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. 

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between!  Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

Today’s Wild Card author is:

James L. Rubart

and the book:

Rooms

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!

Shakespeare To Teach Or Not To Teach: A Teacher’s Manual, can be used with elementary to high school students, and is suitable for use in classroom, drama club and homeschool settings.  Teachers and parents need not be anxious over teaching Shakespeare anymore.

Today’s Wild Card Author is:
BRYAN DAVIS
and the Book
STARLIGHTER
(Zondervan March 2010)

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour  book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

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.  Her novels are known for their sharp insight on interpersonal relationships.  Shreve traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, where she lived for three years, working as a journalist for an African magazine.   This should make A Change In Altitude very vivid as the book transports readers to the exotic panoramas of Africa.

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 bit about it:
My Friend Maya Loves to Dance
By Cheyrl Willis Hudson, illustrated by Eric Velasquez

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 novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better tomorrow is found in the most unlikely of circumstances . . .

The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith.

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.