Book Spotlight: In Search of Goliathus HerculesThe Children’s Book Review
Month: May 2013
Artist Jennifer Angus, known for her Victorian-inspired exhibits of insect specimens, brings her distinctive sensibility to the pages of her first novel (published by Albert Whitman & Company). Angus discusses her inspiration for the book: the use of bugs to create art.
This book will appeal to “tween” readers (both girls and boys) who like clubs, spy stories, mysteries, and who worry about how to handle bullies at school.
Book Spotlight: Shadow of NightThe Children’s Book Review Reading level: Ages 18 and up Paperback: 592 pages
Book Spotlight: A Captain No Beard Story: Strangers on the High SeasThe Children’s Book Review
Apparently even pirates have to learn not to talk to strangers. In Carole P. Roman’s fourth installment of her Captain No Beard series, Strangers on the High Seas, the crew of the Flying Dragon must face the terrors of the notorious pirate ship Shark Bait
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Julie Sternberg received her MFA in writing for children from the New School. She is the author of Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, a Junior Library Guild Selection, an ABC New Voices Project Selection, and one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book ReviewPublished: May 24, 2013 If You Were Me and Lived in … France: A Child’s Introduction…
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