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1001 Things to Do With Your Kidsby Caryl Waller KruegerISBN 0687291925 (0-687-29192-5)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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The Arabian Knightsby Rene BullISBN 0685168646 (0-685-16864-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Arabian Nightsby Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora A. Smith, Maxfield ParrishISBN 0684195895 (0-684-19589-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights'Book summary:For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman. [via]
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At the Back of the North Windby George MacDonald, Jessie Willcox SmithISBN 0688078087 (0-688-07808-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At the Back of the North Wind'Book summary:This is a story of a poor stable boy living in Victorian London in which everyday lives are mysteriously enveloped by a power and a glory, personified here as a beautiful woman known as the North Wind. She visits the small boy, Diamond, and takes him with her on her journeys, teaching him about herself. Through the eyes of an innocent and yet perceptive child, MacDonald explores North Wind as a way of exploring the place of death in our lives. He looks squarely at social injustice--he knew poverty and the poor first hand--and yet also sees that the deepest need we have is for love and forgiveness, which are rooted in eternity.
This is a book for children--I've read it to my own daughter more than once--even though they may not understand just who North Wind is until years later. Adults on the other hand will learn that while they thought they knew something about death, there is much to relearn--and probably the most important part. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Awful Ogre's Awful Day: Poemsby Jack Prelutsky, Paul O. ZelinskyISBN 0688077781 (0-688-07778-1)
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The Baby Uggs Are Hatchingby Jack Prelutsky, James StevensonISBN 068809239X (0-688-09239-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Between Mothers and Sons: Women Writers Talk About Having Sons and Raising Menby Patricia StevensISBN 0684850729 (0-684-85072-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Childrenby Wendy MogelISBN 0684862972 (0-684-86297-2)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Dr. Mogel helps parents learn how to turn their children's worst traits into their greatest attributes. Starting with stories of everyday parenting problems and examining them through the lens of the Torah, the Talmud, and important Jewish teachings, "The Blessing of a Skinned Knee" shows parents how to teach children to honor their parents and to respect others, escape the danger of overvaluing children's need for self-expression so that their kids don't become "little attorneys," accept that their children are both ordinary "and" unique, and treasure the power and holiness of the present moment.
It is Mogel's singular achievement that she makes these teachings relevant for any era and any household of any faith. A unique parenting book, designed for use both in the home and in parenting classes, with an on-line teaching guide to help facilitate its use, "The Blessing of a Skinned Knee" is both inspiring and effective in the day-to-day challenge of raising self-reliant children. [via]
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The Book of Virtuesby William John BennettISBN 0684835770 (0-684-83577-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Virtues'Book summary:Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.
William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together. [via]
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Bread, Bread, Breadby Ann Morris, Ken HeymanISBN 0688063349 (0-688-06334-9)
Hardcover, Lothrop Lee & Shepard
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Barbara CohenISBN 0688062016 (0-688-06201-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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Captain Murdererby Charles Dickens, George Harland, Rowan Barnes-MurphyISBN 0688063063 (0-688-06306-3)
Hardcover, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
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Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyesby Camilla Gryski, Tom SankeyISBN 0688039413 (0-688-03941-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyes: A Book of String Gamesby Camilla Gryski, Tom SankeyISBN 0688039405 (0-688-03940-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Caught in the Moving Mountainsby Gloria Skurzynski, Ellen ThompsonISBN 0688016359 (0-688-01635-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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A Chair for My Motherby Vera B. WilliamsISBN 0688040748 (0-688-04074-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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A book of love and tenderness filled with the affirmation of life.
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Chicken Littleby Steven KelloggISBN 0688070450 (0-688-07045-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Children's Book of Heroesby William J. Bennett, Michael HagueISBN 0684834456 (0-684-83445-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Courage of Sarah Nobleby Alice Dalgliesh, Leonard WeisgardISBN 0684188309 (0-684-18830-9)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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There were Indians -- would they be friendly There were many times when Sarah had to say to herself, as her mother had said when she left home, Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble. Keep up your courage.
This charming story is true. Tales of faith and courage and friendship are told over and over again and so kept alive. Here Sarah's adventure is told simply, with feeling and without unnecessary detail. [via]
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The Doorbell Rangby Pat HutchinsISBN 0688092349 (0-688-09234-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doorbell Rang'Book summary:Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. It should be plenty for her two children. But then the doorbell rings -- and rings and rings.Each ring of the doorbell brings more friends to share the delicious cookies Ma has made."Refreshing, enjoyable and unpredictable." -- School Library Journal.
Also available in a Spanish-language edition, Llaman a la puerta.
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Eat Up, Gemmaby Sarah Hayes, Jan OrmerodISBN 0688081495 (0-688-08149-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Eight Days of Lukeby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688080065 (0-688-08006-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Elmerby David McKeeISBN 0688091717 (0-688-09171-7)
Hardcover, Lothrop Lee & Shepard
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprintsby Donald J. Sobol, Gail OwensISBN 0688046266 (0-688-04626-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints'Book summary:Who hid the blond wig in the trash can near the Yacht Club...why does Tyrone Taylor have a black eye...and what about the mysterious handprints outside Mr. Heiden's cottage?
Who knows? Encyclopedia Brown, of course! America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers is back, with ten brand-new solve-it-yourself mysteries to challenge and amaze his fans. You can match wits with the ten-year-old super-sleuth as he and his partner, Sally Kimball, track down clues and make some startling discoveries as they work to keep Idaville in order. There are puzzling problems of missing property, sabotaged races, a frame-up involving the boy wonder himself, and even a case of unrequited love. And if you get stuck, you can turn to the back of the book to see how Encyclopedia solved the mystery. But don't peek until you're stumped!
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Huntby Donald J. Sobol, Gail OwensISBN 068806955X (0-688-06955-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Encyclopedia Brown's Book of the Wacky Outdoorsby Donald Sobol, Ted EnikISBN 0688066356 (0-688-06635-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds-And What Can We Do About Itby Jane M. HealyISBN 0684855399 (0-684-85539-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Childrens' Minds-For Better and Worseby Jane M. HealyISBN 0684831368 (0-684-83136-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Four Dollsby Pauline Baynes, Rumer GoddenISBN 0688028012 (0-688-02801-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Free Fallby David WiesnerISBN 0688055842 (0-688-05584-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A Girl from Yamhillby Beverly ClearyISBN 0688078001 (0-688-07800-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Girl from Yamhill'Book summary:Generations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends, families, and assorted pets. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood brought to life in Beverly Cleary books, here is the fascinating true story of the remarkable woman who created them. [via]
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God's Love Is for Sharingby Helen CaswellISBN 0687153352 (0-687-15335-2)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Good Faeries, Bad Faeries: 2 Books in 1by Brian Froud, Terri WindlingISBN 0684847817 (0-684-84781-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Faeries, Bad Faeries: 2 Books in 1'Book summary:Why are large, illustrated works offhandedly relegated to gather dust on the corner of your coffee table? Sure, you will want to put Good-Faeries/Bad Faeries in an obvious place, somewhere your friends will see it and pick it up, but it's far more than mere decoration. Froud's illustrations have delighted readers since his first book, Faeries, introduced us to the little people of folklore. Good Faeries/Bad Faeries is a doorway to the faery realm of the 20th century, where you'll meet delightful characters like Quempel, who dances to celebrate when something is done well; or the Buttered Toast Faery, who decides which side of a dropped piece of toast will hit the floor--faeries who will call you back so often that Good Faeries/Bad Faeries won't have a chance to gather dust. --Brian Patterson [via]
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skatesby Mary Mapes Dodge, George Wharton EdwardsISBN 0684208008 (0-684-20800-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hansel and GretelISBN 0684160064 (0-684-16006-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Happy Horsemanshipby Dorothy Henderson PinchISBN 0684852152 (0-684-85215-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Harvey Potter's Balloon Farmby Jerdine Nolen, Jerdine Nolen Harold, Mark BuehnerISBN 0688078877 (0-688-07887-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Hearts in Atlantisby Stephen KingISBN 0684853515 (0-684-85351-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hearts in Atlantis'Book summary:Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is "Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mom is impoverished, and so bitter that she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail: kids bashing caps with a smoke-blackened rock, a car grille "like the sneery mouth of a chrome catfish," a Wild Mouse carnival ride that makes kids "simultaneously sure they were going to live forever and die immediately."
Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."
Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo [via]
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An Insect's Bodyby Joanna ColeISBN 0688027717 (0-688-02771-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Jessicaby Kevin HenkesISBN 068807829X (0-688-07829-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Journal of a Teenage Geniusby Helen V. GriffithISBN 0688072267 (0-688-07226-7)
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Jump Frog Jumpby Robert Kalan, Byron BartonISBN 0688092411 (0-688-09241-1)
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0685054071 (0-685-05407-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Les Cigares Du Pharaonby HergeISBN 0685234096 (0-685-23409-6)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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The Line Up Bookby Marisabina RussoISBN 0688062040 (0-688-06204-0)
Hardcover, Greenwillow
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Mark Kister's Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook: The Companion Sketchbook to Drawing in 3-D With Mark Kistlerby Mark KistlerISBN 068485337X (0-684-85337-X)
Softcover, Fireside
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The Ministry of the Childby Dennis C. BensonISBN 0687270391 (0-687-27039-1)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Mitten: An Old Ukrainian Folktaleby Alvin Tresselt, YaroslavaISBN 0688092381 (0-688-09238-1)
Softcover, Mulberry Books
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Moonlightby Jan OrmerodISBN 068800847X (0-688-00847-X)
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The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boysby Carole Kismaric, Marvin HeifermanISBN 0684846896 (0-684-84689-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The National Velvetby Enid Bagnold, Ted LewinISBN 0688057888 (0-688-05788-8)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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The New Kid on the Blockby Jack PrelutskyISBN 0688022715 (0-688-02271-5)
Hardcover, Greenwillow
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The Ogre Downstairsby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688091954 (0-688-09195-4)
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Old Turtle's Baseball Storiesby Leonard KesslerISBN 0688007236 (0-688-00723-6)
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Pecos Billby Steven KelloggISBN 068805871X (0-688-05871-X)
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A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 0688077080 (0-688-07708-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Prayer for Owen Meany'Book summary:Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mum with a baseball and believes--correctly, it transpires--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish Dr Dolder, Owen's shrink, drunkenly driving his VW down the school's marble steps is a marvellous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose". When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't change the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.
The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies' Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history and God. --Tim Appelo [via]
Ralph S. Mouseby Beverly Cleary, Paul O. ZelinskyISBN 0688014526 (0-688-01452-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Ride a Purple Pelicanby Jack PrelutskyISBN 0688040314 (0-688-04031-4)
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Russell Sproutsby Johanna HurwitzISBN 0688071651 (0-688-07165-1)
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 0684833662 (0-684-83366-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowless crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. [via]
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Sheila Rae, the Braveby Kevin HenkesISBN 0688071554 (0-688-07155-4)
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But all the bravado in the world failed to help when Sheila Rae found herself lost. Luckily, her sister was not far behind ...
A warm and loving story of sibling sympathy and support.
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Something Big Has Been Hereby Jack Prelutsky, James StevensonISBN 0688064345 (0-688-06434-5)
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Stinker from Spaceby Pamela F. ServiceISBN 0684189100 (0-684-18910-0)
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Stone Soupby Marcia BrownISBN 0684922967 (0-684-92296-7)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Soup'Book summary:Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones...but, of course, one must add a carrot or tow...some meat...so it went.
Marcia Brown has made of this old tale a very gay book, a carnival of activity, of dancing and laughter. So much goes on in the pictures that children who have once heard the story will turn to them again and again, retelling the story for themselves.
A French version of the story is available under the title Une Drôle de Soupe. [via]
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Super String-Gamesby Camilla Gryski, Tom SankeyISBN 068807684X (0-688-07684-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Ten Tall Oaktreesby Richard Edwards, Caroline CrosslandISBN 0688046215 (0-688-04621-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Thirteen Ways to Sink a Subby Jamie Gilson, Linda S. EdwardsISBN 068801304X (0-688-01304-X)
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Three Stalks of Cornby Leo PolitiISBN 0684195380 (0-684-19538-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Twelve Dancing Princessesby Marianna Mayer, Kinuko Craft, Craft. K.Y.ISBN 0688080510 (0-688-08051-0)
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Tyrannosaurus Was a Beastby Jack PrelutskyISBN 0688064426 (0-688-06442-6)
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Menby Christina Hoff SommersISBN 0684849577 (0-684-84957-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men'Book summary:The author of the provocative bestseller Who Stole Feminism? returns with an equally eye-opening follow-up. "It's a bad time to be a boy in America," writes Christina Hoff Sommers. Boys are less likely than girls to go to college or do their homework. They're more likely to cheat on tests, wind up in detention, or drop out of school. Yet it's "the myth of the fragile girl," according to Sommers, that has received the lion's share of attention recently, in hot-selling books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia. When boys are discussed at all, it's in the context of how to modify their antisocial behavior--i.e., how to make them more like girls.
This book tells the story of how it has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children. It is a story of how we are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys' aggressive tendencies must be checked and channeled in constructive ways. Boys need discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. They do not need to be pathologized.
Sommers eviscerates feminist scholarship by Harvard's Carol Gilligan, the American Association of University Women, and others. Hers is feisty, muscular prose and fans of Who Stole Feminism? will delight in it. "There have always been societies that favored boys over girls," she writes. "Ours may be the first to deliberately throw the gender switch. If we continue on our present course, boys will, indeed, be tomorrow's second sex." That rhetoric may err on the side of alarmism, but Sommers' ideas are full of common sense. She essentially urges parents and educators to let boys be boys, even though their "very masculinity turns out to be politically incorrect." The War on Boys is sure to set off a fiery controversy, just as Sommers' previous book did--but it should also find a big audience of readers who become fans. --John J. Miller [via]More editions of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men:
The Whipping Boyby Sid Fleischman, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Peter SisISBN 0688062164 (0-688-06216-4)
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Young Reader's Book of Christian Symbolismby Michael DavesISBN 0687468248 (0-687-46824-8)
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Youth Ministry Handbookby Edward A. TrimmerISBN 0687010349 (0-687-01034-9)
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