October 2011

Welcome to ReaderKidZ, November 2011

October 31, 2011
Author-In-Residence
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ShareWelcome Author-In-Residence, Melissa Sweet! This month, as we enter a season of holidays and celebrations, ReaderKidZ celebrates Family. At no time in our history have American families been more varied or culturally-diverse than they are today. All colors, all combinations, all coming together to forge strong connections that will help our children grow and thrive. [...]

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Melissa’s Story

October 31, 2011
Author-In-Residence
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Share I grew up in New Jersey in a neighborhood filled with kids. We all raced around town on our bicycles (decked out with banana seats and moustache handle bars), and often ended up at Percy’s candy store. A nickel or a dime would buy a big handful of penny candy. I always got red licorice [...]

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Your Friend, Melissa

October 31, 2011
Author-In-Residence
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ShareDear Reader, I’m thrilled you are reading BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY. My family always watched the Macy’s Day parade with the huge balloons bobbing through New York City, but I never thought about who actually made the balloons. When I first learned about Tony Sarg as a puppeteer and illustrator, I found out he was the [...]

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Guys Read: Thriller

October 30, 2011
New & Noteworthy
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ShareWhat do you get when a crazy guy like Jon Scieszka edits a collection of ten suspenseful, frightening, and occasional off-the wall short stories written by accomplished authors such as M. T. Anderson, Bruce Hale, Walter Dean Myers, and James Patterson? You get Guys Read: Thriller – guaranteed to “…thrill, chill, and have you so far [...]

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Gibbus Moony Wants to Bite You!

October 27, 2011
New & Noteworthy
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ShareGIBBUS MOONY WANTS TO BITE YOU! by Leslie Muir, illustrated by Jen Corace Vampires have been all the rage since Twilight hit the scene and, over the last few years, there have been a number of picture books that have tried to ride that wave. None have quite hit the spot for me until GIBBUS [...]

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Animal Friendships

October 25, 2011
Beyond Boundaries
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ShareThese books speak to the powerful friendships that can happen between amazing animals and amazing people. SOLDIER BEAR written by Bibi Dumon Tak was translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson this year.  Simple but fanciful illustrations were created by Philip Hopman. What an incredible and (mostly) true bear story!  During WW II when Germany [...]

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Incredible Animals!

October 23, 2011
Book Room
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ShareA ZEAL OF ZEBRAS: An Alphabet of Collective Nouns by Woop Studios (Chronicle Books 2011) is not your typical ABC offering. Each illustration, beautifully rendered in Adobe Photoshop, is paired with a collective animal noun and two descriptive paragraphs of background. Some of the collective nouns were familiar, others sent me looking to see if [...]

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