New Children's Books

Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts! - Lynne Truss
See how the punctuation marks you use (and where you put them) can completely change the meaning of what you write.

Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and Other Things Not to Do) - Judi Barrett
A list of things one should not do with various animals, such as "hold hands with a lobster."

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World - Christine King Farris
Christine King Farris describes how her brother, Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.

Market Day - Carol Foskett Cordsen
The Benson family is so busy preparing for their day at a farmers' market that they not only forget to feed the cow, they leave the farmyard gate open and the hungry cow follows them, making a mess of the market.

Traction Man Meets TurboDog - Mini Grey
Traction Man, an action figure, teams up with the high-tech but not-so-bright Turbodog to rescue Scrubbing Brush, his missing sidekick, from the terrible underworld of the bin.

Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman - Marc Tyler Nobleman
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent than Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine tales. In 1934, they created the superhero, but it was four years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book.