New Graphic Novel

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - retold by Michael Burgan

Graphic novel treatment of Mary Shelley's classic novel of a scientist who brings a monster to life.

New Board Books

When I'm Big - Sam McBratney
Little Nutbrown Hare loves playing in spring, when everything is growing and changing, but can he guess what a little brown hare will turn into?

Colors Everywhere - Sam McBratney
Down by the river on a bright summer's day. Little Nutbrown Hare loves playing in summer, when there are colors everywhere. It's hard to decide which ones he like best.

Night Night, Baby - David McPhail
Presents illustrated versions of ten classic lullabies, including "Skidamarink," "Hush, Little Baby," and "Now the Day is Over."

New Award Books

The following books are all Orbis Pictus Award Honor books. The Orbis Pictus Award is given to outstanding nonfiction books for children.

Black and White Airmen: Their True History - John Fleischman
Presents the true story of two men--one African-American, the other white--who lived in the same Ohio neighborhood, went to the same school, joined the Army Air Corps in 1941, and finally became close friends nearly sixty years later.

Muckrakers - Ann Bausum
How investigative reporting was born during the early 20th century.

Venom - Marilyn Singer
Learn about venom and the animals that produce it and use it to survive, including spiders, insects, snakes and other reptiles, frogs and toads, fish, and ocean invertebrates.

New Sports Books

Football in the Big Ten - Gabriel Kaufman
The history of the Big Ten -- The coaches of the Big Ten -- The players of the Big Ten -- The games of the Big Ten

Power in Pinstripes: The New York Yankees - David Aretha
Presents a brief history of the players, managers, and personalities connected to the New York Yankees baseball club.

Burning Up the Court: The Miami Heat - Jeff Young
Presents the history, players, managers, and personalities associated with the Miami Heat basketball league.

Kings of the Court: The Cleveland Cavaliers - David Aretha
Chronicles the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball league, its major players and managers; and includes a timeline and career stats.

New Books about the Seasons

Skip Through the Seasons - Stella Blackstone
A short verse for each month of the year encourages the reader to find objects hidden in the pictures that depict that month's activities, such as ear muffs and pine trees in January, or a scooter and a picnic bench in June.

From the All About Fall series:

People in the Fall - Martha Rustad

Leaves in Fall - Martha Rustad

Animals in Fall - Martha Rustad

Pumpkin Harvest - Calvin Harris

Apple Harvest - Calvin Harris

Scarecrows - Calvin Harris

The Seasons

Winter - Ann Herriges

Fall - Ann Herriges

Spring - Ann Herriges

Summer - Ann Herriges

New Ohio Books

The Ohio Reader - Marcia Schonberg
Modeled after traditional primers, this book includes individual stories, riddles, and poems about Ohio's history, famous people, and state symbols.

From the Heinemann State Studies series; all books by Marcia Schonberg

All Around Ohio: Regions and Resources

Uniquely Ohio

Ohio History

People of Ohio

Ohio Plants and Animals

Ohio Native Peoples

New Children's Music CDs

Totally Math - Jean Feldman
Math is fun! -- Number march -- Five little crabs -- I know an old lady who swallowed a one -- Chant and write -- Sing and spell -- Five little monkeys -- Kitty cat - Position scat -- Spy a shape -- Shape-a-loo -- Days of the week -- Months of the year -- Clock rock -- Found a penny -- Everybody do a pattern with me -- Fraction pizza -- Numbers you should know -- Country countdown 1-20 -- Odd and even number bop -- Techno count to 100 -- Skip counting -- Addition pokey -- Fact families -- Granny's arithmetic -- Growing up

Kiss Your Brain! - Jean Feldman
Kiss your brain -- Twinkle friends -- Shake a hand -- Who let the letters out -- Letter aerobics -- Alphabet's in my mouth -- Bitty bi bo bu -- Vowel cheer -- When you come to a word you don't know -- Singular and plural -- Verbs -- Singing the world wall -- Spelling numbers -- Counting cadence -- Penny, nickel, dime -- Insect's body -- Macarena bones -- Water cycle -- Litter patrol -- Five senses -- Parts of a flower -- Seasons -- World family -- We had a good day

Totally Reading - Jean Feldman
Disc 1. Don't you just love to read? -- Color train -- Deck the room -- Alphabet antics -- Nursery rhyme marathon -- Rhythm rhyme -- Miss Mary fill in the blank -- Pepperoni pizza -- Syllable clap -- Put together compounds -- Word families -- Happy birthday letters -- Who let the letters out? (Open version) -- I know an old man who swallowed a letter -- Letter box -- Letter round-up -- Sweet vowels -- Slide and blend -- Diagraph walk -- The tools of good readers -- Rapping words -- Lifetime words -- Punctuation pays -- Disc 2. Who? What? Where? When? Why? -- It's fact and fiction time -- Where can you go when you need to know? -- Parts of speech hoedown -- Endings -- We can do opposites -- Synonym stomp -- O, those contractions -- Ready to write -- Pencil talk -- Karate writing -- Writing uppercase letters -- Rhyme to write lowercase letters -- Hi ho librario - parts of a book -- Parts of a letter -- Good-bye, friends!

My Green Kite - Pete Himmelman
Feet (3:18) -- My green kite (3:40) -- Another bite of hay (3:20) -- Maybe is a bad word (3:06) -- My father's an accountant (3:00) -- Dozen roses (3:29) -- Have you ever really looked at an egg? (2:58) -- I made it for you (3:56) -- Baseball tips with Professor Buckley (1:09) -- Red rubber boots (3:26) -- Nothin' to say (2:40) -- Watercolor set (4:13)

New Videos

Charlotte's Web (DVD)
In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web, along with a little help from Templeton the rat and the other barn inhabitants, turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction. Study guide also available.

VeggieTales: Moe and the Big Exit (DVD)
A cowboy finds out he's living better than his family, and stands up to the mayor of the town. A western version of the story of Moses.

Netherlands Cultural Overview (VHS)
Four short films about the Netherlands: Rembrandt (15 min.) -- Vi5ions (18 min.) -- Keukenhof - 50 years of blooming (16 min.) -- Holland waterproof (16 min.)

Dinah Zike's Teaching Science with Foldables (VHS)
Includes background information about Foldables and step-by-step demonstrations of how to make Foldables and implement them into your classroom as reading, study, and assessment tools.

New YA Books

Pandora Gets Jealous - Carolyn Hennesy
Thirteen-year-old Pandy is hauled before Zeus and given six months to gather all of the evils that were released when the box she brought to school as her annual project was accidentally opened.

Tunnels - Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.

The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep - John Hulme and Michael Wexler
When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens everyone's ability to ever fall asleep again.

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Fearing that the sinister Lord Ombra was not destroyed, Peter and Molly travel to the land of Rundoon, which is ruled by the evil King Zarboff.

The Redheaded Princess - Ann Rinaldi
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.

The Tide Knot - Helen Dunmore
Two years after the disappearance of their father, Sapphire and Conor, having moved with their mother to the town of St. Pirans, try to make a new life for themselves, but Sapphire, unlike her mother and brother, finds it increasingly difficult to adjust to her new circumstances and is drawn more and more to the undersea world of Ingo.

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat - Lynne Jonell
When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.

This Is What I Did - Ann Dee Ellis
Bullied because of an incident in his past, eighth-grader Logan is unhappy at his new school and has difficulty relating to others until he meets a quirky girl and a counselor who believe in him.

New Award Books

Spiders - Nic Bishop
Text and photographs introduce readers to different types of spiders and their behavior. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor book; Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Honor book

The White Darkness - Geraldine McCaughrean
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. Michael L. Printz Award book

Repossessed - A. M. Jenkins
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior. Michael L. Printz Honor book

Brave Story - Miyuki Miyabe
With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy named Wataru knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny. With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. One way or another, the young hero must reach the Tower of Destiny and bring his mother and father back together again. Mildred L. Batchelder Award book

New Videos

The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's: The Story of a Prodigal Son - VeggieTales
Darby, the son of a Kansas floss farmer, travels to the Wonderful Land of Ha's, an amusement park where he is able to do whatever he likes, but he finds that his newfound freedom may not be worth all that he's given up.

How to Use Dinah Zike's Big Book of Books - Dinah Zike
Informative, fact-filled presentation shows viewers how to get the most from Dinah Zike's Big Book of Books. (The book is being processed and will be available in the CMC soon.)

New Children's Books

President's Day - Anne Rockwell
Mrs. Madoff's preschool class learns about President's Day and puts on a play about the men who inspired the holiday, particularly those featured on Mount Rushmore.

Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln - Judith St. George
Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.

Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly - Jane O'Connor
Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better. Includes facts about butterflies.

New Children's Books

St. Valentine - Robert Sabuda
Recounts an incident in the life of St. Valentine, a physician who lived some 200 years after Christ, in which he treated a small child for blindness.

Creation - Gennady Spirin
The story of creation from the NIV.

When Sheep Sleep - Laura Numeroff
Rhyming text suggests other options when one tries to count sheep but discovers that they are all asleep.

Stick - Steve Breen
An independent young frog goes on a wild adventure when he accidentally gets carried away by a dragonfly.

Thanks for Thanksgiving - Julie Markes
At Thanksgiving time, children express their gratitude for the people and things in their lives.

When Randolph Turned Rotten - Charise Mericle Harper
Best friends Randolph, a beaver, and Ivy, a goose, do everything together until Ivy is invited to a girls-only birthday sleepover party and Randolph, full of bad feelings, tries to spoil her fun.

Thelonius Turkey Lives! (on Felcia Ferguson's Farm) - Lynn Rowe Reed
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Thelonius Turkey becomes worried when Felicia the farmer starts to fatten him up and pluck his feathers.

Tuttle's Red Barn: The Story of America's Oldest Family Farm - Richard Michelson
In 1632, John Tuttle set sail from England to Dover, New Hampshire and there he set up a farm on seven acres of land. From those humble beginnings the Tuttle family story became America's story.

1 2 3: A Child's First Counting Book - Alison Jay
A little girl awakens to scenes from fairy tales in which she can count familiar characters or objects from one to ten and back again.

Tough, Toothy Baby Sharks - Sandra Markle
Photographs and text introduce students to the development of baby sharks, describing how different types of shark pups grow from eggs to mature adults, the ways they avoid predators, and their ascent up the ocean's food chain.

Wolf's Coming! - Joe Kulka
All of the animals in the forest go into hiding because the wolf is coming, but why they are hiding is the big surprise.

Vinnie and Abraham - Dawn FitzGerald
The true story of Vinnie Ream's courage and persistence in the service of art, and in the service of a friend.

Eleven - Patricia Reilly Giff
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.

Lenny's Space - Kate Banks
Nine-year-old Lenny gets in trouble and has no friends because he cannot control himself in school and his interests are not like those of his classmates, until he starts visiting Muriel, a counselor, and meets Van, a boy his age who has leukemia.

The Trip - Ezra Jack Keats
Louie's takes an imagined trip back to his old neighborhood. While there, Louie runs into a group of strange monsters who turn out to be his old friends in imaginative Halloween disguise; and their friendly cries of "Trick or treat," while Louie wafts home in his bright red airplane, blend with the real voices of his new neighbors as, helped by his mother into an ice-cream-cone costume, Louie goes outside to join them.

New YA Books

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules - Jeff Kinney
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

Bone - Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border - Jeff Smith
Fone and Smiley Bone encounter complications in the form of Rock Jaw, an enormous mountain lion, and baby animals orphaned by rat creature attacks as they journey through the wilderness with a lost rat creature cub they are returning to the mountains. (Graphic format)

The Castle Corona - Sharon Creech
Two orphaned peasant children discover a mysterious pouch, the contents of which lead them to the majestic Castle Corona, where their lives may be transformed forever.

Interworld - Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood - Ibtisam Barakat
A memoir in which the author describes her childhood as a Palestinian refugee, discussing her family's experiences during and after the Six-Day War, and the freedom she felt at learning to read and write.

Grimpow: The Invisible Road - Rafael Abalos
Grimpow finds a stone on a dead knight and begins a quest that will change his life forever.

Undercover - Beth Kephart
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.

Runaround - Helen Hemphill
In Kentucky in the 1960s, partly as revenge against her older sister for publicly embarrassing her, eleven-year-old Sassy decides to make the handsomest boy in the neighborhood her boyfriend, but first she has to find out what makes a boy like a girl, and how to know when he does.

The Rogues - Jane Yolen
After his family is evicted from their Scottish farm, fifteen-year-old Roddy forms an unlikely friendship with a notorious rogue who helps him outwit a tyrant landlord in order to find a family treasure and make his way to America.

Whale Port - Mark Foster
Detailed illustrations and narratives describe the history of the fictional town of Tuckanucket and the importance that whales played in the development of towns along the eastern seaboard.