the Magi, at least as much as a cute mouse and mole can remind one of O'Henry's classic story)

Seen Art? by Jon Scieszka

Fiction:

*Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan (historical fiction, African setting in part, women in medical school) Marooned: The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe by Robert Kraske (very interesting)
*First Boy by Gary Schmidt (fast paced, very humorous, stayed up late to finish)

Teen:

Finding Lubchenko by Michael Simmons (fast paced, comic thriller)

Thanks for your suggestions.

Cathy Sullivan Seblonka
 

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Cathy Sullivan Seblonka
Youth Services Librarian
Peter White Public Library
217 N. Front St.
Marquette, MI 49855
(906) 228-9510
fax (906) 226-1783
e-mail: cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us

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