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03 Jan 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: art, city life, family, music, New York, siblings, single parent
by Elizabeth Enright
(first book in the Melendy Quartet series)
Henry Holt and Company, 1941
177 pp., 8 chapters
Age: 7+
Interests: family, siblings, art, music
Next: the other 3 Melendy books are The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spiderweb for Two: a Melendy Maze
Also by this author: Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake
29 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+, Canadian books Tags: Christmas, hockey, moving to a new home, siblings, sports, winter
BLUE SPRUCE nominee 2012
written by David Ward
illustrated by Brian Deines
Toronto: Scholastic Canada, 2010
30 pp.
Ages: 4 +
Interests: hockey, moving to a new home, siblings, Christmas, winter
08 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+, Classics Tags: adventure, castle, Magic, mystery, romance, siblings, treasure
by E. Nesbit
originally published in 1907
New York: HarperCollins, 1992
288 pp, 12 chapters
Age: (read to) 6 + ; (read independently) 8 +
Interests: magic, castles, treasure, siblings, mystery, adventure
Also by this author: Five Children and It, The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Book of Dragons
04 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: food, mealtime, siblings
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 2000
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato
aka I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (American title)
by Lauren Child
London: Orchard Books, 2000
30 pages
Age: 3 +
Interests: food, picky eaters, mealtime, siblings
Also by this author: Clarice Bean novels, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?, The Princess and the Pea
21 Oct 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: bad behavior, family, moods, school, siblings
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst
illustrated by Ray Cruz
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972
28 pp.
Age: 5 +
Interests: school, family, siblings, bad days, bad behaviour, moods
Other ‘Alexander’ books: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday; Alexander, Who Is Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move
30 Sep 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: babies, goblins, Magic, siblings
by Maurice Sendak
New York: HarperCollins, 1981
40 pp.
Ages: 4+
Interests: magic, goblins, babies, babysitting, siblings
21 Jul 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: China, dragons, Fairy Tale, Magic, siblings
by Laurence Yep
illustrated by Kam Mak
New York: Harpercollins, 1997
29 pp
Age: 4+
Interests: dragons, China, Magic, fairy tale, siblings
13 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: animals, boats, country life, siblings
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1970
by John Burningham
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970
30 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: animals, boats, river life, siblings
Also by this author: Avocado Baby, Borka, Come Away from the Water Shirley, Edwardo: The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World
30 May 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: fairies, siblings, tooth fairies
by Bob Graham
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2010
31 pp.
Age: 3 +
Interests: fairies, tooth fairies, siblings
Also by this author: Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child
17 May 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+, Classics Tags: fairies, Fairy Tale, Magic, Princess, siblings, strong girls
subtitle: “A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged Seven”
by Charles Dickens
originally published 1868
this edition: illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, Vanguard Press, New York, 1953
36 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: magic, fairies, princesses
Also by this author (for children): The Cricket on the Hearth, A Christmas Carol
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