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Zany Wooden Toys

by mrsweasley@evpl on Tuesday, November 3 2009, 1:04pm

I'm not a woodworker myself, but if I were, I would want to work my way through all the projects in Zany Wooden Toys the Whiz, Spin, Pop and Fly . It's a delightfully colorful book filled with excellent illustrative photos, clear and precise how...

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Books for Boys and Ghouls

by mrsweasley@evpl on Friday, October 23 2009, 1:50pm

With just about a week left until Halloween, most of the Halloween books in our Holiday collections have been snapped up and won't reappear until at least the Day of the Dead (Nov. 1). But here's a monstrous secret: many spooky stories are not...

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Filed under: tall tales, Halloween, skeletons, spooky stories, haunted house, ghost
Animals and ABCs

by mrsweasley@evpl on Tuesday, October 20 2009, 1:51pm

Kids love animals, so Creature ABC will fascinate them with its range of familiar and not-so-familiar beasts.Photographs from Andrew Zuckerman's 2007 work Creature are arranged alphabet-book style, with a letter and photograph on facing pages, then...

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Filed under: animals, children's, children's books, alphabet
Cursed

by HipChick@evpl on Friday, October 16 2009, 11:19am

The Pire family was perfectly happy living on Nostfer Avenue. But, when the new neighbors move in, things change quickly. The Wolfson's stay up all night, they lock their windows, and they love sunshine! What's a happy vampire family to do? They...

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Filed under: werewolf, chilren's books, neighbors, vampires
Holiday Harmony Multi-Cultural Event

by FiddleChick@evpl on Friday, October 9 2009, 12:21pm

We are currently looking for people to sing or speak the first verse of Silent Night in other languages. In the past we have had the pleasure of hearing this verse in Swahili, Navajo, Dutch, German, Japanese and Gaelic. If you or someone you know would...

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Filed under: Music, Performance, Holiday Harmony, various cultures
Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Thursday, October 8 2009, 2:20pm

This is #7 in the Roscoe Riley Rules series by Katherine Applegate. It's just the thing for October! First-grader Roscoe is all excited about guessing the weight of the giant pumpkin in the bookstore window to win books for his school library -- and...

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Filed under: kids, boys, katherine applegate
Today's the perfect day

by HipChick@evpl on Thursday, October 8 2009, 1:24pm

See that awful weather outside? Feel that chilly nip in the air? Today is the perfect day! Let's do nothing ! This story is about two little boys who have spent their day doing everything. Now what? They try to do the near impossible task of ten whole...

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Filed under: children's books, boys
Underpants On My Head

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Wednesday, October 7 2009, 7:00pm

We just got 2 new juvenile fiction books by Jessica Harper. The first in the series is Uh-oh Cleo . The second is Uh-oh, Cleo, Underpants on my Head . They say you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but who ever said anything about its...

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Filed under: underpants, family stories, jessica harper
The Next Newbery?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Monday, October 5 2009, 2:30pm

I've just read a review of When You Reach Me from our EVPL Newsletters. The reviewer fully expects this book to win the next Newbery Award and/or be high on all the best children's books of the year lists. (Click here to read that review.) Rebecca...

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Filed under: Newbery, book lists, rebecca stead
Mystery at the Club Sandwich

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Wednesday, September 23 2009, 1:41pm

Everybody likes a good mystery, right? And a good detective, too. Nick Trunk is a great detective -- that's his picture there on the cover. He works for peanuts -- not bad, since he's an elephant. Doug Cushman tells and illustrates this picture...

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Filed under: picture books, doug cushman, mystery
Brendan Buckley's Universe - and everything in it

by kiya@evpl on Monday, September 14 2009, 4:26pm

Brendan is a ten year old scientist. He likes to understand the world and how it works. He has a whole notebook of the questions he has about the world, and the answers he has discovered. Brendan is ten, and one day at a rock show at the mall, he accidentally...

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Filed under: fiction, boys, multiracial, race
Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Monday, September 14 2009, 3:48pm

When they found he r fossilized bones in 1974, the scientists had a tape recording of the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds . They were so excited at their discovery that they played it over and over. So the hominid uncovered in Hadar, Ethiopia...

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Filed under: nonfiction, lucy, paleoanthropology, scienetific sleuthing
Looking For a Classic Children's Book?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Monday, September 14 2009, 1:52pm

Sometimes it's good to read a brand new book, and sometimes you're looking for one that you know is tried and true. Every so often, Horn Book publishes a current list of children's classics. Their most recent compilation was published in April...

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Filed under: classics, book lists
Know Any Budding Authors?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Friday, August 28 2009, 1:46pm

A Book is the book for them! Mordicai Gerstein has written and illustrated this picture book about a family who lived in a book. "When the book was closed it was night in the book and the family slept. When the book was open it was morning and the...

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Filed under: Caldecott, fairy tales, child authors, mordicai gerstein
9-Year-Old Author Tells How To Talk To Girls, Moms, Dads, and Santa!

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Thursday, August 20 2009, 2:45pm

Alec Greven wrote his first self help book at the age of 9 when he was in the third grade in Castle Rock, Colorado, as a school assignment. Then he sold copies of it at his school book fair for $3.00. Now he has a publisher, HarperCollins, and he's...

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Filed under: child authors, alec greven, self help

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Animals and ABCs

Cursed

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Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin

Today's the perfect day

Underpants On My Head

The Next Newbery?

Mystery at the Club Sandwich

Brendan Buckley's Universe - and everything in it

Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From

Looking For a Classic Children's Book?

Know Any Budding Authors?

9-Year-Old Author Tells How To Talk To Girls, Moms, Dads, and Santa!