New book

The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes - Janet Beissinger and Vera Pless

New resources

Life of Jesus Flannel Figures
Contents: Story 1 - Mary hears the good news; Story 2 - Jesus is born; Story 3 - Angels tell the news; Story 4 - Wise men give gifts; Story 5 - Jesus at the temple; Story 6 - John baptizes Jesus; Story 7 - Jesus tells of God's love; Story 8 - Woman at the well; Story 9 - A sick boy is made well; Story 10 - Friends help a lame man; Story 11 - Jesus stops the storm; Story 12 - Jesus feeds 5,000; Story 13 - The forgiving king; Story 14 - Jesus heals a blind man; Story 15 - The good Samaritan; Story 16 - The good shepherd; Story 17 - The loving father; Story 18 - One man thanks Jesus; Story 19 - Jesus loves children; Story 20 - Jesus loves Zacchaeus; Story 21 - People praise Jesus; Story 22 - The poor woman's gift; Story 23 - Jesus dies and lives again!; Story 24 - The road to Emmaus; Story 25 - Thomas sees Jesus; Story 26 - Jesus lives today

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
A collection of pictures drawn by different artists. Various award-winning artists present their own verison of the classic joke, from Marle Frazee's chicken who is searching for a luxury "coop," to Mo Willems's chicken who confesses his motives to a police officer.

New reference books

Graphic Novels: A Genre Guide to Comic Books, Manga, and More - Michael Pawuk


All Things in the Bible: An Encyclopedia of the Biblical World (2 volumes) - Nancy M. Tischler

New Christian Education materials

This VeggieTales Sunday School curriculum includes a leader's guide, student workbooks, CDs, and a DVD. Foam hand puppets of Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber are also available in the CMC for use in conjunction with this curriculum.

New posters

Place Value
Visual representation of place value, including thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. The reverse side is "Blue-Ribbon Writing: Recipe for Great Writing."

Angles
Visual representation of acute, right, and obtuse angles. The reverse side poster is "Place-Order Words."

All in a Row!
Uses drawings of flowers to explain the ordinal numbers. The reverse side is "Describing Words."

Serving Up Story Elements
This poster explains setting, characters, and plot. The reverse is "Got Equal Groups?"

Special Shapes
Visual representation of a cube, cone, cylinder, sphere, rectangular prism, and pyramid. The reverse is "Fun with Words."

Count by Twos!
Visual representation of counting by twos from 2 to 20. The reverse side is "Let's Read!"

New materials

New in the CMC today:

VeggieTales Foam Hand Puppets
Large, foam hand puppets of Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato.

Sometimes Smart Is Good - Dena Fox Luchsinger
While being smart and strong are useful traits, loving other people just because God made them is always good. Text in English and Spanish.






The Elephant's Ball - illustrated by Pauline BaynesA rhyming story about a grand party in the forest, given by the elephant and attended by all the animals.

More Saints: Lives and Illuminations - Ruth Sanderson
Forty illustrated stories of Christian saints from the first millennium.




The Attack of the Turtle - Drew Carlson
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.

New Sunday School materials

The Regular Baptist Press Sunday School materials for Spring quarter 2007 are now available in the Christian Education area of the CMC.

Award winners

Announced today at the American Library Association mid-winter conference:

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

American Born Chinese - Yang

Michael L. Printz Honor Books

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party - M.T. Anderson
Surrender - Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

Award winners announced

The American Library Association announced the following award winners at their conference this morning:

Newbery Medal
The Higher Power of Lucky - Susan Patron

Newbery Honor Books
Penny from Heaven - Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
Rules - Cynthia Lord

Caldecott Medal
Flotsam - David Wiesner

Caldecott Honor Books
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet - David McLimans
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - ill. by Kadir Nelson

Theodore Geisel Medal
Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways - Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Theodore Geisel Honor Books
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride - Kate DiCamillo
Move Over, Rover - Karen Beaumont
Not a Box - Antoinette Portis

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - ill. by Kadir Nelson

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books
Jazz - ill. by Christopher Myers
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes - ill. by Benny Andrews

Coretta Scott King Author Award
Copper Sun - Sharon Draper

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books
The Road to Paris - Nikki Grimes

Sibert Informational Book Medal
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon - Catherine Thimmesh

Sibert Honor Books
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement - Ann Bausum
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo - Sy Montgomery
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel - Siena Cherson Siegel

As you can see, we do not yet have all these books, but we will get them as soon as possible. There are links back to the library catalog for the books we have or that are on order already.

New today

Pip & Squeak - Ian Schoenherr
After rushing through the snow to get to their friend's birthday party, two mice realize that they forgot to bring the present.

New VeggieTales DVDs

LarryBoy and the Bad Apple
LarryBoy and the Bad Apple teaches kids that we can't fight temptation on our own -- we need God's help and the help of our friends.

Gideon, Tuba Warrior

Can a few good veggies stand against an army of thousands? Can a nation be defended by horns and flashlights? Meet a reluctant, tuba-playing warrior and discover a tale of courage, trust and excessively hairy pickles.

Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler

Larry the Cucumber is detective Sheerluck Holmes and Bob the Tomato his venerable sidekick Dr. Watson. Together, their superlative powers of observation and forensic fortitude can solve any crime.

New Children's Books

Toys Go Out - Emily Jenkins
Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.


Dizzy - Jonah Winter
This is the story of Dizzy Gillespie, a trumpet player, who created a whole new kind of music: Bebop.


How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? - Jane Yolen
Describes how a dinosaur eats, with no rude noises and while sitting very still. How does a dinosaur eat all his food? Does he burp, does he belch, or make noises quite rude? Does he pick at his cereal, throw down his cup,hoping to make someone else pick it up? Just like kids, dinosaurs have a difficult time learning to behave at the table. However, with a little help from Mom and Dad, these young dinosaurs eat all before them with smiles and goodwill.


Adele and Simon - Barbara McClintock
When Adele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and more. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother? Detailed pen-and-ink drawings - filled with soft watercolors - make a game of this unforgettable tour through the streets and scenes of early-twentieth-century Paris. Illustrated endpapers extend the fun by replicating a 1907 Baedeker map of Paris.

Fire! The Renewal of a Forest - Celia Godkin
The life cycle of a forest is examined, from the devastation of a fire to its gradual renewal as a vital ecosystem.

New YA Books

Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Under the Baseball Moon - John H. Ritter
Andy and Glory, two fifteen-year-olds from Ocean Beach, California, pursue their respective dreams of becoming a famous musician and a professional softball player.

A Drowned Maiden's Hair - Laura Amy Schlitz
At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances

New Christian Education Resources

New games from Cook Communications Ministries:

Kid's Choices - Designed for ages 9 and up, players are confronted with a series of decisions to make, using biblical principles, concerning such everyday questions as friendship, forgiveness, obedience, etc. The game is for 3-6 players and may be played in teams.





Teen Choices - Designed for ages 12 and up, players are confronted with a series of decisions to make, using biblical principles, concerning such everyday dilemmas as peer pressure, honesty, purity, etc. The game is for 3-6 players and may be played in teams.





Noah's Memory Match-Up Game - For 2-4 players ages 4 and up, this game requires players to match the people and animals that were aboard Noah's Ark. No reading is required.





Bible Dominoes - For 2-4 players ages 4 and up, this game teaches Bible truths.


Bible Bingo - For 2-4 players, ages 4 and up, this game teaches Bible truths while playing a familiar game.



Kid's Bible Challenge - Designed for 2-4 players ares 6-12, this Bible trivia game challenges players with questions in six categories: Objects/Events, Numbers, Old Testament, General Knowledge, New Testament, and Places.



Bible Charades - Designed for ages 10 and up in 2-4 teams, players must guess charades of clues in one of six categories: Old Testament Stories, New Testament Stories, People and Places, Parables, Proverbs, and Hymns and Music.

New big book

A new addition to the collection of big books is:

A Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. A Caldecott Medal winner that conveys the silent wonder of a city snowfall and a small boy's solitary delight in it.

Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

The winner of the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction was announced on Monday, January 15. The winning book is The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. The Green Glass Sea takes place in 1943, when 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Scott O'Dell, author of Island of the Blue Dolphins, established the $5,000 award in 1982 to encourage authors, especially new authors, to focus on writing historical fiction. The award goes to a meritorious book for children or young adults published during the previous year. For more information about the Scott O'Dell Award and a list of previous winners, see the award's website. To see a list of the O'Dell award books that the CMC has in its collection, click here.

New today

New resources in the CMC today:

Netherlands Cultural Overview video - from the Royal Netherlands Embassy

Two new additions to the Math and My World series:

Money Math - Kieran Walsh
Tells how math can help you earn, save, and make even more money.







Music Math - Kieran Walsh
Discusses ensembles, notes and octaves, beats per minute, buying music, and MP3s.

New in the CMC today

Chickens to the Rescue - John Himmelman
Six days a week the chickens help the Greenstalk family and their animals recover from mishaps that occur on the farm, but they need one day to rest.



AIMS Education Foundation - 3rd Grade Life Science

AIMS Education Foundation - 3rd Grade Physical Science

New resources

Received in the CMC today:

Four Square Personal Writing Coach for Grades 7-9

AIMS Education Foundation Earth Systems (Ohio) - Grade 3
Teacher Resource Book and Activities Integrating Math and Science

New children's books

New trade books in the CMC today include:

To Dance: A Memoir - Siena Cherson Siegel
The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet, in the form of a graphic novel.



Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything - Lenore Look
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.


Banjo Granny - Sarah Martin Busse and Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Baby Owen's grandmother learns that he is wiggly, jiggly, and all-around giggly for bluegrass music, so with her banjo, she travels by curious means to visit and play for him.



The Moon - Robert Louis Stevenson
Pictures of a father and child out in the moonlight illustrate Stevenson's poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses."




Clip-Clop! - Nicola Smee
When Mr. Horse gives a ride to his friends, Cat, Dog, Pig, and Duck, they urge him to go faster and faster.

New curriculum materials

New in the CMC today:

The Glencoe Reader (2004) for grades 6-12. We have the teacher editions and the student editions.

New YA Books

Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy - Judith Bloom Fradin
Presents a biography of Jane Addams, suffragist, civil rights activist, and founder of Hull House in the slums of Chicago that draws from hundreds of historical documents and contains archival photographs of her life and activities.

Beowulf - Michael Morpurgo
A retelling in prose of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.

The Kin - Peter Dickinson
Suth and five other children may be all that's left of their Kin - the Moonhawks. Told in four parts, the story follows Suth, the oldest, as he leads this small group even though he is not yet a man; Noli, who can sense danger and sometimes even see the future; Ko, the young, impulsive boy determined to be a hero; and Mana, whose strong heart is always in search of peace - for the Kin and herself.

The Loud Silence of Francine Green - Karen Cushman
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.

My Name Is Sally Little Song - Brenda Woods
When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.




Street Love - Walter Dean Myers
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.

New picture books

New picture books in the CMC today:

Our 50 States - Lynne Cheney
Each of the fifty states is represented by important people, ideas, and events in the history of the United States.




Merry UnChristmas - Mike Reiss
For Noelle and her friends Holly, Carol, and Claus, the most wonderful day of the year is Un-Christmas. It's the only day of the year that they actually go to school. And the mail gets delivered. But the best thing about Un-Christmas Day is that they don't have to open any presents!


Ballet of the Elephants - Leda Schubert
The story of how "Circus polka," a dance of 50 elephants and 50 ballerinas, choreographed by George Balanchine, was created.

Fritz and the Beautiful Horses - Jan Brett
Fritz, a pony excluded from the group of beautiful horses within the walled city, becomes a hero when he rescues the children of the city.

Probuditi! - Chris Van Allsburg
On his birthday, Calvin and his friend Rodney see a magician perform, then copy him by hypnotizing Calvin's little sister, but the joke is on them when they are unable to snap her out of it.

How Nearly Everything Was Invented - Lisa Swerling
An amazing journey with the Brainwaves to discover everything about the important inventions that have changed the way people live.

Once Upon a Banana - Jennifer Armstrong
Everyday signs serve as captions for this pictorial tale of what happens after a man tosses a banana peel into the garbage can and misses.