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- Tumble
Me Tumbily.
By Karen Baickler. (Handprint. $15.95)
Rhyme your way through a toddler's day.
- Moo,
Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton. (Little Simon. $5.99) Sing along
with the animals.
- Time
for Bed.
By Mem Fox. (Red Wagon. $6.95) As darkness falls parents get their children
ready for sleep.
- Where
is Baby's Belly Button?
By Karen Katz (Little Simon, $5.99) "Where
are baby's hands? Under the bubbles... Where are baby's eyes? Under her hat!"
- What's
on My Head?
By Margaret Miller. (Little Simon, $5.99) Fun close up
photos of babies with fun and silly things on their heads.
- My
Very First Mother Goose.
Edited by Iona Opie. (Candlewick. $12.99)
A collection of more than 60 traditional rhymes beautifully illustrated by Rosemary Wells.
- Boo
Hoo Boo-Boo.
By Marilyn Singer. (HarperFestival, $15.99)
Everyone gets boo-boos sometimes. Meet Lulu, Andrew, and Zuzu and find out how they deal with scrapes and bruises.
- Owl
Babies.
By Martin Wadell.(Candlewick, $6.99) Three little owls wonder, in the dark
forest, if their mother is safe and what she will bring them.
- Max's
Breakfast.
By Rosemary Wells. (Dial. $5.99)
Max and Ruby are all set for breakfast...but how will Ruby convince Max to eat his egg?
- Mister
Seahorse.
By Eric Carle. (Philomel Books, $16.99) After Mrs. Seahorse
lays her eggs on Mr. Seahorse's belly, he drifts through the water, greeting
other fish fathers who are taking care of their eggs.
- Jazzy
in the Jungle.
By Loucy Cousins. (Candlewick, $14.99) The jungle animals
help Mama JoJo find her baby lemur, Jazzy.
- The
Neighborhood Mother Goose.
By Nina Crews. (Greenwillow Books, $15.99)
A collection of nursery rhymes, both familiar and lesser known, illustrated
with photographs in a city setting.
- The
Snowy Day.
By Ezra Jack Keats. (Viking, $15.99) The adventures of a little
boy in the city on a very snowy day.
- Panda
Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin, Jr. (Henry Holt, $15.95)
"Panda bear, panda bear, what do you see? I see a bald eagle soaring by me."
- I
Stink!
By Kate McMullen. (Joanna Colter. $15.95) A big city garbage truck
makes its rounds.
- Head,
Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.
By Zita Newcombe. (Candlewick, $15.99) A collection
of nursery and counting rhymes, fingerplays and other activities.
- Cars
and Trucks and Things That Go.
By Richard Scarry. (Golden Books, $14.99)
On their way to the beach the Pig family encounters all kinds of transportation
vehicle imaginable.
- Biscuit
Wins a Prize.
By Alyssa Satin Capucilli. (HarperCollins, $14.99) Exuberant
puppy, Biscuit, is excited when he is entered in a pet show
- Yesterday,
I Had the Blues.
By Jeron Ashford Frame. (Tricycle Press, $14.95) A boy ponders
emotions, from his own blues to his grandmother's yellows.
- (You
Read To Me, I'll Read to You:) Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together.
By Mary Ann Hoberman. Little Brown, $16.95 Designed with budding readers in mind,
eight fairy tales are given a new twist.
- How
I Became a Pirate.
By Melinda Long. (Harcourt, $16.00) Jeremy Jacob joins
Braid Beard and his crew and learns about pirate language, manners, and life.
- Actual
Size.
By Steve Jenkins. (Houghton Mifflin, $16.00) From the biggest to
the smallest, in this book, these animals are actual size!
- The
Littles.
By John Peterson. (Little Apple, $3.99) A family of mouse-sized
people living in an old house, begin to worry when the new residents bring
a cat.
- I
am America.
By Charles Smith, Jr. (Scholastic, $14.95) Vibrant photos
and rhymes about American children.
- Monsters
of Morley Manner.
By Bruce Coville. (Harcourt, $5.95) Anthony discovers that the monster figures
he bought at an estate sale are alive.
- Dr.
Ernest Drake's Dragonology: the Complete Book of Dragons.
(Candlewick, $19.99) Pages from the secret and ancient society of dragonologists,
complete with fold-out pages, lift-the-flaps, and sealed letters. [This
book doesn't appear in the print version of Books to Give.]
- Amelia
Rules: The Whole World's Crazy.
By Jimmy Gownley. (I Books, $14.95) When her parents divorce and she moves
to a new town, Amelia's world turns upside down.
- Silverwing.
By Kenneth Oppel. (Aladdin, $4.99) A young bat finds himself on an adventure
beyond his wildest dreams. (1st in a trilogy, followed by Sunwing and Firewing.)
- Olivia
Kidney.
By Ellen Potter. (Philomel, $15.99) Olivia discovers her apartment building
houses talking lizards, ghosts, and other weird characters.
- Little
Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night.
Edited by Art Speigelman. (Joanna Colter, $19.99) It was a dark and silly
night...Lemony Snicket, Barbara McClintock, William Joyce and others tell
us what happened next.
- Where
the Sidewalk Ends.
By Shel Silverstein. (Harper & Row, $17.99) A boy who turns into a TV set?
A girl who eats a whale? Meet these two and others in this classic poetry
collection.
- Shredderman
(Vol. #1).
By Wendelin Van Draanen. (Knopf, $12.95) Nolan Byrd, has suffered at the hands
of school bully Bubba Bixby for too long.
- 2005
World Almanac for Kids.
(World Almanac, $11.95) ...filled with facts, games, flags and more.
- The
Ultimate Spider-Man: Hollywood Tdp (#10).
By Brian Bendis. (Marvel Comics.
$12.99) The battle of good vs. evil, web-style.
- Dragon
Rider.
By Cornelia Funke. (Chicken House. $12.95) The dragon Firedrake
sets of on a quest to find the legendary valley of the Rim of Heaven.
- Pictures
of Hollis Woods.
By Patricia Reilly Giff. (Yearling. $6.50) What Hollis
wants most is a real family. What she has are pictures of one.
- The
Smugglers.
By Iain Lawrence. (Yearling. $5.99) 16 year old John sets out
to sail the trade route from Kent to London.
- The
New the Way Things Work.
By David MaCaulay. (Houghton Mifflin. $35.00)
A great choice for those tempted to take apart their computers to see what
makes them beep...
- Trickster's
Choice (Daughter of the Lionness).
By Tamora Pierce. (Random House. $17.95)
Meet up with Alanna's daughter, Alianne, in first in a new series for fans
of Pierce's popular Lioness Quartet.
- The
Tao of Maggie.
By Bill Stanton. (Andrews McNeel Publishing. $9.95) Photos
and wisdom from a hound in NYC.
- Locomotion.
By Jacqueline Woodson. (Puffin. $5.99) Through poetry, Lonnie toughs it out
at home and at school.