I just got this one, too, and was going to post it but Toni beat me
too it! ;-)
But, I just found 2 more great winter/holiday books in the last
Junior Library Guild box I received just this week.
THE SNOW GLOBE FAMILY (Level K) ) (great for point of view)
by Jane O'Connor
illustrated by S. D. Schindler
In a big house on a hill live a mama, papa, boy, girl, and baby.
Inside a snow globe on their mantel lives another mama, papa, boy,
girl, and baby. They all long for one thing: a great big blizzard
that will make a perfect hill for sledding. If only it would snow! If
only someone would pick up the globe and give it a good shake! One
night, both families-big and little-see their wishes come true.
Colored inks and gouache.
and
MERRY UN-CHRISTMAS (Level P)
by Mike Reiss
illustrated by David Catrow
It's Christmas morning, and Noelle is opening her presents: a new
doll, roller skates, a computer, a bike, and a pony. Ho-hum. For
dinner, it's turkey with chestnut dressing and mashed potatoes and
five kinds of pie. Again? In Christmas City, where Christmas comes
364 times a year, Noelle can hardly wait for her favorite day to
arrive: Un-Christmas! Kids go to school, families eat TV dinners,
trees don't light up . . . if only it could be Un-Christmas every
day! Full-color art.
I think that David Catrow is my new favorite illustrator!
And here I had just been complaining I didn't have any new Christmas
books to read!
Barb
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Barb Engvall
=^..^=
Teacher-Librarian
John Campbell Elem
Selah, WA
macbarb@charter.net
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JC/jc.cfm
On Dec 1, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Toni Buzzeo wrote:
> I know we've been talking about holiday books recently (thanks to
> Barb Engvall). This new one just came across my desk! There's
> still time to stock it for pre-Christmas reading. Check out the
> website too: http://www.santa-knows.com/
>
> Santa Knows by Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith (Dutton 2006). ISBN:
> 0525477578
>
> In Santa Knows, science nerd Alfie F. Snorkelpuss ushers in a new
> generation of "Santa doubters." Bad enough that he holds forth his
> disbelief at home, tearing sister Noelle's stocking from the mantle
> not once, but twice. Worse yet, he spends his days reading,
> researching, digging to the bottom of an unconvincing well. Santa
> is a fake! He proclaims it to his skeptical classmates, in his
> local newspaper editorial, on talk radio, before a live TV
> audience, and even on the World Wide Web. He's got a claim, backed
> up by science and reason, and he's taking it public. Until . . .
> well, until SANTA shows up on Christmas Eve, transports him to the
> Pole to witness the whole entirely real elfin operation, and then
> packages him up for Noelle to open on Christmas morning. She'd
> asked for a nicer brother, and you'd better believe Santa
> delivered! Smith and Smith capture an electronic, media-driven age
> with subtlety and prove that Scrooge can growl and grasp and be
> redeemed even in the twenty-first century! Bjorkman adds to the
> fun with his loose cartoon style and expressive faces. If you're
> in the market for a postmodern Christmas tale for your science
> nerds and media kids, this one's a winner!
>
>
> Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS <mailto:tonibuzzeo@tonibuzzeo.com>
> Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year Emerita
> Maine Association of School Libraries Board Member
> Buxton, ME 04093
> http://www.tonibuzzeo.com
> Our Librarian Won't Tell Us ANYTHING! A Mrs. Skorupski Story,
> illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa (Upstart 2006) BRAND NEW!!
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