Category: books

Preschool’s favorite scientist, Sid, is starring in a brand new book, Everybody, Move Your Feet! (May 11, 2010).  This book is published by HarperCollins and is part of their Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out Science Collection, which introduces basic science concepts to young children to help satisfy their curiousity about how the world works.

When Sid decides to sit and watch tv all weekend, he learns that there’s a problem with his idea. 

Rooms allows the reader to glimpse inside the life of Micah Taylor as he struggles with life choices after inheriting a house from his Great Uncle Archie.  The 9000 square foot home on the Oregon waterfront, isn’t exactly what it appears to be from the outside, and has been constructed with special rooms that Micah can only see at certain times.

Shakespeare for children?!  What a lofty idea.  Yet Cass Foster and Lynn G. Johnson have found a way that not only teaches young minds about The Bard, but engages them while doing it too!

A Change In Altitude by Anita Shreve  Anita Shreve’s novels have long been favorites of reading groups.  Her books provide lots of fodder for discussion….

Here’s another wonderful book published by Abrams Books.  If you have a little dancer in your family, she will love it!  Here is a little…

Tom Rob Smith—the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called “brilliant” (Chicago Tribune), “remarkable” (Newsweek) and “sensational” (Entertainment Weekly)—returns with an intense, suspenseful new…

You may have heard or already seen the movie adaptation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid that opened in theaters on March 19th, but do you know the steps that landed it there?

Jeff Kinney, author of the popular book series takes kids on a surprising journey through the process of making a book into a movie in The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary.  He starts with the original movie pitch and explores all the work that it takes from there to get to the test screening.