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THE BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS July/August 2004 Vol. 57 No. 11

A LOOK INSIDE

451 THE BIG PICTURE ChiefSunrise,John McGraw, andMe by Timothy Tocher 452 NEW BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Reviewed titles include: 452 * Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi; tr. by Robin Bray 463 * Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake 463 * Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman; illus. by Kevin Hawkes 475 * Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison 489 * The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! written and illus. by Mo Willems 491 SUBJECT AND USE INDEX 493 ANNUAL AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX EXPLANATION OF CODE SYMBOLS USED WITH REVIEWS * Asterisks denote books of special distinction. R Recommended. Ad Additional book of acceptable quality for collections needing more material in the area. M Marginal book that is so slight in content or has so many weaknesses in style or format that it should be given careful consideration before purchase. NR Not recommended. SpC Subject matter or treatment will tend to limit the book to specialized collections. SpR A book that will have appeal for the unusual reader only. Recommended for the special few who will read it.

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THE BIG PICTURE

Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me by Timothy Tocher

Every teacher knows these students, and every librarian knows these patrons-the kids who won't touch a novel unless it involves nine guys whacking and whipping a hardball around a diamond. Fortunately, it's no great challenge to find worthy titles to recommend, from Carl Deuker's tense contemporary morality tales (most recently, High Heat, BCCB 6/03) to John Ritter's ought-to-be-classic historical fiction Choosing Up Sides (6/98). Now add to the roster this fast-paced fictional road trip with the 1919 New York Giants, perfectly pitched to summer readers who fill their downtime from playing baseball with . . . reading baseball. Tacitly acknowledging that middle-graders don't allow authors much warm-up time, Tocher hurls readers right into the action. Fifteen-year-old Hank Cobb, as he's chosen to call himself, is fed up hopping freight trains with his good- for-nothing father, and in one life-altering moment, he seizes his chance for freedom and lets his old man drop from the side of a boxcar. Within minutes of that irrevocable act Hank finds himself in the company of another rail rider, who calls himself Chief Sunrise, "the greatest Indian to ever step on a baseball diamond, pitching immortal in the making." Hank shares Chiefs passion for the game and, his wariness overcome by curiosity and lack of better options, he willingly joins Chief on his multi-state odyssey to track down Giants manager John McGraw and hustle a slot in the lineup. Catching up with the team isn't easy, and Hank and Chief keep body and soul together unloading trucks, running a con with a traveling fair, cleaning stadium seats and working as a bouncer in the stands, until the big break comes and Chief finds himself on the mound. He is, as predicted, a triumph, but his reluctance to provide personal background for prying reporters puts McGraw on alert. It takes naive Hank longer than the savvy manager to learn that Chief is actually a black man passing as a Seminole, and by then Chief has again changed his identity and gone off to join the newly formed Negro National League. Tocher creates two intriguingly ambiguous characters-a boy who doesn't know his real name and a man who won't reveal his-and masterfully positions them in a post-World War I America (the book includes a historical note) where everything from the broad social order to the narrower field of sportsmanship smacks of flimflam. As Hank patiently waits his turn for the sports section, he leafs through newspaper stories of returning veterans who find their jobs gone and of black citizens for whom the global battle for democracy has been rendered ludi- crous by home-grown bigotry. In major-league baseball, public heroes privately mistrust their managers and parlay their salary gripes into thrown games, and reporters fill the holes in players' vitae with any story they think will sell. Farther 452 * THE BULLETIN down the baseball food chain, all-girl teams like the Bloomers (with whom Hank puts in a hilarious game as shortstop, until the pitcher loses his temper and his wig in a small town match-up) are none too persnickety about the gender of their ringers. And any reader who's ever swung at a change-up will appreciate Tocher's take on the feints endemic to the game itself-the bogus signals, the stolen bases, the stalls for time, the pitches with unfathomable trajectories. Tocher never loses sight of the line between amusing roguery and pernicious deceit, though. Hank's stint with the Bloomers and Chiefs shameless fleecing of shooting-gallery patrons at a backwater carnival are broadly drawn with a wink and a grin, but there's nothing laughable here about the racism that forces Chief to hide his identity in order to bring his prodigious ability into a proper arena, or about Hank's father's efforts (from his new quarters at Sing Sing) to blackmail Chief into fixing a game. Unlikely buddies are a dime a dozen in the world of fiction, but Hank and Chiefs story, which begins in a shadowy boxcar and ends with an uncertain future, gains freshness and credibility from Tocher's restrained delineation of friendship. In the end, readers know little more about Chief than when they first met- save for his name (which now scarcely seems to matter), his indisputable talent, his own rules of integrity, and his concern for Hank, which, though clearly genuine, is realistically limited by his professional ambitions. Chief cannot haul Hank along with him on the road to success, but he does leave him on the shoulder, facing the right direction. That, and a season's worth of memories, is more than enough. (Imprint information appears on p. 487.) Elizabeth Bush, Reviewer

NEW BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

AL-WINDAWI, THURA Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq; tr. by Robin Bray. Viking, 2004 13 1 p illus. with photographs ISBN 0-670-05886-6 $15.99 R Gr. 5-9 Thura should have been enjoying her college days preparing for a pharmacy career; instead the nineteen-year-old was saying goodbye to friends and relatives as they stocked their houses and made evacuation plans on the eve of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Daily activities and personal reactions over the ensuing year are logged in a diary that, although it may have been started as a private record, clearly transformed into a document intended for Western dissemination: "In my culture, sacrificing a lamb in the name of God is a tradition after something good has happened to a family." Despite a few similarly pointed editorial lapses, Thura's thoughts seem genuine and spontaneous. Although her British- educated father owed his career to the Baathist Party, Thura has little love of Saddam Hussein and even less for her looting countrymen. She is understandably ambiva- lent on the subject of foreign "liberators" who seem unwilling to hand power back to the Iraqi people. Readers are not required to sort out a political position on the Iraqi conflict, though, to empathize with a middle-class girl's sudden descent into JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 453 a maelstrom of house-shaking explosions, medical concerns within her family, and evacuation to a country region where her family's liberal attitudes must temporarily conform to more traditional lifeways. Rationed water, intermittent electric- ity, gasoline shortages, lack of refrigeration, long periods of housebound confinement, and constant worry for the extended family-this is the reality of Thura's war that will make comfortable Americans readers sit up and take notice. EB

APPELT, KATHI My Father's Summers: A Daughter's Memoir. Holt, 2004 197p illus. with photographs ISBN 0-8050-7362-0 $15.95 Ad Gr. 5-8 Through emotionally charged prose poems, Appelt offers vignettes of her life as a teen in the late '60s, most centered around the experience of missing her father, first when he goes to the Persian Gulf to work on an oil rig, and then when he returns home only to leave again, this time for another woman. She and her sisters live with their mother but spend summers with their father's new family, thus having front-row seats as they watch their father sink into alcoholic unhappiness with his new wife, and their mother find joy and fulfillment with a capaciously loving new husband. Most of the memories consist of one paragraph, though some are as short as one line offered as an afterthought, and some go over two pages. What plotting may be found is staged through the alternation between life now and life "before," with text interspersed with black-and-white photographs of Appelt's father, mother, and sisters in various stages of their lives together and apart; the result is a personal family album of snapshots that focus on the emotions underlying the events. From the select evidence that readers are given through the terse narrative form, it would seem that Appelt's father's intermittent presence was the defining element of all the lives he touched, powerfully dominating their choice of hobbies, their daily routines, their core values, and their entire emotional landscape. Appelt's prose poetry contains some finely drawn moments, but it is in- flected throughout with a tone of adult nostalgia that, while obviously meaningful and therapeutic for those involved, is less engaging for those outside the family circle. Nonetheless, this memoir may resonate with readers for whom missing someone has become a permanent condition. KC

BALLIETT, BLUE Chasing Vermeer; illus. by Brett Helquist. Scholastic, 2004 [2 7 2 p] ISBN 0-439-37294-1 $16.95 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 6-9 Petra and Calder had been nothing more than neighbors and sixth-grade classmates, but something-their shared intellectual curiosity? the designs of a supernatural power?-brings them together as they realize they're in the middle of a mystery. First, they're concerned about their teacher's strange behavior; then they're intrigued by a frosty old lady who's discarded a fascinating book at the local book- store; finally, a famous Vermeer painting, A Lady Writing, is kidnapped for a very strange ransom-an investigation of the legitimacy of Vermeer's canon-and the kids believe they're the ones to solve the crime. That's just the surface of a book that couples the puzzle-loving intricacy of The Westing Game (BCCB 9/78) with the museum-mystery compulsion (and youthful independence) of From the Mixed- Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (BCCB 2/68). Diehard puzzle solvers will 454 * THE BULLETIN appreciate the inclusion of letters in code (referred to but not decoded) and the insertion of keys to the mystery in Helquist's humorous yet edgy black-and-white illustrations, but those less driven to solve conundrums can ignore those entice- ments and still follow the intricate yet energetic plot just fine. Nor is it just a mystery: the kids find themselves examining the very notions of causality, coincidence, and fate (the book they find is a title by Charles Fort, guru of strange- coincidence philosophy), and patterns of meaning turn up so often that it seems clear there's a some kind of extraordinary effect driving Petra's and Calder's investigation (the Lady Writing seems to be a force to be reckoned with independent of her painting, as she drives much of the action herself). Traditional red herrings and dead ends add classic pleasures to this less-than-traditional story, allowing for plenty of reading pleasure by mystery fans, budding philosophers, or just those drawn by the artistic or the unusual. DS

BARASCH, LYNNE Knockin 'on Wood: StarringPeg Leg Bates; written and illus. by Lynne Barasch. Lee & Low, 2004 32p ISBN 1-58430-170-8 $16.95 R Gr. 2-4 Clayton Bates was born in South Carolina in 1907, the apple of his sharecropper mother's eye and an irrepressible tap dancer from early youth. At twelve, he took a job in the local mill as an alternative to the field work he hated, but a tragic work accident resulted in the amputation of his left leg. The determined young man refused to abandon his dancing, however, and with the help of an uncle who made him a special prosthesis suitable for tap dancing, he embarked on a remarkable, successful, and extremely long career. The streamlined text leaves some questions unanswered, and the absence of any historical or biographical notes or source cita- tions is, unfortunately, a major stumble in an otherwise smooth routine. Aside from that, however, this is a compact and enlightening biography of an unusual figure. The easygoing text quietly provides historical context enough to understand Bates' world, simply explaining components from sharecropping to segregation to theatrical history (Bates' dancing took him from black theater to vaudeville in "blackface" to performances before royalty and on television). Barasch's line- and-watercolor art has an unforced fluidity that recalls Elisha Cooper's work; Bates is a natty and amiable figure, whose airborne exuberance conveys his love of his art form. This will provide a useful dance counterpoint to all those pink ballet books, and it's also a lively and capable tribute to an American original. DS

BEAUMONT, KAREN ILike Myself; illus. by David Catrow. Harcourt, 2004 32p ISBN 0-15-202013-6 $16.00 R 3-6 yrs Self-esteem is a dish best served with a healthy dose of humor, which is what we get in this energetic portrait of a little girl with wild curly locks who is altogether pleased with herself. Beaumont and Catrow work as a seamless team here, with Catrow's exuberant illustrations introducing humor at first not found in Beaumont's occasionally bland rhyming text. For instance, when the little girl claims to like herself inside and out, Catrow surprises us with a comic x-ray of her and her dog. When the text takes its own silly turn, the art keeps up with consistently bright, uncluttered compositions that fiddle with perspective and comically distort the bodies of the girl and her bemused pup. While each turn of the page offers a illustrative surprise that will provoke a laugh, the visual punchlines are clean, clearly developed, and quick, so as not to impede the progressive flow of a readaloud; it JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 455 takes just as long to read each picture as it does to read the text that accompanies it. The result is that rare thing: an exhortation that elicits enjoyment even as it makes its point. KC

BOYCE, FRANK COTTRELL Millions. HarperCollins, 2004 [272p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-073331-4 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-073330-6 $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 6-10 Damian is an overly thoughtful fourth-grader with an abiding interest in virtue and in saints, who occasionally return the favor by manifesting themselves to him (he asks them hopefully if they've run across his late mother). He's an unlikely candidate for riches, but that's what he gets when a sports bag filled with thou- sands of pounds (£229,370, to be exact) comes flying off a train and into his private railside refuge. Damian's pragmatic big brother, Anthony (who blithely extracts numerous perks from adults by strategically blurting "Our mum's dead"), realizes that this is not only an opportunity but a challenge, since the European Monetary Union means that these banknotes have to be spent or exchanged for Euro in the next three weeks, because they then become valueless. This is a stunningly original plot that takes the old "If I had to spend a fortune" notion and spins it into rich, suspenseful, and humorous examination of ethics and economy, value and values. The economic aspect is percipient as well as exciting: since the boys have only large bills, they create rampant inflation at school by buying everything at exorbitant prices from their classmates, who then become giddy with their cash power ("Money was a craze, like yakky yo-yos or Beyblades"); the brothers often gain more enjoyment from playing with the money itself (cash jenga is a big hit) than with their purchases (after an expensive toy turns out to be disappoint- ingly shoddy, Anthony declaims, "The world is crap ... We could have anything in it but everything in it is crap"). The sinister reminder of the crooks who are chasing after their misplaced money adds a dark urgency to the plot, but really it's Damian's earnest, matter-of-fact narration that sets the tone. Boyce's unerring craftsmanship allows Damian's yearning for saintly virtue to be humorous (Damian cheerfully greets his companionable saints with their names and dates) even as it's moving, especially in its clear expression of his otherwise stifled grief; the author also clearly sides with Damian's view of reality, graciously vouchsafing the rest of the cast a glimpse of a saint as well. The concept is immediately booktalkable and the telling is riveting; a book of such wealth-of any kind-is valuable indeed. DS

BRAMHALL, WILLIAM Hepcat; written and illus. by William Bramhall. Philomel, 2004 32p ISBN 0-399-23896-4 $15.99 Ad 5-8 yrs Hepcat faces an empty auditorium before his sold-out jazz concert and realizes his "vibes have vanished"; there is no music left in him. Beetles (actually beetle Beatles) under the stage floorboard urge him to "take a sad song and make it better," so he blows through the city (sometimes quite literally) and discovers music all around him in the urban soundscape. He's aided by a number of fellow musicians whom, unfortunately, most young viewers and probably many of their twenty- or thirty- something parents won't recognize, from the hysterically caricatured Little Rich- ard h la frog, thumping a grand piano for an appreciative audience of cattails, to 456 * THE BULLETIN

Chuck Berry hightailing it over a traffic jam in a blaze of pink tail fins and a "Mabellene" [sic] license plate. A paunchy Elvis may be easier to spot, warming his hands over an oil-drum fire while two blue hound dogs wail by his side, but the yellow submarine floating by the proscenium will take some explaining for the primary-grade set. Scratchy, hatchy lines and restrained sweeps of a dominant monochrome watercolor across each scene are surely energetic, but the text is largely a pastiche of forced Maynard G. Krebs jargon: "Just cruise the scene, man"; "Well, I'll be a ding-dong daddy-o!" Let the adults have their chuckle over the illustrations, then jazz up story hour with some Chris Raschka (John Coltrane's Giant Steps, BCCB 9/02), or even Rachel Isadora's classic Ben's Trumpet. EB

BRISSON, PAT Beach Is to Fun: A Book of Relationships; illus. by Sachiko Yoshikawa. Holt, 2004 36p ISBN 0-8050-7315-9 $16.95 R 4-10 yrs School's still in session at the opening of this book, but the classroom calendar is set on June and kids' sights are set on a trip to the seaside: "School is to work/ as beach is to fun." Apart from a few digressions, ensuing scenes feature summer activities of a damp variety-rowing boats, splashing in pools, chasing crabs, raft- ing, fishing, and dreaming about the beach long after the sun goes down. Each scene is a backdrop for couplet-styled observations about relationships: "Gull is to sky/ as shell is to sand./ Child is to family/ as finger is to hand." There are a couple of debatable entries ("Red is to green/ as stop is to go") and one decided dud ("Toss is to catch/ as fast is to slow"), but the majority are on point and they can even be delivered by an adult reader to invite the appropriate rhymed response. Acrylic and pastel pictures, textured with scraps of print and rendered in fruity sorbet colors, showcase a cast of spindly limbed moppets with wide set eyes and heads as round as beach balls. Few teachers will 'fess up to teaching to a standard- ized test, but if one should want to give students a little boost on the analogies section, well... EB

BROWN, JACKIE Little Cricket. Hyperion, 2004 252p ISBN 0-7868-1852-2 $15.99 Ad Gr. 4-6 The able-bodied Hmong men of Kia Vang's Laotian village have been forced to join the North Vietnamese army; Kia's father, who seemed to have escaped the raid, is now dead, and her grandfather, who aided the Americans against the North Vietnamese, knows it's time to evacuate the village and head for the refugee camps where, with any luck, they will be sent on to resettle in the United States. The Vangs are indeed luckier than most, since their emigration is approved, but a bu- reaucratic mix-up sends Grandfather, Kia, and her brother Xigi on ahead while mother and grandmother await reprocessing. The journey from village to camp is harrowing enough, with rivers to be crossed and bribes to be paid, but life in the States is no bed of roses. Electric lights, supermarkets, heavily cosmetic'd neighbors, well-meaning but aggressive church sponsors, and a daunting new language to learn pose enormous obstacles, but the greatest challenges of all may be grandfather's growing despondence and Xigi's quest for the American good life that draws him away from his tiny remnant of family. The trials of resettlement can easily carry the Vangs' story on their own, but Brown too often leaves details underdeveloped, while exploring a related subplot involving a neighbor boy and his pet monkey and dwelling on lessons to be learned on the value of perseverance JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 457

and family ties. Curricular tie-ins to both the Vietnam War and immigration may give this a broad audience, though, and turn the problem of belaboring the obvious into a mild virtue for challenged readers. EB

BROWNE, N. M. Basilisk. Bloomsbury, 2004 320p ISBN 1-58234-876-6 $17.95 M Gr. 7-12 Start with a religious reformation that forces a city-state's aristocracy literally underground and keeps the rest of the population subjugated by a Stalinesque re- gime, add a trio of dream dragons that sparks death-inducing terror in the rebel rabble, and you have the foundation of that most elusive of creations, the original fantasy novel. Unfortunately, a well-constructed novel requires more than imagi- natively conceived underpinnings. Sophisticated prose and competent character development entice the reader to the midpoint of this tale, which then sinks rap- idly into a morass of awkward language, authorial contrivance, and predictable revelation, wasting all the dramatic tension carefully built throughout the first half of the story. The reader is robbed of even a sympathetic heroine or hero, since the female primary character becomes a drugged dupe of the sadistic head torturer and her male counterpart first ditches her in a fit of adolescent jealousy and then takes a secondary role in her rescue. (He does manage to suck up the credit for the derring-do after the girl's actual defender dies.) Only the dream dragons remain to enchant the reader, and all alone they can't lift this three-hundred-page novel off the ground. Even fantasy buffs eager for new reading material will be better off waiting for the next hot new thing. TC

BURGESS, MELVIN Doing It. Holt, 2004 32 6 p ISBN 0-8050-7565-8 $15.95 Ad Gr. 9-12 In his earlier book (Smack, BCCB 4/98), British author Burgess treated drugs, and now he's on to sex (presumably rock and roll is coming next). Dino is in only intermittently requited love and lust with Jackie, the classiest girl in school; Jonathon is increasingly sexually attracted to his longtime friend, Deborah, but he's afraid of the social repercussions of being involved with the school fat girl; Ben has fulfilled every schoolboy's fantasy by becoming the secret boytoy of an attractive young teacher, and he's finding it's not always the ecstasy he'd imagined. The book is true to the physiologically focused viewpoint of young men and also to their flail- ing efforts to make sense of sex's place in the world; it's also believable that the lure and entanglements of sex lead the protagonists to behave with considerable cru- elty. The sex is generally realistic as well; there's lots of nonconsummatory (if exciting) grappling and ineptitude as well as actual intercourse, and there's little in the way of euphemistic hearts and flowers to confuse the physical issue (though some American readers may be misled by some of the British colloquialisms). The experiences are somewhat programmatically representative, however, including Dino's discovery of his mother's adultery (and therefore the fact that she's a sexual being) and Jonathon's fears of penile cancer; nor do the plots aside from Dino's relationship with Jackie ever really grow, change, or believably resolve. The girls' viewpoints are less successfully evoked, and the world of universal heterosexuality and sexual willingness is a bit unlikely (the rarity of condom use is, unfortunately, more believable). None of this is going to keep this title from circulating like mad, both illicitly and licitly, as soon as its contents are known, and those who read all the pages will benefit from a broad and insightful perspective. DS 458 * THE BULLETIN

CABOT, MEG Teen Idol. HarperCollins, 2004 [30 4p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-009617-9 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-009616-0 $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 6-10 Jenny Greenley knows her role in her midwestern high school: she's the mayon- naise, as one friend says, the lubricant that keeps everybody else going together smoothly; she's also the good girl next door, trusted by teachers and welcomed by parents (unbeknownst to all but the editor of the school paper, she's also its pseud- onymous and revered advice columnist). When movie star Luke Striker decides to go undercover at her school in preparation for a role, it's naturally Jenny that the administration takes into confidence and asks to squire the young man around. Cabot's romance fans may expect a literally star-crossed romance, but this story actually takes a more interesting tack: Jenny's the only one not besotted with Luke (whose identity is discovered fairly quickly), which allows them to become friends (don't worry, there's another boy with Jenny's name all over him right from the start). The book also cleverly parlays Luke's outsider viewpoint into activism as he exhorts Jenny to throw her social weight around to make some genuine changes (ending the persecution of an unpopular girl, for instance, and resolving a cruel prank on a teacher). Some of the elements strain credibility even within this fan- ciful plot (Jenny's discovery that she actually likes the unpopular girl comes out of nowhere), and the tone lacks the heady effervescence of The Princess Diaries(BCCB 12/00); on the other hand, Jenny's not a bubbly-champagne sort of girl. In addition to its enticing movie-star glamour and high-school power politics, the book makes an important point: social roles aren't immutable. Young readers may not truly believe that, but it may at least give them hope for the future. DS

CONNOR, LESLIE Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel; illus. by Mary Azarian. Houghton, 2004 32p ISBN 0-618-30564-5 $16.00 R 6-9 yrs "She could have picked a chiming clock or a porcelain figurine, but Miss Bridie chose a shovel back in 1856." Whether this was preference or prescience on Miss Bridie's part is up to the audience, but it was a wise decision to make on the eve of her emigration to the United States. The shovel would serve her well to supple- ment her income as a shop clerk with flower sales from her backyard garden; to clear the ice on the skating rink where she would meet her husband-to-be; to perform myriad chores around their farm; in time, to plant a tree and flowers around her husband's grave; to keep frozen ponds clear and her farm prosperous for her grandchildren. Although listeners never know exactly where Miss Bridie comes from (Ireland is strongly suggested) or why she left her family on their apparently thriving farm to journey alone across the Pond, they will certainly see that immigration and settlement required lots of manual labor and that nineteenth century women would have to do more than churn butter and darn socks. Azarian's woodcuts of homey agrarian scenes, in which the featured shovel is never far from its owner's side, can practically tell the story without aid of text, and Miss Bridie's transition from slim, iron-willed girl to thick-waisted, iron-haired matron is subtle to the point of spread-to-spread imperceptibility. Use this to spark a discussion on the one thing you could never live without. EB JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 459

CRAATS, RENNAY RoaldDahl. Weigl,2004 32p (My Favorite Writer) illus. with photographs ISBN 1-59036-029-X $24.25 Ad Gr. 2-5 HOOK, JASON Roald Dahl: The Storyteller. Raintree, 2004 48p (Famous Lives) illus. with photographs ISBN 0-7398-6626-5 $18.99 R Gr. 3-5 Dahl's riveting two-part autobiography, Boy and Going Solo, is a hard act to follow, but since many of the author's fiction fans aren't quite up for the longer work (or suspect there may be a thing or two Dahl has left out or embellished for literary effect), there's a place for standard biographies as well. Craats offers a bare-bones account for the My Favorite Writer series, and readers who want the fascinating bits will find an unforgivable amount of the page count squandered on such tan- gential matters as "The Publishing Process," pedestrian recaps of Dahl top sellers, "Writing a Biography Review" (a euphemism for a book report), and "Fan Infor- mation" (Craats' advice: "just type 'Roald Dahl' into a search engine such as Google or Yahoo"). Hook has the luxury of about a dozen extra pages and makes the most of them in an engagingly written, detail-packed presentation. Family tragedies, Dahl's divorce, and book controversy are all handled with tact and can- dor, and Hook is particularly adept at tracing-sans overly creative speculation- how Dahl's life influenced recurrent themes in his novels. Each title includes an index, glossary, and a sizable gallery of color and black-and-white photographs, but Hook also appends a date chart and a comprehensive list of Dahl's full length works. While either title is accessible to fans of Dahl's quirky novels, Hook's entry should be the hands-down favorite. EB

DE HAAN, LINDA King &King &rFamily;written and illus. by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland. Tricycle, 2004 32p ISBN 1-58246-113-9 $14.95 Ad 5-8 yrs After their happy union in King andKing (BCCB 7/02), King Bertie and King Lee take off for a honeymoon in the jungle; they (and the royal cat, who has accompa- nied them) are entranced with all the animal families they see, but Bertie remains a little nervous about the strange surroundings, convinced that someone is following them. It looks like he was right, since upon their return, their luggage reveals a stowaway jungle girl; fortunately, the familially inclined kings are thrilled, adopting the happy little girl as their very own. Lee and Bertie are still two of the most companionable kings around, and their high-spirited journey is thick with jungle atmosphere. Unfortunately, this doesn't have the tight pacing and effective focus of the previous text: the jungle adventures are rambling narratively as well as geographically, and the acquisition of their daughter lacks the groundedness of the previous book or its folkloric cousins (why, for instance, did she want to leave the jungle, and what has she left behind there?). The illustrations are similarly scat- tered, with the collage-and-paint illustrations allowing color to overpower composition; this disorganization makes it hard to detect the advance hints of the little girl's existence (and those hints don't explain her actions, they simply reveal them). The jungle world is a vivid and event-filled place, however, and the array of animals are entertaining to hunt, at least illustratively. This doesn't have sufficient impact to stand alone, but King andKing fans who want to know what happened after happily ever after may want to travel along. DS 460 * THE BULLETIN

DESSEN, SARAH The Truth about Forever. Viking, 2004 374p ISBN 0-670-03639-0 $16.99 Ad Gr. 7-10 Macy responds to the death of her father by erecting a fine-just-fine shield over all of the aspects of her life that she can control-she finds a perfect boyfriend (rigid, uptight, utterly devoid of emotion but really smart and focused), gets the perfect job (taking over for the uptight boyfriend at the library information desk while he's off at Brain Camp) and becomes the perfect daughter (in her room by eight studying her SAT prep guide every night). Such an effort is destined to fail, obviously, and as her attempts at perfection begin to show signs of strain, she finds herself attracted to the disorganized, frenetic world of the Wish catering company, a small group of amiable neighbors and relatives (with an enigmatic hottie thrown in, of course) who embrace chaos not as a problem that needs to be controlled and overcome but as a productive philosophy of life. Dessen's strength is her ability to fully realize a character's inner and outer worlds; Macy's grief is palpable, and her slow thaw is believably rendered. However, the metaphors that accompany her transformation are contrived and obvious, the romance that nearly misses is nothing new to this genre, and the coincidental nature of the conclusion (where a gift that her father bought her before he died shows up just when she is wanting a sign, and just happens to be a sculpture made by the very boy she is wondering about) is beyond credible. In fact, the final scene where the new boyfriend repeats Macy's father's last words to her, but in a happier context, is so buttoned-down and laced- up Freudian that it could be considered therapeutic discourse on grief-work rather than plotting. Johnson's Key to the Golden Firebird, reviewed below, is a more satisfying book about mourning one's father, but those who are already Dessen fans will no doubt want to pick this up. KC

DOWELL, FRANCES O'ROARK The Secret Language of Girls. Atheneum, 2004 24 7p ISBN 0-689-84421-2 $15.95 R Gr. 5-7 Marylin and Kate have been best friends since nursery school. Now Marylin wants to be mature and popular, but Kate doesn't understand the desire or the behavior that goes along with it. From Kate's point of view, her used-to-be friend has developed a split personality: there is the outer Marylin, who ditches Kate when necessary to follow the crowd, and the inner Marylin, who tries to protect Kate from the malicious machinations of the in-group and secretly crushes on a boy her popular friends despise. Sometimes it seems to both Marylin and Kate that their friendship can't survive the pressures of a social structure neither fully understands. Both voices in this dual-perspective novel are distinct and natural; though the trials and traumas of friendship are well-worn ground, the dexterity and compassion with which this version is written and the fact that the girls do find believable, brave ways to step out of their externally defined roles make it a literary journey worth taking. TC

DOWSON, NICK Tigress; illus. by Jane Chapman. Candlewick, 2004 26p ISBN 0-7636-2325-3 $15.99 R 4-7 yrs The plotline is simple: a mother tiger sets out into the jungle to find a new den for her two infant cubs ("Changing dens helps to fool predators, such as leopards and wild dogs, that may kill the cubs"). The cubs grow up, she teaches them to hunt, and they all part ways under the purple shades of twilight. What is especially JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 461 notable about Dowson's story is the carefully crafted language; the narrative recalls a free-verse poem, each block of text reflecting on the movements of the beasts in lines rich with metaphor ("Like fire, the roaring tigress leaps and falls in a crush of teeth and muscle"; "Their bright white ear spots wink like magic eyes"). The text itself is set against paisleyed swatches of warm yellows, corals, and pale blues, and factual information relevant to the narrative moment is offset in italics on each spread in the style familiar from Nicola Davies' BigBlue Whale (BCCB 10/97) and other such entries. The storyline follows the development of the cubs, who grow from cuddly newborns ("like fat furry cushions") to handsome predators on their first kill. Chapman's thickly textured brushstrokes offer heightened emphasis on details and effectively pair with the narrative in capturing the tiger family's movements and interactions. The tigers are the highlight of each spread, their striped orange coats framed by the strong colors of their jungle home, and the scenes showcasing the tigers in motion (see especially the hunting and swimming spreads) are particularly successful. Kids who already love tigers are going to love this book, but many others will be attracted to this gently informative tale of a mother's care. An author's note and index are included, but no source notes are provided. HM

DuPRAu, JEANNE The People ofSparks. Random House, 2004 [352p] Library ed. ISBN 0-375-92824-3 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-375-82824-9 $15.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-7 Twelve-year-olds Doon and Lina flee the dying underground city of Ember followed by more than four hundred of the city's inhabitants. Once aboveground the refugees are reluctantly taken in for six months by the citizens of Sparks, a small agrarian community. The people of Sparks attempt to teach the newcomers basic subsistence skills, but time is short, and the Emberites are not used to the hard physical labor required to wrench a living from the earth. Resources and tempers grow short, and tensions between the two groups increase until it seems as if the violence that nearly destroyed the people of the world will destroy the small remnant still remaining. In this sequel to The City ofEmber (BCCB 9/03), DuPrau illustrates large ideas with small images: the escalation of violence is shown by the smashing of tomatoes against a wall, the wages of parsimony by a locker of food strewn with dirt, the generosity of strangers by a packet of seeds sown for the good of all. Chapters alternate between the adventures of Lina and Doon, Lina staying in the home of the town doctor with her younger sister and her guardian, Mrs. Murdo, and Doon living in the ruined remains of the Pioneer Hotel with the other people of Ember. The uncertainty of the future is exploited by Tick, a young man from Ember with a lust for power and excitement, and further exacer- bated by the officials of Sparks, who want only to protect what they have labored so long to achieve. This is a tighter tale than its predecessor, and the themes explored will provide much fuel for discussion. Readers willing to venture into the adventurous terrain of a world grown from ruin should start their journey here. JMD

EARLS, NICK 48 Shades ofBrown. Graphia/Houghton, 2004 27 4 p Paper ed. ISBN 0-618-45295-8 $6.99 R Gr. 7-12 With his parents away in Geneva for a year, sixteen-year-old Dan has elected to remain back in Australia and spend that year living with his cool young university- 462 * THE BULLETIN student aunt, Jacq, and her housemate, Naomi. The result isn't the window into women and adulthood Dan's school friend thinks: Dan discovers with embarrass- ment just how dependent he's been on parental routine and caretaking ("I can only assume I was brought into this household because they needed someone to cover the calculus, since otherwise I don't present with a life of great accomplishment"), how uncomfortable he can be with the ramshackle condition of your basic rented student house, and how obsessed he is with the sex life of Naomi, whose room is next to his. It doesn't take him long before he realizes he's completely fallen for Naomi, but it's a surprise to him when, after a raucous student party (where Dan hopes to take his mind off Naomi by finding a girl and gets vomited on for his pains), he discovers that Jacq has fallen for her too. Readers will immediately recognize the pivotal nature of a teen year spent out from under parents, but Earls cleverly complicates the experience with his believable depiction of how it accentu- ates Dan's naivete even as it broadens his horizons. Dan himself is realistically perceptive but also believably blinkered: he knows that the gap between him and Naomi is more than just chronological (she's only two years older), but he doesn't grasp that the gap between him and the kind of man she'd want isn't as great as it seems. Dan's narration is wry and understatedly funny throughout as he comes face to face with the stretching but still extant limits of his maturation ("I haven't even had any chances not to take yet"). He does indeed grow (especially in his relationship with Jacq), but this is a creative departure from the classic Bildungsroman in its articulate portrayal of a young man who's starting to realize how much more there is to adulthood than he'd realized or is ready for. DS

EASTON, KELLY Walking on Air. McElderry, 2004 233p ISBN 0-689-84875-7 $16.95 Ad Gr. 5-9 Since she was four, June has been doing tricks on a tightrope to entertain what audiences her traveling preacher father can gather during the Depression. Barely able to collect enough money to support himself and his family (because, for both Pa and his listeners, "it's easier to feel the spirit on a full stomach"), Pa turns from straightforward evangelism to something that resembles extortion (and exploita- tion of June's developing body), and he is sentenced to five months in jail. During this time, June and her mother get a glimpse of what it would be like to have a real home, with June going to a proper school and making friends. Also during this time, June begins to get a strange feeling about Rhett, the man who travels with their little group and does the odd jobs. Rhett has always been a mystery to June, having taken a vow of silence for some unknown past sin, but he is unfailingly kind. When the family ends up in a Hooverville and June's mother is taken to a convent hospital, June takes the opportunity to liberate herself from her father's ambitions and places herself in an orphanage. Here her suspicions about Rhett are confirmed (he's her real father), and she is ushered into an entirely new life. The ethereal flights of fancy that punctuate June's first-person narration have the curious effect of deflating her as a character. She is so intent on making meaning of the events in her life through Biblical narrative and the occasional folktale that she seems disengaged from actually living and feeling them, thus leaving her character disaffected and distant. Though she is determined not to realize her father's dream for her to be a preacher, she has an otherworldly quality that prevents pathos from developing between her and the reader. However, the message of forgiveness and tolerance of imperfect people is strong and tenderly realized, the mystery of Rhett JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 463 provides an adequate narrative hook to keep pages turning, and the ultimately liberating ending rewards June's, and the reader's, faith. KC

FLAKE, SHARON G. Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2004 168p ISBN 0-7868-0693-1 $15.99 R Gr. 7-12 "[G]irls just get stuck on stupid when they fall for boys," remarks Brandon during a discussion in his provocatively titled "Boy Stuff' class. Indeed, they seem to, and this collection of short stories explores how in a number of ways. When a girl decides that she'll put up with her boyfriend's infidelity rather than confront and possibly lose him, when a pregnant girl unwittingly puts her life on the line in exchange for the gifts of a mentally handicapped boy, when a group of girls decides to risk everything to break out of the confining rules of their church family to go on a man hunt, when a girl is willing to break a friend's heart to go after that friend's thug boyfriend, they learn to bear the painful consequences of stupid. They also negotiate knowingly what they are willing to accept against their own interests and where they are willing to take their stands when it comes to relationships. There are no fairy tales here, and few happy endings, but there is ample exploration and questioning of the ways in which girls' (and grown women's, for that matter) sense of who they are gets entangled with who they are for the boys in their lives. The conclusions they come to are often heart-wrenching and always powerful. Flake is breaking new and necessary ground here, creating compelling, vibrant voices of black girls for black girls, with no implicit or explicit address to outsider culture. As a result, nonblack readers will have to learn to read these powerful stories over the shoulders of their black peers-in other words, the same way black teens have always had to read white mainstream romances over the shoulders of their intended audience. It's a feat long overdue, and Flake just keeps doing it better and better. KC

FLEISCHMAN, PAUL Sidewalk Circus; illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Candlewick, 2004 32 p ISBN 0-7636-1107-7 $15.99 R* 4-9 yrs It's amazing how eloquent Fleischman can be as "author" of a nearly wordless picture book. With Kevin Hawkes doing the visual honors, the author/illustrator team joins a little girl sitting on a bus-stop bench as she watches her quiet commer- cial street turn into a circus. A gray-haired, overalled gent drags a cart of posters and banners advertising the coming of Garibaldi's Circus, and as each ad is hoisted or pasted into place, nearby pedestrians and workers take on the roles of featured performers. The idea may not be particularly subtle, but the execution is remarkable, calling on viewers to compare the poses of tightrope walker "The Great Tebaldi" with a workman balanced on an steel beam, "Goliath the Strongman" with the transformed shadow of a young man hauling a side of beef into the butcher shop, the "daring sword swallowers" with the dentist probing a patient's mouth in an office window above the street. Audience oohs and aahs may be muted here, but the brightly clad little girl's reactions say it all as she expressively registers each feat from her oval inset, surrounded by cluelss graytone adults. Eventually a bus carries off the first load of commuters, but a stripe-shirted boy arrives and notices a squirrel on a wire taking on the role of "The Great Tebaldi," and Act Two is underway. Hawkes manipulates shadows and tucks away details so cannily in his 464 * THE BULLETIN fuzzy-edged acrylic scenes that viewers will have plenty to discover or revisit on second and third "readings." The Fleischman/Hawkes collaboration is a fruitful one, and we can only hope they take their show on the road again. EB

FREEDMAN, RUSSELL The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Strugglefor EqualRights. Clarion, 2004 [128p] illus. with photographs ISBN 0-618-15976-2 $18.00 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8 Freedman offers the story of a movement encapsulated in the biography of an extraordinary African-American woman. Born poor, Anderson grew up with her sisters in a strong family led by her indomitable mother. Her extraordinary voice was discovered at an early age, and her joy in singing led her to church and community events, where "the baby contralto" would earn "twenty-five or even fifty cents" for singing a song. Anderson's early discipline and determination saw her through years of hard work performing and honing her craft. When she was a teenager she made singing appearances for five dollars apiece, and she turned most of the money over to her mother and sisters. The Union Baptist Church (where Anderson sang in the choir) and the black community where she grew up sup- ported her throughout her career: by raising money to buy her first evening gown, to send her to high school, and to pay for the singing lessons that would ultimately catapult her into the international limelight. While Anderson's joy of singing occupies center stage, her growth as a performer is set against the backdrop of invasive Jim Crow laws and the growing Civil Rights Movement. The climax of this biography-and possibly of Anderson's life-is her performance at the Lin- coln Memorial in 1939, after she was banned from Constitution Hall by the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. Freedman tells the story of this extraordinary woman in vivid language enlivened by quotes from Anderson herself. Black-and- white photographs throughout give a sense of the changing times in which Ander- son lived and gently remind readers that it was not so long ago. This will satisfy those readers whose curiosity was piqued by Ryan's picture book biography When Marian Sang (BCCB 12/02). Chapter notes, a discography, and a selected bibli- ography are included; the bound book will contain an index. JMD

GANDOLFI, SILVANA Aldabra, or The Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare; tr. by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Levine/Scholastic, 2004 151p ISBN 0-439-49741-8 $16.95 Ad Gr. 4-6 Aldabra isn't a tortoise, it's an island in the Indian Ocean, the only place where the Geochelone gigantea (a type of giant tortoise) lives in the wild. Naturally, when Elisa's Nonna Eia turns herself into a Geochelone gigantea in order to extend her lifespan (the tortoises can live two hundred years), Aldabra is the logical place for the newly transmogrified granny to go, but ten-year-old Elisa doesn't want to send her grandmother so far away. The seasonal floods of their native Venice and a visit from a reptile-obsessed cyberstalker serve both to convince Elisa to send the tortoise to Aldabra and to reconcile Nonna Eia with her long-estranged daughter, Elisa's mother. The relationships between the characters are well developed, and the physical details of Elisa's life in Venice and her grandmother's transformation convince the reader that such a fantastical event in an otherwise realistic novel is indeed plausible. However, the Shakespeare plot (Nonna helps Elisa rehearse her part) never really takes off, and the slow pace of Nonna Eia's change limits narra- JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 465

tive tension, even combined with the shadowy threat of her incarceration in a rest home for senile seniors. Elisa's online interaction with the stalker begins to heighten the tension, but the tension dissipates very quickly when her stalker is permanently scared off by a mere few eldritch screams in a dark warehouse. Nonetheless, the point-by-point particulars ofNonna Eia's reptilian renewal will carry most readers through to the happy ending. TC

GOOBIE, BETH Flux. Orca, 2004 [256p] ISBN 1-55143-314-1 $16.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 8-12 Two years ago, twelve-year-old Nellie and her mother fled the Interior, a caste- based society run with clockwork regularity, for the freedom of the Outbacks. Eight months later, her mother disappeared, taken, Nellie believes, by the Interior Police. Nellie's ability to alter her molecular state to enter parallel realities (called levels) where she can steal, hide, or escape is her best defense, especially now that the Skulls, a dangerous group of boys led by the weasely Deller, have taken an unhealthy interest in her. Nellie is sure her talent is a gift from her spiritual mother, the Goddess Ivana, but vague memories of Interior laboratories sometimes confuse her worldview. She remembers little about the Interior, nor does she want to-until a humiliating head-shaving incident with the Skulls reveal four large, thick scars on her scalp. Unable to deny such evidence and confronted with the knowledge that children from the Outbacks, including Deller's brother, are disap- pearing, Nellie begins traveling the levels, looking for answers in layer after layer of secrets. This is the first in a series, so answers are still distant, though Goobie's slow unveiling of her intricate web, bringing it into focus thread by thread, makes them appear tantalizingly close for both reader and protagonist. The deeply de- tailed world Nellie lives in and the magical/molecular way she travels among the levels can be frustrating to decipher, and some readers may need more guideposts than the book provides along the way. Those who are patient enough to ride out the confusions, however, will be more than carried away by the action and drama of the story. The author's real strength lies in her intriguing and realistic characters. Full of pathos and intensity, Nellie and Deller start out very different from how they end up, and their individual and relational growth is hard and honestly won. Recommend this to readers accustomed to complex fantasy and willing to let their racing heartbeats move them through the things they don't quite grasp. KH

GORDON, DAVID The Ugly Truckling; written and illus. by David Gordon. Geringer/HarperCollins, 2004 [32 p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-054601-8 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-054600-X $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R 4-7 yrs This odd retelling ofAndersen's The Ugly Duckling features a cast of sibling flatbed trucks and the little yellow plane that is the runt of the vehicular litter. Teased about her lack of proper wheels, bed, and chrome, the ugly truckling despairs: "So late one night, when the sky was black and starless, the ugly truckling sped away." She meets a tractor, a cow, and a windmill, and she questions each one as to her real identity. "I have a feeling that you will know exactly who you are very soon," says the windmill. Sure enough, the ugly truckling sees her own reflection in a 466 * THE BULLETIN

pond, hears the roar of airplane engines over her head, and realizes that "She wasn't an ugly truckling after all. She was a beautiful airplane. And so she flew away with the other airplanes .. . into a sky full of stars." The tale of truckling (planeling?) redemption is set "way out west," under wide sky and purple mountains, on what appears to be an isolated ranch. The spare landscape is an ideal backdrop for the shiny mama truck and her candy-colored trucklings; the proportions of both geographic elements and adult personifications dwarf the comparatively tiny offspring. Gordon's text is readaloud simple, the unadorned language direct and unsenti- mental. The illustrations have the same simple directness: Gordon avoids cutesiness with large geometric shapes in carefully constructed, balanced compositions that take advantage of every possible perspective. Bizarre though his motorized re- imagining may sound, it has genuine charm. The ugly truckling nods to her ori- gins with her duckling-yellow color (although a note would have been handy) and her sad-eyed appeal cannot be denied. This is certain to attract those listeners too young (or too rowdy) for Andersen's bucolic parable, and those seeking a tellable truck tale for more mechanically inclined storytimers will find it here. JMD

GRANT, VICKI The Puppet Wrangler. Orca, 2004 [17 4 p] Paper ed. ISBN 1-55143-304-4 $7.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr.5-7 Twelve-year-old Telly is accustomed to the outrageous antics of her older sister, Bess, but she's stunned when Bess' latest prank unfairly results in Telly's being sent away for the summer to stay with her aunt Kathleen in Toronto. Kathleen is a tightly wound television producer who handles a schmaltzy children's show that prominently features puppets, so Telly busies herself with work as a puppet wrangler, preparing the puppets for their work and generally going unnoticed. She, however, notices that Bitsie, the star puppet of the show, is actually alive, cheerfully sabotaging lines he hates with "mechanical" malfunctions and longing for a life beyond the soundstage; Bitsie becomes Telly's best friend in Toronto, but a live attention-seeking puppet can be a difficult friend to keep up with-and to explain. Grant's voice for Telly, the overlooked little sister all at sea in big-city television (she sarcastically refers to herself as "Kathleen's little deaf-mute niece") is funny, especially in the occasional pointed and explanatory footnotes ("You'd think if they could put a man on the moon, someone would be able to invent latex that wasn't so full of itself," she says with exasperation about Bitsie), and it's also credible. Her growing interest in the process of the show's production is well depicted, as is the prickly but developing relationship with her aunt. The Bitsie plot actually sits somewhat uneasily on the solidly told real-life story, especially when Bitsie and Telly take a madcap road trip that leaves them temporarily in the clutches of a deranged puppeteer. A live puppet is an engaging premise, however, and it's well executed here, with Bitsie an effective blend of annoying and entertaining. This will be an easy booktalk, and kids who sometimes feel like adults are pulling their strings will relish the idea of a puppet pal with a mind of his own. DS

HALL, BRUCE EDWARD Henry and the Kite Dragon; illus. by William Low. Philomel, 2004 40p ISBN 0-399-23727-5 $15.99 R 5-9 yrs Eight year old Henry Chu lives in New York's Chinatown in the 1920s. Grandfa- ther Chin is his undisputed hero; the old man fashions fabulous kites from every- JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 467 day junk, launches them from the rooftop, and even chases pigeons with his soaring, swooping masterpieces. When Tony Guglione and his gang of Italian toughs throw stones to bring down the kites, Henry and his friends ignore Grandfather Chin's admonitions to ignore the boys and keep the peace. They confront Tony and his pals on Tony's turf-the park-and, after a hearty round of ethnic insults, discover that the Italian kids are homing-pigeon keepers and that Grandfather's supposedly harmless kite has been disorienting the birds. Hall reels out his tale effectively, steadily mustering support for the put-upon Chinese boys, blindsiding listeners with Tony's side of the story, and then wrapping it up with credible d6tente rather than melodramatic friendship: "From that day on, the Chinese kids fly kites in the mornings. The Italian kids fly their birds in the afternoons." Low's kites are joyous explosions of saturated color above the sober tenements and brown- clad city kids, but a close-up of the dragon kite in pursuit of a fleeing pigeon impels young viewers to imagine how a benign image in one culture could appear quite menacing in another. Adults promoting cultural diversity or anti-bullying causes will find an articulate, engaging voice here; kids will simply grab hold of a darn good story. EB

HASELEY, DENNIS Trick of the Eye. Dial, 2004 199p ISBN 0-8037-2856-5 $16.99 Ad Gr. 7-12 Richard's life is very quiet and orderly; he lives only with his mother, the etiquette advisor, and takes his education from a visiting tutor. Signs of disorder begin to appear in his existence with a news story, mysteriously clipped out by his mother, about a strange happening in an art gallery; Richard's memory of his own experiences with art then begins to stir, and his renewed attention to a picture on the wall reveals his ability to converse and interact with its inhabitants. He's troubled by the indications that they have witnessed some terrible event in the room where they were once hung, so he determines to pursue the mystery. Venturing out to the art gallery featured in the article, which has been the location of several subsequent thefts, he realizes that his landscape was painted by the same artist as the stolen canvases; travel to the museum allows him to enter more paintings and makes him realize that this artist was in fact a copier of various masterworks-and that the copies often contain faces that look remarkably like that of Richard's mother. This is an intricate and complex story made even more sophisticated by Haseley's crafty paying out of information and deliberate disconnection of the reader as well as Richard. The narrative rarely refers to the protagonist by his name and only well along mentions his age, and the setting would seem to be Edwardian London (the paintings Richard sees in the unnamed museum were in fact in the National Gallery at that time), but the atmosphere is suffused with Richard's own obscured viewpoint. The communication with the paintings is intriguingly depicted, from their alarm at Richard's capacity for motion to their interpainting dialogue in the museum (they proudly introduce themselves by their era and school). The measured pace and the recondite storytelling will daunt many readers, and the final revelation (the painter was the lover-and murderer- of Richard's real mother, and the woman raising him is actually his aunt, the painter's wife) compresses its elaborate scenario into an overly small space, which dampens the effect and makes the shift in mood startlingly abrupt. Balliett's Chasing Vermeer, reviewed above, is a more successful novel about an artistic enigma, but this is nonetheless an original work with a tense and spooky atmosphere that may well entrance readers who relish a puzzle. DS 468 * THE BULLETIN

HAWASS, ZAHI Curse of the Pharaohs: My Adventures with Mummies. National Geographic, 2004 144p illus. with photographs Library ed. ISBN 0-7922-6665-X $29.90 Trade ed. ISBN 0-7922-6963-2 $19.95 R Gr. 4-8 Who's better qualified to give the final word on the mummy's curse than Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities? Acknowledging that curses do appear on several Egyptian tombs (although, notably, not those of royalty), he convincingly demonstrates that the success of grave robbers over millennia and his and other archaeologists' thriving careers cast doubt on the curses' efficacy, to say the least. So, where's the adventure without the danger? Everywhere, as his own grippingly related experiences attest. Hawass regales readers with tales of getting stuck headfirst, with a camera strapped to his back, in a newly opened tomb, of suffering a heart attack after the discovery of a burial at Giza (here he credits the deceased, Inty-Shedu, with saving his life), of entering sealed rooms rife with "ancient germs, which we cannot see but which have nonetheless survived for all that time." He is also an enthusiastic apologist for his profession and stresses the ethi- cal archaeologist's respect for human remains, reliance on non- and minimally invasive study of mummies, and even some of the conscience-wrenching compro- mises he has personally made to conserve fragile finds while allowing public access. Hordes of dramatic color photographs, generously sized and spaced text, and narration fine-tuned for a middle-grade audience do full justice to this magnetic subject. End matter includes throwaway material on mummy making and becoming an archaeologist, as well as the more useful glossary, index, and list of important divinities. Let those who fail to acquire a second copy face the wrath of impatient patrons. EB

HELLDORFER, M. C. Got to Dance; illus. by Hiroe Nakata. Doubleday, 2004 32p Library ed. ISBN 0-385-90865-2 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-385-32628-9 $15.95 R 3-6 yrs A little girl's got to banish the "summertime blues," so she gets the terpsichorean urge and dances her way through the day, starting with a dance in the morning while Grandpa flips the pancakes, proceeding to a barefoot dance on the baking summer concrete outside, a penguin dance in the hose spray, a bird-dance at the zoo, pre-nap and post-nap dances, and so on until brother and Momma return at end of day. The logic of the setup isn't entirely clear, but it's pretty much tacked- on anyway-this is just an excuse for a bouncy, day-long paean to dancing, and it's an energetic one indeed. The lilting short lines infuse the text with vigor, and the summertime specifics keep the poetic soundtrack grounded in audience experience. Nakata's watercolors are the real conveyors of dancing joy: light-filled compositions gleefully pirouette through various viewpoints, here tilting down the street, there soaring above the zoo, now peering through the legs on the bus. The palette is a bit more springy than summery, offering some respite from the heat right there, and there's a gaiety to the shimmering world that makes dancing an understandable response (and the summertime blues seem far, far away indeed). Our protagonist has all the bounce of a captive youngster in summer, and she clearly has no patience for keeping both feet firmly on the ground-she's hopping, soaring, skipping in almost every image. If you can read not just aloud but loud, this would be a lively shake-'em-up verse to get preschoolers bouncing around the JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 469 room, or just a helpful suggestion or crankiness remedy when another droopy kid starts suffering the summertime blues. DS

HENDERSON, AILEEN KILGORE Hard Times for Jake Smith. Milkweed, 2004 192p Trade ed. ISBN 1-57131-648-5 $16.95 Paper ed. ISBN 1-57131-649-3 $6.95 R Gr. 5-8 MaryJake Wildsmith is saddened when her dad sells their milk cow, their brood sow, and their chickens, and she's angry when he sells her dog, but she knows that times are hard for her sharecropper father, especially since the Depression began. She has no idea that she is to be left as well, Hansel and Gretel fashion, as her parents take off for a new life out West. Her anger fights with her obedience, and she rebels in an odd fashion; instead of doing as her parents said and presenting herself at the large house in the center of the next town with a package from her mother, she takes a path into the forest and dyes her white blonde hair with some water from a walnut stump. When Miz Bennett, the first person she meets, mis- takes her for a boy, her disguise is complete, and she finds a comfortable home with the kindly widow. A traveling female evangelist who knows who she is threatens her serenity, but Miss Celestine becomes an ally rather than an enemy, helping MaryJake reunite with her brothers who have also been left behind, and to discover a family she never knew she had. This is a surprisingly moving, gentle story of redemption in hard times, and what it takes to make and break a family. While a story premised on parental abandonment could easily lapse into indictment, Henderson eschews the caricatures of Appalachian poverty, instead creating characters that are flawed but doing the best that they can, who work to take care of their land and to use what gifts and resources they have to realize dreams of renewal for themselves and others. An author's note references general circumstances and the author's personal experiences during the Depression. KC

HITE, SID The King of Slippery Falls. Scholastic, 2004 2 17 p ISBN 0-439-34257-0 $16.95 Ad Gr. 5-8 Hite sets this tale of a boy's search for identity along the shores of an aptly named river, the Little Lost, in Idaho. Lewis Hinton is a little lost, having learned from his parents that he was given to them as a baby by a woman with a foreign accent. Meanwhile, Lewis has embarked on a quest to catch an enormous fish, which he is convinced lurks in a pool that is only visible when the wind manages to separate the curtain of Slippery Falls for an instant. When Lewis learns that his mother's name was J. A. Poisson, his quest for the fish becomes downright metaphysical. The practical side of his search for his heritage sends the town into an uproar when they learn, through the amazing resources of Lewis' friend and advisor, eighty- eight-year-old Maple Baderhoovenlisterah, that a woman by the name of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was King Louis XV's consort. This makes Lewis the closest thing to royalty, and thus a tourist attraction, that his town has ever seen. Despite some appealing and tasty bait, Hite never manages to land the big one here: plotting depends too much on unexplored coincidences (such as strangely matching rare blood types between Lewis and Maple) and red herrings (mostly in the romance department), and the ending is unsatisfyingly vague rather than provocatively open, which seems to be what Hite was attempting. However, Hite once again manages to put some magic in his realism, and there's enough quirky charm 470 * THE BULLETIN to the characters and their circumstances (not to mention a very large, very grateful fish) to reel some readers in. KC

HOCHAIN, SERGE Building Liberty: A Statue Is Born; written and illus. by Serge Hochain; tr. by Camilla Bozzoli. National Geographic, 2004 4 6p Library ed. ISBN 0-7922-6969-1 $25.90 Trade ed. ISBN 0-7922-6765-6 $16.95 M Gr. 3-5 Were it not for the four fictional boys depicted here, Lady Liberty may have had an even more arduous climb to her pedestal on Bedloe's Island. Leo is an appren- tice at Gaget, Gauthier and Company, the workshop that brings Bartholdi's creation to life. Lucky for the humble but well-connected lad (and for Hochain's readers), Leo meets Bartholdi and Eiffel and gets to do (and demonstrate) a bit of coppersmithing on the side. Then it's up to shiphand Francois to help inventory and load the disassembled pieces aboard the Isire for the voyage to the United States. There may not have been a pedestal on which Liberty could perch if Afri- can-American newsboy Ben hadn't drummed up donations for the installation. Finally Irish immigrant Angus rivets the iron framework that holds the job together. Although strained dialogue packs some requisite bit of data ("Pour? It won't be poured! It's going to be made of thin leaves of copper. We'll hammer the leaves onto wood molds made from the plaster sculpture"), most of the engineer- ing arcana appears in an addendum. Moreover, poorly integrated fictional elements deflect readers' attention from the main event. Alice and Kent Ross attempted a similar fictionalized informational approach in The Copper Lady (BCCB 7/97), and here the addition of three extra characters seems to quadruple the messiness. Readers may be initially attracted by the multiple illustrations and brief text of the comic book styled spreads, but kids who really want to follow Liberty's royal progress to New York will be far better satisfied with Curlee's Liberty (BCCB 5/00). EB

HOOK, JASON RoaldDahl: The Storyteller See review under Craats, p. 459.

JENKINS, EMILY Daffodil; illus. by Tomek Bogacki. Foster/Farrar, 2004 26 p ISBN 0-374-31676-7 $16.00 R 3-6 yrs Daffodil and her two sisters, Rose and Violet, look so much alike that people (except for the sisters themselves) have trouble telling them apart. Their mother likes to set them apart at parties, so they have fancy party dresses: Rose's is a fetching pink number, Violet's is a lacy purple creation, but Daffodil's is a revolt- ing yellow "that reminded Daffodil of pee," and wearing it at parties is torture. One day Daffodil flatly refuses to put the thing on, causing her sisters to reveal that they hate their dresses, too; the problem is happily solved by the girls' wearing whatever they want and letting the identity chips fall where they may, and in fact they get brand new outfits and all "felt very lucky ducky indeed." The conclusion is a tad anticlimactic, but even kids who aren't triplets will immediately recognize the ordeal of being trapped in loathsome parent-pleasing clothing. Jenkins' writing maintains the same child-focused clarity it evinced in Five Creatures (BCCB 2/01), and the text moves easily from measured exposition to chantable repeated phrases (" ... very extremely hugely much"). Bogacki's illustrations play geometric shapes-round faces, triangular hair (no, really, it works), and the flattened views of background items-against the soft, smudgy textures in the planes of JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 471

colors, making compositions strong-lined yet cozy. The slightly grayed colors of most elements allow the party dresses to stand out (and whatever their wearers think, there will doubtless be audience members who long for all three frocks), and Bogacki faithfully provides the text-indicated hints for differentiating the sisters. The adventurous could use this to prompt a clothes-I-hate show and tell, but the neatly addressed issues of clothing and identity might also make this a provocative partner to "The Emperor's New Clothes." DS

JOHNSON, MAUREEN The Key to the Golden Firebird. HarperCollins, 2004 297p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-054139-3 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-054138-5 $15.99 R Gr. 7-10 May's life changes when her outgoing father suddenly suffers a fatal heart attack (sitting in his beloved golden Firebird): her mother throws herself into work to ensure the family's financial security; her older sister, Brooks, leaves athletics for a life of drunken irresponsibility; her younger sister, Palmer, retreats into a television-watching shell, keeping her episodes of anxiety secret; reliable May does her best to keep life progressing normally, including reconsidering her long-platonic relationship with her neighbor Pete, in the face of a family frozen by grief. Johnson depicts the bereaved family with knowledge and sympathy; the underlying wit serves to emphasize the girls' resilience and the ultimate hopefulness of the story, but there's full realization of the fragmentation families undergo in such a situation. The narration's willingness to shift focus from May's viewpoint to that of Palmer and Brooks aids that point; it's clear that each girl is largely ignorant of what's going on in her sisters' heads. The book is particularly articulate about the unfinished feeling of grief ("Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again," says May), and the girls' conclusion to the process-they commandeer their father's car to his favorite ball park, where they unlawfully dump his ashes on the pitcher's mound-is an effective resolution as well as a triumph of determined and lawless teamwork. With all the understand- ing of but a very different tone from Kimberly Willis Holt's Keeper of the Night (BCCB 6/03), this is an honest yet highly reassuring account of surviving loss. DS

JUBY, SUSAN Miss Smithers. HarperTempest, 2004 32 4 p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-051547-3 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-051546-5 $15.99 R Gr. 7-12 Alice McLeod (from Alice, I Think, BCCB 9/03) has just turned sixteen, and she might be drifting a bit closer to the mainstream these days: she's got not only an actual female friend but an actual boyfriend, and now a family friend has pulled her in as a contestant in the beauty pageant of her little town of Smithers, British Columbia. Her role as Miss Rod and Gun Club (so named for her sponsor) gives her a chance to observe her fellow pageanteers and make pungent if not considered observations in her unpublished and externally unread zine. The accidental publication of her zine catapults her into strange defensive popularity with her fellow contestants and an odd unexpected friendship with a popular girl, but even her exploration of a Christian youth group dedicated to virginity and sporting the WWJD bracelets to prove it ("God's only son on my wrist! How is a person supposed to function under this kind of pressure?") isn't enough to turn her interest from the possibilities of sex with her boyfriend (whether he wants it or not). 472 * THE BULLETIN

Alice's narration is the same blend of wide-eyed and sardonic as in the first book, evincing her curiosity about the world and her sensationally premature certainty about aspects of it; it's understandable that her gleefully fierce commentary causes other teens to treat this slightly loopy outsider with somewhat more respect, despite--or perhaps because of-the fact that it's ungrounded, opinionated, and totally self-centered. Juby manages to make Alice's periodic pithiness ("Even their laughter sounded as if it had bad grammar," says Alice about a pack of tough girls) seem like the natural luck of a well-read teen rather than the result of adult sophis- tication, so Alice's chronicle stays humorous throughout (the portraits of her family, their labor issues, and her fellow Smithers-ites are particularly risible) without losing its teen legitimacy. Like the first book, this has all the quirky charm of a long conversation with a strange but very enjoyable friend. DS

KIMMEL, ERIC A., ad. Don Quixote and the Windmills; illus. by Leonard Everett Fisher. Farrar, 2004 32p ISBN 0-374-31825-5 $16.00 Ad Gr. 3-5 In a compact picture-book format, this title introduces young readers to one of the most famous episodes in world literature. Beginning with a brief explanation of Sefior Quexada's mania for chivalric tales, Kimmel includes details of Quexada's transformation into Don Quixote de la Mancha and the assembly of his equipage, which includes some rather villainous armor, a nag cum steed, Sancho the trusty squire, and a fair lady in whose name he will go forth. The infamous battle with the windmills takes up most of the book, followed by Quixote's vow to pursue the knight errant life. The exposition is somewhat cursory, and Kimmel treats his subject with the high seriousness of Quixote himself, including a straightfaced warning that old stories of knights, dragons, and whatnot have the power to in- duce insanity in their readers; it will thus be up to the reader to introduce the dose of irony proper to the tale. Fisher's illustrations help in this regard: Quixote's gangly figure contrasts sharply with the stolidity of Sancho, and the windmill scenes are comic without being overdone. Heavily laden with dark grays and browns, the art makes effective use of contrast in color as well as form by including swathes of striking teal, luminous greens, the odd splash of red, and the carnivalesque red- and-yellow striped pantaloons sported by Quixote. Thick black outlines make the figures pop off the white pages, heightening the larger than life aspect of the tale. A brief author's note with details regarding Cervantes is included. This retelling won't send kids scurrying off to read Cervantes, but those taken with knightly deeds (and not yet ready for the ironic epics of Gerald Morris) may find a taste for this streamlined adventure. KC

LANG, AUBREY Baby Ground Squirrel; illus. with photographs by Wayne Lynch. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004 36p (Nature Babies) Trade ed. ISBN 1-55041-797-5 $11.95 Paper ed. ISBN 1-55041-799-1 $5.95 R Gr. 2-4 Baby Owl; illus. with photographs by Wayne Lynch. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004 36p (Nature Babies) Trade ed. ISBN 1-55041-796-7 $11.95 Paper ed. ISBN 1-55041-798-3 $5.95 R Gr. 2-4 These two entries in the Nature Babies series sparkle with clear, informative pictures reinforced by lively texts that invite repeated reading. The ground squirrel JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 473

book opens with a vivid set of photos of a rather unsightly hibernating male squirrel (the squirrel's teeth are so yellow, his pawpads so pink, and his nails so very shiny) and the repellent yet fascinating fact that "you could even roll him on the ground like a furry bowling ball." The rest of the volume rewards the persistent reader with lots of sharp, quick shots of the fully awake, black-eyed little critters nursing their babies, frolicking in the grass, and performing some sort of medita- tive yoga (all right, she's scratching for fleas). The owls' surprisingly snowy in- fancy yields much more impressive views of great horned owlets hunting for food, leaving the nest, and facing down a curious mule deer. In both texts, the side-by- side layout and close sequencing of the small shots, corners cropped to resemble old-timey filmstrip frames, simulate visual movement and increase the narrative power of the author's commentary. That commentary achieves a level of grace in storytelling which has little to do with unusual wording or syncopated rhythm and everything to do with a tightly constructed story cycle based in the life stages of the animal and told in an irresistibly confidential tone. Even the introductory note explaining how the photos and research were accomplished is an invitation to a world of arcane knowledge populated by a select few. (Perspicacious readers may still wonder how the illustrator photographed baby ground squirrels inside their burrow while he crouched in a tent that was presumably pitched aboveground.) A "Did You Know?" page of answers to all but that cardinal question follows the text, along with an index and a brief biography of the author and illustrator. TC

LUCIANI, BRIGITTE Those Messy Hempels; tr. by J. Alison James; illus. by Vanessa Hie. Neugebauer/North-South, 2004 32p ISBN 0-7358-1909-2 $15.95 R 4-6 yrs Compared to the messiness of some houses, that of the Hempels is far from critical. However, it is sufficiently advanced to warrant a brisk tidying-up, instigated by the discovery that the whisk needed to whip up a cake has been misplaced. The search for the errant whisk begins a whirlwind tour in which every room and the garden gets thrown into array. The Hempels find the whisk, concoct and eat the cake, and in the process make another mess. "And did they mind about the mess? NO!" The engagingly repetitive phrasing and joyfully subversive ending of this sequential story are ably partnered with illustrations in layered, grained paint in country blue, green, and red in a flattened, asymmetrical style that imitates the effect of cut-paper collage and underscores the Hempel family's taste for disorder even in rooms newly tidied. The wire whisk lives in effigy on the back cover, its dough-laden, heart-shaped wires reinforcing the theme that domestic rapture need not be preceded by household order. Be prepared for much page-flipping as your listeners match the family's belongings, recklessly strewn across one two-page layout, with the items primly arranged on the next spread. Preschoolers, older children, and adults alike will enjoy this seek-and-find story; the generous use of negative space makes this a prime choice for group storytime as well as private reading. TC

MACY, SUE Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics. National Geographic, 2004 96 p illus. with photographs Library ed. ISBN 0-7922-6980-2 $28.90 Trade ed. ISBN 0-7922-6667-6 $18.95 R Gr. 4-8 "Photographic History" is perhaps a less accurate descriptor than "photo album with essays." Macy offers five thematic chapters on the modern rebirth of the 474 * THE BULLETIN

Olympic games, the inclusion of women, record-setting athletes, controversies, and "unlikely heroes" and illustrates them with a trove of action shots reaching back to the 1896 Athens games. There are no real surprises here, with highlighted athletes predictably comprising the likes of Wilma Rudolph, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Babe Didrikson, and controversies surrounding gender testing, political boycotts, and of course, the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich games. It is, perhaps, telling that Macy can muster a mere four full pages of text celebrating moments of notable altruism and sportsmanship, while controversies consume twice as much ink. Extensive end materials, however, make this a browser and trivia- maven delight, with statistics and information on the twenty-nine Olympiads through 2008, oldest and youngest record setters, newsworthy moments of each Olympiad, research notes and resources, an index, and even a "Summer Olympics IQ" quiz on the jacket flap. Look to Dyan Blacklock's Olympia (BCCB 12/01) for historical background, and Susan Bachrach's The Nazi Olympics (3/00) for the last word on the dark side of the games, but have a copy of Macy's book on hand as the 2004 events hit the airwaves. EB

MAGRS, PAUL The Good, the Bat, andthe Ugly; illus. by Alan Snow. Atheneum, 2004 247p ISBN 0-689-87019-1 $15.95 R Gr. 6-8 Television-show puppets have always been slightly eccentric, but Tolstoy the Long- Eared Bat, a glove-puppet star of Britain's TV yesteryear, carries that tradition farther than most. Brought to life via his puppeteer's pact with the devil, Tolstoy rose to moderate fame before his vituperative personality poisoned the working relationship between him and his owner, one Frank Lurcher. Twenty years later, Frank's son, Jason, has set Tolstoy free to slash and murder as many famous puppets as bat and boy can find-mostly while Jason is sleepwalking, so the boy spends the majority of the novel wondering who could be that psychotic serial puppet killer who has sent the nation into fits of paranoid hysteria. Jason's voice is consistent and enjoyable, and his narration loads each page with British slang and pubes- cent angst, lending humanity, depth, and a critical eye to the darkly outlandish plot. The novel's underlying criticism of today's fame-focused culture provides further intensity. Most readers will guess right off that Tolstoy (and Jason) are indeed the malefactors behind the massacre, but the freakish freneticism of the story-expedited at the end by a shower of diabolically bad puns-will carry each reader right through to the finish, where Tolstoy faces the murdered souls of his fluffy victims and Jason's dad, Frank, pays the price of his original bargain (wrapped in a length of sausages, he gets dragged screaming into Hell). The you-had-it- coming ending makes this an exceedingly moral tale, but one so suffused with comedic excess that young persons will read and reread it before passing it along to their friends. TC

MOLK, LAUREL When You Were Just a Heartbeat; written and illus. by Laurel Molk. Little, 2004 [32p] ISBN 0-316-57980-7 $16.95 Reviewed from galleys Ad 3-5 yrs The seasonally changing elements of the natural world provide the indications for a baby's in-utero growth in this lyrical look at a family's baby-waiting time. The baby's heartbeat first appears in the snowy days of winter; spring brings ducks, JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 475 salamanders, and the growth of the baby's fingers and toes; the baby's movements coincide with the birth of the new lambs; when the baby is "too big to roll over," the pumpkins are similarly ripe. This is more poetic than many such "before you were born" books, so much so that it's much more likely to please adults than youngsters; the specifics about the baby's development are overpowered by the evocations of the external world (most kids will want to hear more about themselves and less about "the irises . .. standing straight and tall-a purple parade"), and the references to the growing baby tip into the precious. The art is visually exquisite-tender watercolors in limpid earth tones and edged with limber lines have an almost Japanese fluidity, and the controlled focus on a single element in each spread allows the spare layout and cool white space to make a graphic impact. The actual baby is even less in evidence in the art, however (there's only one baby image, which appears twice, in the book), so kids will again have to content themselves with a largely metaphoric presence. It's mainly adults who will adore the quiet, reverent poetry of the text and the elegant simplicity of the art; while it could be used with kids by grownups who are more comfortable with artistic rather than literal descriptions of development, most young listeners will squirm long- ingly towards Lund's lively Tell Me My Story, Mama (BCCB 4/04). DS

MOORE, HEIDI Animal Groups: A Mob of Meerkats. Heinemann, 2004 32p (InfoSearch) illus. with photographs Library ed. ISBN 1-4034-4694-6 $16.95 Paper ed. ISBN 1-4034-5418-3 $6.95 R Gr. 2-5 SPILSBURY, RICHARD Animal Groups: A School of Dolphins. Heinemann, 2004 32p (InfoSearch) illus. with photographs Library ed. ISBN 1-4034-4692-X $16.95 Paper ed. ISBN 1-4034-5420-5 $6.95 R Gr. 2-5 These two titles in this accessible nonfiction series are loaded with large color photos labeled with brief text blurbs. The data is fleshed out in compact paragraphs using mostly simple words (more difficult words are bolded and later defined in a glossary). The chapters are headed with questions which control the answers given in the text: "What Is a Dolphin School?" and "Do Dolphins Fight?" are representative. Answers to these questions range from the predictable to the startling; for example, while dolphins' use of clicks in echolocation is well-known, their ma- nipulation of their melon's shape to aim the clicks will have imaginative readers wrinkling their own foreheads in mimicry. Shots ofmeerkats bolt upright on their hind legs, paws folded delicately across extended bellies, beg to be recreated by human families, perhaps for holiday pictures. The glossy images and satisfyingly thorough examination of favorite species, as well as the reference addenda in each volume, destine these books for multiple checkouts. A page-long list of facts on each species includes a map of the species habitat range, followed by the glossary, index, and list of additional titles. TC

MORRISON, TONI Remember: TheJourney to School Integration. Houghton, 2004 [80p] illus. with photographs ISBN 0-618-39740-X $18.00 R Gr. 2-6 In this album of crisply reproduced sepia-toned photographs, Morrison revisits the days of substandard segregated schools for black children, the volatile confrontations and quiet successes of school integration, and subsequent civil rights 476 * THE BULLETIN activities that extended the demand for equal access beyond schools to all public businesses and facilities. Morrison provides captions intended to reconstruct "the thoughts and feelings of some of the people in the photographs chosen to help tell this story." Many captions play on the obvious-a host of children outside a Texas school that refused their admission appear beside "No, no, they said. You can't come in here." The best are truly provocative, though, as when Morrison interjects a caption between contrasting pictures and explodes its meaning with possibilities. An integrated bunch of youngsters dashes, smiling, out the school door, and a crew of white teens attempts to tip a black driver's car, while the caption intones, "Great! Now we can have some fun!" Black and white girls stare at each other across the aisle, and it is possible that either can be pondering, "I think she likes me, but how can I tell?" At this anniversary year of Brown v. Board, many authors weigh in with commemorative and instructive works, but Morrison's choice of photographic history invites viewers into an experience more visceral than anecdotal memories. Thumbnail reproductions of each featured photo, along with its specific historical setting, are appended for children who want more information, but this evocative gallery roars louder than words. EB

NAPOLI, DONNA Jo Gracie: The Pixie ofthe Puddle. Dutton, 2004 [160p] ISBN 0-525-47264-9 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 3-6 This third entry in the De Fawg Pin series (The Prince of the Pond, BCCB 1/93; Jimmy, the Pickpocket ofthe Palace,6/95) focuses on Gracie, a young frog teetering on the edge of infatuation with Jimmy, a rather exceptional froggy fellow. Jimmy is unusual because he is the son of a human prince (once an enchanted frog) and a frog mother, and he is in the throes of an identity crisis of monumental proportions: should he go with his now-human father and embrace his human-ness, or stay in the pond and enjoy his happy but brief life as a frog? Character development leans rather heavily on the previous two books, so much so that Jimmy's dilemma lacks drama. Narrator Gracie, however, has a froggily eloquent voice that is almost enough to give both sides of the argument: her gradual transformation into a thinking amphibian's dream frog is both believable and laudable, and her slow fall into true love has the pathos of any unrequited passion. Readaloud- friendly chapters and accessible humor make this a solid classroom-library addition. The action is wet and wild, and while the wit may not be up to that of the first book, the happy ending (for some characters, at least) will leave the series' fans satisfied. JMD

OLDER, JULES Pig; illus. by Lyn Severance. Charlesbridge, 2004 32p Trade ed. ISBN 0-88106-109-3 $16.95 Paper ed. ISBN 1-88106-110-7 $6.95 R Gr. 2-4 Following upon the hooves of his Cow (BCCB 2/98), Older now offers a lively introduction to the patient pig. Numbered sections provide basic pig demograph- ics, information about pig breeds, some important pig terminology, details about pig diet, etc., including a high-spirited and followable guideline on drawing pigs (front view and side view). Sections range from one page to several spreads, offering just enough information to whet readers' appetite for more knowledge (and perhaps ham), and the humorous, happy-go-porky approach will keep browsers as contented as a pig in mud. Severance's line-and-watercolor (Dr. Martin's inks, JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 477 specifically, for that extra piggy pinkness) illustrations give her pigs a broad ami- ability even in their sparely lined simplicity; that simplicity helps keep the busily designed spreads, filled with insets, headings, captions, enlarged words and num- bers, from being overwhelming. Basically, this is an inviting porky buffet, offering an overview of facts that may vary in their nutritional significance but are always tasty. DS

OPPEL, KENNETH Airborn. Eos/HarperCollins, 2004 [36 8p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-053181-9 $17.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-053180-0 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 7-12 In an adventure novel set in an alternate early twentieth-century world reminis- cent of those created by Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, cabin-boy Matt Cruse earns a living on the zeppelin Aurora, a world-class luxury liner. One year ago on this ship, Matt swung from a crane mid-flight to rescue a dying man from a sinking air balloon. On this voyage, the dead man's granddaughter, Miss Kate de Vries, has booked passage in order to discover if the outsized, winged cats de- scribed in her grandfather's airship logs are more than the delusions of a man on the brink of death by dehydration. Through pirate attack, shipwreck on an un- charted island, and imprisonment, Matt and Kate collaborate in an often uneasy partnership to find proof of the cloud cats' existence. From start to finish, the pacing is brisk, the physical details are specific and persuasive, the characterization is consistent yet dynamic, and the interweaving of the plot threads is meticulous but discreet. The tension created by danger at diverse levels gradually increases reader interest already piqued by the possible discovery of an awe-inspiring new species. The deaths of certain zeppelin crew members heighten that interest, as does the romantic tension between working-class Matt and upper-class Kate. On a deeper plane, Matt's narrative explores the uncertainties and obstacles inherent in the struggle to know one's place in the world. A thoroughly satisfying tale, this novel takes a standard premise from the early days of novelistic adventuring and reinvents it as a new literary achievement. TC

PAIATINI, MARGIE Moo Who?; illus. by Keith Graves. Tegen/HarperCollins, 2004 32p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-000106-2 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-000105-4 $15.99 R* 3-7 yrs Hilda Mae Heifer, hit right in the noggin by a "hard and high-flying cow pie," has lost her moo; when she comes to after the dreadfully unfortunate accident, with "a lump on her forehead so high you could play ringtoss," she doesn't know who she is or what she's supposed to say. Fortunately, the other barnyard animals-a goose, a chick, a pig, and a cat-are available to help set her straight. While the premise may seem familiar, the hilarious treatment of Hilda's predicament and her aloof and eager countenance lend this tale a huge helping of humor. The toothy-grinned Hilda, a bright red Elvis pompadour rising above her enormous muzzle, tries out each of her companions' distinctive sounds, only to be corrected and redirected towards the moo, which eventually starts to feel "awfully familiar." The other animals dissuade Hilda from her wrongful association with a grocery list of charac- teristics, thereby implicitly presenting young listeners with information on barnyard classification (Hilda is sure she would have remembered laying an egg, and 478 * THE BULLETIN finds the idea of coughing up a fur ball "particularly distasteful"), and the comfortable tone of the narrative perfectly suits the hilarity of the tale. The animals are highly differentiated in manner, with the goose offering a gangster-esque aggres- sion ("Are you honking at me?") and the pig speaking with proper delicacy ("Par- don me, madam ... but did you just oink at me?"), and the interaction between Hilda and the others is vastly entertaining. Graves' lively illustrations use thick pigments to create animals ofClaymationesque dimensionality and flexibility, and the extensive visual humor provides lots of opportunity for illustrative perusal. The chosen palette provides a vibrant splash to this funny farm, and Hilda's open- jawed, down-the-throat expressions speak volumes of her irrepressible nature. This overenthusiastic if daft bovine is certain to become a beloved storytime star, and young listeners will happily inappropriately honk, peep, oink and meow along with our confused protagonist. HM

PARATORE, COLEEN MURTAGH How PrudenceProovit Proved the Truth aboutFairy Tales; illus. by Tamara Petrosino. Simon, 2004 32p ISBN 0-689-86274-1 $15.95 Ad 6-9 yrs Prudence Proovit is the formerly home-schooled daughter of a couple of realists ("Declaring nursery rhymes for ninnies and fairy tales for fools, the professors filled Prudence with facts: Tests at teatime. Dictionaries at dinner"), and she's consequently no believer in fairy tales. She's excited by the prospect of attending school, until she gets a postcard from her new teacher ("Miss Beatrix Bliss, F.G.") that says "Hope you like Fairy Tales!" Prudence devotes much of her academic energy to disproving the truth of fairy tales, but after each fairy-tale skirmish she gets a postcard signed with the initials of a classic fairy-tale character. The night before her class's final Costume Ball Breakfast, Prudence realizes her refusal to believe has alienated her only friend and hurt her teacher's feelings, and she cries herself to sleep: "I wish I could ... I wish I could... I wish I could BELIEVE!" In the morning there's another postcard from her teacher, who explains that the "F. G." after her name is for "Fairy Godmother." Arriving at school, Prudence is challenged by her classmates to prove that fairy tales are real, and she does so, with mail (her postcards) postmarked "Fairy Tale Forest." Mixed-media (brush and ink, colored pencils, and watercolors) illustrations have a retro-cartoonish flair in Prudence, while the other characters have the sleek geometric look popular in contemporary Power Puff Girl cartoons. While the images are slickly enjoyable, the text unfortunately eschews narrative logic in favor offeel-goodisms about wishing and believing that just fail to hit the mark. Those seeking a more satisfying tale of the power of belief should look atJethro Byrd: Fairy Child (BCCB 10/02). JMD

PINKWATER, DANIEL Lookingfor Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story; illus. by Jill Pinkwater. HarperCollins, 2004 200p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-053555-5 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-053554-7 $15.99 Ad Gr. 3-6 Not only does Ivan Itch have to put up with moving from a modern house with a yard in a nice, suburban neighborhood to a 120-year-old city-gritty building in Hoboken, once he gets there his bicycle is immediately stolen. Okay, so it's not a great bike-it's for a little girl, decorated with pink hearts and flowers, and it wobbles--but it's the principle of the thing. Tracking down the thief, however, poses problems; neighboring kids Loretta and Bruno speculate that it's Hoboken's phantom, who "lurks in the shadows" and has been stealing bikes and other things JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 479 for a while. While clue hunting, the three stumble across The Hoboken Chicken Emergency (BCCB 6/77), preserved as newspaper articles in a scrapbook; therefore, Ivan decides to search for Arthur Bobowicz and his giant chicken Henrietta as well. The searches converge as it is revealed, in a Scooby-Doo-like unmasking of the phantom, that Henrietta has gone bad again, this time turning to petty larceny. Pinkwater's offbeat humor and sly satire are in evidence, especially in his adults, all of whom seem to be foggily absorbed in their own odd realities; Ivan's father, a N.J.-native who speaks in outdated British slang, and Ivan's mother, who cheerily allows Ivan to "start conversations with alcoholic homeless men in the park," calling it an "urban experience," are prime examples. The characterizations and events are too cartoonish to offer much story, leading to a shallow silliness that, like a handful of candy, goes down easy but wears off quickly. Still, every kid loves candy, and the laughable moments, deadpan asides, and quirky characters running rampant through Hoboken like a 266-pound chicken will be enough for most readers. KH

POTTER, GISELLE Chloe's Birthday...and Me; written and illus. by Giselle Potter. Schwartz/Atheneum, 2004 32p ISBN 0-689-86230-X $15.95 R 5-8 yrs Following on the heels of her previous autobiographical picture book, The Year I Didn 't Go to School (BCCB 10/03), Potter here tells of her little sister Chloe's fifth birthday. While their parents concentrate on making the birthday one to remember-with perfume named after the birthday girl, a chocolate cake, and a trip to the beach-older sister Giselle covets the celebration with passionate intensity. Potter's narration is perfectly tuned to the nuances of sibling jealousy: "Chloe was too little to even care that it was her birthday, and my birthday was my favorite day of the year-much better than Christmas or Halloween because all the attention is just for you." Through perfume shopping, present making, and cake acquisition, Giselle battles her envy, until, at the beach, she just caves in: "What if I hid Chloe's perfume in the sand, and she could try to find it? That would be a fun game, and there was only a teeny chance it would get lost." The inevitable happens, but luck is on Chloe's (and Giselle's) side, and the present is recovered. Mixed-media (pencil, ink, gouache, gesso, and watercolor) illustrations provide the sunny backdrop for this birthday tale. Signage in French provides clues to the story's location, and the text offers tiny cultural cues ("At the beach there were little striped tents to change in and some other families wearing much smaller bathing suits than we were"). The emotive, gracefully leggy characters almost dance across the pages, their slightly askew proportions only adding to the visual glee. The text is a readaloud balance of suspense and emotion that never loses touch with the child's world view, making this is an effective tale of sibling love and rivalry that is certain to ignite tales of birthday candles past. JMD

RACHEL, T. COLE, ed. Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning ofDesire; ed. by T. Cole Rachel and Rita D. Costello. Soft Skull, 2004 [120p] Paper ed. ISBN 1-932360-17-4 $11.95 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 9 up Rachel and Costello collect roughly five dozen poems about sexuality, especially gay and lesbian sexuality, in youth, and they start out with a welcomely reassuring message to young audiences in their editor's note: "Don't worry too much. You're 480 * THE BULLETIN going to be just fine." The poems that follow, some previously published, offer different viewpoints of that period of passage through to "just fine": Jason Schneiderman offers a tender apology to the last girl he tried to make it work with in "Last Ditch"; Rene Arroyo recalls having a "heart broken by the wrong beauty" when watching Miss America in "Longing"; Amanda R. Evans looks at the pro- gression from uncertain inclination to knowing attraction in "Something More Obvious." Some of the most successful poems for youth in the collection go beyond personal experience to general philosophy or exhortation: Timothy Anderson's "I Think You Got Me Confused" repudiates the metrosexual stereotype, talking about a contented conservative, small-town Western life and reminding readers that "There's more/ Than one queer truth"; Horehound Stillpoint commands the angry, abused, and disaffected to "Form a Band, Goddamit." Some of the poems are less successful, unfortunately, shooting over the heads of young readers with daunting linguistic density or failing to translate the confessional aspect into effective poetry; it's too bad that there's no biographies of the poets, since readers might be impelled to seek out more material by contributors they particularly appreciate (there's no index, either). Pickers and choosers will still find plenty of perceptive, eye-opening, and bolstering material here, whether to read privately, share with friends, or declaim from the rooftops. DS

RAND, GLORIA Mary Was a Little Lamb; illus. by Ted Rand. Holt, 2004 32p ISBN 0-8050-6816-3 $16.95 R 4-7 yrs No, you didn't misread the titular verb: this story's protagonist is a lamb named Mary. Born on an old ownerless farm and abandoned by her mother, Mary is adopted by Mrs. Paradise, who tends the little lamb until she's big enough to graze for her living. Once outside, Mary enjoys escaping from her pen to play with the neighbor children and dogs and to greet the passengers arriving on the island's commuter boat. Unfortunately, she's also a bit of a nuisance at the island's school- house, so Mrs. Paradise realizes it's time for Mary to find a permanent home; when a return to her flock fails (Mary follows Mrs. Paradise rather than staying with her own kind), Mary's offered a happy home in the mainland's petting zoo, where her friends from the island love to visit her. The mild-mannered story is somewhat short on tension, but the riffs on the song are amusing (the lamb does indeed make the students laugh to see her at school, in addition to marking up the school floor with her hooves and smudging the window glass with her nose), and the fact that there's a true story behind the tale (an author's note describes the events in more detail) will tickle audiences further. Though the draftsmanship on the human faces tends toward the bland and stiff, the landscapes are idyllic, with their sweeps of saturated cobalt ocean and purple mountainous horizons. Mary herself is a cloudy bundle of fuzz, her often-open mouth testifying to the din of her frequent baa-ing. The book bleats out for use in tandem with the famous song, but even without it, audiences will be drawn to the picture of an idyllic island life with friendly lambs gamboling through the school-so make sure the class pet stays put. DS

RAPPAPORT, DOREEN Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation; illus. by Shane W. Evans. Candlewick, 2004 64 p ISBN 0-7636-1440-8 $19.99 R Gr. 4-8 Rappaport offers the second entry in a trilogy begun with No More!: Stories and Songs ofSlave Resistance (BCCB 4/02), smoothing the somewhat choppy format of JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 481 her previous title as she traces black experience from the initial promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, through the dashed hopes of the Jim Crow period, up to the mandated end of school segregation following Brown v. Board in 1954. Certainly the compression of civil rights abuses and activism into fewer than sixty pages of text gives rise to generalizations, and broad postbellum societal traumas are often glossed over, e.g., a sharecropping system that exploited tenant farmers regardless of race and suffrage laws that discriminated by gender as well as race. Nonetheless, Rappaport's carefully selected poetry and songs are variously seeth- ing, gritty, sardonic, and uplifting. Featured biographical episodes include major figures such as Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, and Jackie Robinson, as well as Harriet Postle, who defended her husband from the Ku Klux Klan, exoduster John Solomon Lewis, who defiantly insisted on his family's right to migrate, and Dr. Kenneth Clark, whose psychological tests establishing a bias toward white- tinted dolls offered "proof that segregation made black children believe that they were inferior to whites." Shane Evans again contributes muscular portraiture and monumental composition; useful end matter comprises an index, list of resources, and a timeline of pertinent dates. EB

REISS, KATHRYN Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story. Harcourt, 2004 [4 4 8 p] ISBN 0-15-216574-6 $17.00 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 6-9 Zibby had set her heart on rollerblades for her twelfth birthday, but she finds herself unexpectedly spending her birthday money on a compelling antique dollhouse. The present soon proves to be a curse, however, when the dollhouse and its doll inhabitants, especially the stern-faced lady in the gray dress, show themselves capable of strange effects, ranging from reappearing whole after any kind of de- struction to causing real-life events to mimic bad things that happen to the dolls. Interwoven flashbacks demonstrate how the dollhouse years ago became the focus of a young girl named Primrose, who was harried and persecuted by her governess, Miss Honeywell, until a practical joke gone awry left the governess dead and haunting Primrose. Now Miss Honeywell wants a new girl to torment, and Zibby and her friends have to find a way to thwart her increasing power. The scary-dollhouse trope is always an intriguing one, and there's no shortage on the stakes here, with the ghost's actions going beyond poltergeist mischief to attempted murder; there's also appeal in sorting out the strands of the mystery, especially as it becomes clear that some contemporary adults have a longer history with the dollhouse than Zibby had realized. The writing isn't up to the plot elements, however; there's little characterization beyond the predictable, the plodding pace squanders much of the spooky mood and makes it a long 400 pages indeed, and the exploration of Zibby's issues about her mother's remarriage and her new stepsiblings is programmatic and unconvincing. Nonetheless, the combination of a magical dollhouse and an evil ghostly governess offers an enjoyably sinister read. DS

SAN SoucI, ROBERT D. Double-Dare to Be Scared: Another Thirteen Chilling Tales; illus. by David Ouimet. Cricket, 2004 [17 6p] ISBN 0-8126-2716-4 $15.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-8 A follow-up to Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill (BCCB 9/03), this collection also includes thirteen original spooky stories for middle-school- 482 * THE BULLETIN ers ready for something more sophisticated than Stine. San Souci bases most of his stories on urban legends and folktale motifs, making sure that his protagonists are the same age and have the same proclivities as his intended reading audience. The tales themselves have the informality of stories that middle-schoolers tell each other of spooky happenings and domestic hauntings. From haunted movie studios ("Grey") to haunted houses ("Rosalie"), from vengeful scarecrows ("Daddy Boogey") to vengeful grandmothers ("Class Cootie"), the book provides readers with exactly what they expect from a scary story: a classic set-up and a surprise (but creepy) ending. The most successful tales avoid the obvious thrill and instead provoke that back-of-the-neck hair-raise that will come back to haunt readers at the most inopportune, middle-of-the-night, alone-in-the-dark times. Reviewed from an unillustrated galley. JMD

SCHAEFER, LOLA M. Arrowhawk; illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska. Holt, 2004 32p ISBN 0-8050-6371-4 $16.95 R 5-8 yrs A red-tailed hawk shot by a poacher survives for weeks with the arrow embedded in his side before being captured and cared for by a raptor biologist. When Arrowhawk is well, he is released into the wild, flying "straight as an arrow," as the text describes. Achieving a rare balance of compassion and objectivity, the text relates this true story in third person, recounting the hazards and victories of the injured raptor's struggle for survival without lapsing into condescending or maud- lin language. The hawk itself is referred to as "Hawk" until it is named "Arrowhawk" upon release by the biologist, a fitting reference to an inordinate challenge overcome. Dynamic acrylic renderings in shades of rust and chestnut draw the viewer close to the hawk throughout the story, gliding over peaceful farms, swooping down moonlit roads, and angling into a tangle of branches from which Hawk struggles to fly free. The ochre palette highlights the raptor's central role and casts over the page the fierce light of Hawk's calculating eye. Throughout the illustrations, as in the text, Hawk's wild and defiant persona dominates, neither softened nor anthropomorphized. The result is a tale of courage and compassion, made compelling by its narrow focus. A photograph of the real Arrowhawk, an author's note relating the true story of Arrowhawk's injury and recovery, and a full page of background information on birds of prey are included. TC

SCHMIDT, GARY D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Clarion, 2004 [224p] ISBN 0-618-43929-3 $15.00 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-9 The town fathers of Phippsburg, Maine, 1912, fully believe they've landed a trea- sure in their new well-off, politically connected Congregational minister. Who better to help them remove the black squatters on nearby Malaga Island so they can attract tourism in the wake of a dying shipbuilding trade? Prosperity is, after all, their God-given right. Reverend Buckminster's teenage son Turner, though, is promptly shunned by the local boys and befriended by a Malaga girl, Lizzie, upset- ting the balance of relationships between island and shore. Turner's odd friendship with an elderly curmudgeon, who leaves Turner her house at her death, ignites a tragedy when he offers the house to Lizzie and her displaced friends, and the town finds a legal, but ultimately lethal, way to drive off their unwanted black neighbors. Schmidt fictionalizes a true event in early twentieth-century Maine JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 483

history, fleshing out the already tense episode with vividly realized characters, fully credible father-son strains, a subtly drawn friendship, and small acts of subversion that make the apparently drowsy small town seethe with interest. Readers who empathized with John Ritter's preacher kid in Choosing Up Sides (BCCB 6/98) will want to make Turner's acquaintance, too. EB

SHETH, KASHMIRA Blue Jasmine. Hyperion, 2004 [192p] ISBN 0-7868-1855-7 $15.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 4-6 Seema's father has just landed a position working as a microbiologist in Iowa City; as the family prepares to leave their home in Vishanagar, India, to relocate to the Midwest, twelve-year-old Seema struggles with the dissolution of the extended family and, especially, the thought of leaving her cousin Raju. Just before depart- ing, Seema is unexpectedly befriended by Mukta, the poorest girl in her class, who had always been at the center of all teasing but who proves to be "thoughtful and friendly." When her grandmother in India becomes sick the following summer, Seema's family returns for a visit, an experience that helps her realize the extent of her change and the joy of having homes on both sides of the ocean. This first novel follows Seema's family to their new home and provides a wealth of compara- tive information on how life in Iowa differs from that in India-from the long aisles of frozen food at the grocery store to the bitter fact of wind chill. While the premise of juxtaposing two unlike cultures through middle-school eyes is an appealing (if unoriginal) one, Sheth's adolescent characters demonstrate a sense of self-awareness and introspection that seems far beyond their years and thus challenges the credibility of the story. The contrasting of Carrie, the mean girl in Seema's class, with Mukta, the good and kind classmate of yore, results in Seema's ultimate realization that she treated Mukta as badly as Carrie treats her, a triangular plot device that somewhat conveniently demonstrates character development. Still, the story is intriguing for its insider/outsider perspective and some early ado- lescents may identify with Seema's point of view. A glossary of terms and expressions is included. HM

SHREVE, SUSAN Under the Watsons'Porch. Knopf, 2004 [208p] Library ed. ISBN 0-375-92630-5 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-375-82630-0 $15.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-7 Ellie Tremont is smart, funny, and brave, and she tells lies. Exciting lies. Protec- tive lies. Her friendship with the new boy next door--one Tommy Bowers, juve- nile delinquent, fostered until age nine and then adopted-becomes of supreme importance as Tommy provides danger and much-needed companionship while Ellie's close-knit family pressures her to stay away from a potential troublemaker. Tommy lies, too; he lies about his age (fourteen) so twelve-year-old Ellie will feel comfortable with him, he lies to his adoptive mother so she won't discover he's given her diamond necklace to Ellie, and he lies to the neighborhood kids so they'll be his friends. He also shoplifts and sneaks Ellie into an R-rated movie showing "gang violence, sex scenes, and frontal nudity." Tommy's lies are engagingly well meant; for a bad boy, he's awfully kind to Ellie. Ellie's use of present tense makes the rare temporal shifts confusing, but the hour-by-hour account of her budding friendship/romance with Tommy keeps those shifts to a minimum and gives the 484 * THE BULLETIN climax depth. A rushed denouement may be overlooked by readers glad to see that Tommy is eventually included in Ellie's family life. The author's mastery of the adolescent voice glints in the finely tuned language, and Ellie's tug-of-war with her mother over truth, lies, and summer camp provides a superb foil for Tommy's conflicting desires both to have and to be free of the ties of family. Provocative and understated, the saga of Ellie's summer vacation will find a receptive audience among preadolescents and the adults involved in their lives. TC

SONES, SONYA One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. Simon, 2004 2 6 8p ISBN 0-689-85820-5 $15.95 Ad Gr. 6-9 Ruby Milliken's world turns upside down after her mother dies, sending her across the country to live with the father she's never known and leaving behind her best friend and boyfriend, as well as her mother's sister. Once in California, fifteen- year-old Ruby is suddenly thrust into the expensive lane, since her father, an Os- car-winning actor, sends her to a toney school and showers her with gifts, while signally failing at explaining his prior absence from her life. The story is largely slick and unbelievable: not only is Ruby's father an international celebrity, he's been secretly adoring her from a distance her whole life, staying away because Ruby's mother loved him too much to bear seeing him after their marriage ended (when he finally realized he was gay); it's particularly incredible that the formerly furious Ruby spares not an iota of irritation for the maternal stand that left her without a father for years. It's nonetheless an undemanding melodrama with lively touches of L.A. glamour (Ruby's father lives next door to Cameron Diaz); the subplot of Ruby's yearning for her distant friends becomes a predictable but enjoyable soap opera when her best friend and boyfriend find romance with each other. The free-verse poems that constitute the narrative are prosaic but they're also direct and brief, no more than a couple of pages apiece, making this a format that will invite reluctant readers. This is a far cry, depth-wise, from Valerie Hobbs' similarly themed Tender (BCCB 10/01), but it's a quick-paced saga-ette that should particularly appeal to readers who've retained the "these aren't my parents" fantasy through middle school, DS

SPERRING, MARK Wanda's First Day; illus. by Kate and Liz Pope. Chicken House/Scholastic, 2004 [32p] ISBN 0-439-62773-7 $15.95 Reviewed from galleys Ad 4-6 yrs On her first day at school, Wanda the witch accidentally winds up in a class for perky flower fairies. In spite of the fact that all Wanda's attempts to fit in end in disaster, the flower fairies befriend the little enchantress. Against the frothy backdrop of the delicate fairy class and the lacily scribbled city they live in, the illustrations of Wanda's witchy preferences-rat's-tail yogurt and octopus sandwiches-explode with relish over the page (and over her fairy friends, too). While these disasters bring Wanda's otherness swiftly home to the viewers, that otherness only underscores the generosity of the fairy teacher's gentle insistence that Wanda is "definitely at the right school, and we shall all look forward to seeing you tomorrow." The adroit inclusion of a witchy class with one jolly fairy student (glimpsed out Wanda's school window) explains Wanda's presence and affirms that, though the witch may be in the wrong class by some people's values, JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 485 under the standard of friendship everyone can belong. Pages of sugary sweetness untempered by rising action may overdose some listeners, and the ending lacks punch-expect to see parents and teachers flipping through the endpapers, looking for the rest of the story. Nonetheless, the book is loaded with delicately untidy pink-predominant details sure to beguile young fairy aficionados, and parents seeking an unthreatening introduction to formal education for their children will welcome the story's uncomplicated cheer. TC

SPILSBURY, RICHARD Animal Groups: A School ofDolphins. See review under Moore, p. 475.

STEIG, JEANNE Talesfrom Gizzard's Grill; illus. by Sandy Turner. Cotler/Harp- erCollins, 2004 [80p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-000960-8 $17.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-000959-4 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 3-6 A slightly offbeat version of the old West comes to life in Steig's three verse tales of events in Fiasco town. In the first story, "The Lonesome Cowboy," the Sheriff finds herself a surprising ally in the pursuit of an equally surprising horse thief; in the second, "Miss Lou-Lou," the daughter of an itinerant medicine peddler discovers her mother's legacy and a supply of water for the town; the final story, "The Duel," describes a face-off--or, more accurately, a feet-off-between a challeng- ing stranger and town matriarch over who's got the smelliest pedal extremities. The crisp verse never overstays its welcome, and the perky ballad meter keeps the stories clipping along. The gentle tweaking of Western tropes and the relish of sagebrush-flavored phraseology ("Now you can dine on biscuits,/ Or you can dine on lead./ For I'm comin' in to feed you now," roars the sheriff to the holed-up thief) will make for a rootin' tootin' read, and the stench vs. stench duel in particu- lar offers some delicious opportunities for expressive reading aloud ("Point blank their feet were aimin'/ right at each other's nose,/ and they yowled and gasped and each turned green/ And blue, and puce, and rose"). Turner's spidery-lined illustrations don't quite suit the robust verse narrative, but the precise yet deranged draftsmanship emphasizes the quirkiness of Steig's literary vision; their sophisticated flair and dusty palette ensures that readers drawn by the accessible format won't feel illustrated down to. Youngsters looking to move beyond Stanley's Sav- ing Sweetness (BCCB 11/96), or those who relished Timberlake's The Dirty Cow- boy (BCCB 9/03), may want to mosey on by. DS

STRASSER, TODD Can't Get Therefrom Here. Simon, 2004 198p ISBN 0-689-84169-8 $15.95 R Gr. 8-12 Maybe's been on the streets of New York since last summer; along the way she's met other street kids-OG, 2Moro, Tears, Rainbow, Maggot, Jewel-and together they're "sort of like a family, or maybe a tribe. An asphalt tribe that roamed the streets searching for food and shelter." This powerful narrative of the lives of homeless urban teens explores the day-to-day survival tactics of a group oft forgotten, invisible to mainstream society and in most cases cared for by no one. Strasser carefully builds each character's story, laced with abuse, drugs, prostitution, and AIDS, then deconstructs the tribe through a series of deaths, disappearances, hos- 486 * THE BULLETIN pitalizations, and, in a few cases, cautious reunions with family members. The overwhelming sense of them-versus-us that overshadows each encounter with the mainstream drives home the reality of the context, where pedestrians stiffen on approach and mothers tell their children to ignore the panhandlers at the grocery store. Maybe's voice narrates the events, her repulsion of the rules and regulations of the working world mixed in with a sense of desperation and longing. More than anything she needs someone to care about and someone to care for her, a need temporarily fulfilled within the circle of friends. "Maggot always said living on the street was a choice," she reflects. "But it wasn't. It was when you ran out of choices." The story ends on a hopeful note as Maybe begins to realize that she may have more choices that she had allowed per the (somewhat didactically inserted) guidance of a compassionate librarian who helps reunite Tears with her grandpar- ents in West Virginia. This is an insightful and thought-provoking examination of otherness, one that challenges readers to consider their own situations as well as to remember the situation of those out in the cold. HM

SWOPE, SAM Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants; illus. by Carll Cneut. Farrar, 2004 100p ISBN 0-374-33670-9 $16.00 R Gr. 3-5 Poor Jack can't catch a break. A chronic crier, he has been abandoned on doorstep after doorstep, unloved and unwanted, until he's finally kicked out of church for asking the preacher what he means by the seven deadly sins. Shortly thereafter, the town is menaced by seven deadly giants bearing names like Sloth, Roth, and Avaritch; the preacher naturally blames Jack, and Jack takes it on the lam. Kind- ness to a fellow traveler nets him a single wish, but instead of the mother he longs for, a cow appears instead. Oh, well, such is Jack's luck. Through a combination of shrewdness and luck, Jack meets and defeats one giant for every deadly sin (lust cleverly G-rated into a two-headed giant named the Wild Tickler) until at last he meets the Green Queen, who just happens to hold the key to his own happiness. Cneut's illustrations juxtapose false perspectives with representational figures to reinforce the fabulist qualities of this jaunty tale (in fact, the giant afflicted with pride is a victim of a false perspective, as are most of the others, making the visual metaphors all the more appropriate). Swope's narration is straightforward, energetic, and just quirky enough to complement but not overpower the fairy-tale plot. While not stunningly original, this is a more than respectable example of a time-honored genre, sure to please those with a penchant for the extended folk narrative. KC

TAYLOR, G. P. Shadowmancer. Putnam, 2004 275p ISBN 0-399-24256-2 $16.99 M Gr. 9-12 Obadiah Demurral, the vicar of Thorpe (a town on the coast of Yorkshire), has turned his back on God and embraced the power of darkness; his obsession with acquiring power has led him to compromise his soul through theft, murder, torture, and black magic. Demurral has acquired a golden cherub from a sacred African temple, one of two Keruvim, powerful and ancient religious artifacts that will help the vicar rule the world. The Keruvim is sought by Raphah, an African disciple of Riathamus (from the Latin for "king of kings"), who is determined to foil Demurral and return the Keruvim to its rightful place. Raphah is aided in his quest by Thomas and Kate, two local youngsters drawn unwittingly into the fray. JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 487

The trio are chased, captured, and tormented by various creatures of the theological night, but the preternaturally lucky Thomas, Kate, and Raphah acquire an unlikely ally in a converted highwayman, and they are further aided by timely visits from a soul-seeking shepherd and sword-bearing archangel. Characteriza- tions are slight as shadows, with little to provide a metaphorical hook for readers to hang their emotional hats on. Demurral is an over-wrought, operatic villain given to B-movie outbursts of maniacal rage, and the allegorical function of the remaining primary characters is overly distancing. The writing is dense and purposive, and while the Biblical wordplay may be clever, it is too obscure. Heavy-handed theological references slow the narrative pace, and the plotting (even with a literary faith that believes in miracles) is overly convenient. Despite obvious comparisons to Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, this title lacks both the suspense and the action that characterized that series, so readers will be better off sticking with Lyra. JMD

THOMAS, JOYCE CAROL, ad. What's the Hurry, Fox? And Other Animal Stories; illus. by Bryan Collier. HarperCollins, 2004 32p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-000644-7 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-000643-9 $15.99 R 5-8 yrs Thomas takes a selection of tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston and makes them accessible to a new generation. In an opening note, the adapter discusses her history with these tales, explaining that her adaptations are "custom-made for a child's eye and ear and shaped just so for a child's gentle bursts of laughter." Tales include "Why the Dog Hates the Cat," "Why Flies Get the First Taste," and the title story, among others. The brevity of these nine tales (from several paragraphs to two pages), along with their understated humor, gives them an anecdotal, con- versational quality, and makes them ideal for quick classroom and other readal- ouds. While the draftsmanship in Collier's mixed-media illustrations is sometimes a little stiff, most of the art has an unusual combination of the real and the surreal that infuses the barnyard and country scenes with an uncanny energy. The source note gives the teller of each tale as noted by Hurston. JMD

TOCHER, TIMOTHY Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me. Cricket, 2004 [160p] ISBN 0-8126-2711-3 $15.95 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 5-8 See this month's Big Picture, p. 451, for review.

TUNNELL, MICHAEL O. Wishing Moon. Dutton, 2004 [272p] ISBN 0-525-47193-6 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 5-7 Ever wonder what happened to Aladdin's magic lamp? According to this novel, soon after Aladdin's marriage, his pampered princess hurls the lamp out the window at a beggar girl's head. When the beggar Aminah regains consciousness, she discovers that the battered lamp carries within it the powerful jinni who raised Aladdin's fortunes. The story that follows is an exploration of the choices and consequences inherent in the use of wish-fulfilling magic, as Aminah does what few jinn-masters think of and wishes for power to help others trapped in the net of 488 * THE BULLETIN poverty. The vindictive attempts of Aladdin's wife, Princess Badr al Budur, to recover the lamp, intercut with scenes from Aminah's personal development, spike the narrative tension and join cleanly with Aminah's story at the climax. The language is modern and often funny; Aminah may live three thousand years ago, but her personality and the relationships she develops with others are pure twenty- first century. Occasionally this modernity pierces the reader's bubble of belief, though, and another type of bubble-piercing occurs as the lamp gets handed around to new owners, supposedly terminating all magic performed for the previous owners, yet the previous magics somehow cheerfully persist. Aminah's growing surro- gate-family relations with her cook, her servant, her jinni, and her boyfriend put a sweet spin on Aminah's recovery from poverty and neglect, but her emotional evolution is treated with slightly overplayed feeling without supporting details. However, the narrative thrust of a foray into the modern style of social justice gives this fairy tale the spice of originality. Speaking of fairy tales-ever wonder how Cinderella's fairy godmother got started? Let me tell you about a girl with a lamp ... TC

VALENTINE, JAMES JumpMan: Rule #1: Don't Touch Anything. Simon, 2004 26 8p ISBN 0-689-86872-3 $14.95 R Gr. 6-9 Asking Gen out on a date is the hardest thing thirteen-year-old Jules has ever had to do, but he bravely screws up his courage and asks her to a movie. Meanwhile, in the future, Theodore has just won a contest to be the first to test the newest model, the TimeMaster JumpMan Pro, in a line of portable time-travel devices made by TimeMaster Corporation. The JumpMan is supposedly programmed to take Theodore to a never-before-seen location in time; unfortunately, it malfunctions and he lands smack in the middle of Jules' big moment instead. Even worse, though he is supposed to be invisible, Theodore finds out that everyone can see him, a clear breach of the cardinal rule of TimeJumping. Stuck in boring "Mil 3," Theodore needs Jules and Gen to help him fit in (which, with his strobing disco- light hair, odd slang, and talkative clothing, is no easy feat) until he can figure out how to get home. Valentine's light, effortless, and highly humorous prose makes the brain-twisting ruminations on Time captivating instead of painful; the details of Theodore's future world and how we got there, as well the revelations he sparks in Jules and Gen about the present world, are both entertaining and thought- provoking. In between these thinking moments, there's plenty of TimeJumping action, verbal comedy, and deadpan observations (particularly from Jules) to appeal to both the intellectual and the in-for-a-good-time readers. The cliffhanger ending ensures that readers will jump eagerly into the next book to see what happens now that Theodore's home. KH

WETTER, BRUCE The Boy with a Lampshade on His Head. Atheneum, 2004 [3 04 p] ISBN 0-689-85032-8 $16.95 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 5-8 Stanley Krakow has an extremely active imagination, and he lives there most of the time. In his own mind, he's supremely talented, and he is usually being trailed by an ESPN crew on the lookout for the next time he breaks a record for something like holding his breath or kicking rocks. In reality, he is painfully shy, with shades JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 489 of social anxiety disorder emerging whenever he is asked to speak or read in public. He has friends, through their initiative rather than his, but he really bonds with his uncle, who has abandoned reality altogether and is living as Alan Ladd in a nearby hospital. When Stanley and his neighbor realize that their pretend superhero powers cannot save a new girl from her very real abusive situation, he seeks help from Uncle Alan, who takes this chance to become the strong, fascinating hero he has always wanted to be. This is an engaging premise, and many readers will relate to a protagonist caught in the gap between the life of the mind and external reality. Unfortunately, the only real action takes place in the final twenty-five pages of the book. The first 275 pages feature minor episodes that serve mostly to develop Stanley's character, and as he is a shy boy with recurrent fantasies, lots of the material is repetitive and only eventful inside Stanley's own mind. Shy guys will identify with Stanley's character and his complex fantasy life, though, and they will find his ultimate real-life triumph all the more satisfying. KC

WHEELER, LISA Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum; illus. by Laura Huliska- Beith. Tingley/Little, 2004 32p ISBN 0-316-98894-4 $15.95 R 3-6 yrs Bubble gum sticking to the road does not count highly among the joys of summer, but this tale, which resembles a summer version of the folktale "The Mitten," just might. A happily bounding toad is the first critter to land in the pool of sticky pink, followed by a "bad mood . .. tough dude shrew," a "gummy goose," a "bumbled-up bee," and an "old, weathered-GUM-FEATHERED!-crow!" Things take a serious turn when a truck comes barreling toward them, but the resourceful group begins to chew and chew until their trap becomes their deliver- ance as they float upward on a huge pink bubble. This attracts the attention of a mean old bear, but these guys have learned from their predicament and know just what to do, and the whole sticky saga starts over again. Textured, summer-hued acrylics punctuated with bits of collage papers more than adequately capture the chaos of the ridiculous dilemma, and the antic animal caricatures provide a good deal of energy to the text. The real star, however, is the language play; storytime leaders' tongues will get a workout as they twist their way around the quatrains that detail each animal's response to getting stuck. There's lots of delicious inter- nal rhyme, alliteration, and nonsense words that are sure to elicit giggles and imi- tations, so do spit out the gum before you attempt a readaloud. KC

WILLEMS, Mo The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!; written and illus. by Mo Willems. Hyperion, 2004 32p ISBN 0-7868-1869-7 $12.99 R* 5-8 yrs Undaunted by his failure to drive a bus, Willems' obstreperous one-eyed pigeon is back, this time seeking his bliss through the gastronomic pleasures of a found hot dog. Alas, along comes a diminutive duckling ("scooty, scoot, scoot!") determined to get his piece of the dog. Duckling's seemingly innocent chatter ("I've never had a hot dog before..... What do they taste like? ... Would you say that it tastes like chicken?") and guileless expression nearly undo our high-strung hero as he begins to realize that he's being duped by the little duck into giving up his booty. Return- ing to a formula can be tricky, especially when the expectations are set as high as the pigeon's debut (Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, BCCB 5/03), which gar- nered a Caldecott Honor. This chapter of the pigeon agon is visually similar to the 490 * THE BULLETIN former, and also echoes its predecessor in yielding up delightfully unexpected curricular possibilities for older students (such as college freshmen, among others) by illustrating the various methods of rhetorical appeal. It's a departure from prece- dent, however, that the pigeon's hopes are not completely thwarted here, and the ending is more or less satisfying depending on how you prefer your justice served: some listeners will likely warm to the messages of sharing and compromise, while others may miss the high tragedy of utterly disappointed dreams. Either way, the duckling is adorable. KC

YOUNG, ED, ad. The Sons of the DragonKing: A Chinese Legend; ad. and illus. by Ed Young. Atheneum, 2004 32p ISBN 0-689-85184-7 $16.95 R Gr. 3-6 No parent wants to hear rumors of the children's misbehavior, and the Chinese Dragon King is no exception. Reports pour in regarding the troubling or eccentric behavior of his nine far-flung sons, and the father dons a disguise to witness the acts himself. Bei-She wastes his day in competitions of strength, Chi Wen stares off the rooftop, Pu-Lao incessantly bellows. The Dragon King is rightly concerned, but he discerns a potential advantage to each behavior and suggests that his sons use their proclivities for the good of the kingdom. Thus, Bei-She bears the weight of the columns of important buildings, Chi Wen stands sentinel against dangers, Pu-Lao lends his extraordinary volume to music and assures that the sound of instruments "will be loud and true." Each of nine episodes is prefaced with a discreet calligraphic representation of the son's name in the upper left corner, graced with a free-wheeling black ink rendering of the son's unfettered antics, and con- cluded with a boxed inset with the son's symbol and a caption regarding its use. A loosely woven oyster-toned textile forms the textured backdrop, and Young adds variety to his dominant blacks and reds with restrained ventures into blue and green for the symbols and inset borders. Readers drawn to Chungliang Al Huang's The Chinese Book ofAnimal Powers (BCCB 12/99) will want to pursue this el- egantly presented legend as well. An author's note explains the tale further, but there is no source note. EB JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 491

SUBJECT AND USE INDEX

Keyed to The Bulletin's alphabetical arrangement by author, this index, which appears in each issue, can be used in three ways. Entries in regular type refer to subjects; entries in bold type refer to curricular or other uses; entries in ALL-CAPS refer to genres and appeals. In the case of subject headings, the subhead "stories" refers to books for the readaloud audience; "fiction," to those books intended for independent reading.

Adoption-fiction: Shreve Crime and criminals-fiction: Adoption-stories: de Haan Balliett; Haseley; Pinkwater ADVENTURE: Boyce; Browne; Cultural studies: Sheth Goobie; Kimmel; Magrs; Oppel; Current events: Al-Windawi; Valentine Strasser African Americans: Barasch; Dancers and dancing: Barasch Freedman; Morrison; Rappaport Dancers and dancing-stories: African Americans-fiction: Flake; Helldorfer Tocher Death-fiction: Johnson Agriculture: Older Depression, the-fiction: Easton; Animals: Dowson; Lang; Moore; Henderson Older Disabilities: Barasch Animals-stories: de Haan; Palatini; Dolls-fiction: Reiss Rand; Thomas Dragons-fiction: Browne; Young ANTHOLOGIES: Rappaport; San Ecology: Schaefer Souci; Thomas Egypt: Hawass Archaeology: Hawass Emotions-stories: Helldorfer Art and artists-fiction: Balliett; Ethics and values: Boyce; Cabot; Haseley DuPrau; Hall; Magrs; Schmidt; Aunts-fiction: Earls; Grant Shreve; Strasser; Swope; Taylor Automobiles-stories: Gordon FABLES: Swope Babies-stories: Molk Faith-fiction: Easton; Taylor Baseball-fiction: Tocher Families-fiction: Hite Beauty pageants-fiction: Juby Families-stories: Luciani BIOGRAPHIES: Appelt; Barasch; FANTASY: Browne; DuPrau; Craats; Freedman; Hook Gandolfi; Goobie; Napoli; Biology: Dowson Oppel; Reiss; Taylor; Valentine Birds-stories: Schaefer Farm life: Older Birthdays-stories: Potter Fathers-fiction: Appelt; Dessen; Books and reading-fiction: Kimmel Easton; Sones; Young Books and reading-stories: Paratore Fish-fiction: Hite China-folklore: Young FOLKTALES AND FAIRY TALES: Chinese Americans-stories: Hall Gordon; Paratore; Swope; Civil rights movement: Morrison Thomas; Tunnell; Young Cleaning-stories: Luciani Food and eating-stories: Willems Clothing-stories: Jenkins Daffodil Friends-fiction: Dowell; Shreve Cowboys-fiction: Steig Frogs-fiction: Napoli Cows-stories: Palatini Future-fiction: Valentine Gays and lesbians-fiction: Earls 492 * THE BULLETIN

Gays and lesbians-poetry: Rachel Reading, reluctant: Burgess; San Giants-fiction: Swope Souci; Sones Grandfathers-stories: Hall Relationships-fiction: Earls; Flake Grandmothers-fiction: Gandolfi RHYMING STORIES: Steig; Grief-fiction: Dessen; Sones Wheeler Growing up-fiction: Earls Romance-fiction: Cabot; Oppel Health: Burgess Saints-fiction: Boyce HISTORICAL FICTION: Appelt; SCARY STORIES: San Souci Brown; Connor; Easton; School: Morrison Henderson; Schmidt; Tocher School-fiction: Cabot; Dowell; History, U.S.: Hochain; Morrison; Sperring Rappaport Secrets-fiction: Goobie Homelessness-fiction: Strasser Self-esteem-stories: Beaumont HUMOR: Beaumont; Juby; Magrs; Sex-fiction: Burgess Palatini; Pinkwater; Steig; Sexuality-poetry: Rachel Wheeler; Willems Sheep-stories: Rand Identity-fiction: Hite SHORT STORIES: Flake; San Identity-stories: Gordon Souci Imagination-fiction: Wetter Sisters-fiction: Johnson Imagination-stories: Paratore Sisters-stories: Jenkins; Potter Immigrants-fiction: Brown; Sheth SONGS: Rappaport Immigrants-stories: Connor Sports: Macy India-fiction: Sheth SPORTS STORIES: Tocher Jealousy-stories: Potter Storytelling: Thomas JOURNALS: Al-Windawi Storytime: Beaumont; Hall; Language arts: Brisson Helldorfer; Jenkins Daffodil; Lies-fiction: Shreve Jenkins My; Luciani; Palatini; Literature, children's: Craats; Hook Rand; Wheeler; Willems Literature, world: Kimmel Summer-stories: Helldorfer Magic-fiction: Tunnell SUPERNATURAL STORIES: Money-fiction: Boyce Haseley; Reiss Movies-fiction: Cabot SURVIVAL STORIES: DuPrau; Mummies: Hawass Strasser Music and musicians: Freedman Television-fiction: Grant Music and musicians-stories: Time travel-fiction: Valentine Bramhall Tools-stories: Connor MYSTERIES: Balliett; Boyce; Hite; Turtles-fiction: Gandolfi Pinkwater Uncles-fiction: Wetter Nature study: Dowson; Lang; Urban life-fiction: Strasser Moore; Schaefer Vietnam War-fiction: Brown Photography: Morrison Voyages and travel-fiction: Physical education: Macy Henderson; Kimmel; Oppel Pigs: Older Voyages and travel-stories: de Haan POETRY: Rachel; Sones; Steig War: Al-Windawi Pregnancy-stories: Molk Wealth-fiction: Boyce Puppets-fiction: Grant; Magrs West, the-fiction: Steig Racism: Morrison Witches-stories: Sperring Racism-fiction: Schmidt Women's studies: Connor; Flake Reading aloud: Gordon; Napoli; WORDLESS BOOKS: Fleischman Steig; Young World cultures: Al-Windawi Writers and writing: Craats; Hook JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 493

THE B ULLET IN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS

AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX, VOLUME 57 SEPTEMBER, 2003-JULY/AUGUST, 2004

12 Days of Christmas. Hills. 107. American Boy. Brown. 143. 13. Howe. 193. Ancient Voices. Hovey. 374. 48 Shades of Brown. Earls. 461. Andersen. Thumbelina. 139. 9 of 1. Chin. 184. Anderson, M. Strange Mr. Satie. 5. 95 Pounds of Hope. Gavalda. 104. Anderson, W. Prairie Girl. 313. Acceleration. McNamee. 116. Animal Groups: How Animals Live Together. Actual Size. Jenkins. 376. Kaner. 332. Adams. Dog. 347. Animal Groups: 'A Mob of Meerkats. Moore. Adoff. Names Will Never Hurt Me. 312. 475. Aesop's Fables. Aesop. 138. Animal Groups: A School of Dolphins. Aesop. Aesop's Fables. 138. Spilsbury. 475. After the Last Dog Died. Bredeson. 94. Animal Hedge. Fleischman. 102. Afterlife. Soto. 77. Animals Asleep. Collard. 321. Agee. Z Goes Home. 48. Ann and Seamus. Major. 286. Agell. Welcome Home or Someplace Like It. Annie Was Warned. Krosoczka. 21. 178. Antarctic Ice. Mastro. 115. Ah, Music! Aliki. 5. Antonio on the Other Side of the World, Get- Aha! Romanek. 389. ting Smaller. Doyle. 148. Aiken. Midwinter Nightingale. 4. Anything for You. Wallace. 442. Airborn. Oppel. 477. Appelt. Bubba and Beau Meet the Relatives. Al Capone Does My Shirts. Choldenko. 265. 314. Al-Windawi. Thura's Diary. 452. . My Father's Summers. 453. Albert. Less than Perfect. 138. Apples and How They Grow. Driscoll. 149. Alda. Morning Glory Monday. 92. Archambault. Boom Chicka Rock. 361. Aldabra. Gandolfi. 464. Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Aleutian Sparrow. Hesse. 153. Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed. Alice, I Think. Juby. 19. Galloway. 273. Alien in a Bottle. Mackel. 338. Ardagh. Fall of Fergal. 406. Aliki. Ah, Music! 5. Arenstam. Mayflower 1620. 203. All You Need for a Beach. Schertle. 436. Arnold. Uluru. 139. Allen. George Washington, Spymaster. 313. Aronson. Witch-Hunt. 140. Almond. Fire-Eaters. 360. Arrowhawk. Schaefer. 482. Almost Forever. Testa. 79. Art against the Odds. Rubin. 436. Almost to Freedom. Nelson. 290. Ashby. Sea Gift. 222. Alphin. Picture Perfect. 49. Asher. On Her Way. 314. Alter. Francine's Day. 49. Ashman. Essential Worldwide Monster Guide. Amaryllis. Crist-Evans. 187. 6. Ambrose. This Vast Land. 179. At the Sign of the Sugared Plum. Hooper. 63. 494 * THE BULLETIN

Atomic Ace (He's Just My Dad). Weigel. 301. SInkheart. 272. Attack of the Killer Video Book. Shulman. 437. . Princess Knight. 272. Attack of the Mutant Underwear. Birdseye. 181. Bell, L. Story of Coca-Cola. 180. Augarde. Various. 361. Belton. Beauty, Her Basket. 260. Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat. Low. 285. Ben Franklin's Almanac. Fleming. 12. Autumnblings. Florian. 13. Bend, Don't Shatter. Rachel. 479. Avi. Mayor of Central Park. 140. Beneduce. Moses. 260. . Never Mind! 362. Bennett. Heart Divided. 364. Aylesworth. Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Benton. Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist. 142. 141. Berger. Real Vikings. 180. Baby Blue. Kwasney. 334. Berry. Nest Full of Stars. 261. Baby Business. Cuetara. 9. Best. When Catherine the Great and I Were Baby Goes Beep. O'Connell. 73. Eight! 51. Baby Ground Squirrel. Lang. 472. Best Book of Bikes. Pinchuk. 28. Baby on Board. Gray. 328. Best Kind of Baby. Laing. 21. Baby Owl. Lang. 472. Bicycle Madness. Kurtz. 113. Baby Radar. Nye. 201. Big Brown Bear's Up and Down Day. McPhail. Bad Bears in the City. Pinkwater. 291. 71. Bad Boys. Palatini. 119. Big Fat Paycheck. Lawrence. 380. Bagels from Benny. Davis. 188. Big Friends. Cuyler. 323. Baker, J. Home. 363. Big Trip. Gorbachev. 231. Baker, K. More Mr. and Mrs. Green. 258. Big-Enough Ann. Flowers. 151. Balliett. Chasing Vermeer. 453. Bilkins. Beach Patrol. 431. Bang. My Light. 258. Birdland. Mack. 114. Bang-Campbell. Little Rat Rides. 315. Birdseye. Attack of the Mutant Underwear. 181. Banks. Cat Who Walked across France. 259. Birney. World According to Humphrey. 316. _ . Walk Softly Rachel. 50. Birthday Doll. Cutler. 368. Bannerman. Story of Little Black Sambo. 223. Bittersweet. Lamm. 238. Barasch. Knockin' on Wood. 454. Blacklock. Roman Army. 365. Barnard. Dangerous Planet. 93. Blackwater Ben. Durbin. 189. Barrett. Cold in Summer. 6. Blizzard. Wright. 130. Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand. Block. Wasteland. 93. Stroud. 298. Blood Gold. Cadnum. 410. Bartoletti. Flag Maker. 363. Blood-Hungry Spleen. Wolf. 82. Barton. Bear Says North. 50. Bloor. Story Time. 316. Basilisk. Browne. 457. Blue Fingers. Whitesel. 352. Bass. Sign of the Qin. 363. Blue Jasmine. Sheth. 483. Bateson. Rain May and Captain Daniel. 7. Blue Mirror. Koja. 282. Battle-Lavert. Papa's Mark. 259. Blue Wolf. Creedon. 186. Bauer. Double-Digit Club. 315. Blumberg. York's Adventures with Lewis and . Snow. 179. Clark. 261. Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a. McDonald. 116. Blumenthal. Ice Palace. 142. Beach Day! Lakin. 425. Blushing. Janeczko. 234. Beach Is to Fun. Brisson. 456. Board. Bridget and the Moose Brothers. 335. Beach Patrol. O'Brien. 431. Boelts. When It's the Last Day of School. 407. Beames. Night Cat. 141. Boling. January 1905. 407. Bear Says North. Barton. 50. Bone. Song of an Innocent Bystander. 407. Beast. Myers. 199. Book of Rock Stars. Krull. 196. Beat Goes On. Minchin. 384. Boom Chicka Rock. Archambault. 361. Beatrix. Winter. 39. Borden. Sea Clocks. 365. Beaumont. Duck, Duck, Goose! (A Coyote's on . Touching the Sky. 94. the Loose!). 316. Boris's Glasses. Cohen. 54. . I Like Myself 454. Bortolotti. Panda Rescue. 262. Beauty, Her Basket. Belton. 260. . Tiger Rescue. 262. Bedford. Copy Crocs. 364. Bottle Houses. Slaymaker. 392. Behind You. Woodson. 398. Bottner. Pish and Posh. 223. Bell, A. Dreaming in Black & White. 19. . Wallace's Lists. 408. JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 495

Bowler. Firmament. 317. Cadnum. Daughter of the Wind. 144. Boxes for Katje. Fleming. 58. .Ship of Fire. 95. Boy Meets Boy. Levithan. 23. Caletti. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart. 411. Boy O'Boy. Doyle. 270. Calhoun. White Midnight. 264. Boy on Fairfield Street. Krull. 284. Cameron. Colibrf. 52. Boy Who Couldn't Die. Sleator. 349. Campbell. Sometimes My Mommy Gets An- Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln. Reiss. 204. gry. 53. Boy with a Lampshade on His Head. Wetter. Cann. Hard Cash. 145. 488. . Shacked Up. 264. Boyce. Millions. 455. Cannon. Let the Good Times Roll with Pirate Bradby. Some Friend. 318. Pete and Pirate Joe. 224. Brainboy and the DeathMaster. Seidler. 244. Can't Get There from Here. Strasser. 485. Bramhall. Hepcat. 455. Captain's Purr. Floyd. 103. Bray, L. Great and Terrible Beauty. 366. Carr. Elf of Union Square. 319. Bray, R. Thura's Diary. 452. Cart. Rush Hour: A Journal of Contemporary Breakout. Fleischman. 58. Voices. Volume 1: Sin. 411. Breath. Napoli. 72. Case of the Cat with the Missing Ear. Emerson. Bredeson. After the Last Dog Died. 94. 56. Bredsdorff. Crow-Girl. 408. Casting the Gods Adrift. McCaughrean. 71. Brenner. One Small Place in a Tree. 409. Cat Who Walked across France. Banks. 259. Brewer. You Must Be Joking! 181. Catie & Josephine. Fuqua. 60. Brian's Hunt. Paulsen. 242. Cave. You've Got Dragons. 96. Brian. V Club. 409. Cazet. Minnie & Moo and the Seven Wonders Bridget and the Moose Brothers. Lindenbaum. of the World. 145. 335. Cerullo. Life under Ice. 8. Brisson. Beach Is to Fun. 456. Chace. Heart's Delight. 240. Britton. Treekeepers. 51. Charlie Bone and the Time Twister. Nimmo. Brooks. Kissing the Rain. 224. 161. Broome. Drusilla the Lucky Duck. 143. Charlip. Little Old Big Beard and Big Young . Judas Donkey. 182. Little Beard. 183. Brown, D. American Boy. 143. Chasing Vermeer. Balliett. 453. Brown, J. Little Cricket. 456. Cheng. Key Collection. 8. Browne. Basilisk. 457. Chibbaro. Redemption. 412. Bruchac, James. Turtle's Race with Beaver. 182. Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me. Tocher. Bruchac, Joseph. Hidden Roots. 262. 487. Bruchac, Joseph. Pocahontas. 224. Chig and the Second Spread. Swain. 246. Bruchac, Joseph. Turtle's Race with Beaver. 182. Child. Utterly Me, Clarice Bean. 96. Bruchac, Joseph. Warriors. 52. .Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? 183. Brugman. Walking Naked. 318. Chin. 9 of 1. 184. Brundibar. Kushner. 155. Chloe's Birthday...and Me. Potter. 479. Bryant. Trial. 319. Choldenko. Al Capone Does My Shirts. 265. Bubba and Beau Meet the Relatives. Appelt. Christelow. Vote! 53. 314. Christensen. Daring Nellie Bly. 97. Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum. Wheeler. 489. Christopher Mouse. Wise. 396. Buehner. Superdog. 263. Chu Ju's House. Whelan. 394. Building Liberty. Hochain. 470. Cinderella's Dress. Willard. 168. Bujor. Prophecy of the Stones. 367. Circle of Cats. de Lint. 10. Burgess. Doing It. 457. Circle Unbroken. Raven. 293. Bunting. Presence. 95. City of Ember. DuPrau. 11. Burnham. Royally Jacked. 263. Clare and Francis. Visconti. 299. Buster. Fleming. 59. Cleary. Rainbow Soup. 320. Butcher. Spy High: Mission One. 410. Clements. Report Card. 412. Byng. Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hyp- Clemesha. Dig! 443. notism. 7. Climbing Everest. Salkeld. 32. Byrd. Leonardo. 144. Climbing the Rainbow. Hulme. 331. Cabbage Soup Solution. Oiler. 241. Cline-Ransome. Major Taylor. 265. Cabot. Teen Idol. 458. Clovermead. Randall. 434. 496 * THE BULLETIN

Cluck O'Clock. Gray. 419. Curtis. I Took the Moon for a Walk. 323. Coast Mappers. Morrison. 343. Cutler. Birthday Doll. 368. Cobb. I Face the Wind. 9. Cuyler. Big Friends. 323. Coburn. Prep. 184. D'Adamo. Iqbal. 187. Cock-a-Doodle Moooo! DuQuette. 324. Daddy Mountain. Feiffer. 369. Cohen. Boris's Glasses. 54. Daffodil. Jenkins. 470. Cohn. Pop Princess. 320. Dangerous Planet. Barnard. 93. Cold in Summer. Barrett. 6. Danko. Sidekicks. 56. Cold Tom. Prue. 122. . Sidekicks: Operation Squish! 226. Coleman. On the Run. 413. Dante's Daughter. Heuston. 278. Colfer. Wish List. 146. Dare to Be Scared. San Souci. 33. Colibrf. Cameron. 52. Daring Nellie Bly. Christensen. 97. Collard. Animals Asleep. 321. Darrow. Painters of Lexieville. 188. Collins, P. Fattening Hut. 146. Datlow. Swan Sister. 97. Collins, S. Gregor the Overlander. 185. Daughter of the Wind. Cadnum. 144. Colman. Furlong. 327. Davies. Surprising Sharks. 227. Coming to America. Wolf. 82. Davis, A. Bagels from Benny. 188. Confessions of a Not It Girl. Kantor. 332. Davis, J. Open Your Eyes. 147. Connor. Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel. 458. Day the Babies Crawled Away. Rathmann. 164. Contents under Pressure. Zeises. 398. De Angelis. Motion Pictures. 368. Cook. Martin MacGregor's Snowman. 185. de Haan. King & King & Family. 459. Cool Moonlight. Johnson. 65. de Lint. Circle of Cats. 10. Cooley. Ostrich Eye. 266. de Paola. Pascual and the Kitchen Angels. 268. Cooper. Magic Thinks Big. 321. DeFelice. Old Granny and the Bean Thief. 98. Copper. Lisle. 336. Delacre. Rafi and Rosi. 268. Copy Crocs. Bedford. 364. Demi. Greatest Power. 413. Corder. Lionboy. 322. . Legend of Saint Nicholas. 98. Corrigan. Splintering. 322. . Muhammad. 56. Costello. Bend, Don't Shatter. 479. Dent. LBD. 98. Count on Us. Nathan. 345. Desimini. Policeman Lou and Policewoman Coverdale. Prophecy of the Stones. 367. Sue. 10. Coville. Moongobble and Me: The Dragon of Dessen. Truth about Forever. 460. Doom. 266. DeVilliers. How My Private, Personal Journal Cowboys & Longhorns. Stanley. 245. Became a Bestseller. 414. Cowley. Wishing of Biddy Malone. 225. Diary of a Wombat. French. 103. Cox. Go to Sleep, Groundhog! 186. Diary of a Worm. Cronin. 55. Coy. Two Old Potatoes and Me. 54. DiCamillo. Tale of Despereaux. 99. Craats. Roald Dahl. 459. Dickinson. Inside Grandad. 269. Crazy Hair Day. Saltzberg. 164. . Tears of the Salamander. 148. Creation. McDermott. 115. Diffily. Jurassic Shark. 269. Creech. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup. 55. Dig! Zimmerman. 443. . Heartbeat. 267. Dinah! Nishimura. 345. Creedon. Blue Wolf. 186. Dinosailors. Lund. 197. Crews. Neighborhood Mother Goose. 267. Dinosaur Mummies. Halls. 61. Crist-Evans. Amaryllis. 187. Dirt Eaters. Foon. 229. Crocker. Tale of the Swamp Rat. 147. Dirty Cowboy. Timberlake. 37. Cronin. Diary of a Worm. 55. Divide. Kay. 154. . Duck for President. 367. Dixon. Big-Enough Anna. 151. Crow-Girl. Bredsdorff. 408. Dog. Pennac. 347. Crowley. Feast of Fools. 225. Doing It. Burgess. 457. Crummel. Plaidypus Lost. 438. Dolphin Talk. Pfeffer. 202. Crying Rocks. Lisle. 157. Don Quixote and the Windmills. Kimmel. 472. Cuba 15. Osa. 27. Don't Cramp My Style. Fraustino. 370. Cuetara. Baby Business. 9. Don't Forget to Come Back. Harris. 330. Cullen. Little Scraggly Hair. 226. Don't Forget Winona. Peterson. 432. Cummings. Saving Grace. 10. Donuthead. Stauffacher. 207. Curse of the Pharaohs. Hawass. 468. Doors. Munro. 429. JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 497

Double-Digit Club. Bauer. 315. Escape from Memory. Haddix. 105. Double-Dare to Be Scared. San Souci. 481. Escaping Tornado Season. Williams. 301. Double Helix. Werlin. 249. Essential Worldwide Monster Guide. Ashman. Dowell. Secret Language of Girls. 460. 6. Downard. Little Red Hen. 369. Eugene's Story. Scrimger. 244. Downer. Hatching Magic. 11. Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes Dowson. Tigress. 460. of the Ikkinasti Jungle. Elliott. 271. Doyle, B. Boy O'Boy. 270. Evetts-Secker. Little Red Riding Hood. 324. Doyle, M. Antonio on the Other Side of the Exiled. Karr. 378. World, Getting Smaller. 148. Facing the Lion. Lekuton. 114. Drat That Fat Cat! Thomson. 209. Fagan. Fortress of Kaspar Snit. 416. Dreaming in Black & White. Jung. 19. Failing. Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy. 57. Driscoll. Apples and How They Grow. 149. Fairy in the Dairy. Nolan. 241. Drummond. Flyers. 99. Falcone. Mysterious Mummer. 101. Drusilla the Lucky Duck. Broome. 143. Falconer. Olivia... and the Missing Toy. 150. Duck, Duck, Goose! (A Coyote's on the Loose!). Falconmaster. La Fevers. 156. Beaumont. 316. Fall of Fergal. Ardagh. 406. Duck for President. Cronin. 367. Fattening Hut. Collins. 146. Dunkle. Hollow Kingdom. 227. Faultline. Tashjian. 78. Dunrea. Ollie. 100. Fearnley. Watch Out! 325. . Ollie the Stomper. 100. Feast of Fools. Crowley. 225. DuPrau. City of Ember. 11. Feiffer. Daddy Mountain. 369. . People of Sparks. 461. Felix and the Worrier. Wells. 129. DuQuette. Cock-a-Doodle Moooo! 324. Fenner. Snowed In with Grandmother Silk. 101. Durbin. Blackwater Ben. 189. Feverbird's Claw. Kurtz. 379. Duvall. How Rabbit Lost His Tail. 189. Fight On! Fradin. 13. Dyer. Fish in Room 11. 414. Figley. Schoolchildren's Blizzard. 370. Eager. Fox. 417. Finding My Hat. Son. 296. Earls. 48 Shades of Brown. 461. Fine. True Story of Christmas. 58. Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things. Fine St. Patrick's Day. Wojciechowski. 302. Mackler. 69. Finney. I, Jack. 325. Earthly Knight. McNaughton. 382. Fire-Eaters. Almond. 360. East. Pattou. 73. Firebirds. November. 201. Easter Egg Disaster. Ruelle. 243. Firekeeper's Son. Park. 346. Easton. Walking on Air. 462. Firmament. Bowler. 317. Echlin. Inanna. 228. First Part Last. Johnson. 18. Edwards. Good Night, Copycub. 270. Fish in Room 11. Dyer. 414. Egan. Serious Farm. 149. Fisher, C. Oracle Betrayed. 416. Elena's Serenade. Geeslin. 274. Fisher, L. Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Eleven. Myracle. 290. China. 102. Elf of Union Square. Carr. 319. Fishing Day. Pinkney. 202. Ellington Was Not a Street. Shange. 295. Fitch and Chip: New Pig in Town. Wheeler. Elliott. Evangeline Mudd and the Golden- 168. Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle. 271. Flag Maker. Bartoletti. 363. Ellis. Salmon Forest. 167. Flake. Who Am I Without Him? 463. . Several Lives of Orphan Jack. 150. Fleischman, Paul. Animal Hedge. 102. Ely. Looking after Louis. 324. . Breakout. 58. Emerson. Case of the Cat with the Missing Ear. . Sidewalk Circus. 463. 56. Fleming, C. Ben Franklin's Almanac. 12. Emma's Strange Pet. Little. 68. . Boxes for Katje. 58. Emmett. Someone Bigger. 415. . Gator Gumbo. 325. Empire State Building. Mann. 239. Fleming, D. Buster. 59. Encore, Grace! Hoffman. 191. Flinn. Nothing to Lose. 271. English. Hot Day on Abbott Avenue. 415. Flip Side. Matthews. 70. Eragon. Paolini. 163. Flip. Lubar. 68. Erdrich. Sacagawea. 100. Flood. It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte. 326. Erika's Story. Vander Zee. 298. . Secret Holes. 12. 498 * THE BULLETIN

Florian. Autumnblings. 13. Ghost Girl. Ray. 122. Flowers. Big-Enough Anna. 151. Giant Steps. Loredo. 239. Floyd. Captain's Purr. 103. Gideon. Map that Breathed. 230. Flux. Goobie. 465. Giff. Maggie's Door. 230. Flyers. Drummond. 99. Gift Moves. Lyon. 428. Fogelin. Sister Spider Knows All. 228. Gilbert. Legacy of Gloria Russell. 274. Foon. Dirt Eaters. 229. Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free. Karr. 20. Fortress of Kaspar Snit. Fagan. 416. Gilgamesh the Hero. McCaughrean. 198. Fox. Eager. 417. Girl with a Baby. Olsen. 385. Fradin, D. Fight On! 13. Glass. Wondrous Whirligig. 105. . Nicolaus Copernicus. 326. Gleitzman. Toad Rage. 418. Fradin, J. Fight On! 13. Glenn. Keeping Up With Roo. 371. Frame. Yesterday I Had the Blues. 151. Globalize It! January. 235. France. From Me to You. 229. Go! Go! Maria! Harris. 62. Francine's Day. Alter. 49. Go-Go Baby! Orgill. 346. Frank & Izzy Set Sail. Kvasnosky. 333. Go to Sleep, Groundhog! Cox. 186. Franklin. Grape Thief. 14. Go Track a Yak! Johnston. 18. Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist. Benton. 142. Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop. So. 350. Fraustino. Don't Cramp My Style. 370. God and His Creations. Williams. 395. Freaky Green Eyes. Oates. 117. God Bless the Child. Holiday. 233. Free at Last! Rappaport. 480. Goddesses. Muten. 160. Freedman. In Defense of Liberty. 59. Godless. Hautman. 421. . Voice that Challenged a Nation. 464. Gods and Goddesses of Ancient China. Fisher. Freedom Roads. Hansen. 16. 102. Freeman. Who Is Stealing the Twelve Days of Goldie and the Three Bears. Stanley. 126. Christmas? 190. Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Aylesworth. French, J. Diary of a Wombat. 103. 141. French, S. Where in the World. 230. Goobie. Flux. 465. Frisch. Story of Nike. 190. Good, the Bat, and the Ugly. Magrs. 474. Fritz, A. Praying at the Sweetwater Motel. 104. Good Day's Fishing. Prosek. 292. Fritz, J. Lost Colony of Roanoke. 417. Good Night, Copycub. Edwards. 270. From Me to You. France. 229. Good Night for Freedom. Morrow. 289. Full Moon Barnyard Dance. Schaefer. 165. Good Night Sam. Gay. 15. Full Tilt. Shusterman. 35. Goodman. Truth about Poop. 418. Funke. Inkheart. 272. Goose Girl. Hale. 106. . Princess Knight. 272. Gorbachev. Big Trip. 231. Fuqua. Catie & Josephine. 60. Gordon. Ugly Truckling. 465. Furlong. Colman. 327. Gospel Cinderella. Thomas. 439. Fusco. Tending to Grace. 370. Gossip Times Three. Koss. 20. Gaiman. Wolves in the Walls. 14. Got to Dance. Helldorfer. 468. Galloway. Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Gottesfeld. Heart Divided. 364. Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Gottfried. Homeland Security versus Constitu- Loathed. 273. tional Rights. 190. Gandolfi. Aldabra. 464. Grace. Mayflower 1620. 203. Gantos. Jack Adrift. 60. Gracie. Napoli. 476. Gardner. Inventing Elliot. 273. Graham. Tales from the Waterhole. 372. Gator Gumbo. Fleming. 325. Grandma Elephant's in Charge. Jenkins. 65. Gauthier. Saving the Planet & Stuff. 15. Granfield. I Remember Korea. 231. Gavalda. 95 Pounds of Hope. 104. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup. Creech. 55. Gay, Marie-Louise. Good Night Sam. 15. Grant. Puppet Wrangler. 466. Gay, Michel. Zee Is Not Scared. 327. Grape Thief. Franklin. 14. Geeslin. Elena's Serenade. 274. Grass Angel. Schumacher. 294. George Washington, Spymaster. Allen. 313. Gravedigger's Cottage. Lynch. 427. Geras. Sleeping Beauty. 418. Graves Family. Polacco. 121. . Time for Ballet. 371. Gray. Baby on Board. 328. Gerstein. Man Who Walked between the Tow- .Cluck O'Clock. 419. ers. 152. Graydon. Made You Look. 232. JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 499

Great and Terrible Beauty. Bray. 366. Helquist. Roger, the Jolly Pirate. 372. Greatest Power. Demi. 413. Henderson. Hard Times for Jake Smith. 469. Green Dog. Staples. 126. Henkes. Kitten's First Full Moon. 277. Greenberg. Romare Bearden. 61. . Olive's Ocean. 17. Greene. I've Already Forgotten Your Name, Henry and the Kite Dragon. Hall. 466. Philip Hall. 419. Henry Bear's Christmas. McPhail. 117. Gregor the Overlander. Collins. 185. Hepcat. Bramhall. 455. Gross Universe. Szpirglas. 392. Herman. One Winter's Night. 62. Guest. Iris and Walter and Cousin Howie. 232. Hermes. Summer Secrets. 421. Guiberson. Rain, Rain, Rain Forest. 420. Hero Dogs. Jackson. 64. Guitar Girl. Manning. 338. Heroic Adventures of Hercules Amsterdam. Gunning. Shelter in Our Car. 328. Haber. 105. Gus and Grandpa Go Fishing. Mills. 72. Herzog. God Bless the Child. 233. Haas. Scamper and the Horse Show. 329. Hesse. Aleutian Sparrow. 153. Haber. Heroic Adventures of Hercules . Stone Lamp. 107. Amsterdam. 105. Heuston. Dante's Daughter. 278. Hachiko. Turner. 441. Hey, Pancakes! Weston. 80. Haddix. Escape from Memory. 105. Hidden Alphabet. Seeger. 124. .Say What? 329. Hidden Roots. Bruchac. 262. Halam. Taylor Five. 275. High. Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Hale. Goose Girl. 106. Road Trip. 422. Half and Half. Namioka. 26. Hill. Harlem Stomp! 330. Halibut Jackson. Lucas. 337. Hills. 12 Days of Christmas. 107. Halkin. Run, Boy, Run. 162. Hirsch. Hazel Green. 63. Hall. Henry and the Kite Dragon. 466. Hite. King of Slippery Falls. 469. Halliday. Predicktions. 152. Hobbs. Leaving Protection. 373. Halls. Dinosaur Mummies. 61. Hoberman. You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. Hampton. September 11, 2001. 191. 373. Hansen. Freedom Roads. 16. Hochain. Building Liberty. 470. Haptie. Otto and the Flying Twins. 420. Hoffman, M. Encore, Grace! 191. Hard Cash. Cann. 145. Hoffman, N. Stir of Bones. 192. Hard Labor. McKissack. 287. Holding at Third. Zinnen. 251. Hard Time. Thompson. 208. Holiday. God Bless the Child. 233. Hard Times for Jake Smith. Henderson. 469. Hollow Kingdom. Dunkle. 227. Hard-Times Jar. Smothers. 36. Home. Baker. 363. Harlem Stomp! Hill. 330. Home for Navidad. Ziefert. 212. Harlow. Shadows on the Sea. 106. Homeland Security versus Constitutional Harris. Don't Forget to Come Back. 330. Rights. Gottfried. 190. . Go! Go! Maria! 62. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart. Caletti. 411. .I Am NOT Going to School Today. 16. Hoobler. In Darkness, Death. 278. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. . We Are Americans. 192. Rowling. 31. Hook. Roald Dahl. 459. Hartinger. Last Chance Texaco. 275. Hoop Queens. Smith. 35. Haseley. Trick of the Eye. 467. Hooper. At the Sign of the Sugared Plum. 63. Hassett. Mouse in the House. 276. Hopkinson. Packet of Seeds. 331. Hat Full of Sky. Pratchett. 388. . Shutting Out the Sky. 193. Hatching Magic. Downer. 11. Horace the Horrible. Koller. 154. Haunting of Swain's Fancy. Seabrooke. 34. Hornik. Zoo School. 374. Hautman. Godless. 421. Hot City. Joosse. 424. Hawass. Curse of the Pharaohs. 468. Hot Day on Abbott Avenue. English. 415. Hazel Green. Hirsch. 63. Hot Hot Hot. Layton. 426. Heart Divided. Bennett. 364. House of Windjammer. Richardson. 29. Heart's Delight. Nilsson. 240. House on Falling Star Hill. Molloy. 342. Heartbeat. Creech. 267. Hovey. Ancient Voices. 374. Hebson. Robots Everywhere. 277. How I Became a Pirate. Long. 197. Helen Keller. MacLeod. 381. How I Found the Strong. McMullan. 341. Helldorfer. Got to Dance. 468. 500 * THE BULLETIN

How My Private, Personal Journal Became a January 1905. Boling. 407. Bestseller. DeVilliers. 414. January. Globalize It! 235. How Prudence Proovit Proved the Truth About Jeepers Creepers. Leuck. 22. Fairy Tales. Paratore. 478. Jenkins, A. Out of Order. 64. How Rabbit Lost His Tail. Duvall. 189. Jenkins, E. Daffodil. 470. How Sweet It Is (and Was). Swain. 207. Jenkins, M. Grandma Elephant's in Charge. 65. How to Cross a Pond. Singer. 76. Jenkins, S. Actual Size. 376. Howe. 13. 193. Jennings, P. Wolving Time. 235. Howler. Rosen. 390. Jennings, R. Mystery in Mt. Mole. 108. Hulme. Climbing the Rainbow. 331. Jess and the Stinky Cowboys. Smith. 295. Hunchback. Wright. 442. Jingle Boy. Scott. 123. Hunger Moon. Lamstein. 425. Jinkins. Pinky Dinky Doo: Where Are My Hurst. Killing in Plymouth Colony. 194. Shoes? 423. Huser. Stitches. 233. Jinks. Pagan in Exile. 26. I Am NOT Going to School Today. Harris. 16. . Pagan's Crusade. 236. I Dream of Trains. Johnson. 108. Jocelyn. Mable Riley. 280. I Face the Wind. Cobb. 9. Joe-Joe's First Flight. Tarpley. 36. I, Jack. Finney. 325. Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing I Like Myself! Beaumont. 454. Press. Koscielniak. 66. I Remember Korea. Granfield. 231. Johnson, A. Cool Moonlight. 65. I Took the Moon for a Walk. Curtis. 323. . First Part Last. 18. I'm Mighty! McMullan. 160. . I Dream of Trains. 108. I've Already Forgotten Your Name, Philip Hall. .Just Like Josh Gibson. 280. Greene. 419. . Violet's Music. 236. I've Seen the Promised Land. Myers. 384. Johnson, K. Target. 109. Ibbotson. Not Just a Witch. 17. Johnson, M. Key to the Golden Firebird. 471. Ice Palace. Blumenthal. 142. Johnson, P. Little Bunny Foo Foo. 281. Ichikawa. La La Rose. 279. Johnston. Go Track a Yak! 18. If I Were a Lion. Weeks. 248. . Kenya Christmas. 109. If You Want to See a Caribou. Root. 389. . Mummy's Mother. 195. Impudent Rooster. Rascol. 434. Johnstone. Ultimate Bubble Book. 426. In Darkness, Death. Hoobler. 278. Jones, D. Unexpected Magic. 423. In Defense of Liberty. Freedman. 59. Jones, M. Little Genie: Double Trouble. 281. Inanna. Echlin. 228. Jones, M. Little Genie: Make a Wish! 281. Ingold. Mountain Solo. 194. Jones, P. Things Change. 376. Ingwersen. Crow-Girl. 408. Joosse. Hot City. 424. Inkheart. Funke. 272. Juby. Alice, I Think. 19. Inside Grandad. Dickinson. 269. . Miss Smithers. 471. Inside Out. Trueman. 37. Judas Donkey. Broome. 182. Inside the Alamo. Murphy. 25. JumpMan: Rule #1: Don't Touch Anything. Inventing Elliot. Gardner. 273. Valentine. 488. Iqbal. D'Adamo. 187. Jung. Dreaming in Black & White. 19. Iris and Walter and Cousin Howie. Guest. 232. Jurassic Shark. Diffily. 269. Island of Hope. Sandler. 390. Just Like Josh Gibson. Johnson. 280. It's a Miracle! Spinner. 166. Kaaberbol. Shamer's Daughter. 377. It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte. Flood. 326. Kadohata. Kira-Kira. 195. Jack Adrift. Gantos. 60. Kaner. Animal Groups: How Animals Live To- Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants. Swope. 486. gether. 332. Jackson, D. Hero Dogs. 64. Kantor. Confessions of a Not It Girl. 332. Jackson, R. Meet Me in St. Louis. 375. Karr. Exiled. 378. Jacques. Ribbajack. 422. __ . Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free. 20. Jake, Reinvented. Korman. 112. Kay. Divide. 154. James. Those Messy Hempels. 473. Keeping the Promise. Lehman-Wilzig. 335. Jane. Spring Is Here. 234. Keeping Up With Roo. Glenn. 371. Janeczko, Paul B. Blushing. 234. Keller. What a Hat! 110. .Top Secret. 375. Kemp. Mayflower 1620. 203. .Worlds Afire. 279. Kenya Christmas. Johnston. 109. JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 501

Kerr. Snakes Don't Miss Their Mothers. 110. Lasky. Love That Baby! 285. Kessler. Tail of Emily Windsnap. 378. Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy. Failing. 57. Key Collection. Cheng. 8. Last Burp of Mac McGerp. Smallcomb. 245. Key to the Golden Firebird. Johnson. 471. Last Chance Texaco. Hartinger. 275. Killing in Plymouth Colony. Hurst. 194. Lauber. Who Came First? 22. Kimmel, Elizabeth. Lily B., on the Brink of Lawlor. School at Crooked Creek. 334. Cool. 237. Lawrence. Big Fat Paycheck. 380. Kimmel, Eric. Don Quixote and the Windmills. Layton. Hot Hot Hot. 426. 472. LBD. Dent. 98. ._Wonders and Miracles. 282. Leap Day. Mass. 240. Kimmel, H. Orville. 111. Leaving Protection. Hobbs. 373. King. Milli, Jack, and the Dancing Cat. 333. Lee. True Blue. 114. King & King & Family. de Haan. 459. Leedy. Look at My Book. 380. King of Slippery Falls. Hite. 469. Legacy of Gloria Russell. Gilbert. 274. King-Smith. Nine Lives of Aristotle. 111. Legend of Buddy Bush. Moses. 344. Kira-Kira. Kadohata. 195. Legend of Saint Nicholas. Demi. 98. Kissing the Rain. Brooks. 224. Lehman-Wilzig. Keeping the Promise. 335. Kitten's First Full Moon. Henkes. 277. Lekuton. Facing the Lion. 114. Knockin' on Wood. Barasch. 454. Leon and the Spitting Image. Kurzweil. 155. Koja. Blue Mirror. 282. Leonardo. Byrd. 144. Koller. Horace the Horrible. 154. Leonori. Iqbal. 187. Konigsburg. Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. 283. Less than Perfect. Albert. 138. Korman. Jake, Reinvented. 112. Lester, H. Something Might Happen. 67. Koscielniak. Johann Gutenberg and the Amaz- Lester, J. Shining. 156. ing Printing Press. 66. Let the Good Times Roll with Pirate Pete and Kositsky. Thought of High Windows. 378. Pirate Joe. Cannon. 224. Koss. Gossip Times Three. 20. Letters from Wolfie. Sherlock. 436. Kraft. Theodore Roosevelt. 21. Leuck. Jeepers Creepers. 22. Krisher. Uncommon Faith. 283. . One Witch. 67. Krishnaswami. Monsoon. 196. Levine. Ultimate Bubble Book. 426. .Naming Maya. 424. Levithan. Boy Meets Boy. 23. Krog. Attack of the Killer Video Book. 437. Lewin. Lost City. 23. Krosoczka. Annie Was Warned. 21. Liberty Street. Ransom. 292. Kruglik. Pish and Posh. 223. Library of Alexandria. Trumble. 209. . Wallace's Lists. 408. Life under Ice. Cerullo. 8. Krull. Book of Rock Stars. 196. Lila Bloom. Stadler. 438. . Boy on Fairfield Street. 284. Lily B., on the Brink of Cool. Kimmel. 237. _ M Is for Music. 112. Lily's Ghosts. Ruby. 31. .Night the Martians Landed. 66. Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone. Thomas. . Pot o' Gold. 237. 208. Kurtz. Bicycle Madness. 113. Lindenbaum. Bridget and the Moose Brothers. . Feverbird's Claw. 379. 335. . Memories of Sun. 284. Lionboy. Corder. 322. Kurzweil. Leon and the Spitting Image. 155. Lisle, J. Crying Rocks. 157. Kushner. Brundibar. 155. Lisle, R. Copper. 336. Kvasnosky. Frank & Izzy Set Sail. 333. Little Bunny Foo Foo. Johnson. 281. Kwasney. Baby Blue. 334. Little Cricket. Brown. 456. La Fevers. Falconmaster. 156. Little Genie: Double Trouble. Jones. 281. La La Rose. Ichikawa. 279. Little Genie: Make a Wish! Jones. 281. Laguna. Too Loud Lily. 379. Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night. Laing. Best Kind of Baby. 21. Spiegelman. 77. Lakin. Beach Day! 425. Little Old Big Beard and Big Young Little Beard. Lamm. Bittersweet. 238. Charlip. 183. Lamstein. Hunger Moon. 425. Little Pierre. San Souci. 123. Landry. Snow Ghosts. 113. Little Rat Rides. Bang-Campbell. 315. Lang. Baby Ground Squirrel. 472. Little Red Hen. Downard. 369. . Baby Owl. 472. Little Red Riding Hood. Evetts-Secker. 324. 502 * THE BULLETIN

Little Scraggly Hair. Cullen. 226. Marsden. Mama Had to Work on Christmas. Little Story about a Big Turnip. Zunshine. 444. 158. Little. Emma's Strange Pet. 68. . Silk Umbrellas. 286. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Martin MacGregor's Snowman. Cook. 185. Schmidt. 482. Martin. On Sand Island. 70. Long Time Ago Today. Warner. 39. Marx. Touching the Sky. 94. Long. How I Became a Pirate. 197. Mary Margaret and the Perfect Pet Plan. Look at My Book. Leedy. 380. MacLean. 428. Look. Ruby Lu, Brave and True. 336. Mary Smith. U'Ren. 38. Looking after Louis. Ely. 324. Mary Was a Little Lamb. Rand. 480. Looking for Bobowicz. Pinkwater. 478. Mason, S. Quigleys at Large. 159. Loomis. Scuba Bunnies. 238. Mason, T. Sidekicks. 56. Loredo. Giant Steps. 239. _ . Sidekicks: Operation Squish! 226. Losing Is Not an Option. Wallace. 79. Mass. Leap Day. 240. Lost City. Lewin. 23. Mastro. Antarctic Ice. 115. Lost Colony of Roanoke. Fritz. 417. Matthews. Flip Side. 70. Love That Baby! Lasky. 285. Mauner. Zoe Sophia's Scrapbook. 24. Low. Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat. 285. May Belle and the Ogre. Roberts. 29. Lowry. Messenger. 427. Mayflower 1620. Plimoth Plantation. 203. Luba. Tryszynska-Frederick. 210. Mayor of Central Park. Avi. 140. Lubar. Flip. 68. McAllister. Tortoise and the Hare. 339. Lubka. Pupniks. 69. McCann. Luba. 210. Lucas. Halibut Jackson. 337. McCaughrean. Casting the Gods Adrift. 71. Luciani. Those Messy Hempels. 473. . Gilgamesh the Hero. 198. Luna. Peters. 387. . Stop the Train! 24. Lund. Dinosailors. 197. McCord. Pictures in the Dark. 381. . Tell Me My Story, Mama. 337. McDermott. Creation. 115. Lupton. Riddle Me This! 158. McDonald. Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a. 116. Lynch. Gravedigger's Cottage. 427. . Sisters Club. 159. Lyon. Gift Moves. 428. McEwan. Willy the Scrub. 339. M Is for Music. Krull. 112. McGhee. Snap. 287. Mable Riley. Jocelyn. 280. McGill. Sure as Sunrise. 340. Macaulay. Mosque. 197. McGowan. Freedom Roads. 16. Mack. Birdland. 114. McKissack, F. Hard Labor. 287. Mackel. Alien in a Bottle. 338. McKissack, P. Hard Labor. 287. Mackler. Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round McKissack, R. Try Your Best. 340. Things. 69. McMullan, K. I'm Mighty! 160. MacLean. Mary Margaret and the Perfect Pet McMullan, M. How I Found the Strong. 341. Plan. 428. McNamee. Acceleration. 116. MacLellan. Run from the Nun! 198. McNaughton. Earthly Knight. 382. MacLeod. Helen Keller. 381. McPhail. Big Brown Bear's Up and Down Day. Macy. Swifter, Higher, Stronger. 473. 71. Made You Look. Graydon. 232. . Henry Bear's Christmas. 117. Maggie's Door. Giff. 230. Meacham. Mid-Semester Night's Dream. 382. Magic Thinks Big. Cooper. 321. Meet Me in St. Louis. Jackson. 375. Magrs. Good, the Bat, and the Ugly. 474. Memories of Sun. Kurtz. 284. Major. Ann and Seamus. 286. Meow Means Mischief. Nagda. 199. Major Taylor. Cline-Ransome. 265. Messenger. Lowry. 427. Mama Had to Work on Christmas. Marsden. Mid-Semester Night's Dream. Meacham. 382. 158. Midwinter Nightingale. Aiken. 4. Man Who Walked between the Towers. Mighty Jackie. Moss. 289. Gerstein. 152. Mikaelsen. Tree Girl. 383. Mann. Empire State Building. 239. Milkweed. Spinelli. 125. Manning. Guitar Girl. 338. Milli, Jack, and the Dancing Cat. King. 333. Map that Breathed. Gideon. 230. Millicent Min, Girl Genius. Yee. 130. Markle. Outside and Inside Big Cats. 23. Millions. Boyce. 455. Mills. Gus and Grandpa Go Fishing. 72. JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 503

. Perfectly Chelsea. 383. My Light. Bang. 258. Minchin. Beat Goes On. 384. My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the Minn and Jake. Wong. 83. World. Yansky. 169. Minnie & Moo and the Seven Wonders of the Myers. Beast. 199. World. Cazet. 145. . I've Seen the Promised Land. 384. Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel. Connor. 458. . Shooter. 429. Miss Smithers. Juby. 471. . Time to Love. 26. Mister Monday. Nix. 200. Myracle. Eleven. 290. Mitton, J. Once Upon a Starry Night. 288. . ttyl. 430. Mitton, T. Tale of Tales. 341. Myrtle. Pearson. 386. Molloy. House on Falling Star Hill. 342. Mysterious Mummer. Falcone. 101. Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism. Mystery in Mt. Mole. Jennings. 108. Byng. 7. Nagda. Meow Means Mischief. 199. Molk. When You Were Just a Heartbeat. 474. Naked without a Hat. Willis. 396. Monsoon. Krishnaswami. 196. Names Will Never Hurt Me. Adoff. 312. Montgomery. Tarantula Scientist. 342. Naming Maya. Krishnaswami. 424. Montmorency. Updale. 351. Namioka. Half and Half. 26. Moo Who? Palatini. 477. Napoli. Breath. 72. Moongobble and Me: The Dragon of Doom. . Gracie. 476. Coville. 266. . North. 430. Moore. Animal Groups: A Mob of Meerkats. Nathan. Count on Us. 345. 475. Neighborhood Mother Goose. Crews. 267. More Mr. and Mrs. Green. Baker. 258. Nelson, S. Star People. 160. Moriarty. Year of Secret Assignments. 343. Nelson, V. Almost to Freedom. 290. Morning Glory Monday. Alda. 92. Nest Full of Stars. Berry. 261. Morris. Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Never Mind! Avi. 362. Knight. 288. Newbery. Sisterland. 431. Morrison, S. Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Nicolaus Copernicus. Fradin. 326. Snake? 344. Night Cat. Beames. 141. Morrison, Taylor. Coast Mappers. 343. Night the Martians Landed. Krull. 66. Morrison, Toni. Remember. 475. Nightmare. Nixon. 117. . Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? Nijland. King & King & Family. 459. 344. Nilsson. Heart's Delight. 240. Morrow. Good Night for Freedom. 289. Nimmo. Charlie Bone and the Time Twister. Mortal Engines. Reeve. 293. 161. Moses. Beneduce. 260. Nine Lives of Aristotle. King-Smith. 111. Moses. Legend of Buddy Bush. 344. Nishimura. Dinah! 345. Mosque. Macaulay. 197. Nix. Mister Monday. 200. Moss. Mighty Jackie. 289. Nixon. Nightmare. 117. Motion Pictures. De Angelis. 368. No Laughter Here. Williams-Garcia. 212. Mouly. Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night. Noisy Way to Bed. Whybrow. 394. 77. Nolan, H. When We Were Saints. 161. Mountain Solo. Ingold. 194. Nolan, L. Fairy in the Dairy. 241. Mouse in the House. Hassett. 276. Nolen. Thunder Rose. 200. Muhammad. Demi. 56. North. Napoli. 430. Mummy's Mother. Johnston. 195. Not Just a Witch. Ibbotson. 17. Mung-Mung. Park. 242. Not Quite a Stranger. Rodowsky. 75. Munro. Doors. 429. Nothing to Lose. Flinn. 271. Murphy. Inside the Alamo. 25. November. Firebirds. 201. Murray. Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley Nunnally. Ring of the Slave Prince. 294. (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life). 25. Nye. Baby Radar. 201. Music for Alice. Say. 349. O Come, All Ye Faithful. Wade. 128. Mutin. Goddesses. 160. O'Brien. Beach Patrol. 431. My Contract with Henry. Vaupel. 38. O'Connell. Baby Goes Beep. 73. My Cup Runneth Over. Whytock. 129. O'Malley. Straight to the Pole. 162. My Father's Summers. Appelt. 453. Oates. Freaky Green Eyes. 117. My House Is Singing. Rosenthal. 390. Oh, Look! Polacco. 291. 504 * THE BULLETIN

Old Granny and the Bean Thief. DeFelice. 98. Pennac. Dog. 347. Older. Pig. 476. People of Sparks. DuPrau. 461. Olive's Ocean. Henkes. 17. Perfect Thanksgiving. Spinelli. 125. Olivia... and the Missing Toy. Falconer. 150. Perfectly Chelsea. Mills. 383. Oiler. Cabbage Soup Solution. 241. Perils of Peppermints. Wallace. 211. Ollie. Dunrea. 100. Perkins. Snow Music. 164. Ollie the Stomper. Dunrea. 100. Peters. Luna. 387. Olsen. Girl with a Baby. 385. Peterson. Don't Forget Winona. 432. On Her Way. Asher. 314. Pfeffer. Dolphin Talk. 202. On Sand Island. Martin. 70. .Shortest Day. 120. On the Run. Coleman. 413. Wiggling Worms at Work. 243. Once Upon a Starry Night. Mitton. 288. Philbrick. Young Man and the Sea. 291. One Night. Wild. 395. Picture of Morty & Ray. Pinkwater. 74. One Nighttime Sea. Rose. 75. Picture Perfect. Alphin. 49. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Pictures in the Dark. McCord. 381. Mother Dies. Sones. 484. Pierce, M. Waters Luminous & Deep. 387. One Small Place in a Tree. Brenner. 409. Pierce, T. Trickster's Choice. 120. One Winter's Night. Herman. 62. Pietri. Orange Trees of Versailles. 388. One Witch. Leuck. 67. Pig. Older. 476. Open Your Eyes. Davis. 147. Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Willems. 489. Oppel. Airborn. 477. Pinchuk. Best Book of Bikes. 28. Oracle Betrayed. Fisher. 416. Pinkney. Fishing Day. 202. Orange Trees of Versailles. Pietri. 388. Pinkwater. Bad Bears in the Big City. 291. Orenstein. Unseen Companion. 118. . Looking for Bobowicz. 478. Orgill. Go-Go Baby! 346. . Picture of Morty & Ray. 74. Orlev. Run, Boy, Run. 162. Pinky Dinky Doo: Where Are My Shoes? Orville. Kimmel. 111. Jinkins. 423. Osa. Cuba 15. 27. Pirates! Rees. 203. Ostrich Eye. Cooley. 266. Pish and Posh. Bottner. 223. Otis. Killing in Plymouth Colony. 194. Plaidypus Lost. Stevens. 438. Otto and the Flying Twins. Haptie. 420. Please Don't Kill the Freshman. Trope. 127. Out of Order. Jenkins. 64. Plimoth Plantation. Mayflower 1620. 203. Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. Konigsburg. 283. Plum-Ucci. She. 121. Outside and Inside Big Cats. Markle. 23. Pocahontas. Bruchac. 224. Packet of Seeds. Hopkinson. 331. Polacco. Graves Family. 121. Pagan in Exile. Jinks. 26. . Oh, Look! 291. Pagan's Crusade. Jinks. 236. Policeman Lou and Policewoman Sue. Painters of Lexieville. Darrow. 188. Desimini. 10. Pak. Sumi's First Day of School Ever. 27. Polikoff. Why Does the Coquf Sing? 433. Palatini. Bad Boys. 119. Pop Princess. Cohn. 320. . Moo Who? 477. Portnoy. Where Do People Go When They Die? . Stinky Smelly Feet. 432. 347. Panda Rescue. Bortolotti. 262. Pot o' Gold. Krull. 237. Paolini. Eragon. 163. Potter. Chloe's Birthday...and Me. 479. Papa's Mark. Battle-Lavert. 259. Prairie Girl. Anderson. 313. Paratore. How Prudence Proovit Proved the Pratchett. Hat Full of Sky. 388. Truth About Fairy Tales. 478. Praying at the Sweetwater Motel. Fritz. 104. Park. Firekeeper's Son. 346. Predicktions. Halliday. 152. . Mung-Mung. 242. Prep. Coburn. 184. Pascual and the Kitchen Angels. de Paola. 268. Presence. Bunting. 95. Patent. Right Dog for the Job. 385. Pride of African Tales. Washington. 352. Pattou. East. 73. Princess Knight. Funke. 272. Paulsen. Brian's Hunt. 242. Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight. __ . Shelf Life. 28. Morris. 288. Pearson, S. Squeal and Squawk. 386. Printer. Uhlberg. 128. Pearson, T. Myrtle. 386. Promises to Keep. Robinson. 348. Peck. River between Us. 119. Prophecy of the Stones. Bujor. 367. JULY/AUGUST 2004 * 505

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