From: Lisa Von Drasek <lisav_at_bankstreet.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:10:37 -0400

Not a stepchild...I think it is just summer.

I was shocked when I couldn't get a copy of Talking Like the Rain and very pleased that it returns from Little Brown in a reissue. I do think noisy librarians make a difference.

Also sometimes weird things happen in reprint- one of my favorite collections 'till all the stars have fallen: a Collection of Poems for Children" from Viking is now only available as "till all the stars have fallen: Canadian poems for Children" from Kids Can. It contains Courage by Emily Hearn, one of my top ten to read aloud to 2nd graders...AND I am afraid to let my personal copy out of my sight.

How could Cats are Cats selected by Nancy Larrick and illustrated by Ed Young be OP? I get that this is a business but it contains my favorite rendering of "Cats Sleep Fat and Walk Thin"

Somebody besides me must need replacement copies in hardcover of Judy Sierra's Antarctic Antics- Doesn't this lyrical gift of song belong in anyones supporting the "core"? We pair it with our non fiction flightless waterfowl books.

Kristine O'Connor George's Little Dog Poems!!!!!!!! As near perfect as you can get to introduce poetry to early elementary. Wouldn't knowing that the Amazon price for a hardcover new but op is $500 raise any eyebrows???? Doesn't that say anything about supply and demand?

And although Janet Wong's Once Upon a Tiger is available in an e-edition, I need books to share, to read aloud. I can't book talk an e-edition, although affordable, not if you don't have a device.

Oh I can feel my blood pressure rising.

Lisa
Received on Sat 21 Jul 2012 04:10:37 PM CDT