Scholastic Releases Chapter One of ‘The 39 Clues Book 2’

Here’s a double treat for fans of The 39 Clues. Scholastic, publisher of the popular series, has released the first chapter of The 39 Clues Book 2: One False Note in advance of its December 2, 2008 release in the U.S.—and the excerpt is available online.

Meanwhile, fans can ask Gordon Korman, author of the second book, questions during a live webcast on December 1, 2008 at 1 p.m. Actor and children’s book author Whoopi Goldberg will interview Korman, asking her own questions and those submitted by fans. more » » » 

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Gingerbread Friends – book review, lesson plans, printable, recipe

That popular little character, Gingerbread baby, is back. Gingerbread baby needs some friends but can he make them? Can he talk to them? Where do you find friends for gingerbread babies? This is an adventure he’ll never forget.

Read more details, along with lesson plans, classroom helpers, a recipe for gingerbread and instructions for a Christmas gingerbread garland and a printable

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Book review – Little Blue Truck

by Alice Schertle
llustrated by Jill McElmurry 
Ages 3–7.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick up--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road.

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Review: Chalice by Robin McKinley

chalice   "Fans and new readers alike will greedily devour McKinley's latest, a high fantasy as perfectly shaped and eloquently told as Beauty and The Hero and the Crown."

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ghostgirl

 

by Tonya Hurley

Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

And if I should die before I awake,

I pray the popular attend my wake.

 

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Book Review – Ten Little Fingers, Ten Little Toes

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

 

by Mem Fox,

Illustrated by  Helen Oxenbury

 

 

 

Mem Fox has done it again!!
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes. . . . And here, from two of the most gifted picture-book creators of our time, is a celebration of baby fingers, baby toes, and the joy they—and the babies they belong to—bring to everyone, everywhere, all over the world

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Inkdeath – the third in the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke

Inkdeath

 

The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrends. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?

 

Read the reviews and a message from Cornelia Funke, the author, and get classroom activities for Inkheart, many also applicable to Inkdeath.  Here ...

 

Babar Comes to New York

Babar the elephant, the beloved protagonist of nearly four dozen children’s books, is now the star of his very own show: an exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.
 
For the last two weeks, crowds of all ages have been coming to the former home and library of financier Pierpont Morgan to see “Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors,” which features more than 170 works, including manuscript drafts, sketches, and watercolors, for the first book by each of Babar's two authors, father and son Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff. read more...
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Review: Madeline and the Cats of Rome

Madeline and the cats of romeMadeline and the Cats of Rome 

 by John Bemelmans Marciano

The author, John Bemelmans Marciano is the grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the original Madeline books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and he has carried on the tradition with a sure hand.  While his images honor the tone of his grandfather's marvelous works, they have a light spirit about them which remains contemporary.

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Review: Enigma by Graeme Base

Enigma -  Bestseller Graeme Base harks back to his classic New York Times bestselling solve-the-mystery story The Eleventh Hour in an all-new book that will “puzzle” and entice young readers.

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