Thursday, November 20, 2008

New Children's Books


Swing! - Rufus Butler Seder
Rhyming text asks if the reader can do a variety of sports activities. Striped acetate overlays on board pages give illustrations the illusion of movement.

How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? - Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quick reflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do such diverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structure to What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture book introduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different ways.

Way Up and Over Everything - Alice McGill
In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

Native North American Foods and
Recipes - Kathryn Smithyman
Outlines the diet and cooking practices of Native American culture.

The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body - David Macaulay
A visual exploration of the inner workings of the human body that uses close-ups, cross-sections, and perspectives to look at the different body systems and how they function.

Baby Dragon - Amy Ehrlich
All day, Baby Dragon turns down other animals' offers to go play or find a snack while he waits for his mother to return for him, but at nightfall, he agrees to go with Crocodile to find her.

The Pet Dragon - Christopher Niemann
When Lin's beloved pet dragon disappears, she searches for him far and wide until a witch helps her to reach the dragon's new home. Introduces a different Chinese character on each step of Lin's adventure.

Dinosaur vs. Bedtime - Bob Shea
A young dinosaur takes on many challenges and wins every time. Then Dinosaur faces his toughest challenge of all: bedtime.

Cut-Paper Play - Sandi Henry
Contains instructions for more than eighty two- and three-dimensional construction paper creations, including a Matisse cut-out, a hanging snake mobile, and a personal desk top robot.

The Biggest, Best Snowman - Margery Cuyler
Nell is told by her BIG sisters and her mother that she is too small to help out, but everyone, including Nell, feels differently after her forest friends give her the confidence to build a large snowman.

Kiss the Cow! - Phyllis Root
Annalisa, the most curious and stubborn of Mama May's children, disobeys her mother and upsets the family cow by refusing to kiss her in return for the milk she gives.

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