Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

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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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: 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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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

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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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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It's a Duck! No, it's a Rabbit! It's Duck! Rabbit!

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Thursday, August 20 2009, 9:43am

OK, now it's your turn to take a good look at the picture on the front of this book, and it's nice and big so you can really study it. The two unseen characters inside are in disagreement. One thinks it's a duck quacking, and the other thinks...

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Filed under: picture books, point of view, book review

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

by mrsweasley@evpl on Friday, August 14 2009, 11:38am

Libraries and librarians are known as promoters of intellectual freedom , but I was shocked to find this dangerous and subversive propaganda among my new books. Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians purports to be an account of the exploits of dubious...

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There is just so much dirt in the world…

by HipChick@evpl on Friday, August 7 2009, 3:56pm

The farmyard is a dirty place. Can you imagine? Louisa, the pig with the pretty pink purse, writes letter after letter to upper management only to get this response…..”Dear Disgruntled, if you don’t like it, you can clean it up yourself...

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Mercy Watson to the Rescue!

by mrsweasley@evpl on Thursday, August 6 2009, 2:50pm

When my husband and I travel, I always bring audiobooks to pass the time. Last week we took a trip to Michigan with two of our grandchildren, ages 4 and 6. I knew I would need audiobooks to keep them occupied, but how could I please everyone? What could...

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Filed under: pig, easy readers, books, audiobooks, Mercy Watson, Kate DiCamillo

Puppy Love

by HipChick@evpl on Tuesday, August 4 2009, 2:56pm

Yes, it’s true. Nothing is cuter than a boy and his dog. And before we got our puppy we read a lot of books about different kinds of dogs, behaviors, and training. Did you know that the library has over 1700 children’s books about dogs? While...

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Does Your Toddler Love Vehicles?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Tuesday, July 28 2009, 5:35pm

Jennifer Riggs Vetter has written a variation of the old song Down by The Station , with lots of modes of transportation. Of course there's the tried and true train to begin with, but this version goes on to include school buses, trucks, ex cavators...

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Filed under: picture books, songs, jennifer riggs vetter, transportation

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