October 2003

31 Reviews 

Thanks to the publishers sending books: Knopf, Simon & Schuster, Harcourt, Harpercollins, Houghton Mifflin, Tricycle, Tundra, Henry Holt, Royal Fireworks, Atheneum, Random House, Teachers College Press, Kingfisher

Entries this month: ABCs, Nursery Rhymes, Songbooks | Picturebooks—Fiction, Nonfiction | Poetry | Classics | Myth, Folklore, Fairy Tales | Shakespeare Adaptations | Teacher Resources | Young Adult

Reviewers: Marissa Friedman, John Fox, Richard Cooper, Carole Scott, Alida Allison, Kassie Clark, Alexandra Bashkotova, Tammy Mielke

ABCs, Nursery Rhymes, Songbooks

• Merriam, Eve. The Inner City Mother Goose. Illus. David Diaz. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. $16.95. ISBN 0-689-80677-9


• Merriam, Eve and Smith, Lane. Spooky ABC. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. $16.95. ISBN 0-689-85356-4.
  


• Metropolitan Museum of Art. A Treasury of Children's Songs. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. $19.95. ISBN 0-8050-7445-7.
  

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Picturebooks--Fiction

• Brown, Margaret Wise. The Little Island. Illus. Leonard Weisgard (* Caldecott Award for this book). NY: Doubleday, 2003 (reissue of 1946 edition). $14.95. ISBN 0-385-74640-7.


• Egan, Tim. A Mile From Ellington Station. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. $15.00 ISBN 0-618-00393-2.


• Gottfried, Maya. Last Night I Dreamed a Circus. Illus. Robert Rahway
  Zakanitch. New York: Knopf, 2003. $15.95. 0-375-82388-3.


• Jenkins, Steve and Page, Robin. What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. $15.00 ISBN 0-618-25628-8


• Livingston, Irene. Finklehopper Frog. Berkeley: Tricycle Press, 2003. $14.95 ISBN 1-58246-075-2


• Locker, Thomas. Cloud Dance. San Diego: Harcourt, Inc, 2000. $16.00. ISBN 0-15-202231-7.


• Milord, Susan. Willa the Wonderful. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. $15.00. ISBN 0-618-27522-3.
  


• Osborne, Mary Pope. Moonhorse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991. $6.99. ISBN 0-679-86709-0.
  


• Ziefert, Harriet. A Dozen Ducklings Lost and Found. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. $15.00 ISBN 0-618-14175-8

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Picturebooks—Nonfiction

• Locker, Thomas. Cloud Dance. San Diego: Harcourt, Inc, 2000. $16.00. ISBN 0-15-202231-7.
  


• Sis, Peter. Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus. New York:Knopf, 2003. $15.95. ISBN 0-679-80628-8.
  


• Webb, Sophie. My Season With Penguins. New York: Mifflin Company, 2000. $15.00 ISBN 0-39592291-7.
  

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Classics

• DeFoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Illus. N.C. Wyeth. Abridged by Timothy Meis. New York: Atheneum (Simon & Schuster), 2003 (illustrations first published in 1920). $18.95. 0-689-85104-9.
  


• Kemp, Gene. Gowie Corby Plays Chicken. London: Faber and Faber, 1980. Available used on Amazon and elsewhere.
  


• Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. Illus. N.C. Wyeth. Abridged by Timothy Meis. New York: Atheneum, 2003. $18.95. ISBN 0-689-85468-4.
  


• Tenggren, Gustaf. Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Margaret Soifer and Irwin Shapiro. New York: Golden Books (Random House), 2003 (reissue of 1957 original). $19.95. ISBN 0-375-82636-X.
  

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Myth, Folklore, Fairy Tales

• Child, Sam. The Rainbow Book of Nursery Tales. London: Hutchinson (Random House), 2003. 14.99 British Pounds. ISBN 0-09-188484-5
  


• Geras, Adele. My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folk Tales. Illus. Anita Lobel. NY: Knopf, 2003. $19.95. ISBN 0-375-82285-2.
  


• Lunge-Larsen, Lise. The Troll With No Heart In His Body. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. $18.00 ISBN 0-395-91371-3
  


• Pilling, Ann. The Kingfisher Treasury of Myths and Legends. Illus. Kady MacDonald Denton. Boston: Kingfsher: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 (paperback of 1993 edition) $12.95. ISBN 0-7534-5635-4.
  

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Poetry

• Hollyer, Belinda, ed. The Kingfisher Book of Family Poems. Illus. Holly Swain. New York: Kingfisher (Houghton Mifflin), 2003. $18.95. ISBN 0-7534-5557-9.

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Shakespeare Adaptations

• Coville, Bruce. Twelfth Night. Illus. Tim Raglin. NY: Dial, 2003. $16.99. ISBN 0-8037-2318-0.
  


• Williams, Marcia. Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare! Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2000. $16.99. ISBN 0-7636-1209-X.
  


• Williams, Marcia. Tales from Shakespeare. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 1998. $16.99. ISBN 0-7636-0441-0.
  

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Teacher Resources

• Tse, Lucy. "Why Don't They Learn English?": Separating Fact from Fallacy in The U.S. Language Debate. NY: Teachers College Press, 2001. $18.95. ISBN 0-8077-4096-9.
  

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Young Adult

• Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. NY: Atheneum, 2002. ISBN 0-689-85222-3.
  


• Hoffman, Alice. Water Babies. NY: Scholastic, 2003. $5.99. ISBN
  0-439-09865-5.
  


• Nolan, Han. Send Me Down a Miracle. San Diego: Harcourt, 1996. $6.95. ISBN 0-15-204680-1.
  

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