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OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS July/August 2003 Vol. 56 No. 11

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435 THE BIG PICTURE Mystic Horse ad. and illus. by Paul Goble 436 NEW BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Reviewed titles include: 446 * Beggingfor Change by Sharon G. Flake 451 * Moo Cow Kaboom! written and illus. by Thacher Hurd 453 * Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge 455 * The Dream Bearer by Walter Dean Myers 457 * Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile ad. by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert; illus. by Julie Paschkis 458 * The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett 468 SUBJECT AND USE INDEX 470 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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Mystic Horse ad. and illus. by Paul Goble

Charged with even more motion and emotion ("Abandoned, lonely, unloved!/ ... There is an old horse in our midst/ Who is without an owner,/ Abandoned, lonely, unloved!") than the stunning Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, which won the 1979 Caldecott Medal, this book moves beyond kinship with the animal world to a cycle of death and resurrection through animals' kinship with the spirit world. Skillfully adapted from a Pawnee story collected by George Bird Grinnell and published in 1889, the story portrays a poor orphan lad whose kindness to a cast- off horse draws jeering from the well-mounted warriors in his tribe. In face of an enemy attack, however, the boy obeys the sickly animal's command to cover it with river mud and ride four times into battle counting coup with a willow stick. The horse, magically renewed as a prancing steed, is then killed when the boy disobeys with a fifth charge. Grieving deeply afterwards throughout a heavy rain- storm, the boy sees the horse rise, healed, and rides him home, along with a herd of wild horses, to lead his people and care for his old grandmother "for all her years." In responsibly citing the story's source, Goble acknowledges the fact that he has "had to make changes from the original because certain aspects do not translate well into today's thinking"-perhaps the boy's killing of the enemy on whom he counts coup, and more probably the butchering of the horse by the enemy when it falls after the fifth charge. And from the tale that Grinnell heard during the time he spent with the Pawnee in Nebraska, Goble has omitted an earlier episode in which the rejuvenated horse carries the boy toward a buffalo herd to kill a spotted calf, for whose skin the chief has promised his daughter in marriage. The result of this selection is a shorter but sharply focused tale. Goble's hope that "the spirit of the story is still there" is assuredly fulfilled in his dramatic yet sensitive reconstruc- tion. Though the story itself has deep appeal, it is the artistic contextualization that gives perspective on the tale as part of a "horse culture" rather than a piece of isolated lore. Each illustrative feature adds to the cultural grounding. Eerie blue- and-white endpapers portray the mythic appearance of horses from frothy waves into the green-and-yellow sunshined world, whereupon they turn into a variegated herd thundering across the half-title page. Thus readers witness the "spirit horses, Arusa, surge up from the womb of Mother Earth, through the waters of a sacred lake, to spread out and replenish the wild herds." Traditional designs decorate the copyright information, two pages of meticulous background information on the tribe, and the beginning and end of the legend, which is clean in both verbal and visual composition. The illustrated scenes are dynamically paced and emotionally expressive, with startling contrasts--one double-page spread is vertically barred with birch 436 * THE BULLETIN trees, another shadowed with a massive blue-black thunderhead generating metal- lic streaks of rain over the huddled figure of the boy. A stylized pool of blood, with a butterfly hovering close by, swirls from the dead horse's mouth as the boy throws himself over his fallen mount; later, as the boy hugs the resurrected horse, pools of rain swirl over the entire page. This is one of Goble's deepest creations--durable enough to support imagined journeys of courage and transformation again and again, alone or aloud. (Imprint information appears on p. 447.) Betsy Hearne, Consulting Editor

NEW BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

ANHOLT, LAURENCE Jack and the Dreamsack;illus. by Ross Collins. Bloomsbury, 2003 26p ISBN 1-58234-786-7 $16.95 Ad 4-6 yrs Philosophical young Jack declares that "the trouble with dreams ... is that you are always asleep when you have them," so he resolves to stay awake when he goes to sleep so he can observe his dreams properly. That night the boy takes a sack "to put his dreams in" and goes off "to search for the middle, the very center of all dreams everywhere." Jack travels through some surreal dream terrain, finding "a small white snail dog," "telephones with beards," a "Finger Forest," a "Human Zoo," etc.; to all of these his response is "AMAZING!" Finally he reaches "the very top branch of the giant Fruit Salad tree that grows right in the center, smack- dab in the middle, in the very bellybutton of all dreams." Jack returns home, his sack heavy with dreams, but when he opens the sack it's empty but for a tiny Dreamseed, which, when planted, grows through the roof. Anholt's text is somewhat self-conscious, but it rolls along rhythmically right from the opening lines. Although the pace falters when Jack's journey descends into the list-like accumula- tion of Dreamthings, the momentum is strong enough to keep the story from stalling. The art depicts Jack's dream world and the stuff within it very literally, which sometimes makes the visuals flat, but despite the Candyland look of the images there are some effective surreal moments. Use this tale to trigger a discus- sion of dreams and dreaming, awake and sleeping. JMD

BAKER, LESLIE The Animal ABC; written and illus. by Leslie Baker. Holt, 2003 34 p ISBN 0-8050-6746-9 $15.95 Ad 2-4 yrs The format is a classic one: a page (or spread) features a letter in upper and lower case, an inviting illustrtiion of an animal whose name starts with (or, with X for "ox," includes) that letter, and a caption offering the animal's name in large print. Baker's watercolors are the main reward: fluid, eloquent, and imaginative, they JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 437 bring their able ant, cuddly koala, curious quail, and roguish raccoon to vivid life, offsetting tenderly drafted subjects with dappled and dreamy backgrounds and the occasional festive accessory (autumn leaves drift down towards the vole as he peers out at the viewer with acorn in paws). Unfortunately, a few animal faces are cute where others are expressive; more problematic are some of the choices for letter representatives, since youngsters just grappling with the alphabet are going to have a hard time wrestling with the word "uakari" or understanding the specific nature of the yellowtail (it would also be useful for the letters to have been more obviously identified within the words). This therefore isn't going to challenge the shelf space of great alphabet books such as Brian Wildsmith's ABC (BCCB 6/63), but its traditional subject, tight focus, and inviting illustrations will make this a cozy start for many young abecedarians. DS

BOND, REBECCA When Marcus Moore Moved In; written and illus. by Rebecca Bond. Tingley/Little, 2003 32p ISBN 0-316-10458-2 $15.95 R 4-7 yrs Bouncing around on the unloaded furniture in the early morning, Marcus Moore is ready for action in his new neighborhood ("'I'm here!' said Marcus Moore"), but "there was no one there." Soon somebody does come by, but "by" is the operative word: the girl skips past him "like a sunny sidewalk dancer," she rides past him on her bicycle, she marches by him as she beats her drum, and Marcus Moore despairs ("And there was only grim and gray, and there was only him"). Fortunately, the girl returns, knocking at the door of his makeshift streetside house and introduc- ing herself as Katherine Brown, and Marcus' new neighborhood seems a good place again ("And at once he felt all rosy. Like that, his street had changed"). Bond's text has a pulsing rhythm and a taste for repetition ("at 44 MacDougal Street when Marcus Moore moved in") that suggests an unrhymed ballad, but it never discomfits reader-aloud or audience by demanding a poetry vs. prose call. Instead, audiences can relish the happy reliance on sound in words ("She stomped and tromped and swaggered") and sound effects per se ("And BOOM-BA-DEE! BOOM- BA-DEE! BOOM-BA-DEE! Like that she banged her drum"), while appreciating the plainspoken yet evocative images of an urban street in summer ("And in the early evening, when the day was blue and dusty, with smells of dinners cooking, with lightly layered dark"). The smudgy, mottled acrylics are a perfect partner to the text: Bond is particularly effective at catching the fidgety, hanging-out poses of a young boy hovering in front of his new steps (Marcus idly trails a string down the sidewalk and upends himself on a waiting chair) and depicting the companionably narrow streets of the urban neighborhood (often from a bird's-eye view). Reloca- tion is hard, but this should lighten many a young mover's load. DS

BOWLER, TIM Storm Catchers. McElderry, 2003 200p ISBN 0-689-84573-1 $16.95 Ad Gr. 6-10 On a dark Cornish night, Ella is abducted from her home, leaving her little brother, Sam, behind and her parents and older brother, Fin, distraught upon their return; soon a ransom note arrives, cautioning the family to tell no one. Fin attempts to use the old magic of dowsing (with a makeshift pendulum over a map) to find his sister's whereabouts, but it's little Sam who proves truly gifted and whose results suggest Ella is nearby. When the kidnapper orders Fin to destroy the ransom money, Fin begins to realize that this is a kidnapping of revenge, not greed, that it's tied into secrets about his father's past, and that it's up to him to find Ella and 438 * THE BULLETIN bring her home safely. Bowler never quite makes the most of his supernaturally touched atmosphere, but there's a very readable suspense to the unfolding plot, especially in the cutting back and forth between the viewpoints of Ella with her captor and Fin and the others at home. Unfortunately, the suspense is largely dissipated by a labored climax that crams too much backstory and explanation into the last quarter of the book, thus undercutting the impact of both the events and the revelations. Between the family secrets, supernatural touches, and central drama, however, there's probably enough to keep genre fans absorbed. DS

BRADLEY, KIMBERLYBRUBAKER ForFreedom: The Story ofa French Spy. Delacorte, 2003 181p Library ed. ISBN 0-385-90087-2 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-385-72961-8 $15.95 R Gr. 6-9 In this historical novel set in Cherbourg, France, Bradley provides a fictionalized account of the true story of Suzanne David, a young French opera singer whose work as a spy for the Allies was instrumental in the success of the 1944 Normandy invasion. After a grisly narrative hook, wherein thirteen-year-old Suzanne wit- nesses the mangling of her neighbor-including the woman's decapitation and a fetus ripped from her womb-during a bomb raid on the beach, the story settles into the constant suspense, fear, and tension of living in an occupied city. Suzanne continues to pursue her career as an opera singer despite the war, and she begins to perform around the city, finally realizing her ultimate dream of singing the role of Carmen in Paris. When her doctor realizes the freedom of movement she enjoys, he enlists her help in the dangerous work of carrying messages. Over three years, she delivers countless messages to an ever-decreasing number of fellow espionage agents, until one day she too is betrayed. The subject matter is naturally involving, and the juxtaposition of Suzanne's successes as a singer and as a spy moves this gripping narrative along at a firm clip. Characterization is thoughtful enough to add interest, with Suzanne feeling romantic or heroic on the stage but alarmingly clumsy and obvious as a spy, a realistic emotional detail that contributes to the tension of the story. Add this to Number the Stars to show another face of the heroic resistance of young people during the war. KC

BRINSON, CYNTHIA L. Seeing Sugar. Viking, 2003 [96p] ISBN 0-670-03646-3 $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 3-5 Kate Martin bristles with jealousy as her teacher banishes her to the back of the room in order to give her prized front-row seat to new student Sugar Rose Simms. As a result, everything changes for Kate; she hates fourth grade, distrusts her formerly beloved teacher, and realizes with horror that she can't see the board from her new seat. Quite reasonably, she blames Sugar Rose for her misfortune and swears off all things sweet. New glasses afford a new perspective, however, and she grabs her mother's camera to document the world she has been missing. Looking through her fifth eye-the lens of the camera-Kate realizes that Sugar Rose is no saccharine usurper, but a shy, vulnerable girl who could use a friend. This is a quick, simple tale of preadolescent jealousy turned to empathy, and Brinson shows a keen sensitivity to the overblown intensity of preadolescent troubles. The meta- phors of sugar avoidance and vision correction are somewhat pointed, but they help carry the more abstract emotions and render the text a possible gateway to JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 439 more sophisticated literary fare. From new rivals and new glasses to new friends and new hobbies, many younger readers will find themselves in this book. KC

BUTLER, DORI HILLESTAD Trading Places with Tank Talbott. Whitman, 2003 139p ISBN 0-8075-1708-9 $14.95 R Gr. 3-6 After a near-drowning mishap the previous summer, eleven-year-old Jason Pfeiffer dreads the swimming lessons his parents are requiring. When he discovers that the school bully, Tank Talbott, is taking ballroom dancing in the same facility, he avoids being beaten up for the terrible knowledge by coming up with a brilliant idea: he and Tank, who share a resemblance that causes them to be mistaken for one another, can take each other's classes. As Jason neatly avoids his watery fate by passing himself off as a dancing Tank, he begins to see how demoralizing people's reactions to Tank can be (and where Tank gets his bullying habits from); the pair's enforced partnership also leads to an unintended friendship as they bond together over Jason's in-progress monster-movie script. Butler ingeniously takes the traditional adult injunction to "put yourself in his shoes" and does just that to her main character, employing a sufficiently legitimate conceit for the shift to undermine its didactic edges and even managing a situation that renders the success of the swap fairly realistic. There's plenty of humor in the situation (particularly when the girls in the dancing class all figure out that Jason's not Tank and get crushes on him), but it's effectively paired with Jason's broadening perspective ("Two min- utes ago he was afraid no one would think he was really Tank. Now he was afraid everyone would think he was"); Tank's modest transformation is couched in fairly believable terms as well. Readers will find themselves sympathizing with both kids, as well as thoroughly enjoying themselves. DS

CART, MICHAEL, ed. Necessary Noise: Stories about Our Families as They Really Are; illus. by Charlotte Noruzi. Cotler/HarperCollins, 2003 239p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-027500-6 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-027499-9 $15.99 Ad Gr. 7-10 Gathering together an impressive list of superstars of YA fiction, including Joan Bauer, Emma Donoghue, Nikki Grimes, Lois Lowry, and Walter Dean Myers, among others, this anthology presents an array of ten stories about families in various states of disarray. Standout entries include Grimes' "The Throwaway: A Suite" which tells the story of Hagar and Ishmael in blank verse from Ishmael's point of view, and Myers' poignant "Visit," where a father who had abandoned his son, physically and emotionally, twenty-five years before is called upon to be his last visitor and witness to his execution. Other stories are more light-hearted: Lowry's "Snowbound" pokes fun at the inappropriate college boyfriend (this one disdains soap, manners, and eating "mammal"), and Bauer's "Hardware" plays out a David and Goliath scenario when a family decides to defend their hardware business against the encroachment of a Waldo's superstore. Unfortunately, many of the stories fail to meet this standard, offering well-meaning examples of family diversity but little memorable literary experience; Cart's own story seems themati- cally out of place, and his dogmatic introduction is worth skipping altogether. Half of the stories do work, however, which makes the collection worth dipping into if not reading through. KC 440 * THE BULLETIN

CERULLO, MARY M. Sea Turtles: Ocean Nomads; illus. with photographs by Jef- frey L. Rotman. Dutton, 2003 40p ISBN 0-525-46649-5 $17.99 R Gr. 2-5 Lush, arresting photography of the ethereal-looking sea turtle and its tropical habi- tats is the stand-out feature of this combination information/call-to-conservation text. Chapters include accounts of how research on sea turtles is conducted, how the turtles themselves are adapted to ocean life, how their extraordinary birth dramas and elusive childhoods are enacted, and what efforts are being made to protect this endangered species. Interspersed with the narratives of the chapters are insets providing additional information about selected areas of interest, including how to tell a boy from a girl sea turtle and how the earless turtles' hearing is tested. Notably absent is any information about how turtles mate, though there are several good pictures with accompanying text about the process of laying and burying the fertilized eggs. The main chapters have a sandy background, while the insets feature a black background; the alternating colors evoke the dark sea and the sandy beaches that make up the habitat of these placid reptiles and subtly emphasize the importance of dark and light to the turtles' survival. Information about conservation, as well as a glossary, bibliography, and index, are included. KC

COHEN, CARON LEE Everything Is Different at Nonna's House; illus. by Hiroe Nakata. Clarion, 2003 32p ISBN 0-618-07335-3 $16.00 Ad 3-5 yrs A little boy muses on how the world seems to be a different place when he leaves the city to visit his grandparents in the country: "Everything is different at Nonna's house. No honk, honk taxis jam the street. And no way-up buildings crowd the sky. At Nonna's house, the yard is wide and quiet. And the whole blue sky reaches all the way down to the flower beds." The leisurely pace of country life is given its laudatory due by the youngster, who points out all the ways country life is superior to city life, from the lack of rushing in the mornings ("There's always time for blueberry pancakes") to the fact that flowers grow outside the kitchen door instead of having to be purchased at the florist's shop. The rather list-like text is held together by the boy's exclamatory inferences about how he is different in the country than in the city ("I'm such a big boy at Nonna's house!"), exclamations which in the end close the story into a neat circle. The sentimental text is lengthy, however, and it takes a bit too long to get to the admittedly valuable point: that the boy is the same competent child whether at his grandma's or at home. Nakata's light and airy watercolors help balance the sometimes overly sweet text: the sunny country images have a plethora of cheery yellows and blues, the compositions have an easy flow, and the characters are simple-featured but expressive. Children and their loving adults will be comforted by the sincerity of the book's message and by the security pictured in the close family relationships. JMD

COLFER, EOIN Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. Miramax/Hyperion, 2003 309p ISBN 0-7868-1914-6 $16.95 R Gr. 5-8 Artemis Fowl (of Artemis Fowl BCCB 7/01, and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Inci- dent, 6/02) is back, and this time he's bitten off more than he-and his nearly indestructible bodyguard, Butler-can chew. When a plan to extort money from communications magnate Jon Spiro by holding back Artemis' new invention (the JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 441

C Cube, a combination of computer and fairy technology) goes awry, the Cube is stolen, and Butler is seriously wounded. Artemis' quick thinking and large wallet get his beloved bodyguard on ice, cryogenically speaking, long enough for Captain Holly Short of LEP (fairyland's Lower Elements Police) to come to the medical, magical rescue. The theft of Artemis' invention also puts all of fairyland at risk of exposure, so one daring plan later Artemis, Holly, Juliet (Butler's younger sister, just as deadly ifa bit unorthodox), and Mulch Diggums (digger dwarfextraordinaire) infiltrate Spiro's citadel in downtown Chicago to retrieve the Cube. Colfer combines fantasy with science-fiction hardware to satisfying effect, and fans of the previous titles won't be disappointed. The action is gratifyingly fast and cun- ningly complicated, and the return of familiar favorite characters (plus the ex- panded role ofJuliet, the bodyguard-rising) provides a cast worthy of the adventure. The villains are organized-crime caricatures limited by their stereotypes but still effective as plot participants; main characters are allowed more depth, and Artemis in particular is evolving into a character dealing with complex moral issues. The conclusion-wherein Artemis and entourage are mind-wiped of any memories of the fairy realm-leaves Artemis without the conscience he has gained through his association with the fairies, a situation that reprises'ethical questions raised at the beginning of the book. Will Artemis find the clue he planted that will lead to total recall? A sequel, if not secure, is eminently feasible. JMD

COREY, SHANA Players in Pigtails; illus. by Rebecca Gibbon. Scholastic, 2003 34 p ISBN 0-439-18305-7 $16.95 R 6-9 yrs If you can only imagine "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as sung by a gravelly Harry Caray or a chorus of beer-soaked male spectators, then you probably haven't heard all the verses. The "voice" belongs to fictional Katie Casey (no relation, we presume, to the venerable Mudville slugger), who drags her beau to the ballpark. Corey warps the 1908 "baseball mad" maid ahead to 1943, where she becomes an archetypal player on the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. While this contortion is an unnecessary stretch, the story of Katie's long step up to the plate is lots of fun, as World War II and a visionary Philip Wrigley offer aspiring women players a chance of a lifetime. Corey has an eye for the details that will satisfy the picture-book set-from naysayers behind the scenes and hecklers in the stands, to prissy, impractical uniforms and mandatory charm-school manners on the field. Gibbon sets her lanky players against airy white space and swathes of summery pastels, coyly contrasting their tomboyish grace with the more demure stylishness of their stay-at-home sisters. A lengthy author's note supplies information about the league, and lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and the "Victory Song" of the AAGPBL grace the endpapers. A more enticing title than Adler's Mama Played Baseball (BCCB 4/03), Pigtails is a solid hit. EB

DAVIS, REBECCA FJELLAND Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged. HarperTempest, 2003 265p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-051838-3 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-051837-5 $15.99 R Gr. 9-12 Lainey has been friends with Jake since he came to live with his father, her father's farm tenant, a few months ago upon his release from an institution for youthful 442 * THE BULLETIN offenders. Now that Jake's interest in Lainey is becoming intrusively sexual, Lainey is legitimately afraid of him, but she's also scared of what will happen to him if she shares her fears with authorities, such as the school counselor who has labeled him "irreparably damaged" ("I'm not sure it's entirely true that I don't need help, and I think Jake does need help. We just don't need it from her"). As Jake's behavior becomes more dangerous (he threatens to kill Lainey if she reveals his private con- fidences to her), Lainey becomes increasingly torn between defending herself by getting Jake put away permanently and defending the good that she knows still lies in a young man whose chances for the future are rapidly dwindling. This is a tautly written psychodrama with thrilleresque spice: Davis' stage-management of events is sometimes a bit obtrusive, but the tension of Lainey's dilemma is both palpable and plausible. The adults' vacillating treatment of the situation is credible as well, with incidents galvanized by teachers breaching student trust and parents hoping for the best at the wrong moment, leaving Lainey largely on her own. Lainey is tough (the capable farm girl lands a punch on Jake's nose that breaks both his nose and her hand) but also sympathetic, and the book effectively taps into her ambivalence about her own sexual feelings, both to suggest the possibility of her overreaction to some ofJake's behavior and also to link her unease with his own. Fans of Lois Lowry and Gail Giles as well as subtler ethical dramas should find this a gripping read. DS

DITERLIZZI, TONY The Field Guide; written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black; illus. by Tony DiTerlizzi. Simon, 2003 107p ISBN 0-689-85936-8 $9.95 R Gr. 3-5 DITERLIZZI, TONY The Seeing Stone; written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black; illus. by Tony DiTerlizzi. Simon, 2003 108p ISBN 0-689-85937-6 $9.95 R Gr. 3-5 When nine-year-old twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace and their thirteen-year- old sister Mallory move into their great-aunt Lucinda's decrepit Victorian man- sion, they are not necessarily looking for adventure: their father has moved out, their mother is broke, and they have no place else to go. In The Field Guide, the first volume of this projected five-volume series, Jared discovers a secret room in the old house that points him toward the life's work of a family ancestor: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the FantasticalWorld, a book about the habits and pe- culiarities of fairies, brownies, etc. The siblings subsequently discover they have a house-boggart cum brownie, Thimbletack, who advises them to get rid of the book. Despite Thimbletack's warning, Jared holds onto the Guide, and in the second book, The Seeing Stone, readers see the indirect result: Simon is kidnapped by goblins, and Jared and Mallory go after him. This new series has two things Lem- ony Snicket's series doesn't: magic and pictures. DiTerlizzi (author/illustrator of Ted, BCCB 2/01 and illustrator of The Spider and the Fly, 11/02) and Black (author of Tithe, BCCB 1/03) have created an old-fashioned fantasy romp festooned with eye-catching visuals. At about one hundred pages, each volume ends just when the going gets good, a ploy that will certainly bring readers back for more. The authors have a smooth, quick storytelling style, and the dialogue among the sibs (and their interactions with their nearly overwhelmed mother) have the reso- nance of true sibling sniping. With its reader-friendly concept and sophisticated packaging, the Spiderwick Chronicles will be a hit, which may well be considered an Unfortunate Event for competing series. JMD JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 443

DONNELLY, JENNIFER A Northern Light. Harcourt, 2003 389p ISBN 0-15-216705-6 $17.00 Ad Gr. 9-12 Sixteen-year-old Mattie is burned out by the hard work and responsibility of managing the household since her mother passed away. A promising writer, whose sampling of poetry has secured her a college scholarship, Mattie's surrounded by reminders of the life that may await her if she stays on the family farm: her beloved teacher's abusive husband, her best friend's travails in childbirth, the grinding bore- dom of chores, and a circle of acquaintances with no appreciation of books and learning. There's a powerful contradictory force at work, though-Royal Loomis, a young farmer to whom she's drawn more by hormones than by heart. A farm disaster and her father's need for ready cash send Mattie off to work at a local resort for the summer, where she is entrusted by a pretty patron, Grace Brown, with a stack of love letters to be burned. This unusual charge leads Mattie to ponder the mystery of Grace's subsequent drowning and hardens her resolve to leave the farm for good. Donnelly infuses her story with details surrounding an actual 1906 murder, and as she gradually draws Mattie's and Grace's stories together, readers might reasonably expect that a genuine murder mystery is forth- coming. Discovery of the circumstances of Grace's life and death merely functions as the final epiphany that sends Mattie running toward a brighter future, though, and as teens finally watch Mattie choose New York over Royal Loomis, they may feel they've been cheated out of the better half of a very long story. EB

DOWNS, MIKE The Noisy Airplane Ride; illus. by David Gordon. Tricycle, 2003 32p ISBN 1-58246-091-4 $14.95 R 6-9 yrs Evocative sound effects combined with chipper couplets depict an airplane flight from boarding to deplaning, focusing on one boy's trip to see his grandmother. The second-person narration ("The tug's hooked up; you won't be late") pulls audiences right onto the tarmac, while simple explanations help demystify the strange sights and, especially, sounds ("CLUNK Wheels up WHIRR Flaps up") that can make novices aloft uneasy. The awkward and labored couplets are the book's weakest spot, but otherwise this is one of the more thorough and helpful introduc- tions to flight to appear for young audiences. The coverage is broad indeed, and airline-pilot Downs knows his noises, detailing the loud "Ker-oosh" of the airplane toilet, the "Roar! Roar!!" of the thrust reversers, and even the "Splash!" of the young boy's overturned in-flight beverage ("That's okay, just wipe it up"). The technical details will be interesting to gearheads as well as reassuring to the nervous, and a final spread provides further explanation of some aspects men- tioned in the text and describes a few more possible components of the aviation experience. Gordon demonstrates great finesse in his computer-created art, with the "daubs" of color gradation, saturation of hues, and a tendency towards high- lighting suggesting acrylic paintings. Though perspectives become confusing in a couple of images (and purists may object to the somewhat inconsistently depicted airplane), the artist also has a keen eye for the dramatic composition, making the most not just of his gleaming aircraft but the opportunity for unusual views of and within it. Aside from being a useful volume for kids aloft, this will offer exciting opportunities for youngsters playing pilot on the ground, and for adults who want to be prepared for in-flight questions of"What's that noise?" DS 444 * THE BULLETIN

DRAPER, SHARON M. The Battle ofJericho. Atheneum, 2003 297p ISBN 0-689-84232-5 $16.95 Ad Gr. 7-10 Jericho longs for the social capital that belonging to the Warriors of Distinction, a prestigious high-school "service" organization, will afford him-access to better girls, better parties, and better grades. Publicly, the Warriors are known for their successful toy drives. Privately, they operate as a secret fraternity, complete with harrowing and often viscerally disgusting initiation rituals. Despite repeated warn- ings from teachers, parents, and even the school janitor, Jericho and the other pledges, including Dana, the first girl ever allowed to pledge the group, participate in increasingly debasing tasks ostensibly meant to facilitate manly virtues. When the hazing goes fatally awry, Jericho realizes with a tragic vengeance what he already knew-that the humiliation was unmotivated, cruel, and ultimately, worse than futile. While the plot moves with reasonable speed, the narration has a clipped, stilted quality that interferes with the timing. The teen voices ring true only inter- mittently; they speak either in glib, flagged insults or self-revealing, staged narratives, with an annoying preponderance of exclamation points peppering their utterances. While Draper's universe remains as dark as one of Cormier's, her presentation is not nearly as artful, subtle, or morally ambiguous, which may turn out to be a boon for some teens; the straightforward sentence structure, intense situations, and deliberate moral inflection will strike a chord with reluctant readers, who may then think twice before they allow themselves to be sucked in to similarly destructive situations. KC

DYER, JANE Little Brown Bear Won't Go to School!; written and illus. by Jane Dyer. Little, 2003 32p ISBN 0-316-19685-1 $15.95 R 4-6yrs Little Brown Bear would much rather have a job like his mom and dad than go to school, so when they drop him off at his schoolroom door, he sneaks over to the local diner and applies for one. Though he can take orders, he hasn't yet learned to write. Similar fine motor difficulties greet him as he attempts jobs at a beaver's building site, a sheep's knitting establishment, and a bulldog's barbershop. When he manages to offend a lion by creating an unorthodox coiffure, he decides that his best option is to return to school to see what his friends are doing. Peering in through the window, he sees them succeeding at kid-friendly versions of the occu- pations at which he has failed, and his self-confidence is restored when his teacher offers him a job he can do. Dyer may be poking gentle fun at children whose ambitions outrun their abilities here, but the seriousness with which Little Brown Bear's employers take him mitigates any offense. The airy compositions accentu- ate the lightness of the fantasy; with her delicate watercolors, Dyer excels at creating animals that are cuddly and expressive without ever losing their dignity. Unlike most back-to-school books, this one isn't about the jitters, making it a treat for those who aren't afraid of going back to school but think instead they'd just be happier doing something else. KC

ELYA, SUSAN MIDDLETON Oh No, Gotta Go!; illus. by G. Brian Karas. Putnam, 2003 [3 2 p] ISBN 0-399-23493-4 $14.99 Reviewed from galleys R* 4-6 yrs Out for a Sunday drive with her parents, a little girl is happily ensconced in the JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 445 back seat (her favorite spot) when she is overcome by an overwhelming urge: "'Where is un bafio? ýD6nde esti? I really do need one,' I told mi mamA." Madre andpadre waste a few precious moments asking why the other didn't check to see if their daughter had to go before they left the house; meanwhile, the erstwhile (and nearly floating) narrator intones piteously, "I drank lots of juice," bringing the crux of the crisis home. The family drives around seeking a restroom, but all the shops are closed. Finally, a desperate Papi asks for directions: "Papa saw a worker out pouring cemento. He backed up to ask the big stranger--extraiio, 'Ripido, mister! Please, where is un banio?"' The little girl makes it into the bathroom of an elegant restaurant with no time to spare; then she and her parents sit down to dinner-during which the little girl drinks lots of limonada. The unexpected rhyming of the English and boldface Spanish words give the rhythmic text an ebullient humor enhanced by Karas' understated gouache, acrylic, pencil, and collage illustrations. The palette is sunny southwest pottery colors-clay or- anges, sky blues, and dusty greens-and the spreads are a mix of full- and half-page compositions and small vignettes. The text and illustrations provide the little girl's perspective, from her view of her parents' heads via her perch in the rear, to her "Hurry, Papal. iMis rapidamente!" as she drums her heels frantically on the back seat with the intense look of a child in serious need. The power of suggestion being what it is, listeners will be laughing themselves silly all the way to the banio. A glossary and pronunciation guide is appended. JMD

ERNST, LISA CAMPBELL HannahMae O'Hannigan'sWild West Show; written and illus. by Lisa Campbell Ernst. Simon, 2003 4 0p ISBN 0-689-85191-X $16.95 R Gr. 2-3 It all starts when Uncle Coot sends the infant Hannah Mae a cowgirl hat: "It was then that little Hannah Mae knew she would someday be a rodeo star." Faithfully supplied by Uncle Coot and supported by her loyal, if bewildered, parents, she manages to train as a cowgirl "with a few minor city adjustments," riding pony- ride pony Sassafras and practicing with flocks of hamsters, which she and Sassafras tend and herd with diligence and flair. When she and Sassafras finally arrive at Uncle Coot's ranch all ready for the roundup, however, her uncle refuses to let the petite pair out on the range-until the ranch is threatened by an ever-multiplying influx of "a heap of hateful hamsters" ("No one could sleep for nightmares, or eat for fear"), which the veteran hamster-wrangler then rounds up in a twinkling and tames in a trice. This is goldurned funny from start to finish, capably counterpointing the enjoyable and easygoing ranch flavor with the gleeful absur- dity of the evil hamster menace. Though the lengthy text is likelier to succeed as a readalone, the text is plumb full of diverting lines ("Who would have thought it'd be hamsters that did us in?") that will give readaloud audiences a chance to pause, giggle, and catch their breath as well as giving readers plenty of entertainment. Ernst's cartoon lines and smoky pastel inks in gentle sunset colors make this a cozy adventure indeed, and the scenes are all the more comic for their toylike flavor. The hamsters, both urban and rural, are definitely the crowning touch: those western hamsters look quite amusingly vexed, and youngsters will yearn for the parlor-floor hamster corrals with which Hannah trained. Readers who've enjoyed Western sagas such as Lowell's Little Red Cowboy Hat (BCCB 6/97) will particularly enjoy this rootin', tootin' good time; if you read it to a class, make sure the class hamster gets a front-row seat. DS 446 * THE BULLETIN

EULO, ELENA YATES Mixed-Up Doubles. Holiday House, 2003 [185p] ISBN 0-8234-1706-9 $16.95 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 5-7 Tennis was the bond that drew Hank's family together, and ultimately, when his tennis-coach mother chose profession over husband, it was what broke the family apart. Now ninth-grader Hank, his older brother Jerome, and little sister Sarah are in Dad's custody, in a new house, trying to rebuild their lives. Hank delivers a feisty, wisecracking narrative on the day-to-day business of his life, detailing in particular how he's drawn into a friendship with nerdy Tremont next door, how he transforms Tremont into a socially respectable guy (now and evermore known as Monty), and how Monty transforms him into an academically respectable guy, able to accept that his parents' divorce is as irrevocable as their love for their children. Along the way there are tennis skills lost and regained, bitter go-rounds with Mom whenever she makes room for a kids' visit, and a doomed scheme to reunite the parents. There's never really a moment's doubt that they'll all come through fine in the end; in fact, it might have been better for Eulo to end a chapter early with a "They all lived happily ever after" than to submit Hank (and her readers) to the final pages of family love fest: "Looking at my parents play together and kid each other and win their match against the other couple was something out of a dream. The only thing I could think of was that our parents loved us more than anything in the universe." Come for the tennis, stay for the friendship story, and hurry through the treacly ending. EB

FLAKE, SHARON G. Begging for Change. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2003 [24 0p] ISBN 0-7868-0601-X $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 7-10 When Raspberry's mother is brutally attacked by a neighbor girl, Raspberry's re- sentment at her hard life begins to cloud her judgment. In her anger and uncer- tainty, she lashes out at her friend Zora by stealing money from Zora's purse, not because she needs it, but simply because Zora has everything that Raspberry wants-- a loving father, a nice home, no need to scrimp and save. Zora sees Raspberry's thievery as a betrayal of their friendship that she cannot forgive; Raspberry herself fears that.her action (and another theft) links her to her strung-out father, who keeps returning to steal from Raspberry and her mother. This sequel to Money Hungry takes readers back into the struggles of Raspberry and her "girls"-Ja'nae, Mai, and Zora-to work out the complex dynamics of need, greed, and friendship in a densely textured world complicated by Raspberry's junkie father, Ja'nae's irre- sponsible mother, Mai's conflicted relationship with her Korean father, Raspberry's crush on a young man, and the growing relationship between Raspberry's mother and Zora's father. Flake's strength in these two books lies in developing genuine, believable adults and children who continue to grow and change through their relationships with each other. The disparate plot threads are capably intertwined, and the central characters, especially those that carry over from Money Hungry, have substantial back stories and distinctive voices. In fact, it is the tightly inter- woven plot threads that contribute to the plausibility of Raspberry's hopefulness despite her history;,her community consists not only of junkies and hard-edged, violent girls, but also of adults and friends with a long history of supporting one another and forging successful lives because of that support. KC JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 447

FRENCH, JACKIE Hitler's Daughter. HarperCollins, 2003 [12 8 p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-008653-X $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-008652-1 $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 6-10 Unlike the misleadingly coy glamour girl depicted on the cover, central character Anna evinces a reserved, serious manner as she recounts a strange historical episode as part of the "Story Game" with which several kids entertain one another while waiting for their school bus every morning. Their setting of rural Australia soon alternates with Nazi Germany, where a nanny responsible for Hitler's unacknowl- edged and lonely little daughter moves her deeper into hiding as the Third Reich crumbles. Anna's thoughtful friend Mark becomes obsessed with the tale of Hitler's daughter; as unlikely as it seems, Anna appears to be recollecting facts with an incredible amount of detail ("It was only a story.... Just a story, nothing more. It wasn't true-but there were true things in it"). In fact, it is the reactions of the listeners, two transformed and one belligerently clueless, that echo the past with contemporary themes. Mark's ethical questioning is supported by a gripping drama that forces the reader to stretch toward new understanding, both of what is actually happening at the book's conclusion, and of what it means. French's style is precise and effective. Her descriptions vividly profile even secondary characters: "He was old, with a long salt-and-pepper moustache that looked like it would fall out if he blew his nose too hard." As for Hitler's secret daughter-the small dark girl with the limp and the terrible red birthmark disfiguring her face, the one with the kind heart and quick mind, the one provided with everything except the love she so desperately needed-she is unforgettable. BH

GOBLE, PAUL Mystic Horse; ad. and illus. by Paul Goble. HarperCollins, 2003 [34 p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-029814-6 $17.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-029813-8 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 3-5 See this month's Big Picture, p. 435, for review.

6 GOODMAN, ALISON Singing the DogstarBlues. Viking, 2003 2 1p ISBN 0-670-03610-2 $16.99 Ad Gr. 7-10 Joss Aaronson is a bio-engineered "comp-kid," conceived in a Petri dish for her neglectful mother's convenience. One of a dozen students selected for an exclusive program at the Centre for Neo-Historical Studies, a time-traveling institute, Joss is chosen to partner with the first alien ever to study at the Centre, a Chorian known as Mavkel. The Chorians are a dual-gendered, paired race, that is, they are each part of a telepathically linked "birth pair." Mavkel's partner, Kelmav, has died, and while this would usually mean the end of Mavkel as well, the Chorian Elders have saved him in order to send him to Earth as a single ambassador. Mavkel is desperate to telepathically pair with Joss, and much of the novel revolves around this need; Joss, in the meantime, is trying to discover the identity of the anony- mous sperm donor who is her father. Goodman's futuristic fantasy takes off running, and the pell-mell pace is sustained throughout. Joss is an arresting narrator, her sometimes bitter tone of voice at odds with emotional needs readers will recognize. The Chorians are revealed just enough to be intriguing, and the culture groups and social mores of the future are sketched in without being limited or 448 * THE BULLETIN seeming artificial. Unfortunately, the plot begins to loosen up about halfway through the novel, and by the end it has unraveled, not entirely, but sloppily. The decisive illegal time jump-Joss and Mavkel jump into the past to discover the identity of her father-is a device as obvious as an intergalactic mothership on a clear day. Still, Joss and her world are compelling, and so are the individuals- alien and otherwise-she manages to care about within it. JMD

GREENSTEIN, ELAINE Ice-Cream Cones for Sale!; written and illus. by Elaine Greenstein. Levine/Scholastic, 2003 [32p] ISBN 0-439-32728-8 $15.95 Reviewed from galleys R 5-8 yrs There are competing claims for bragging rights to the first ice cream cone, and Greenstein dips into the past for the real scoop on its invention. First she reviews the best-known claimants-ice cream and waffle sellers at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, a Turk inspired by the paper cones of Parisian almond vendors, a pair of sweethearts who converted an ice cream sandwich into a flower vase and cone. Trumping all this hearsay ("But who is the true inventor? None of them!"), Greenstein offers into evidence her Exhibit A, a patent for the ice cream cone mold of one Italo Marchiony, dated months before the opening of the St. Louis fete. Although her speculation on the genesis of Marchiony's invention will hardly convince a discriminating jury (involving as it does a fictional bake shop, an errant hound, a flying ice cream ball, and a lucky catch), it's hard to argue against Patent No. 746971, and an endnote and quite extensive bibliography further suggest that Greenstein knows whereof she speaks. Gouache paintings are rendered in a tasty confection of pale lemon, peach, and strawberry, with bolder dashes of blueberry, lime, and, of course, maraschino cherry. A closing photograph testifies that the, ahem, cone of contention did indeed delight fairgoers, but kids can now raise their triple dips confidently in a toast to the great Marchiony. EB

HAHN, MARY DOWNING Hear the Wind Blow. Clarion, 2003 [208p] ISBN 0-618-18190-3 $15.00 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8 With Papa dead, his older brother Avery under siege at Petersburg, and their farm pretty well laid waste, Haswell Magruder is almost past caring who wins the War between the States; he just wants Avery home and some responsibility lifted from his thirteen-year-old shoulders. The remaining family is delivered a fatal blow when Union soldiers raid the house in search of a Rebel soldier the Magruders had sheltered, the commanding officer attempts to seduce Mrs. Magruder, and she kills him in self-defense. The shooting drives the fragile woman to madness and death, and now Haswell and his younger sister, Rachel, are forced to find their way to relatives. Their welcome is precarious, because Uncle Cornelius is cozying up to Union soldiers for protection and sustenance; Haswell's soon brought up on charges of stealing a Union officer's horse, and with some unexpected aid the boy escapes and hits the road toward Petersburg to drag Avery back to his familial responsibilities. This is a classic kids-in-war story, complete with lucky breaks, a noble steed, a snarling villain, and a happy ending, but Hahn supplies enough dirt, hunger, blood, exhaustion, and raw anger to keep the proceedings edgy. Rachel is deftly limned, a little spitfire whose worldly wisdom and big mouth keep Haswell ever in the way of danger. Even if the fiction shelves are drooping with middle- grade Civil War novels, find room to squeeze in one more. EB JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 449

HAUSMAN, GERALD Castaways: Stories ofSurvival. Greenwillow, 2003 [ 17 6p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-008599-1 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-008598-3 $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-10 A half-dozen original short stories explore human confrontation with the sea, focusing on characters who survive battles with the briny but never decisively win the war. Hausman bases each tale on a true event, stripped to the bleached bones of a plot and reanimated with details drawn from various historical and legendary sources as well as the author's own experiences as an open-sea swimmer. Here readers meet castaway Peter Serrano, whose body reacts defensively to the blister- ing sun of his lonely island by growing a dense coat of hair, rendering him repul- sive to the people who finally rescue him. There's the young Widow Carey, sole survivor of a shipwreck, who stubbornly remains near the site where she lost husband and child and becomes a near-mythical healer among her rescuers. Deep diver Henri Roi cheats death at sea so many times he becomes known as "the man who would not go bottom"; Philip Ashton's deserted island supplies all his physical needs, but he nearly loses his sanity to imaginary beasts. Hausman relates his tales with folkloric dignity and genuine respect for the trauma of his characters, and the mood is more often one of eerie loneliness than thrill-a-minute survival. Closing notes cite the sources for each story and discuss how (and sometimes, why) plot and character were adapted. This is a thoughtful collection that should appeal to armchair adventurers and psychologists alike. EB

HAUTMAN, PETE Sweetblood. Simon, 2003 [192p] ISBN 0-689-85048-4 $16.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 7-10 "I am not dead," says sixteen-year-old Lucy, "I am Undead." She's not speaking in strictly classical vampirical terms, but of her theory that those whose lives would have been lost but for modern technology belong to a new kind of undead. She herself is Undead indeed, a resentful diabetic who has a hard time managing her glucose levels and who has recently spiraled into a particularly ferocious adolescent rebellion; prompted by some obvious connections and the fact that her diabetes was diagnosed a month after she was bitten by a bat, she wonders if vampire leg- ends actually arose from misunderstood diabetes, and she therefore feels a strong kinship with vampires that leads her to vampire-themed chatrooms (under the handle "Sweetblood") and goth classmates-and to a rather frightening man who may be an actual vampire. Vampires seem to be an infinitely flexible subject, and Lucy's perhaps-not-metaphoric reinterpretation of the phenomenon is startling and provocative, with the book making effective and imaginative use of the intimate (though not quite intimate enough) relationship that Lucy has with her blood. Her narration deftly and often wittily expresses her rage, especially against her parents ("We face off: the evil sugar-bitch daughter and the whiny hand-wringing mother"), her sadness ("Cheerfulness does not play well here in Lucyland, where we take our angst seriously"), and desire for exploration ("He talks to me like an equal, an adult, an intelligent person who doesn't have to go to school or be home by eleven or check her blood sugar every three hours"). Hautman's conclusion is a little muddy, since there's little reason given why Lucy's near-fatal ketoacidosis should precipitate her radical change of attitude, but there's enough attitude that readers won't care; this is still an absorbing account of a young woman's angry romance with the dark side. DS 450 * THE BULLETIN

HAYDEN, TOREY The Very Worst Thing. HarperCollins, 2003 16 9p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-029812-X $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-029792-1 $15.99 R Gr. 4-6 After years in foster care, David has a lot of entries on his mental list of Very Worst Things, and his new placement is providing plenty of opportunities for the list to expand: they've moved him back to fifth grade from sixth, the bullies in the class tease him about his stutter and push him around, and he can't seem to make any friends. In an after-school rage in the woods one day, he destroys an owl's nest but repents in time to save one of the eggs; after he grudgingly shows the egg to Madeleine, a classmate (on whose family's land the nest was located), the two determine to incubate the egg and raise the chick. Madeleine-who insists David call her Mab-is also a class outcast (she's been skipped forward two grades), and the two develop a tentative friendship over the hatching egg and then the growing owl, who's sheltered in Mab's family barn. Increasing trouble at school makes David cling even harder to his beloved owl, whom they've named King Arthur, and when it seems to be time to get King Arthur ready for a return to the wild, David refuses to let go of his Very Best Thing. Some of the elements here are familiar from other books involving foster children or the raising of wild animals, but Hayden writes with an understated confidentiality, showing more than tell- ing, that breathes new life into old themes. She's particularly adept at quietly conveying the authentic paucity of David's skills, both in academics and in social situations, and his growing and novel pleasure in his competence with animals at Mab's farm. The book also wisely resists sugarcoating its conclusion (while David does settle into his foster home, his refusal to release King Arthur results in the bird's death), retaining its understanding of painful truths until the end. With its sympathetic insight and straightforward writing, this will also suit some advanced primary-grades readers, but it's got sufficient tension and appeal to keep older readers (and perhaps listeners to a chapter-by-chapter readaloud) absorbed. DS

HOLM, JENNIFER L. The Creek. HarperCollins, 2003 232p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-000134-8 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-000133-X $15.99 R Gr. 7-10 From the moment the red Trans Am prowls through her quiet suburban neighborhood, heralding the return to the neighborhood of notorious local thug Caleb Devlin, Penny Carson's carefree childhood takes a sinister turn. As pets begin to disappear and Zachary, the neighborhood misfit, apparently gets beaten up, parents blame Caleb and forbid the children from playing in the woods behind the house. The situation escalates to a dangerous fire and the murder of a small child, all of which is attributed to Caleb. By now, however, Penny has good reason to suspect that someone else is behind the crimes, but no one will believe her. Afraid to present her evidence, she resorts to some sleuthing on her own, revealing the real murderer. Rather than learning from their erroneous assumption, the adults remain true to form, unfairly shifting the blame for all of the events to the new neighborhood villain, thus demonstrating the enduring and destructive power of scapegoating. Though the main character-a spunky prepubescent girl with only boy companions-has become something of a signature for Holm, this exploration of the dark margins of suburbia marks a quite successful departure from her previous fare. A peripheral but interesting feature of the book is her deft handling of Penny's first stirrings of puberty; at first sweetly marked by a tentative kiss from JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 451 one of her male friends, the experience turns acidic through a near-rape by Devlin, and Holm doesn't shy away from taking her main character briefly into a dark night that acknowledges the edgy pleasures of being sexy and mean. The book is chock-full of creepy moments, genuine tragedy, and sinister secrets, some of which remain even after the mystery is solved. It's a good thing the plot moves quickly, because this one is hard to put down. KC

HORVATH, POLLY The Canning Season. Farrar, 2003 195p ISBN 0-374-39956-5 $16.00 R Gr. 7-12 Ratchet's mother, Henriette, has never been that interested in her daughter, but it's still a surprise when Henriette out of the blue sends Ratchet off to Maine for a summer with elderly relatives, Tilly and Penpen Menuto. Contentedly set in their eccentric and isolated ways, the old sisters don't have much idea of what to do with their acquired thirteen-year-old, so Ratchet mainly finds herself being the audience for detailed stories of strange events in the sisters' history. Soon fourteen- year-old Harper joins the entourage when her mother, or foster mother, leaves Harper after mistaking the Menuto house for the nearby orphanage, and the two young teenagers and the two venerable sisters form a strange but solid household. Fans of Horvath (author of Everything on a Waffle, BCCB 3/01, The Trolls, 2/99, etc.) will recognize some familiar themes: the constant storytelling, the sometimes unbreachable distance between people who should be close, the affectionate eccentricity. The eccentricity is key here: the book, like Tilly and Pen themselves, has basically created its own world, with reality occasionally receiving polite attention, but no so much as to encourage it to become overconfident; this is rather a Carrollian Wonderland of abrupt appearances, strange characters, and random logic, but one carrying within it desperately important stories of abandonment and of human connection. Amid the narrative's constant wry humor is a lurking darkness, apparent in Tilly's and Penpen's mother's violent suicide, the foul- mouthed, nasty governess of their youth, the marauding, occasionally man-eating bears, the mysterious growth that Ratchet bears as an excuse for (and sign of) her mother's rejection. The interpolated stories make the narrative somewhat ram- bling, but Horvath is balancing her very specific tale of one summer's events with its years of causes and its years of effects (the book concludes with a chapter de- scribing Harper's and Ratchet's adult lives). Ultimately, there's a valid message about the challenge everyone faces in making sense out of all the disorganized currents of existence: "It was if they had all made a promise to come into this life bringing with them all their own information, as if where they had been, what they needed, what they knew, all their stories, was fission, creating critical mass, so that, at one point, she would glean a small nugget of understanding." DS

HURD, THACHER Moo Cow Kaboom!; written and illus. by Thacher Hurd. HarperCollins, 2003 32p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-050502-8 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-050501-X $15.99 R 4-6 yrs Hurd's splashy colors and sprint-to-the-finish text will compel busy librarians to grab this just as their preschoolers settle down (euphemistically speaking) for a picture-book program. In folkloric terms, its Hero makes a Journey, overcomes Difficulties, and returns Home. More specifically, the hero is a cow, the journey is to outer space, and the difficulties involve Planet 246, where aliens are holding an 452 * THE BULLETIN intergalactic rodeo featuring "Bucking Zonkos." Moo Cow refuses to cooperate, invoking wrath and much whacking with hats: "LAZY, USELESS, UNCOOP- ERATIVE, UNINTELLIGENT EARTHLING MOO COW!" Moo Cow then elects to whirl, twirl, dance, prance, bounce, boogie, and buck, whereupon the freaked-out aliens blast her back home in a flying saucer ("Beep Beep!... Thunk! . .. SHA-ZOOM!!!") past the moon to the pigs and chickens on her very own farm, which look suspiciously like the zigs and zickens on Planet 246. Think red, pink, yellow, orange, brown, green, blue, gray, black, white, and you will still have left out various elements of the color spectrum speeding through and exploding off these pages. Then plan to calm the group down with a sedate reading of Leaf and Lawson's classic Ferdinand,followed, possibly, by an uplifting rendition of Cronin and Lewin's Click, Clack, Moo (BCCB 9/00) BH

HURST, CAROL OTIS The Wrong One. Lorraine/Houghton, 2003 156 p ISBN 0-618-27599-1 $15.00 Ad Gr. 3-5 When Ruth Spencer and her children move into their down-at-the-heels new house, the youngest child, Korean adoptee Sookan, is terrified; shouting "Ee-guh Aniya" every time she nears her room, she's unable to clearly convey the exact nature of her distress. The youngster is assigned a new room, and older sister Kate eventually figures out that the little girl is troubled by "the wrong one." After a visit from Agatha Paran, an older woman who claims to have lived in the house as a child, Sookan determinedly leads her siblings on a basement-to-attic quest for "Pah-rahn Agassi," the blue lady. They uncover a few marketable antiques that help their cash-strapped mother meet the bills and then hit the motherlode with a William and Mary doll, precious enough to secure their financial future. The doll appraiser turns out to be none other than Agatha Paran, who pays them off and then myste- riously disappears. They suddenly note the linguistic similarity between Pah-rahn Agassi and Agatha Paran and, well, that's pretty much that. Hurst pumps a lot of atmosphere into the shabby house and convincing frustration into Sookan's attempts to communicate her supernatural knowledge, but lack of detail regarding Agatha Paran, her true relationship to the house, Sookan's sensitivity, and the eerie blue light that has something to do with the blue lady leads to a vague chill rather than a bone-wracking shiver. Still, for younger readers dipping their toes cau- tiously into ghostly dramas, this could elicit just the right "Oooh!" EB

KARR, KATHLEEN The 7th Knot. Cavendish, 2003 [192p] illus. with photographs ISBN 0-7614-5135-8 $15.95 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 5-8 Brothers Wick and Miles Forrester, each unruly and incorrigible in his own way, are consigned to the care of obscenely rich Uncle Eustace, a robber baron bent on amassing an art collection to out-Rockefeller Rockefeller. The teens have little initial interest in trailing the Old Masters throughout Europe in the company of their crusty relative, but Albrecht Diirer piques their interest, and soon they escape onto their own private mission to locate his long missing "Knot" series. Their quest entangles them with the nefarious Diirerbund (a quasi-nationalist organization, fictionalized here to suit the 1890s setting), Graf Otto von Klein's fleet of world-threatening airships, and Uncle Eustace's valet Jose Gregorio, who's actually an art scholar and agent for the British and French governments. It takes JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 453 awhile to get the plot well off the ground, and too often repartee between siblings substitutes for action. While this doesn't boast the tight pacing of Karr's phreno- logical adventure titles (Skullduggery, BCCB 4/00; Bone Dry, BCCB 10/02), a chase through Neuschwanstein and an escape in a dirigible provide their own pleasures, and kids who appreciate the historical/comic book exploits of Indiana Jones and his ilk should give it a go. EB

KOERTGE, RON Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. Candlewick, 2003 116p ISBN 0-7636-2116-1 $15.99 R Gr. 6-9 Banished from the ballfield and confined to quarters with a severe case of mono, Kevin Boland is so desperately bored that he swipes his dad's book on how to write poetry and versifies just for something to do. As he putters among various forms, from haiku and rhymed couplets to pantoum and sestina, he begins to realize a few truths about poetry and himself. First, he's better at this writing thing than he thought he would be. Second, he can say some things in the privacy of his note- book that he'd never admit aloud: like how much he mourns his deceased mom, and how his girlfriend has been little more than a passing physical pleasure. Third, maybe baseball and poetry can peacefully coexist; after all, they both rely on rules, or there's no game. His efforts are, realistically, a mixed bag of strained blundering and swift, stunning insights, and his comments on struggling with his newfound craft are often quite witty: "So I re-visioned that sonnet. I didn't/ change much, but I did remember how/ when I was looking for rhymes I was like/ some guy pawing through his sock drawer/ for a pair that matched." Kevin's collected works reach well beyond introspective meandering; they actually add up to a concrete plot which follows Kevin through weakness and recovery, back onto the ballfield, where he now "rides the pine" with the bench warmers he formerly pitied; into the heat of a new romance with a girl he respects as much as likes; and just possibly up to an open mike at a poetry reading. Koertge sturdily spans the intimidating literary/sports divide, and teen eggheads and athletes alike are invited to cross the bridge. EB

LASKY, KATHRYN Lucille CampsIn; illus. by Marylin Hafner. Knopf, 2003 28p Library ed. ISBN 0-517-80042-X $16.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-517-80041-1 $14.95 R 3-6 yrs It's just not fair that piglet Lucille has to stay home while Dad takes her older brother and sister camping. Lucille stomps, cries, and sulks, but then, while she takes a nap, she dreams up a wonderful idea. With her mom's help, Lucille turns their living room into a campground, complete with a tent, sleeping bags, and marshmallows roasted in the fireplace. She and her mom watch the moon and stars out the window before snuggling off to sleep. The story makes a fine readaloud for younger children, and the text is simple enough for beginning readers. Pen and ink illustrations with full-color watercolor washes keep the reader on track with homey details and expressive emotions, especially where Lucille is concerned. Character is particularly well-drawn here; Lucille's tantrum and sullenness, the older siblings' thoughtlessly cruel gloating, and the mother's attempts to distract her daughter all have the ring of truth to them. Lucille's own solution to her problem is creative and plausible enough to inspire young readers to go and do likewise. KC 454 * THE BULLETIN

LJUNGKVIST, LAURA, ad. Snow White andthe Seven Dwarf; ad. and illus. by Laura Ljungkvist. Abrams, 2003 32p ISBN 0-8109-4241-0 $14.95 Ad 4-6 yrs Snow White falls prey to her wicked stepmother once again in a simplified adapta- tion of the traditional tale. In this version the Queen, Snow White's stepmother, is not a witch, just a vain woman with a magic mirror and a homicidal bent. The Queen orders Snow White taken to the woods and left to the wild animals, and, when that fails, the Queen herself poisons an apple and leaves it by her stepdaughter's breakfast plate. Discovering that Snow White lives and is going to marry Prince Sunray ("His skin was the hue of the blue sky on the morning he was born, and his hair the color of the sun"), the Queen "became so enraged she ran into the forest to find and stop them. All she found however were the wild beasts, and she was never seen or heard from again." The pedestrian language is repetitive and sterile, and the awkward flow of the text makes this difficult to read aloud. There is a techno- perkiness to the computer-generated look of the gouache illustrations, however, that draws the eye; the art is designerly, with geometric shapes strongly reminiscent of Colorforms. The colors are opaque and the palette retro; a single line, similar to the unbreaking line of an Etch-a-Sketch, runs in the foreground throughout the illustrations, forming objects in the compositions that free-float on the pages. Ljungkvist's note explains her process ("I read a number of versions that I found on-line and in books. The original story is very long, so I chose to keep only those elements that were crucial to the plot"), although no specific sources are given. While this retelling lacks the dark lyricism of Paul Heins' or the exquisite tone of Randall Jarrell's, those seeking a faster version with lighter baggage may find this fits the bill. JMD

MEAD, ALICE Year ofNo Rain. Farrar, 2003 130p ISBN 0-374-37288-8 $16.00 R Gr. 4-7 In her latest account of children in harm's way, Mead turns her attention to the ongoing civil war in Sudan, unfolding the story ofyoung Stephen Majok. Stephen lives in a typical Southern Sudanese village, where inhabitants face everyday chores while enduring constant threat of invasion from both Northern soldiers and South- ern rebels. When the Red Cross makes a food drop nearby, soldiers move in, killing Stephen's mother and kidnapping his older sister, Naomi. Because Stephen and the other boys of the village had been sent into hiding to avoid being pressed into service, they escape, but they find they have no idea where to go or what to do. Acting mostly on rumors, they resolve to travel to one of the refugee camps on Sudan's borders, but they have little sense of which camp will welcome them. After facing hunger, thirst, and malaria in their travels, they finally decide that, for better or worse, they should go home. Stephen is an endearing, warmhearted boy who is committed, as his mother wishes, to pursuing an education so that he can become a teacher. His books comfort him as he travels, and he uses his skills to comfort the other children by teaching them the alphabet as they go. The pathos of a young boy who fiercely desires nothing more than to go home, even when that home is an abandoned hut in a devastated village, may seem unaccountable to adventure-attuned Western readers, but the young boys' constant bickering, as well as their loyalty to each other, will be sufficiently recognizable. Readers will get a strong sense of what these boys value, making this a nicely textured addition to a JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 455 social-studies curriculum on the plight of children during wartime. A map of the area and a factual introduction to the civil war open the book. KC

MURRAY, JAYE Bottled Up. Dial, 2003 [22 4 p] ISBN 0-8037-2897-2 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 7-12 Pip has been fairly comfortable with his misery, sleepwalking stoned through high school, gritting his teeth in the face of his dad's alcoholic rages, and acting as the parent to Mikey, his six-year-old brother, so he's resentful at his principal's insis- tence that he either attend counseling or face expulsion. It's hard for him to give up the comparative peace of life sponging off of his dealer friends and burying his distress in pot and booze, and it's harder still to face the frightening realities of his existence, especially the fact that Mikey is starting to emulate his adored older brother's disaffected and self-destructive ways. The terse style is effective, and there's real insight into the viewpoint of a kid who's so locked into his unhappiness that he can't comprehend any solution beyond cutting himself off from his feelings. The book is also authentic in its depiction of a family stuck in silence mode, treating the dangerous behavior of the adults as if it were an everyday thing, even as the children are increasingly blamed for whatever goes wrong. Unfortunately, the heavy hand of prescription is too evident in much of the events, and the expression of Pip's inner thoughts sometimes turns from tautly styled to corny and cliched, tilting the book towards old-fashioned made-for-TV problem drama. That makes it a more melodramatic reading pleasure, but that's just what some readers are looking for, so Pip's struggle with his dark side may be just their cup of temper- ance beverage. DS

MYERS, WALTER DEAN The Dream Bearer. Amistad/HarperCollins, 2003 180p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-029522-8 $16.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-029521-X $15.99 R* Gr. 6-10 David's home life is tense: his mother is struggling to get an empty Harlem building made into a homeless shelter; his father, who's on medication that minimizes his psychological problems but doesn't really control his flashes of rage, has been hired by the building's owner in an attempt to make its purchase more difficult. Now David's brother, Ty, is starting to spend a whole lot of time on the streets, and his family fears he may be selling drugs. Twelve-year-old David is keeping to the straight and narrow, doing well in school, hanging out with friends, and wish- ing his mother's life could become easier, when he meets Mr. Moses, an old man in the park who declares himself to be a "dream bearer," and whose stories of struggle fascinate David even as they unsettle him ("There was something real about the dream that I didn't know how to explain but that I could feel"). Myers deftly captures not only a boy's growing understanding but also his increasing awareness of the limits of his-and everybody's-understanding ("But now the need to understand everything was creeping up on me. People who at one time were just around now needed to be fitted together into a picture that kept chang- ing as I tried to bring the pieces together"). The figure of the dream bearer remains credible as an old guy in the park talking about the past even as his self-description and David's reaction gives him a more mystical significance. Ulti- mately the novel is most memorable for David's decision to reach out to his troubled 456 * THE BULLETIN father while he still can, thereby choosing a different path than Ty (whose fate the novel leaves inconclusive). Throughout his nuanced examination of this unhappy family, Myers retains his usual gentle, plainspoken accessibility, making this a thoughtful book that will reach many young readers. DS

NAPOLI, DONNA Jo The Great GodPan. Lamb/Random House, 2003 14 9 p Library ed. ISBN 0-385-90120-8 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-385-32777-3 $15.95 Ad Gr. 7-10 The goat god Pan is caught between his animal and divine natures. He is attracted to humans yet despised by them for his duality; he is loved by the gods, but as a favorite pet rather than as an equal. A meeting with Iphigenia, believed to be the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra (actually daughter of Theseus and Helen, soon to be of Troy), results in Pan's losing his heart to the doomed young woman and leads, eventually, to his final sacrifice. Napoli explores the character of Pan through his life's journey, including his incestuous concep- tion, his search for meaning in immortality, his desire for the love and approval of his father, Hermes, and his musical duel with Apollo. Throughout it all Napoli downplays the lustful nature of the god, making him more misunderstood than rapacious, especially in his love for Iphigenia. Napoli is well-versed in traditional myths and fairy tale characters, and she is often expert at the reinvention of their motivations (The Magic Circle, BCCB 4/93; Zel, 7/96, etc.). Unfortunately, the goat-god's responses are based on thinly drawn characterization, and his final self- less act (he takes the place of the sacrificial Iphigenia) has limited impact. Still, Napoli delves through layers of ancient legend to nourish this re-imagining. Readers familiar with classical myth will enjoy picking out the bits and pieces that Napoli exploits here, and they may even be inspired to do some delving of their own. JMD

NELSON, THERESA Ruby Electric. Jackson/Atheneum, 2003 28 4 p ISBN 0-689-83852-2 $16.95 R Gr. 4-7 Ruby Miller thinks in screenplays, turning the mundane conditions of her life into elaborate productions of agitated melodrama. Most often, she turns her fertile imagination to her father, absent these past five years without explanation, which must mean, of course, that he is involved in some top-secret operation. Mean- while, her life is plagued by the amorous attentions of Big Skinny, her absorption in writing a script inadvertently results in the tragic loss of her little brother's comfort puppet, and her mother is becoming alarmingly close to her boss. The young girl who romanticizes her absent father and is disillusioned when she finally meets him is no doubt a standard character, but what makes this story worth stay- ing through the credits is Ruby's crackling energy throughout. When the besotted Big Skinny hopefully sprays some bad love poetry on the concrete wall of the LA River across from her house, she realizes that something has to be done, and a series of events leads her to the idea of painting a mural over the offending text. Her speech to introduce her idea to the civic officials may elicit some unexpected laughter (she finds nothing funny about "neighborhoods panting for the pictur- esque like river rats in a drought"), but it carries the day. The comic relief provided by Big Skinny and his friend Mouse adds to the book's charm; through their surprising commitment to the mural project, Ruby is forced to reappraise her as- sessment of them as the "seventh grade version of Dumb and Dumber." Readers JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 457 will delight in Ruby's sardonic wit and her way with words both in the interstitial screenplays and in her internal dialogue; many will want to buy a ticket for this one. KC

ORMEROD, JAN, ad. If You're Happy and You Know It!; illus. by Lindsey Gardiner. Star Bright Books, 2003 26 p Trade ed. ISBN 1-932065-07-5 $15.95 Paper ed. ISBN 1-932065-10-5 $5.95 R 4-6 yrs In this lively take-off on a storytime favorite, a little girl sings the titular ditty, clapping her hands with abandon. She is interrupted, however: "'No, no, no,' said the small brown dog. 'If you're happy and you know it,/ wave your tail - swirl, twirl!/ If you're happy and you know it,/ whisk your tail around to show it./ If you're happy and you know it,/ wag your tail!'" The dog is, in turn, gently taken to task by a blue-striped elephant with a "rather insignificant" tail, who flaps his ears instead. The elephant is taken to task by the crocodile (with no ears to speak of) who snaps his teeth. Each new verse elicits a counter-verse from a listen- ing animal who offers an action specific to its physiognomy or abilities, until finally the little girl says, "So when I'm happy ... I can do my own thing!" The scansion is sometimes forced and the illustrations are occasionally more perky than substantive, but Ormerod's merry mayhem may be just the thing for active listeners longing to do a little chest beating a la the story's gorilla. The mixed-media art has a cartoony insouciance that keeps the images from tipping too far into cutesy; the sherbet-colored palette is cheery, the touches of collage add a circus-like jollity, and the drafting (lots of motion lines and squiggles) enhances the already frenetic energy of the text. Preschoolers (and energetic storytime givers) are going to happily clap, thump, and screech their way through this rowdy retelling. JMD

PAYE, WON-LDY, ad. Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile; ad. by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert; illus. by Julie Paschkis. Holt, 2003 32p ISBN 0-8050-7047-8 $16.95 R 5-8yrs Paye and Lippert (retellers of Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia, BCCB 5/02) here offer another traditional story from the Dan people of Liberia. Mrs. Chicken is very taken with her reflection in a puddle ("'Cluck, cluck,' she said proudly. 'What a pretty chicken I am!'"), so much so that she walks to the river so she can see her wings in a larger reflection. In the river, "Crocodile lay very still and waited. 'Yum, yum,' she thought. 'That's my dinner.'" When Crocodile catches Mrs. Chicken, the vain but canny hen declares that Crocodile shouldn't eat her because "I'm your SISTER." Crocodile takes a bit of convincing (Mrs. Chicken exchanges her eggs for Crocodile's eggs and claims the resulting family resemblance of the switched hatchlings are proof of sisterhood), but in the end Mrs. Chicken and her chicks get safely home. "Since that day, Mrs. Chicken and her children have never gone near the river, and they always take their baths in puddles. 'Big enough for us,' Mrs. Chicken tells her children. 'And MUCH too small for crocodiles!'" The retelling is lively and dramatic, and the pithy dialogue provides numerous opportunities for hamming it up and acting it out. Paschkis' gouache illustrations have a folk-art clarity that makes them optimum for group viewing; fluid lines and subtle patterns (the crocodile's skin is a muted green check) add variety to the high-contrast shapes in their green-gold palette. This is sure to 458 * THE BULLETIN become a readaloud and storytelling favorite. A brief note credits Paye's grandmother as his source for the tale. JMD

PRATCHETT, TERRY The Wee Free Men. HarperCollins, 2003 26 3p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-001237-4 $17.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-001236-6 $16.99 R Gr. 6-10 Tiffany, age nine, has only recently decided she wants to be witch, but apparently her career decision comes just in time: her world is colliding with the "land of dreams come true." Luckily for Tiffany she has some unexpected help: the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men of the title, are bound and determined to help the aspiring witchlet keep the Queen of the Elves and the nightmares that follow her at bay. The Nac Mac Feegle are pictsies (not pixies), who are covered with blue tattoos and half-naked but for kilts, and whose talents run to fighting, drinking, thieving, and magic of a most practical sort. Their plans are complicated when Tiffany's younger brother, Wentworth, is kidnapped by the Queen and spirited across the border between the worlds. Tiffany (armed with a cast iron frying pan) and the Feegles (armed with the battle cry "Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!") embark on a rescue. In the course of said rescue Tiffany retrieves her brother, saves a baron's long lost son, and slams the door between the worlds with such ferocity that it will stay shut for a long time. Pratchett invites readers into his well-established realm of Discworld where action, magic, and characters are firmly rooted in literary reality. Humor ripples throughout, making tense, dangerous moments stand out in stark contrast. This fast- paced adventure, with its exasperatingly mischievous characters, will be an easy booktalk. Just read the part where Tiffany whacks a Jenny Green-Teeth with the back of that cast-iron frying pan after using Wentworth for bait ... JMD

PRIESTLEY, CHRIS Death and the Arrow; written and illus. by Chris Priestley. Knopf, 2003 161p Library ed. ISBN 0-375-92466-3 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-375-82466-9 $15.95 R Gr. 5-8 Reports of murder in the streets of 1715 London are nothing unusual, but when the weapon seems to be a "Mohock" arrow and the murderer forewarns his victims with a calling card that features a skeleton with an arrow, the sensational case rattles even the most jaded urbanites. Fifteen-year-old printer's apprentice Tom Marlowe is drawn into the investigation when his closest friend Will, a good- natured pickpocket, is killed and it appears he was, against all reason, employed by the villain himself. Priestley spins a classic closed-room mystery (in this case, a cosed courtyard), with its genesis across the Atlantic in a tangle of French/Indian/ British atrocities, its action played out on treacherous London rooftops and within the walls of Newgate, and its chilling climax at the "frost fair" on the frozen Thames. A cast of Hogarthian extras keeps the atmosphere thick and the plot boiling, and readers who like their mayhem spiked with slimy cobblestones, blind alleys, and bloody vengeance should speed right through. EB

PROSE, FRANCINE After. Coter/HarperCollins, 2003 330p Library ed. ISBN 0-06-008082-5 $17.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-008081-7 $16.99 R Gr. 7-10 A fatal shooting at nearby Pleasant Valley High School has sent Central High into JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 459 a state of heightened alert, and clinical psychologist Dr. Willner has come on board to establish and implement a new security plan. At first Tom Bishop and most of his classmates are, at worst, annoyed by metal detectors and mandatory school assemblies; only kids like stoner Silas with something to hide are truly upset. However, as Willner draws tightened reins into a stranglehold over the school, protests begin to mount and the protesters, from academic stars to teaching staff, begin to disappear. A steady stream of email to school parents assures them that everything is done in the students' best interest, and even when kids are pulled from school and sent off to rehabilitation camps, the brainwashed parents are convinced that no measure is too drastic to ensure the safety of Central High. Tom is finally able to convince his father, who has largely ignored Willner's emails, to take the situation seriously, and when they discover that Pleasant Valley has now been vacated and closed and all its students gone missing, they manage to flee before Tom becomes another of Willner's victims. Prose leaves some substantial holes gaping in her plot-particularly the nature of the email brainwashing and the total disappearance of a student body that's been much in the national news. Readers who squander their time probing these shortcomings, however, will miss a whole boatload of X-Files-styled, paranoiac thrills. Dr. Willner will be floating through many a teen nightmare. EB

REGAN, DIAN CURTIS Chance; illus. by Dee Huxley. Philomel, 2003 32p ISBN 0-399-23592-2 $15.99 R 5-8 yrs Baby Chance is tired of his father's bad guitar playing, the dog's slobber, and his mother's two-baths-a-day regime, so he picks up his blankey, horsey, and rattle and leaves home. His travels take him to a bear's den, a monkey house at the zoo, a sea lions' rock at the beach, and a cave in the desert. The animals teach the baby new skills, but he eventually tires of each of the various lifestyles until finally, on his very first birthday, he goes home to the mother and father (and even the dog) he has come to miss. Chance's narrative voice has the tongue-in-cheek tone of a tall tale, from the opening story of his naming ("Ma'd told Pa, 'Gonna chance weedin' marigolds and hope this baby don't pick today to be born.' But I did. So ... Pa named me Chance") to the subsequent meanderings of a newborn gone off to seek his fortune. The countrified text sometimes bogs down in its own wordi- ness and the conceit spins out so long it becomes a mite tenuous, but the humor holds it together. Full-spread pastel and colored pencil compositions allow for the effective sweep of sky and terrain, and the various animals have the comforting look of soft stuffed toys. Baby Chance swaggers across the pages, the central focus of the compositions, in luminous white footsie pajamas that retain their glow throughout the baby's exploits. Primary graders will appreciate Chance's parting wisdom that, despite bugs and baths, there's no place like home. JMD

REICHE, DIETLOF I, Freddy: Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga; tr. from the German by John Brownjohn; illus. by Joe Cepeda. Scholastic, 2003 201p ISBN 0-439-28356-6 $16.95 R Gr. 3-5 Freddy, the narrator of this humorous jaunt, is a Mesocricetus auratus,or golden hamster. After determining that life in a pet-shop cage isn't for him, he makes sure he is the chosen hamster when Sophie's loving father seeks a gift for his daughter. Although pleased with his new home and new owner (Freddy reiterates that five- year-old Sophie is "a girl in a million"), clever Freddy has ambitions other than 460 * THE BULLETIN eating himself into a stupor and running in circles on a wheel. He wants to learn to read, and, once that is accomplished, he wants to read whatever he can get his paws on. The driving premise here is somewhat hackneyed and the plotting gets a bit extreme, but Freddy has a superior, smart-alecky tone that is funny enough to carry the events of his days. Just as Dick King-Smith does in his domestic animal fantasies (such as the similarly themed TheJenius), Reiche makes even the most mundane events humorous from the hamster's point of view; younger children may well appreciate Freddy's literary epiphany and even find it inspires them to try their hand at autobiography. Hey, if a hamster can do it... JMD

RITTER, JOHN H. The Boy Who Saved Baseball. Philomel, 2003 21 6p ISBN 0-399-23622-8 $17.99 R Gr. 5-8 Dillontown, California is dying, and its best hope seems to be flooding the Lucky Strike baseball field into a lake and doing a deal with an upscale housing developer. The major landowner is, however, amenable to giving the town a last chance before selling out; if the local kids can beat their long-standing rivals, the baseball diamond is saved and the developers are history. The town's summer baseball camp gets a big boost from the mysterious arrival of Cruz de la Cruz, a boy who rides into town on horseback on opening day, charmed by the field, the players, and the prospect of meeting the town recluse, Dante Del Gato, a former hitting phenom who took to the hills after leaving his San Diego Padres teammates in the lurch at the 1984 World Series. Cruz is convinced Del Gato knows the secret of perfect hitting, and the boy, who has a theory of his own, talks the ex-pro into coaching the team. Ritter taps into literary and cinematic conventions ranging from the classic western, to the eerie mystery, to the Cinderella sports season, and spices it all with a dash of humor that cues kids not to take this all too seriously. Even the blatant improbabilities (the players spend a day cobbling together a sophisticated computer/GPS program to drill their hitting) have their charm, and the plot sprints nimbly to its foregone happy ending. While this is a far cry from Ritter's more serious and probing Choosing Up Sides (BCCB 6/98), it's likely to be an amiable, offbeat crowd pleaser. EB

ROBERTS, DIANE Made You Look. Delacorte, 2003 150p Library ed. ISBN 0-385-90119-4 $17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-385-72979-0 $15.95 R Gr. 4-6 Jason is over the moon at the news that his family will be traveling to California for their vacation; he sees the trip as a chance to try out for the high-energy TV game show Masquerade Mania, to say nothing of the fact that he will be flying in a plane for the first time and doing something that his archenemy, the wealthy Amberson Anderson, can't begin to copy. His parents have different ideas of fun and adventure, however, and they decide that instead of flying, they will camp across country. Worse, they'll be using the dreaded "Camp'otel," a strange contraption that fits on top of their SUV. No matter-Jason is willing to put up with anything to achieve his goal. His best friend Freddy, who joins them on the trip, acts as his manager, drilling Jason constantly on quiz-show-appropriate trivia. Following a series of tragicomic mishaps, Jason does in fact end up a contestant on Masquerade Mania, where he meets with even more surprises. Though the up-to-the-minute details may date the book rather quickly, the story is as high-energy as the game show itself, punctuated with witty details of the everyday life of junior-high boys JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 461 and topped off with a highly satisfying, wish-fulfilling conclusion. There are no deep messages or life lessons here-just light-hearted summer reading fun. KC

RYLANT, CYNTHIA God Went to Beauty School. HarperTempest, 2003 [64p] Library ed. ISBN 0-06-009434-6 $15.89 Trade ed. ISBN 0-06-009433-8 $14.99 Reviewed from galleys R* Gr. 7-12 Kids who feel down home with God are going to love this book. Rylant has loosened up with the Lord and shared some of His everyday activities in twenty- two page-and-a-half poems, plus one more complex ten-pager. It's all free-verse storytelling: "God Bought a Couch," "God Made Spaghetti," "God Took a Bath," "God Went Rollerblading," "God Saw a Movie," "God Got Cable"-you get the picture. Despite the relaxed tone and easy sense of humor, Rylant keeps her short (predominantly dimeter) lines tight, her words selective, and her meanings surprising yet accessible. When "God Caught a Cold," he found that "it's hard to/ thunder/ 'THOU SHALT NOT!'/ when it comes out/ 'THOU SHALT DOT!'/ No- body takes Him/ seriously." "God Went to India" to visit some elephants, his favorite creation because "They love their children,/ they don't kill,/ they mourn their dead./ ... Elephants visit the graves/ of those they loved./ They spend hours there./ They fondle the dry bones./ They mourn./ God understands mourning/ better than any other emotion,/ better even than love./ Because He has lost/ everything He has/ ever made./ You make life, you make death." It's a smooth transi- tion to the next poem, which deals with the sacrificial death of God as a human on earth and subsequently His everlasting life. This is the kind of thematic juxtaposition typical in Rylant's shaping of the collection into a cohesive narrative, bound by associative references throughout. Tonally speaking, here's Julius Lester's What a Truly Cool World (BCCB 2/99) all grown up into an appealing poetry book for teenagers. BH

SAYRE, APRIL PULLEY One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book; by April Pulley Sayre and JeffSayre; illus. by Randy Cecil. Candlewick, 2003 34 p ISBN 0-7636-1406-8 $15.99 R* 3-6 yrs The countable feet to which the subtitle refers are not linear but anatomical. All these feet are enjoying a day at the beach, hanging out in groups that simply beg for enumeration. Sayre gets right to the point: "1 is a snail," and a purple mollusk propels his way across the sand, while an arrow and a parenthetical "This is a snail's foot" point out the relevant appendage. For "2 is a person," a bathing- trunked boy bends over to inspect his own tootsies, while arrows again point to obvious body parts. After 4 (dog feet), the arrows disappear and viewers are on their own, as human, dog, insect, arachnid, and crab feet make up even numbers to ten, and combine with the single snail foot to make odd-numbered groupings. After ten, the numbering jumps to decades, ("50 is five crabs... or ten dogs and a crab"). So what makes this offering different from your run-of-the mill counting book? Quite simply, this provides little arithmeticians with something they'll actually get a kick out of counting. The entire cast sports the cuddly, affectionate dopiness generally reserved for beloved stuffed animals and skillful cartooning. A pindot-eyed hound sniffs a pindot-eyed snail (obviously, they make 5); the snail glances with vague surprise at the grinning pindot-eyed insect hitching a ride on his shell (yes, that's 7); crabs cavort in a conga line, and a hundred snails catch 462 * THE BULLETIN some rays on the closing spread. Colors are as bright as a new beach blanket, and dense stippling lends a tactile dimension to broad sweeps of sand and sky background. All groupings are arranged for easy enumeration by kids not quite ready to make the leap to intuitive multiplication. These are the most invitingly countable critters since Geisert's pigs. EB

SCHOTTER, RONI Captain Bob Takes Flight; illus. by Joe Cepeda. Schwartz/ Atheneum, 2003 34 p ISBN 0-689-83388-1 $15.95 R 3-6 yrs The little captain has already discovered that make-believe is the key to coping with cleanliness (CaptainBob Sets Sail, BCCB 9/00), and now he applies his fertile imagination to the task of straightening his room. The Control Tower (Mom) has commanded him to "Clear the runway!", and with a look of grim determination (or is that a petulant scowl?) he packs his flight bag, boards his aircraft (a pillow- lined cardboard crate) and swoops around the wide blue skies (okay, his bedroom) dropping socks into drawers. Somewhere mid-flight the captain engages in heavy woolgathering, which Cepeda craftily captures in topsy-turvy scenes that blend elements of the fantasy flight with concrete, recognizable details of furniture and playthings. By the time "a blast of southerly, strangely motherly wind" blows in to summon Bob for lunch, the captain is ready with a good report and waiting for a hug and kiss from the Control Tower. Skeptical viewers may question how that room got clean when Bob was sitting in a box, and adults may need to regretfully explain that daydreaming seldom affects housekeeping in so happy a fashion. Nonetheless, Cepeda's airy world of "cloud cluttered skies," where a boy in a pack- ing box tethered to a coatrack can float high above the rug, is an inviting place in which to linger. EB

SEGAL, LORE Morris theArtist; illus. by Boris Kulikov. Foster/Farrar, 2003 32 p ISBN 0-374-35063-9 $16.00 R 5-7 yrs In a spiritual mix of Edward Lear and Edward Gorey, with painterly effects and humorous proportions all his own, artist Kulikov has encompassed Segal's mischievous text about an enfant terrible named Morris. This little nonconformist's refrain, "I don't want to," is just as often met by his mother's response, "Yes you do... NOW!" This particular dispute centers on the purchase of a gift for another boy's birthday party, for which Morris does not wish to leave his painting. Spurn- ing conventional suggestions of a ball, a dump truck, and some blocks, Morris insists on selecting paints and then refuses to give them up at the party. As his obstinacy grows, so does the box of paints, till he is unable to hold it and eat cake or play with the other presents. Finally, Morris opens the box himself and leads the others in a spree of unfettered artistry, crowned by painting the birthday boy's knees with "the two yellowest suns that you will ever see." It's a great ending to the party, but a little anticlimactic in terms of the story. Despite that letdown, this is a rambunctious book well paced to the energy and interests of its audience. Segal's witty insight into human behavior is characteristically understated: "How about a ball?" asks Morris' mother. "I've got a ball," says Morris. "Morris, this is a present for Benjamin," his mother reminds him. Kulikov's marble-eyed characters reflect the same kind of humor as he plays with a visual balance between skillfully grounded drafting and fantastical compositions in dominant tones of khaki and burnt orange. Indeed, the strongest aspect of the book is his visual interpretation of the story as art-on-art. BH JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 463

SILVERMAN, ERlCA, ad. When the Chickens Went On Strike:A Rosh HashanahTale; illus. by Matthew Trueman. Dutton, 2003 32p ISBN 0-525-46862-5 $15.99 R* 5-8 yrs "Customs come and customs go. I learned this from chickens." Such a combination of the cosmic and the commonplace typifies this appealingly absurd picture book. The young narrator, who cannot refrain from making trouble even during Rosh Hashanah services in his Russian-Jewish prayer house, is counting on Kapores to purify him. This ceremony involves having a chicken waved around one's head with a chanted accompaniment of prayers (the rite is gentled here from an earlier tradition of killing a chicken on the Day of Atonement to expiate one's sins). Unfortunately, the chickens are on strike, and they will not be captured by coax- ing, force, or negotiation. "What if we compromise?" asks the rabbi's wife. "You can use a turnip!" answers the rooster. Seeing that the villagers are about to force the issue, the narrator warns the chickens to escape. Somehow he also manages to behave better afterwards, which surprises his family and confounds predictions of dire consequences ensuing from the loss of the cleansing ritual. Silverman's adap- tation of Sholom Aleichem's story is resonantly worded for oral effect, and Trueman's layered paintings have a smooth glaze over mottled colors that enriches the fine-etched human figures as well as the highly expressive chickens (victorious white-lined fowl even cavort across the hen-red endpapers). Hebrew lettering on the picture of a book at the story's end has a double meaning: not only is this the end of the story, but it's also the end of a custom challenged by child and chicken. "Where is it written," queries one broody hen, that chickens are required for Kapores? "Good question," thinks the narrator. An author's note describes both the custom and the source. BH

STEPTOE, JAVAKA The Jones Family Express; written and illus. by Javaka Steptoe. Lee & Low Books, 2003 34p ISBN 1-58430-047-7 $17.95 Ad 6-9 yrs Steven has been entranced with his traveling aunt ever since he was three, when he tried to hide in her suitcase; since then, Aunt Carolyn has always sent him postcards from wherever she travels. Now Carolyn is coming home for the annual block party, and Steven wants to get her a special present. He takes his $10.75 over to Nostrand Avenue ("You can buy almost anything there"), but despite his best efforts, neither the drugstore nor Ms. Ruby's shop yields the gift he wants. Help comes from an unlikely source-Steven's Uncle Charles, who is better known for snitching pancakes than being helpful. Charles' apartment is full of junk, but amongst the throwaway stuff Steven finds an old model locomotive, and, with a little ingenuity, he transforms it into the Jones Family Express, complete with a fresh coat of bright red paint and family photos in the windows. Aunt Carolyn is touched, and gives a present in return: a postcard, "Good for one trip with Aunt Carolyn." Steptoe (illustrator of In Daddy'sArms IAm Tall, BCCB 2/98) offers a story based, according to the jacket flap, on incidents from his own life. The family closeness and camaraderie are lovingly communicated, as are the family foibles (Uncle Charles eats off other people's plates, Granddad has a secret barbe- cue recipe everyone knows, etc.). Unfortunately, the meandering text sometimes wanders too far afield, which makes the pace slow and the action clumsy. The urban neighborhood is evoked not only through the story itself but also through the cut-paper and mixed-media collage illustrations. Though the compositions 464 * THE BULLETIN are sometimes cluttered and faces occasionally stiff, the art is emotionally vibrant and energetically rendered. Cross-curricular uses for this title could include retelling family stories and compiling neighborhood lore, as well as seeing how much information students can fit on a postcard. JMD

TAT, CHRIS How to Be a Kid; illus. by Jim Paillot. Sterling, 2003 96p Paper ed. ISBN 0-8069-8503-8 $6.95 R Gr. 3-6 Books purporting to side with kids against the enemy adults aren't unheard of (see Wisniewski's Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups, BCCB 7/98), but it's unusual to find an author who genuinely deserts the adult lines to provide kids with ammuni- tion against his own kind (and, of course, against other kids). That's just what Tait does, though, in this slim and easily concealable volume that gives detailed instructions for twenty-five important kid skills, ranging from social engineering ("How to fake looking sick") to musical accomplishments ("How to whistle with two fingers") to athletic achievements ("How to cannonball into a pool"). There are a few glitches in the text and there's a fair amount of wishful thinking in the faking-out-adults entries (and the amorality may go a bit far for grownups in a few spots), but there's also a treasure trove of information about classic youthful pas- times such as armpit farts, spitballs, and towel snaps. The gleefully goofy authorial style ("It is your duty to make root beer come pouring out the nose of your friends and family") is enjoyable and generally free of condescension, and the instructions for the physical activities are fairly clear and helpful. Rarely has a book cried "Confiscate me!" with such verve, but that's where its charm lies; while some amus- ing uncles and clever babysitters will get a lot of mileage out of its material, this is really a book at its best behind adult backs. Glitzy color illustrations in the wackily cubist style of Nick Jr. cartoons add the perfect irreverent visual touch, and organized disruptors will appreciate the inclusion of an index. DS

THOMSON, SARAH L. Imagine a Night; illus. by Rob Gonsalves. Byron Preiss/ Atheneum, 2003 32p ISBN 0-689-85218-5 $16.95 Ad Gr. 3-5 Thomson's imposed text loosely connects a series of surrealistic paintings by artist Gonsalves. "Imagine a night" is the opening line on every spread, inviting viewers to use the illustrations as a way to trigger their own imaginations. Images of a snowy street merging into coverlets and pillows, trees transforming into women with lanterns, tattered curtains becoming a nighttime cityscape all test observers' abilities to reconcile the realistic with the fantastical. Gonsalves' art combines magic and realism into precise images that test the boundaries of visual imagination; these paintings are certainly worth a look, and several are even worth ponder- ing. Unfortunately, merging an unconnected series of paintings into a picture book requires a strength of text that this book simply doesn't have. It is strongly reminiscent of Van Allsburg's The Mysteries ofHarrisBurdick (BCCB 9/84), but where Van Allsburg was conceptually open-ended, the text here is inconsistently literal, sometimes reflecting the action of the paintings, sometimes not, and often limiting the imaginative possibilities of individual images. The paintings on their own may function as a springboard to creative writing projects or fantastical drawing assignments that aim to encourage viewers to reinterpret the possibilities that exist in the everyday world. JMD JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 465

VANDE VELDE, VIVIAN Wizard at Work: A Novel in Stories. Harcourt, 2003 134 p ISBN 0-15-204559-7 $16.00 R Gr. 6-9 It is summer vacation for the wizard (who runs a wizard training school), and he is looking forward to some fishing and gardening, peace and quiet. Alas, it is not to be, because no sooner does he get ready for some blissful alone time than he is interrupted by a variety of folks who simply must have his assistance: a bewitched princess in a tower, a town beset by immature unicorns, a prince who needs help defeating a dragon, a duke whose castle is being haunted, and a royal couple with a daughter who doesn't fit the standard princess mold. The wizard (never named) is a not-yet-jaded fellow with a strong sense of justice and a slightly warped sense of mischief; in the course of these fast-moving episodes (one short introductory piece and five interconnected yet standalone tales) he learns not to judge by appearances, makes sure his petitioners get what they really deserve, and finds true love. Vande Velde knows her way around fairy tales and fantasy and has a wicked sense of humor about both. Her wizard is an admirable fellow with foibles as well as powers, and the supporting players have just enough specificity to round them from caricatures to characters. Like a good folktale, the pace is quick, the humor is effective, and the lessons are painless. Offer this to fractured-fairy-tale lovers seeking nontraditional levity in traditional trappings. JMD

VOAKE, CHARLOTTE Ginger Finds a Home; written and illus. by Charlotte Voake. Candlewick, 2003 [34p] ISBN 0-7636-1999-X $15.99 Reviewed from galleys R 3-6 yrs Little listeners will be caught up immediately in the stray cat's plight: "Once there was a little orange cat who lived in a patch of weeds at the end of a garden. His ears were black with dirt. He was very thin. His fur stuck out. His tail was like a piece of STRING!" The skinny feline's luck changes, however, when a little girl starts leaving plates of food for him; eventually the cat relaxes enough to let her pet him. The little girl calls him Ginger, and after much perseverance, she coaxes him into her house, but when the nervous Ginger bolts before the little girl can close the door, the child mourns the cat she believes is lost: "The little girl was very sad. She was so upset she didn't notice . .. when Ginger came creeping back in." The author, who previously told the story of how a long-domesticated Ginger adjusted to a new kitten in the house (Ginger, BCCB 4/97), here tells the true story of how the cat came to live with her family. Voake's loose-lined watercolor and ink illustrations suit the scrawny feline to a crooked whisker. The layout is effective, with single images sitting amidst the large typeface on pale yellow pages: Ginger the cat steps amongst the words, his body a scrawl of scribbly lines; the rescuing little girl is a solid reassuring presence in her polka-dot pinafore and sensible sweater. Pre- schoolers will hold their breath hearing of Ginger's dangerous life and fortuitous rescue. Team this prequel with Voake's own Ginger and perhaps Duncan's I Walk at Night (BCCB 2/00) for a storytime purr-adise. JMD

WHEELER, LISA One Dark Night; illus. by Ivan Bates. Harcourt, 2003 32p ISBN 0-15-202318-6 $16.00 R 3-5 yrs A "wee little mouse" and a "wee little mole" live in a "wee little house" in the forest; close by, "In a BIG GIANT lair,/ Near a BIG GIANT glen,/ Lived a BIG 466 * THE BULLETIN

GIANT bear/ In his BIG GIANT den." One dark night Mole and Mouse go for a walk, while at the same time Bear is hankering for something tasty to eat. The inevitable happens when a lost Mole and Mouse run into Bear in the dark woods, but there's a twist: "The SOMETHING was Bear,/ Who grumbled ... / 'You're late!'/ Then they skipped hand in hand,/ From the glen to the lair,/ For a BIG GIANT feast// With their best friend BIG Bear." Wheeler goes back and forth between the activities of little Mouse and Mole and big Bear, combining the two narrative threads together into a semi-scary story with a resolutely happy ending. The pace is so tightly controlled that the suspense is palpable, despite the easy rhymes and cozy-looking woodland characters. Bates' wax-pencil crayon and watercolor illustrations are somewhat slick, but he has a good handle on comfy caves and bucolic woods, and the compositions effectively emphasize the smallness of Mole and Mouse in contrast to the huge and ornery Bear. Wheeler's rhyming text would fall into singsong except that the capitalizing of certain words results in a readaloud blueprint that effectively delivers this just-scary-enough storytime tale. JMD

WREDE, PATRICIA C. Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondenceof Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scan- dals in London and the Country. Harcourt, 2003 320p ISBN 0-15-204615-1 $17.00 R Gr. 6-10 Cousins Kate and Cecelia live during the Regency period (along with Lord Byron, Lady Caroline Lamb, and the Prince Regent), when manners are all, the way a man ties his cravat can decide his future, and young women live to be presented at Almack's. This Regency world has something the usual romances do not, however: magic, wizardry, and dangerous games afoot. When this epistolary novel opens, Kate has gone off to London to be presented along with her ravishing older sister, Georgina, while Cecelia languishes in the country. The two are prodigious letter writers, however, and manage to tell each other all despite their physical distance. Being somewhat overly energetic in nature, the two young women soon find themselves in dangerous company, Kate with the dashing Mysterious Mar- quis, Cecelia with the Marquis' equally dashing friend, Mr. James Tarleton, and both young women with the wicked wizards Miranda Griscomb and Sir Hilary Bedrick. The letters fly fast and furious as the girls wreak romantic and magical havoc among the Haute Ton, while attracting satisfyingly suitable suitors almost despite themselves. Characterizations may be a bit stock, but this is a genre hom- age, after all, and it's important that the classic figures (the rich and rakish hero, the stubborn but desirable heroine, the overtly respectable but secretly wicked villain, the forthright and formidable grande dame, etc.) appear. While there are some minor loose ends, this is witty, light, and funny, and all in all a fine romp; Regency romance as well as fantasy fans are going to line up for it. An afterword tells how what began as a series of letters written as a lark turned into this book and a planned sequel. JMD

YOLEN, JANE, ad. Mightier Than the Sword: WorldFolktalesfor Strong Boys; illus. by Raul Col6n. Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2003 112p ISBN 0-15-216391-3 $19.00 R Gr. 3-6 In this companion volume to Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktalesfor Strong Girls (BCCB 4/00), fourteen folktales from around the world feature he- JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 467 roes who triumph with their hearts and minds instead of their fists and fury. Yolen balances lightly on the curl of her storytelling wave: the language is solid, the pace is quick, and the narrative smooth. Despite the fact that Yolen put this collection together to emphasize heroes that demonstrate that "the true heroes are the ones who solve their problems-and the problems of the world-without ever having to resort to force," there is plenty of action in her selections. In "Eating with Trolls," Ash Lad defeats a frightening but not-too-bright troll who just doesn't know when he's had enough; "Thick-Head" puts forth a clever hero who bargains his way into a rich marriage; mistreated "Hired Hands" are liberated by a newly hired wit who knows how to keep his temper; and a canny fisherman improves his station in life in "The Fisherman and the Chamberlain." Some entries' parallels to more familiar tales (the Irish "Jack and His Companions" resembles "The Bremen Town Musicians"; the Finnish "Mighty Mikko" is reminiscent of "Puss in Boots," etc.) make this title valuable for comparative folktale curricula and collections. Col6n's full-page black-and-white line drawings are gracefully composed and capably drafted. Notes on each tale give publishing history and/or cultural context; a bibliography includes at least two written sources for each tale. JMD

ZUSAK, MARKUS Getting the Girl. Levine/Scholastic, 2003 261p ISBN 0-439-38949-6 $16.95 R Gr. 7-12 Cam and his older brother, Rube (from Fighting Ruben Wolfe, BCCB 3/01), return in this examination of the nature of love, romantic and otherwise. Rube hasn't changed since the last book; he's still a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. Cam, on the other hand, is figuring out the kind of guy he wants to be, and it isn't Ruben. Currently a loner ("You're a bit of a lonely bastard aren't y'?" his brother says), Cam is as desperate for human contact as he is for an emotional outlet, and he finds that outlet through a form of self-expression that is almost the antithesis of Rube's bloody battles in the boxing ring: he writes. On scraps of paper he keeps stuffed in his pockets, Cam evokes his world in smears of words that manifest his longing. When Rube and Octavia (a young woman Cam sees as a cut above the rest of Rube's previous girlfriends) break up, Cam emerges from his solitude into a world with Octavia in it; he reveals himself to her, and she has the intelligence to welcome that revelation. Zusak rides his prose as if taming something wild, giving a sense of Cam's emotional upheaval without losing control of the momentum and pace. Solid characterizations ground the action, with Cam's personality art- fully limned in a first-person narrative interspersed with his own writings; clipped staccato language, concrete and minimal, evokes the power and complexity of his yearnings. The relationship between Rube and Cam is the cohesive element in a novel that explores Cam's growing, passionate connections to the world. Readers making their own connections, passionate and otherwise, will revel in Cam's success. JMD im-v 468 * THE BULLETIN

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: Hurst Civil War-fiction: Hahn ADVENTURE: Colfer; Hausman; COUNTING BOOKS: Sayre Karr; Pratchett; Priestley Cousins-fiction: Wrede Africa-fiction: Mead Cowboys-fiction: Ernst African Americans-fiction: Draper; Cows-stories: Hurd Flake; Myers CRAFT BOOKS: Tait African Americans-stories: Steptoe Crime and criminals-fiction: ALPHABET BOOKS: Baker Bowler; Colfer; Davis; Holm; Animals: Baker; Cerullo Priestley; Prose Animals-fiction: Hayden Current events: Mead Animals-folklore: Paye Divorce-fiction: Eulo Animals-stories: Regan; Wheeler Dreams-stories: Anholt ANTHOLOGIES: Yolen Drug abuse-fiction: Murray Arithmetic: Sayre Ethics and values: Butler; Davis; Art: Thomson Draper; Flake; French; Holm Art and artists-fiction: Karr Emotions-stories: Ormerod Art and artists-stories: Segal EPISTOLARY FICTION: Wrede Aunts-fiction: Horvath Faith-poetry: Rylant Aunts-stories: Steptoe Families-fiction: Cart; Horvath; Aviation: Downs Myers; Steptoe Babies-stories: Regan FOLKTALES AND FAIRY TALES: Baseball-fiction: Koertge; Ritter Goble; Ljungkvist; Paye; Yolen Baseball-stories: Corey FANTASY: Colfer; DiTerlizzi; Bears-stories: Dyer Pratchett; Thomson; Vande BEDTIME STORIES: Anholt Velde; Wrede BILINGUAL BOOKS: Elya Fathers-fiction: Bowler; Flake; Biology: Cerullo Goodman; Murray; Myers; Birds-fiction: Hayden Nelson Books and reading-fiction: Fears-fiction: Butler DiTerlizzi; Reiche Flying-stories: Schotter Brothers-fiction: Murray; Zusak Food and eating-stories: Greenstein Brothers and sisters-fiction: Hahn; Foster care-fiction: Hayden Pratchett Friends-fiction: Butler; Davis; Eulo; Bullies-fiction: Butler Flake Campers and camping-stories: Lasky Friends-stories: Bond; Wheeler Cats-stories: Voake GHOST STORIES: Hurst Chickens-stories: Silverman Gifts-stories: Segal JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 469

Grandparents-stories: Cohen School-stories: Dyer Hamsters-fiction: Ernst; Reiche SCIENCE FICTION: Goodman HISTORICAL FICTION: Bradley; Secrets-fiction: Draper Donnelly; Hahn; Karr; Priestley SHORT STORIES: Cart; Hausman History, U.S.: Greenstein; Hahn Sleep-stories: Anholt Holidays-stories: Silverman Social studies: Mead Horses-folklore: Goble SONGS: Ormerod HUMOR: Elya; Ernst; Nelson; Space travel-stories: Hurd Regan; Roberts; Tait; Vande Spies-fiction: Bradley Velde; Wrede SPORTS STORIES: Eulo; Ritter Illness-fiction: Hautman Storytelling: Yolen Imagination-stories: Schotter Storytelling-fiction: French; Horvath Inventions and inventors-stories: Storytime: Bond; Cohen; Elya; Greenstein Goble; Hurd; Lasky; Ljungkvist; Jealousy-fiction: Brinson Ormerod; Paye; Segal; Voake; Kidnapping-fiction: Bowler Wheeler Magic-fiction: DiTerlizzi; Wrede Summer-fiction: Horvath Mental illness-fiction: Myers SUPERNATURAL STORIES: Moving-stories: Bond Bowler; Hurst Music and musicians-fiction: SURVIVAL STORIES: Hausman Bradley SUSPENSE: Prose MYSTERIES: Donnelly; Goodman; Television-fiction: Roberts Holm Transportation: Downs Mythology, classical: Napoli Twins-fiction: DiTerlizzi Native Americans-folklore: Goble Vampires-fiction: Hautman Nature study: Cerullo Voyages and travel: Downs Ocean-fiction: Hausman Voyages and travel-fiction: Roberts Pets-fiction: Reiche Voyages and travel-stories: Regan; Pets-stories: Voake Steptoe Photography-fiction: Brinson War-fiction: Hahn; Mead Physical education: Corey Wizards-fiction: Vande Velde Pigs-stories: Lasky Women's studies: Corey POETRY: Koertge; Rylant Work-stories: Dyer Princesses-stories: Ljungkvist World War II-fiction: Bradley; Reading aloud: Hausman; Yolen French Reading, beginning: Lasky Writers and writing-fiction: Reading, easy: Brinson; Butler; Donnelly; Koertge; Nelson; Zusak Reiche Reading, reluctant: DiTerlizzi; Tait Relationships-fiction: Zusak Religious education: Rylant RHYMING STORIES: Wheeler ROMANCE: Napoli; Wrede Rosh Hashanah-stories: Silverman Rural life-fiction: Donnelly Rural life-stories: Cohen School-fiction: Draper; Prose 470 * THE BULLETIN

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

AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX, VOLUME 56 SEPTEMBER, 2002--JULY/AUGUST, 2003

100 School Days. Rockwell. 76. Allen, S. Read Anything Good Lately? 303. 12 Again. Corbett. 54. Allen, W. Swords for Hire. 389. 17. Rosenberg. 248. Allende. City of the Beasts. 225. 33 Snowfish. Rapp. 375. Almond. Secret Heart. 140. 7th Knot. Karr. 452. Almost Home. Baskin. 351. A-Tisket, A-Tasket. Fitzgerald. 272. Alphabet Keeper. Murphy. 282. Abarat. Barker. 265. Alphabet under Construction. Fleming. 56. Abe Lincoln. Winters. 379. Alt Ed. Atkins. 226. Abhorsen. Nix. 283. Alvarez. Before We Were Free. 97. Ackerman. Animal Sense. 264. Amazing Air Balloon. Van Leeuwen. 424. Act I, Act II, Act Normal. Weston. 427. Amazing Love Story of Mr. Morf. Cneut. 267. Action Jackson. Greenberg. 108. America the Beautiful. Bates. 391. Ada. Daniel's Pet. 140. American Plague. Murphy. 413. _ iPfo Peep! 388. Among the Betrayed. Haddix. 58. Adams. Eye of the Wolf. 284. Amy. Hooper. 160. Adelita. dePaola. 151. Ananse and the Lizard. Cummings. 195. Adler. Mama Played Baseball. 302. And in the Morning. Wilson. 337. . Picture Book of Lewis and Clark. 302. Andersen. Nightingale. 97. Adoff. Song Shoots out of My Mouth. 224. . Nightingale. 98. Adventurous Chef. Arnold. 142. .Thumbelina. 4. After. Prose. 458. Anderson, J. Last Treasure. 348. Agapanthus Hum and the Angel Hoot. Cowley. Anderson, L. Catalyst. 141. 268. . Thank You, Sarah. 225. Agard. Under the Moon & over the Sea. 225. Anderson, M. Feed. 98. Agnes Parker... Girl in Progress. O'Dell. 326. Anderson, W. River Boy. 264. Ahlberg. Bit More Bert. 96. Andryszewski. Terrorism in America. 5. _ . Cat Who Got Carried Away. 389. Angel. Stauffacher. 127. Aiken. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 186. Angel Factory. Blacker. 189. Airborne. Collins. 394. Angels Sweep the Desert Floor. Chaikin. 9. Alberto the Dancing Alligator. Waring. 129. Anglin. One and Seven. 420. Alchemy. Mahy. 321. Anholt. Jack and the Dreamsack. 436. Alder. Crossing the Panther's Path. 4. Animal ABC. Baker. 436. Alex Ryan, Stop That! Mills. 323. Animal House and Iz. Hicks. 404. Alexander, L Rope Trick. 186. Animal Sense. Ackerman. 264. Alexander, V. A-Tisket, A-Tasket. 272. Anna Sunday. Keehn. 23. All the Way to Lhasa. Berger. 49. Annabel the Actress Starring in Hound of the All You Need for a Snowman. Schertle. 210. Barkervilles. Conford. 53. All-American Girl. Cabot. 147. Annie Rose Is My Little Sister. Hughes. 317. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 471

Annoyance Bureau. Frank. 154. Bauer. Stand Tall. 48. Aoki. White Swan Express. 208. Be Boy Buzz. hooks. 160. Appelt. Bubba and Beau Go Night-Night. 349. Beacon Hill Boys. Mochizuki. 246. Apples. Robbins. 171. Beale. I Am Not Esther. 142. Ardagh. House Called Awful End. 141. Bear Wants More. Wilson. 294. Ariel and Emily. Greenspun. 275. Bears Make Rock Soup. Erdrich. 196. Arnold, A. Adventurous Chef. 142. Beautiful Blackbird. Bryan. 227. Arnold, C. When Mammoths Walked the Before the Creeks Ran Red. Reeder. 286. Earth. 98. Before We Were Free. Alvarez. 97. Around the World in Eighty Poems. Berry. 187. Begging for Change. Flake. 446. Arrington, A. Camp of the Angel. 390. Behind the Mountains. Danticat. 232. Arrington, F. Prairie Whispers. 349. Belinda the Ballerina. Young. 338. Arro. Good Night, Animals. 142. Bell. Goblin Wood. 392. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. Colfer. Belton. Pictures for Miss Josie. 392. 440. Benduhn. Gravel Queen. 305. Arthur: At the Crossing-Places. Crossley-Hol- Bennett. Grandad's Tree. 305. land. 231. Benny. Posthuma. 285. Ashman. Babies on the Go. 390. Berenstain. Down a Sunny Dirt Road. 144. Ask Me. Damm. 269. Berger. All the Way to Lhasa. 49. Asquith. Babies. 350. Bergman. Musical Beds. 187. At the Edge of the Woods. Cotten. 102. Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry. Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast. Yolen. 337. Naylor. 326. Atinsky. Tyler on Prime Time. 5. Berry-Picking Man. Buchanan. 353. Atkins. Alt Ed. 226. Berry. Around the World in Eighty Poems. 187. Auch. Souperchicken. 391. Best. Goose's Story. 6. Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas. Betsy Who Cried Wolf. Levine. 65. Primavera. 123. Better Than Running at Night. Frank. 56. Auschwitz. Lawton. 163. Beware! Stine. 80. Avi. Crispin. 46. Bial. Tenement. 99. . Silent Movie. 303. Bible. Noah's Ark. 188. Ayres. Macaroni Boy. 265. . Stories from the Bible. 6. Babies on the Go. Ashman. 390. Big Bear Ball. Ryder. 77. Babies. Asquith. 350. Big Blue Spot. Holwitz. 317. Babies. Heiligman. 59. Big City Cool. Weiss. 214. Baby Elephant. Lang. 366. Big Day on the River. Wilson. 428. Baby Lion. Lang. 366. Big Momma Makes the World. Root. 247. Bachelor and the Bean. Fowles. 312. Bird and His Worm. Kaczman. 162. Bad Girls in Love. Voigt. 84. Bit More Bert. Ahlberg. 96. Bad News! I'm in Charge! Ingman. 406. Black. Field Guide. 442. Bahr. My Brother Loved Snowflakes. 142. . Seeing Stone. 442. Bailey. Stanley's Party. 350. . Tithe. 188. Baker, E. Frog Princess. 226. Black-Eyed Suzie. Shaw. 34. Baker, L. Animal ABC. 436. Blacker. Angel Factory. 189. Ballad of Sir Dinadan. Morris. 324. Blackwood. Year of the Hangman. 144. Ballad of Valentine. Jackson. 202. Blizzard's Wake. Naylor. 207. Banks. Dillon Dillon. 47. Bloody Jack. Meyer. 167. . Mama's Coming Home. 304. Blue Roses. Boyden. 7. Bany-Winters. Funny Bones. 6. Blues Journey. Myers. 415. Barefoot Book of Knights. Matthews. 26. Bluitgen. Boot Fell from Heaven. 306. Barker. Abarat. 265. Blume. Double Fudge. 99. Barlow. Jirrbal. 47. Blumenthal. Six Days in October. 145. Barnaby's Bunny. Rouillard. 329. Bluthenthal. I'm Not Invited? 306. Bartlett. Seal Island Seven. 48. Body Marks. Gay. 155. Bartram. Man on the Moon. 142. Boling. New Year Be Coming! 189. Baskin. Almost Home. 351. Bond. When Marcus Moore Moved In. 437. Bates. America the Beautiful. 391. Bone Dry. Karr. 63. Batt. Faerie's Gift. 304. Bones of Fred McFee. Bunting. 50. Battle of Jericho. Draper. 444. Boo Hoo Boo-Boo. Singer. 34. 472 * THE BULLETIN

Book of Alfar. Hassinger. 58. Calmenson. Welcome, Baby! 147. Book of Mean People. Morrison. 206. Camp of the Angel. Arrington. 390. Bookstore Valentine. Maitland. 204. Campoy. Rosa Raposa. 100. Boot Fell from Heaven. Bluitgen. 306. _ . Pfo Peep! 388. Born Confused. Hidier. 237. Can You Guess My Name? Sierra. 211. Bottled Up. Murray. 455. Canine Connection. Hearne. 315. Bottner. Scaredy Cats. 393. Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt. Grant. 157. Bouchard. That's Hockey. 145. Canning Season. Horvath. 451. Bow Wow Meow Meow. Florian. 312. Cannon, A. Charlotte's Rose. 191. Bowler. Storm Catchers. 437. .On the Go with Pirate Pete and Pirate Boy Who Saved Baseball. Ritter. 460. Joe. 8. Boyden. Blue Roses. 7. Cannon, J. Little Yau. 100. Bradley. For Freedom. 438. Capital. Curlee. 232. Brashares. Second Summer of the Sisterhood. Captain Bob Takes Flight. Schotter. 462. 351. Capuzzo. Close to Shore. 394. Bravemole. Jonell. 21. Carbone. Pack. 267. Brennan. Faerie Wars. 352. Carney. Where Does a Tiger-Heron Spend the Brett. Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve? Night? 9. 49. Carpenter. Lewis Carroll. 192. Bridges. Ruby's Wish. 49. Cart. Necessary Noise. 439. Briggs. Ug. 190. Carter. Heaven's All-Star Jazz Band. 228. Bringing Up the Bones. Zeises. 215. Carus. Fire and Wings. 192. Brinson. Seeing Sugar. 438. Carvell. Who Will Tell My Brother? 51. Broadley. Pedro the Brave. 226. Casey at the Bat. Thayer. 253. Brodsky. Buffalo. 306. Castaways. Hausman. 449. Bronto Eats Meat. Maloney. 410. Cat Who Got Carried Away. Ahlberg. 389. Brooks, K. Lucas. 393. Cat Who Liked Potato Soup. Farish. 399. . Martyn Pig. 7. Catalyst. Anderson. 141. Brooks, M. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl. Catilda. Stadler. 291. 266. Cazet. Elvis the Rooster Almost Goes to Heaven. Brown, D. Far Beyond the Garden Gate. 146. 354. . Mack Made Movies. 352. . Minnie and Moo: The Night before Brown, Jeff. Stanley, Flat Again! 307. Christmas. 148. Brown, Jo. Pirate Jam. 352. Celebrating a Quinceafiera. Hoyt-Goldsmith. Brown, M. Robin's Room. 8. 112. Browne. Warriors ofAlavna. 50. Cerullo. Sea Turtles. 440. Brownjohn. I, Freddy. 459. Chabon. Summerland. 193. Bryan. Beautiful Blackbird. 227. Chachaji's Cup. Krishnaswami. 408. Bubba and Beau Go Night-Night. Appelt. 349. Chaikin. Angels Sweep the Desert Floor. 9. Bubble Bath Pirates! Krosoczka. 278. Chambers, A. Postcards from No Man's Land. Buchanan. Berry-Picking Man. 353. 9. Buddha Boy. Koja. 407. Chambers, R. Rooftop Rocket Party. 354. Buffalo. Brodsky. 306. Chambers, V. Double Dutch. 148. Bunnies on the Go. Walton. 293. Chan. Foreign Field. 149. Bunting. Bones of Fred McFee. 50. Chance. Regan. 459. Burchard. Frederick Douglass. 266. Chandra. George Washington's Teeth. 229. Burgess. Ghost behind the Wall. 227. Charlotte's Rose. Cannon. 191. . Lady. 51. Cheaney. True Prince. 149. Bury the Dead. Sloan. 78. Cheat. Koss. 240. Butler. Trading Places with Tank Talbott. 439. Chen. Wandering Warrior. 307. By the Side of the Road. Feiffer. 15. Cheng. Goldfish and Chrysanthemums. 308. Byalick. Quit It. 146. Chester. Young Adventurer's Guide to Everest. Byars. Keeper of the Doves. 190. 10. Cabot. All-American Girl. 147. Chewing the Cud. King-Smith. 203. . Haunted. 228. Chicken Soup by Heart. Hershenhorn. 202. ._Princess in Waiting. 353. Child X. Weatherly. 84. Cadnum. Leopard Sword. 191. Children of Native America Today. Dennis. Caletti. Queen of Everything. 191. 359. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 473

Chill Wind. McDonald. 205. Craft. Sleeping Beauty. 194. Christensen. In My Grandmother's House. 355. Creek. Holm. 450. Christmas Tapestry. Polacco. 74. Crew. Mama's Babies. 11. Cindrich. In the Shadow of the Pali. 52. Crispin. Avi. 46. City Chicken. Dorros. 233. Crossing Montana. Torres. 83. City of the Beasts. Allende. 225. Crossing the Panther's Path. Alder. 4. Clarabella's Teeth. Vrombaut. 335. Crossley-Holland. Arthur: At the Crossing- Clarke. Wolf on the Fold. 52. Places. 231. Claws. Weaver. 335. Crowe. Getting Away with Murder. 395. Clements. Week in the Woods. 193. Crowning Glory. Thomas. 82. Close to Shore. Capuzzo. 394. Crows! Pringle. 170. Cneut. Amazing Love Story of Mr. Morf. 267. Crum. House in the Meadow. 356. Coalition of Lions. Wein. 336. .Spitting Image. 310. Codell. Sahara Special. 308. Crutcher. King of the Mild Frontier. 357. Cohen. Everything Is Different at Nonna's Cullen. Thirsty Baby. 310. House. 440. Cummings. Ananse and the Lizard. 195. Cohn, D. Dream Carver. 53. Curlee. Capital. 232. Cohn, R. Steps. 229. Cushman. Rodzina. 269. Colfer. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. 440. Cutler. Leap, Frog. 150. Collicott. Toestomper and the Bad Butterflies. Cuyler. Skeleton Hiccups. 11. 355. Daddy Says. Shange. 288. Collier. Jericho Walls. 10. Dahlia. McClintock. 69. Collins. Airborne. 394. Daly. Once upon a Time. 311. Color of Home. Hoffman. 60. Damm. Ask Me. 269. Comora. George Washington's Teeth. 229. Dance of Sisters. Porter. 209. Company of Crows. Singer. 175. Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn. Lurie. 165. Company of Fools. Ellis. 195. Daniel's Pet. Ada. 140. Compestine. Story of Noodles. 230. Danticat. Behind the Mountains. 232. CON-fidence. Strasser. 252. Danziger. United Tates of America. 12. Condoleezza Rice. Wade. 335. Dark Horse. Sedgwick. 421. Conford. Annabel the Actress Starring in Hound Dark Waters. MacPhail. 280. of the Barkervilles. 53. Dating Hamlet. Fiedler. 198. Confucius. Freedman. 154. Davey's Blue-Eyed Frog. Easton. 397. Conly. Rudest Alien on Earth. 101. Davis. Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged. 441. Conniff. Rats! 150. Day in the Life of Murphy. Provensen. 419. Cooke, K. Terrible Underpants. 356. Days of Jubilee. McKissack. 322. Cooke, T. Full, Full, Full of Love. 268. de Carrera. Little Book of Latin American Folk- Cool Cat, School Cat. Cox. 231. tales. 358. Cool Drink of Water. Kerley. 24. de Lint. Waifs and Strays. 151. Cooper, H. Sandmare. 309. De Rosamel. Drawing with Objects. 357. Cooper, I. Jack. 230. Dead Girls Don't Write Letters. Giles. 274. Cooper, M. Remembering Manzanar. 194. Deaf Child Crossing. Matlin. 116. Cop on the Beat. Schulman. 125. Deak. Period Pieces. 270. Coraline. Gaiman. 106. Dearden. Little Book of Latin American Folk- Corbet. Fifteen Love. 309. tales. 358. Corbett. 12 Again. 54. Death and the Arrow. Priestley. 458. Corey. Milly and the Macy's Parade. 101. Declaration of Independence. Fink. 55. . Players in Pigtails. 441. DeFelice. Real, True Dulcie Campbell. 150. Corner of the Universe. Martin. 243. . Under the Same Sky. 358. Corona. Little Book of Latin American Folk- Degas and the Dance. Rubin. 210. tales. 358. DeLaCroix. Hero of Third Grade. 102. Cotten. At the Edge of the Woods. 102. Demarest. Here Come Our Firefighters! 12. Countdown to Kindergarten. McGhee. 69. Dennis. Children of Native America Today. Courage. Waber. 254. 359. Courtesan's Daughter. Galloway. 155. dePaola. Adelita. 151. Cowley. Agapanthus Hum and the Angel Hoot. .Things Will NEVER Be the Same. 270. 268. Derby. Two Fools and a Horse. 395. Cox. Cool Cat, School Cat. 231. Destination Unexpected. Gallo. 360. 474 * THE BULLETIN

Deuker. High Heat. 396. Elinor and Violet. Murphy. 414. Dewey. Paisano, the Roadrunner. 12. Elizabeti's School. Stuve-Bodeen. 175. Diakit6. Magic Gourd. 271. Elliott. Hunter's Best Friend at School. 54. Dillon Dillon. Banks. 47. Ellis. Company of Fools. 195. Dillon. Rap A Tap Tap. 151. Ellsworth. Shrouding Woman. 14. Dirt. Tomecek. 127. Elvis the Rooster Almost Goes to Heaven. Cazet. Dirty Deed. Stenhouse. 331. 354. Disappearing Act. Fleischman. 399. Elya. Home at Last. 15. Disher. Divine Wind. 13. . Oh No, Gotta Go! 444. DiTerlizzi. Field Guide. 442. Emberley, E. Thanks, Mom. 398. . Seeing Stone. 442. Emberley, R. My Animals. 104. Divine Wind. Disher. 13. . My Clothes. 104. Dodds. Where's Pup? 271. . My Food. 104. Does a Cow Say Boo? Hindley. 60. . My Toys. 104. Doherty. Holly Starcross. 152. Encantado. Montgomery. 28. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Willems. Enduring Wisdom. Sneve. 330. 378. Epossumondas. Salley. 77. Donnelly. Humble Pie. 103. Erdrich, Lise. Bears Make Rock Soup. 196. __ .Northern Light. 443. Erdrich, Louise. Range Eternal. 153. Dooling. Great Horse-less Carriage Race. 233. Erie Canal Pirates. Kimmel. 113. Doomspell. McNish. 70. Eriksson. Molly Goes Shopping. 311. Dork on the Run. Gorman. 17. Ernst. Hannah Mae O'Hannigan's Wild West Dorros. City Chicken. 233. Show. 445. Double Dutch. Chambers. 148. Escape from Botany Bay. Hausman. 276. Double Dutch. Draper. 54. Esckilsen. Last Mall Rat. 398. Double Fudge. Blume. 99. Eulo. Mixed-Up Doubles. 446. Dowell. Where I'd Like to Be. 396. Everything I Know about Monsters. Down a Sunny Dirt Road. Berenstain. 144. Lichtenheld. 66. Downs. Noisy Airplane Ride. 443. Everything Is Different at Nonna's House. Doyle, E. Stray Voltage. 195. Cohen. 440. Doyle, M. Georgie. 103. Eye of the Wolf. Pennac. 284. . Who Is Jesse Flood? 152. Fabulous Fluttering Tropical Butterflies. Patent. Dozen Ducklings Lost and Found. Ziefert. 339. 327. Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster. Marrin. Face-to-Face with the Ladybug. Tracqui. 83. 204. Facklam. Lizards. 312. Dragon Machine. Ward. 426. Faerie Wars. Brennan. 352. Draper. Double Dutch. 54. Faerie's Gift. Batt. 304. . Battle of Jericho. 444. Fairy Realm: The Charm Bracelet. Rodda. 286. Drawing with Objects. De Rosamel. 357. Falling into Place. Greene. 199. Dream Bearer. Myers. 455. Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia. Dream Carver. Cohn. 53. O'Connor. 283. Driving Daddy. Vestergaard. 334. Familiar and Haunting. Pearce. 73. Drowning Anna. Mayfield. 166. Fanelli. Mythological Monsters of Ancient Dunk. Lubar. 165. Greece. 196. Dunlap. Louisa May & Mr. Thoreau's Flute. Fantastic Creatures from Greek Myths. Posner. 103. 417. Dunrea. Gossie. 153. Far Beyond the Garden Gate. Brown. 146. . Gossie & Gertie. 153. Farish. Cat Who Liked Potato Soup. 399. Dust. Slade. 291. Farley Farts. Miiller. 325. Dyer. Little Brown Bear Won't Go to School. Farmer. House of the Scorpion. 104. 444. Farris. My Brother Martin. 272. Dyson. Home on the Moon. 397. Fat Kid Rules the World. Going. 402. Dyssegaard. Mirabelle. 367. Feed. Anderson. 98. .Molly Goes Shopping. 311. Feiffer. By the Side of the Road. 15. Easton, P. Davey's Blue-Eyed Frog. 397. . House across the Street. 197. Easton, R Real American. 13. Ferreira. Zulu Dog. 197. Egad Alligator! Ziefert. 38. Ferris. Once upon a Marigold. 234. Egielski. Slim and Jim. 14. Festival of Bones. San Vicente. 124. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 475

Fiedler. Dating Hamlet. 198. Gallo. Destination Unexpected. 360. Field Guide. DiTerlizzi. 442. Galloway. Courtesan's Daughter. 155. Fifteen Love. Corbet. 309. Gantos. What Would Joey Do? 107. Figueroa. Little Book of Latin American Folk- Garden. Meeting Melanie. 199. tales. 358. Gaspard and Lisa's Rainy Day. Gutman. 314. Finding Our Way. Saldafia. 330. Gathering the Dew. Ho. 315. Fine. Jamie and Angus Stories. 55. Gay, K. Body Marks. 155. Fink. Declaration of Independence. 55. Gay, M. Good Morning, Sam. 361. Fire and Wings. Carus. 192. Geography Club. Hartinger. 236. Fire. Janisch. 239. George Upside Down. McCarthy. 321. Fireboat. Kalman. 63. George Washington's Teeth. Chandra. 229. Fireflies and Midnight. Singer. 377. George. Swimming Upstream. 156. Firewing. Oppel. 327. Georgie. Doyle. 103. Fitzgerald, E. A-Tisket, A-Tasket. 272. Gerstein. Sparrow Jack. 401. Fitzgerald, J. Vietnam War. 38. Get Ready for Gabf! Montes. 413. Flake. Begging for Change. 446. Get Well, Good Knight. Thomas. 176. Fleischman. Disappearing Act. 399. Getting Away with Murder. Crowe. 395. Fleming. Alphabet under Construction. 56. Getting the Girl. Zusak. 467. Flieger. Pig Tale. 198. Ghost behind the Wall. Burgess. 227. Flight of the Fisherbird. Martin. 370. Ghosts of Rathburn Park. Snyder. 250. Flight to Freedom. Veciana-Suarez. 253. Giddy-up! Let's Ride! McDonnell. 69. Flora's Surprise! Gliori. 274. Giff. Pictures of Hollis Woods. 156. Florian. Bow Wow Meow Meow. 312. Giles. Dead Girls Don't Write Letters. 274. Flower Girl. Furgang. 273. Gilson. Stink Alley. 17. For Freedom. Bradley. 438. Gina.Jamie.Father.Bear. Lyon. 165. Foreign Field. Chan. 149. Ginger Finds a Home. Voake. 465. Foreman. Wonder Goal! 399. Girl in a Cage. Yolen. 255. Fowles. Bachelor and the Bean. 312. Girl on the High-Diving Horse. High. 237. Fox. Jean Laffite and the Big 01' Whale. 359. Girl Wonder. Hopkinson. 239. Fradin. Signers. 234. Girls under Pressure. Wilson. 86. Frampton. My Beastie Book of ABC. 16. Glassman. Halloweena. 57. Franco. Mathematickles! 400. Glick. One Shot. 402. Frank, E. Friction. 400. Gliori. Flora's Surprise! 274. Frank, H. Better Than Running at Night. 56. Glory. Lynn. 368. Frank, L. Annoyance Bureau. 154. Goble. Mystic Horse. 447. Frank, M. Understanding September 11th. 16. Goblin Wood. Bell. 392. Fraustino. Soul Searching. 154. God Went to Beauty School. Rylant. 461. Frazee. Roller Coaster. 401. Gods and Goddesses from Greek Myths. Posner. Frederick Douglass. Burchard. 266. 417. Fredericks. True Meaning of Cleavage. 273. Going. Fat Kid Rules the World. 402. Freedman. Confucius. 154. Goldfish and Chrysanthemums. Cheng. 308. Freeman. Trouble with Babies. 105. Good Morning, Sam. Gay. 361. French. Hitler's Daughter. 447. Good Night, Animals. Arro. 142. Freymann-Weyr. Kings Are Already Here. 313. Goodhart. Pudgy. 361. Friction. Frank. 400. Goodman, A. Singing the Dogstar Blues. 447. Friedman. Picture This. 360. Goodman, J. Paradise. 107. Friesen. Losing Forever. 106. Goodman, S. Nature Did It First! 362. Frog Princess. Baker. 226. Goodnight, Baby Monster. Leuck. 65. From Head to Toe. Seuling. 172. Gooney Bird Greene. Lowry. 66. Frost. Keesha's House. 313. Goose's Story. Best. 6. Full Hand. Yezerski. 178. Gorman. Dork on the Run. 17. Full, Full, Full of Love. Cooke. 268. Gossie. Dunrea. 153. Funke. Thief Lord. 106. Gossie & Gertie. Dunrea. 153. Funky Junk. Schwarz. 360. Graham. Jethro Byrd: Fairy Child. 57. Funny Bones. Bany-Winters. 6. Grandad's Tree. Bennett. 305. Furgang. Flower Girl. 273. Grant. Cannibals: Starring Tiffany Spratt. 157. Gaiman. Coraline. 106. Gravel Queen. Benduhn. 305. Galen. Moss. 168. Graves. Loretta: Ace Pinky Scout. 157. 476 * THE BULLETIN

Gray, D. Together Apart. 108. Hausman, Gerald. Castaways. 449. Gray, L. Timespinners. 314. . Escape from Botany Bay. 276. Gray, M. Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool. 158. Hautman. Sweetblood. 449. Great Ghost Rescue. Ibbotson. 113. Hautzig. Picture of Grandmother. 159. Great God Pan. Napoli. 456. Have a Hot Time, Hades! McMullan. 166. Great Horse-less Carriage Race. Dooling. 233. Hawes. Waiting for Christopher. 18. Green Angel. Hoffman. 316. Hayden. Very Worst Thing. 450. Greenberg. Action Jackson. 108. Healer's Keep. Hanley. 201. . Runaway Girl. 403. Hear the Wind Blow. Hahn. 448. Greene. Falling into Place. 199. Hearne. Canine Connection. 315. Greenfield. How They Got Over. 235. Heaven's All-Star Jazz Band. Carter. 228. Greenspun. Ariel and Emily. 275. Hegi. Trudi & Pia. 363. Greenstein. Ice-Cream Cones for Sale! 448. Heiligman, Deborah. Babies. 59. Gregory. Shirley's Wonderful Baby. 199. . Honeybees. 19. Grifalconi. Village That Vanished. 109. Heir Apparent. Vande Velde. 177. Griffin, A. Hannah, Divided. 158. Hello Benny! Harris. 110. . Overnight. 235. Henson. Making the Run. 19. Griffin, P. Music Thief. 200. Here Come Our Firefighters! Demarest. 12. Grimes. Talkin' about Bessie. 200. Here's What You Do When You Can't Find Grody's Not So Golden Rules. Rubel. 420. Your Shoe. Perry. 285. Grunfeld. Vietnam War. 38. Hero of Third Grade. DeLaCroix. 102. Guest. Iris and Walter: The Sleepover. 58. Hershenhorn. Chicken Soup by Heart. 202. Gumbrella. Root. 171. Hiaasen. Hoot. 111. Gutman. Gaspard and Lisa's Rainy Day. 314. Hickman. Ravine. 19. . Lisa's Baby Sister. 314. Hicks. Animal House and Iz. 404. Guy Wire. Weeks. 214. . I Smell Like Ham. 59. Haas. Shaper. 18. Hidier. Born Confused. 237. Haddix. Among the Betrayed. 58. High Heat. Deuker. 396. Hahn. Hear the Wind Blow. 448. High. Girl on the High-Diving Horse. 237. Hairdo! Swain. 176. Hindley. Does a Cow Say Boo? 60. Halliday. Shooting Monarchs. 362. Hirschfelder. Children of Native America To- Halloween Countdown. Prelutsky. 31. day. 359. Halloween. Seinfeld. 78. Hitler's Daughter. French. 447. Halloweena. Glassman. 57. Ho. Gathering the Dew. 315. Hamilton. Time Pieces. 159. Hobbie. Toot & Puddle: Top of the World. 60. Hana's Suitcase. Levine. 279. Hobbs, V. Sonny's War. 111. Hanley. Healer's Keep. 201. Hobbs, W. Jackie's Wild Seattle. 363. Hannah, Divided. Griffin. 158. Hodges. Legend of Saint Christopher. 159. Hannah Mae O'Hannigan's Wild West Show. Hoffman, A. Green Angel. 316. Ernst. 445. Hoffman, M. Color of Home. 60. Hannah's Garden. Snyder. 250. . Stravaganza. 238. Harel. Key to My Heart. 315. iHola! Jalapefio. Sanger. 33. Harness. Rabble Rousers. 235. Holding the Reins. Talbert. 333. Harper. There Was a Bold Lady Who Wanted Holly Starcross. Doherty. 152. a Star. 109. Holm. Creek. 450. Harrar. Not as Crazy as I Seem. 403. Holt. Keeper of the Night. 405. Harris, Robert. Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast. Holub. Why Do Rabbits Hop? 276. 337. Holwitz. Big Blue Spot. 317. __ . Girl in a Cage. 255. Home at Last. Elya. 15. Harris, Robie. Hello Benny! 110. Home of the Braves. Klass. 162. Harrison. Monster in Me. 404. Home on the Moon. Dyson. 397. Harry on the Rocks. Meddaugh. 412. Homemade Love. hooks. 238. Hartfield. Me and Uncle Romie. 201. Homespun Sarah. Kay. 407. Hartinger. Geography Club. 236. Honey. Remote Man. 61. Hartett. What the Birds See. 275. Honeybees. Heiligman. 19. Hassett. Three Silly Girls Grubb. 110. hooks. Be Boy Buzz. 160. Hassinger. Book of Alfar. 58. . Homemade Love. 238. Haunted. Cabot. 228. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 477

Hooper. Amy. 160. In the Time of Picasso. Mason. 25. Hoot. Hiaasen. 111. In the Time of Warhol. Mason. 25. Hopkins. Pet for Me. 364. Indian Shoes. Smith. 35. Hopkinson. Girl Wonder. 239. Ingman. Bad News! I'm in Charge! 406. Horniman. Mahalia. 405. Invisible Kingdoms. Schwartz. 249. Horvath. Canning Season. 451. Iris and Walter: The Sleepover. Guest. 58. House across the Street. Feiffer. 197. Isadora. Not Just Tutus. 318. House Called Awful End. Ardagh. 141. It Only Looks Easy. Swallow. 332. House in the Meadow. Crum. 356. Izzy's Place. Kornblatt. 407. House of the Scorpion. Farmer. 104. Jack. Cooper. 230. How Angel Peterson Got His Name. Paulsen. Jack and the Beanstalk. Lorenz. 114. 247. Jack and the Dreamsack. Anholt. 436. How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning. Jackie's Wild Seattle. Hobbs. 363. Schanzer. 287. Jackson. Ballad of Valentine. 202. How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? Yolen. 338. Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged. Davis. 441. How I Fell in Love & Learned to Shoot Free James. Little One Step. 318. Throws. Ripslinger. 419. Jamie and Angus Stories. Fine. 55. How the Elephant Got Its Trunk. Richards. Janisch. Fire. 239. 376. Jarvis. Thorn Ogres of Hagwood. 161. How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie. Sunami. Jean Laffite and the Big 01' Whale. Fox. 359. 81. Jenkins. What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? How They Got Over. Greenfield. 235. 277. How to Be a Kid. Tait. 464. Jericho Walls. Collier. 10. Howe. Tales from the House of Bunnicula: In- Jethro Byrd: Fairy Child. Graham. 57. vasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid Jiang. Magical Monkey King. 20. 6! 61. Jirrbal. Barlow. 47. __ . Tales from the House of Bunnicula: It John Coltrane's Giant Steps. Raschka. 32. Came from Beneath the Bed! 61. Johnny Mutton, He's So Him! Proimos. 375. Howitt. Spider and the Fly. 112. Johnson, A. Looking for Red. 20. Hoyt-Goldsmith. Celebrating a Quinceafiera. Johnson, D. Substitute Teacher Plans. 62. 112. Johnson, Kathleen. Parallel Universe of Liars. Hughes. Annie Rose Is My Little Sister. 317. 161. Huiing. Puss in Cowboy Boots. 62. Johnson, Kelly. Look at the Baby. 203. Humble Pie. Donnelly. 103. Johnson, L. Soul Moon Soup. 240. Hunter's Best Friend at School. Elliott. 54. Johnston, Tim. Never So Green. 162. Hunter. Warriors. 277. Johnston, Tony. That Summer. 21. Hunting of the Last Dragon. Jordan. 23. Jonell. Bravemole. 21. Hurd. Moo Cow Kaboom. 451. . When Mommy Was Mad. 22. Hurst. Wrong One. 452. Jones Family Express. Steptoe. 463. I Am Not Esther. Beale. 142. Jones, D. Merlin Conspiracy. 364. I, Freddy. Reiche. 459. Jones, M. Pigs Rock! 406. I Kissed the Baby! Murphy. 414. Jones, U. Witch's Children. 365. I Pledge Allegiance. Martin. 68. Joosse. Stars in the Darkness. 22. I Saw a Bullfrog. Stern. 331. Jordan, Sandra. Action Jackson. 108. I Smell Like Ham. Hicks. 59. . Runaway Girl. 403. I'm Not Invited? Bluthenthal. 306. Jordan, Sherryl. Hunting of the Last Dragon. Ibbotson. Great Ghost Rescue. 113. 23. Ice-Cream Cones for Sale! Greenstein. 448. Journey of Oliver K. Woodman. Pattison. 415. If the Shoe Fits. Whipple. 85. Just Jane. Lavender. 163. If the World Were a Village. Smith. 35. Kaczman. Bird and His Worm. 162. If You Take a Mouse to School. Numeroff. 72. Kalman. Fireboat. 63. If You're Happy and You Know It! Ormerod. Karr. Bone Dry. 63. 457. .7th Knot. 452. Imagine a Night. Thomson. 464. Kay. Homespun Sarah. 407. In My Grandmother's House. Christensen. 355. Keehn. Anna Sunday. 23. In the Piney Woods. Schotter. 287. Keeper of the Doves. Byars. 190. In the Shadow of the Pali. Cindrich. 52. Keeper of the Night. Holt. 405. 478 * THE BULLETIN

Keeping You a Secret. Peters. 416. Lewis Carroll. Carpenter. 192. Keesha's House. Frost. 313. Lichtenheld. Everything I Know about Mon- Keller. Sleeping Bunny. 277. sters. 66. Kensuke's Kingdom. Morpurgo. 324. .What Are You So Grumpy About? 319. Kerley. Cool Drink of Water. 24. Life and Times of the Ant. Micucci. 372. Key to My Heart. Harel. 315. Lightkeeper's Daughter. Lawrence. 114. Khan. Ruler of the Courtyard. 365. LightLand. McCutchen. 244. Kimmel. Erie Canal Pirates. 113. Lindaman. Read Anything Good Lately? 303. Kindl. Lost in the Labyrinth. 114. Lindgren. Mirabelle. 367. King of the Mild Frontier. Crutcher. 357. Lionclaw. Springer. 251. King-Smith. Chewing the Cud. 203. Lippert. Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Croco- Kings Are Already Here. Freymann-Weyr. 313. dile. 457. Kissing Kate. Myracle. 373. Lipsyte. Warrior Angel. 242. Klass. Home of the Braves. 162. Lisa's Baby Sister. Gutman. 314. Knick-Knack Paddywhack! Zelinsky. 256. Litchman. Period Pieces. 270. Koertge. Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. 453. Little Book of Latin American Folktales. Koja. Buddha Boy. 407. Dearden. 358. Kolar. Racer Dogs. 318. Little Brown Bear Won't Go to School. Dyer. Koller. Someday. 64. 444. Kornblatt. Izzy's Place. 407. Little Monkey Says Good Night. Paul. 416. Koss. Cheat. 240. Little One Step. James. 318. Kraft. Lenny and Mel's Summer Vacation. 408. Little School Bus. Roth. 33. Krishnaswami. Chachaji's Cup. 408. Little Yau. Cannon. 100. Krosoczka. Bubble Bath Pirates! 278. Little. Willow and Twig. 279. Kuskin. Moon, Have You Met My Mother? Lizards. Facklam. 312. 366. Ljungkvist. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Lady. Burgess. 51. 454. Laird. Face-to-Face with the Ladybug. 83. Locomotion. Woodson. 294. Landau. Osama bin Laden. 24. Look at the Baby. Johnson. 203. Lang. Baby Elephant. 366. Looking for Red. Johnson. 20. . Baby Lion. 366. Lorbiecki. Louisa May & Mr. Thoreau's Flute. Lasky. Lucille Camps In. 453. 103. _ . Porkenstein. 64. Lord of the Kill. Taylor. 212. . Voice of Her Own. 241. Lorenz. Jack and the Beanstalk. 114. Last Mall Rat. Esckilsen. 398. Loretta: Ace Pinky Scout. Graves. 157. Last Treasure. Anderson. 348. Losing Forever. Friesen. 106. Latsch. Thief Lord. 106. Lost in the Labyrinth. Kindl. 114. Lavender. Just Jane. 163. Louisa May & Mr. Thoreau's Flute. Dunlap. Lawlor. Magnificent Voyage. 241. 103. Lawrence. Lightkeeper's Daughter. 114. Lourie. On the Trail of Lewis and Clark. 25. Lawton. Auschwitz. 163. Love. Puppeteer's Apprentice. 367. Layton. Sunday Blues. 65. Lowry. Gooney Bird Greene. 66. Leap, Frog. Cutler. 150. . Silent Boy. 320. Lee, H. While We Were Out. 278. Lubar. Dunk. 165. Lee, S. Please, Baby, Please. 242. . Wizards of the Game. 409. Lee, T. Please, Baby, Please. 242. Lucas. Brooks. 393. Leedy. There's a Frog in My Throat! 319. Lucille Camps In. Lasky. 453. Legend of Saint Christopher. Hodges. 159. Lum. Princesses Are Not Quitters! 410. Lenny and Mel's Summer Vacation. Kraft. 408. Lupton. Pirican Pic and Pirican Mor. 368. Leopard Sword. Cadnum. 191. Lurie. Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn. 165. Lester, H. Tackylocks and the Three Bears. 164. Luthardt. Peep! 320. Lester, J. Why Heaven Is Far Away. 164. Lynch. Who the Man. 204. Leuck. Goodnight, Baby Monster. 65. Lynn, J. Glory. 368. Levin. Shoddy Cove. 409. Lynn, T. Snow. 369. Levine, G. Betsy Who Cried Wolf. 65. Lyon. GinaJamie.Father.Bear. 165. Levine, K. Hana's Suitcase. 279. Maata's Journal. Sullivan. 332. Lewis and Clark and Me. Myers. 71. Macaroni Boy. Ayres. 265. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 479

MacDonald. Please, Malese! 67. McDonough. Peaceful Protest. 245. .Quentin Fenton Herter III. 25. McGhee. Countdown to Kindergarten. 69. Mack Made Movies. Brown. 352. McGinty. Ten Little Lambs. 27. Mack. Princess Penelope. 280. McKay. Was That Christmas? 116. Mackall. Off to Bethlehem! 67. McKissack, F. Days of Jubilee. 322. MacPhail. Dark Waters. 280. McKissack, P. Days of Jubilee. 322. Made You Look. Roberts. 460. . Tippy Lemmey. 281. Magic Gourd. Diakitd. 271. McLean. Women of Adventure. 371. Magical Monkey King. Jiang. 20. McMullan. Have a Hot Time, Hades! 166. Magnificent Voyage. Lawlor. 241. McNamara. Too Many Valentines. 245. Mahalia. Horniman. 405. McNeal. Zipped. 281. Mahy. Alchemy. 321. McNish. Doomspell. 70. Maitland. Bookstore Valentine. 204. Me and My Robot. West. 427. Making of a Writer. Nixon. 29. Me and Uncle Romie. Hartfield. 201. Making the Run. Henson. 19. Mead. Year of No Rain. 454. Malka. Pressler. 418. Meddaugh. Harry on the Rocks. 412. Maloney. Bronto Eats Meat. 410. Meeting Melanie. Garden. 199. Mama Played Baseball. Adler. 302. Meltzer. Ten Kings and the Worlds They Ruled. Mama's Babies. Crew. 11. 27. Mama's Coming Home. Banks. 304. Merlin Conspiracy. Jones. 364. Mammoth. O'Brien. 98. Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear! Wood. 131. Man on the Moon. Bartram. 142. Meyer. Bloody Jack. 167. Mango-Shaped Space. Mass. 411. Micucci. Life and Times of the Ant. 372. Manneken Pis. Radunsky. 123. Midnight for Charlie Bone. Nimmo. 373. Mannis. Queen's Progress. 411. Mightier Than the Sword. Yolen. 466. Maria von Trapp. Ransom. 31. Milgrim. See Pip Point. 322. Marrin. Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster. Milligan. Prince of Ireland and the Three Magic 204. Stallions. 323. Marsden. Other Side of Dawn. 68. Millions to Measure. Schwartz. 330. _ .Winter. 115. Mills. Alex Ryan, Stop That! 323. Martens. Swan Lake. 127. Milly and the Macy's Parade. Corey. 101. Martin, A. Corner of the Universe. 243. Milord. Willa the Wonderful. 412. Martin, B. I Pledge Allegiance. 68. Minnie and Moo: The Night before Christmas. Martin, J. Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig. Cazet. 148. 369. Minters. Princess Fishtail. 167. Martin, N. Flight of the Fisherbird. 370. Mirabelle. Lindgren. 367. __ .Perfect Snow. 115. Mitchell. Nightingale. 97. Martin, R. World before This One. 243. Mitten. Shawn Fanning. 28. Martyn Pig. Brooks. 7. Mitton. Plum. 372. Masini. Wedding Dress Mess. 370. Mixed-Up Doubles. Eulo. 446. Mason, A. In the Time of Picasso. 25. Mochizuki. Beacon Hill Boys. 246. . In the Time of Warhol. 25. Model T. Weitzman. 130. Mason, S. Quigleys. 26. Moe McTooth. Spinelli. 423. Mass. Mango-Shaped Space. 411. Mole and the Baby Bird. Newman. 120. Mathematickles! Franco. 400. Molly Goes Shopping. Eriksson. 311. Matlin. Deaf Child Crossing. 116. Monkey for Sale. Stanley. 252. Matthews. Barefoot Book of Knights. 26. Monster in Me. Harrison. 404. Maurer. Wright Sister. 371. Montes. Get Ready for Gabf! 413. Mayfield. Drowning Anna. 166. Montgomery, H. Voyage of The Arctic Tern. Mbuthia. My Sister's Wedding. 280. 70. McCarthy. George Upside Down. 321. Montgomery, S. Encantado. 28. McCaughrean. One Bright Penny. 244. Moo Cow Kaboom. Hurd. 451. McClintock. Dahlia. 69. Moon, Have You Met My Mother? Kuskin. McClure. Tom Finger. 205. 366. McCutchen. LightLand. 244. Moon. Witch Boy. 29. McDonald. Chill Wind. 205. Moore. Night before Christmas. 117. McDonnell. Giddy-up! Let's Ride! 69. Moranville. Over the River. 206. 480 * THE BULLETIN

More Pies! Munsch. 207. Nelson. Ruby Electric. 456. Morpurgo. Kensuke's Kingdom. 324. Never So Green. Johnston. 162. Morris. Ballad of Sir Dinadan. 324. New Improved Santa. Wolff. 131. Morris the Artist. Segal. 462. New Year Be Coming! Boling. 189. Morrison. Book of Mean People. 206. New York's Bravest. Osborne. 30. Moss, Marissa. Galen. 168. Newbery. Shell House. 119. Moss, Miriam. Scritch Scratch. 117. Newman, L. Runaway Dreidel! 119. Mount Olympus Basketball. O'Malley. 374. Newman, M. Mole and the Baby Bird. 120. Mouse, the Cat, and Grandmother's Hat. Nichols. Under the Moon & over the Sea. 225. Willard. 428. Night before Christmas. Moore. 117. Mrs. Biddlebox. Smith. 211. Nightingale. Andersen. 97. Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile. Nightingale. Andersen. 98. Paye. 457. Nimmo. Midnight for Charlie Bone. 373. Muhammad Ali. Shange. 173. Nine Animals and the Well. Rumford. 421. Miller. Farley Farts. 325. Nifio's Mask. Winter. 294. Munsch. More Pies! 207. Nix. Abhorsen. 283. . Zoom! 325. Nixon. Making of a Writer. 29. Murdoch. Malka. 418. No Zombies Allowed. Novak. 30. Murphy, J. American Plague. 413. Noah's Ark. Bible. 188. Murphy, M. Alphabet Keeper. 282. Noisy Airplane Ride. Downs. 443. . I Kissed the Baby! 414. Nolen. Plantzilla. 120. Murphy, P. Elinor and Violet. 414. Northern Light. Donnelly. 443. Murray. Bottled Up. 455. Not as Crazy as I Seem. Harrar. 403. Music Thief. Griffin. 200. Not Just Tutus. Isadora. 318. Musical Beds. Bergman. 187. Novak. No Zombies Allowed. 30. Muth. Stone Soup. 282. Numeroff. If You Take a Mouse to School. 72. My Animals. Emberley. 104. O'Brien. Mammoth. 98. My Beastie Book of ABC. Frampton. 16. O'Connor. Fame and Glory in Freedom, Geor- My Brother Loved Snowflakes. Bahr. 142. gia. 283. My Brother Martin. Farris. 272. O'Dell. Agnes Parker... Girl in Progress. 326. My Brothers' Flying Machine. Yolen. 379. O'Garden. Scrubbly-Bubbly Car Wash. 284. My Clothes. Emberley. 104. O'Hair. Twin to Twin. 415. My Daddy and Me. Spinelli. 423. O'Malley. Mount Olympus Basketball. 374. My Diary from Here to There. Pdrez. 121. Ocean Apart, a World Away. Namioka. 71. My Food. Emberley. 104. Off to Bethlehem! Mackall. 67. My Name Is Yoon. Recorvits. 328. Oh No, Gotta Go! Elya. 444. My Sister's Wedding. Mbuthia. 280. Okimoto. White Swan Express. 208. My Toys. Emberley. 104. Old. To Fly. 121. Myers, A. Tulsa Burning. 168. Oliver Finds His Way. Root. 172. Myers, L. Lewis and Clark and Me. 71. Olivia Kidney. Potter. 417. Myers, W. Blues Journey. 415. On Christmas Eve. Rosenberg. 76. __ . Dream Bearer. 455. On the Go with Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe. Can- Myracle. Kissing Kate. 373. non. 8. Mystic Horse. Goble. 447. On the Trail of Lewis and Clark. Lourie. 25. Mythological Monsters of Ancient Greece. Once upon a Marigold. Ferris. 234. Fanelli. 196. Once upon a Time. Daly. 311. Naidoo. Out of Bounds. 246. One and Seven. Rodari. 420. Namioka. Ocean Apart, a World Away. 71. One Bright Penny. McCaughrean. 244. Napoli. Great God Pan. 456. One Dark Night. Wheeler. 465. Nature Did It First! Goodman. 362. One Hot Second. Young. 86. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Bernie Magruder & One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab. Sayre. 461. the Bats in the Belfry. 326. One Shot. Glick. 402. _ . Blizzard's Wake. 207. Oppel. Firewing. 327. . Please Do Feed the Bears. 72. Ordal. Princess Aasta. 208. .Starting with Alice. 118. Orgel. Ask Me. 269. Necessary Noise. Cart. 439. Ormerod. If You're Happy and You Know It! Neimark. There Ain't Nobody That Can Sing 457. Like Me. 118. Osama bin Laden. Landau. 24. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 481

Osborn. Project UltraSwan. 169. Pinocchio the Boy or Incognito in Collodi. Osborne. New York's Bravest. 30. Smith. 127. . Tales from the Odyssey: The Land of iPfo Peep! Ada. 388. the Dead. 169. Pirate Jam. Brown. 352. . Tales from the Odyssey: The One-Eyed Pirican Pic and Pirican Mor. Lupton. 368. Giant. 169. Planet Janet. Sheldon. 289. Other Side of Dawn. Marsden. 68. Plantzilla. Nolen. 120. Our Gracie Aunt. Woodson. 37. Players in Pigtails. Corey. 441. Out of Bounds. Naidoo. 246. Please Do Feed the Bears. Naylor. 72. Outside In. Young. 37. Please, Baby, Please. Lee. 242. Over the River. Moranville. 206. Please, Malese! MacDonald. 67. Overnight. Griffin. 235. Plum-Ucci. What Happened to Lani Garver. Pack. Carbone. 267. 122. Page. What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? Plum. Mitton. 372. 277. Polacco. Christmas Tapestry. 74. Paint by Magic. Reiss. 32. Pool Boy. Simmons. 422. Paisano, the Roadrunner. Dewey. 12. Popova. Tale of the Firebird. 127. Palatini. Perfect Pet. 374. Porkenstein. Lasky. 64. Paradise. Goodman. 107. Porter. Dance of Sisters. 209. Parallel Universe of Liars. Johnson. 161. Posner. Fantastic Creatures from Greek Myths. Parasite Pig. Sleator. 249. 417. Patent. Fabulous Fluttering Tropical Butterflies. . Gods and Goddesses from Greek Myths. 327. 417. Paterson. Same Stuff as Stars. 72. Postcards from No Man's Land. Chambers. 9. Pattison. Journey of Oliver K. Woodman. 415. Posthuma. Benny. 285. Paul. Little Monkey Says Good Night. 416. Potch & Polly. Steig. 80. Paulsen. How Angel Peterson Got His Name. Potter, E. Olivia Kidney. 417. 247. Potter, G. Year I Didn't Go to School. 74. Paye. Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile. Prairie Whispers. Arrington. 349. 457. Pratchett. Wee Free Men. 458. Peaceful Protest. McDonough. 245. Prelutsky. Halloween Countdown. 31. Pearce. Familiar and Haunting. 73. . Scranimals. 75. Peden. City of the Beasts. 225. Pressler. Malka. 418. Pedro the Brave. Broadley. 226. Preston. Remember the Lusitania! 418. Peep! Luthardt. 320. Priceman. Princess Picky. 75. Pennac. Eye of the Wolf. 284. Priestley. Death and the Arrow. 458. PNrez. My Diary from Here to There. 121. Primavera. Auntie Claus and the Key to Christ- Perfect Harmony. Smith. 79. mas. 123. Perfect Pet. Palatini. 374. Prince of Ireland and the Three Magic Stallions. Perfect Snow. Martin. 115. Milligan. 323. Period Pieces. Deak. 270. Princess Aasta. Ordal. 208. Perry. Here's What You Do When You Can't Princess Fishtail. Minters. 167. Find Your Shoe. 285. Princess in Waiting. Cabot. 353. Pet for Me. Hopkins. 364. Princess Mouse. Shepard. 290. Peters. Keeping You a Secret. 416. Princess Penelope. Mack. 280. Philbrick. Revenge of the Whale. 122. Princess Picky. Priceman. 75. Picture Book of Lewis and Clark. Adler. 302. Princesses Are Not Quitters! Lum. 410. Picture of Grandmother. Hautzig. 159. Pringle. Crows! 170. Picture This. Friedman. 360. . Strange Animals, New to Science. 31. Pictures for Miss Josie. Belton. 392. Proimos. Johnny Mutton, He's So Him! 375. Pictures of Hollis Woods. Giff. 156. Project UltraSwan. Osborn. 169. Pierce. Protector of the Small: Lady Knight. 73. Prose. After. 458. . Shatterglass. 328. Protector of the Small: Lady Knight. Pierce. 73. Pig Named Perrier. Spurr. 36. Provensen. Day in the Life of Murphy. 419. Pig Tale. Flieger. 198. Pudgy. Goodhart. 361. Pigs Rock! Jones. 406. Pumpkin Day! Wallace. 84. Pinkney. Nightingale. 98. Puppeteer's Apprentice. Love. 367. .Noah's Ark. 188. Puppy Mudge Takes a Bath. Rylant. 248. 482 * THE BULLETIN

Puss in Cowboy Boots. Huling. 62. . Oliver Finds His Way. 172. Queen of Everything. Caletti. 191. Rope Trick. Alexander. 186. Queen's Progress. Mannis. 411. Rosa Raposa. Campoy. 100. Quentin Fenton Herter III. MacDonald. 25. Rosenberg. 17. 248. Quigleys. Mason. 26. .On Christmas Eve. 76. Quit It. Byalick. 146. Rosie to the Rescue. Roberts. 329. Quiver. Spinner. 251. Roth. Little School Bus. 33. Rabbit and the Dragon King. San Souci. 248. Rouillard. Barnaby's Bunny. 329. Rabble Rousers. Harness. 235. Rubel. Grody's Not So Golden Rules. 420. Racer Dogs. Kolar. 318. Rubin. Degas and the Dance. 210. Radunsky. Manneken Pis. 123. Ruby Electric. Nelson. 456. Rainbow Kite. Shyer. 174. Ruby's Beauty Shop. Wells. 130. Raise the Roofl Suen. 253. Ruby's Wish. Bridges. 49. Range Eternal. Erdrich. 153. Rudest Alien on Earth. Conly. 101. Ransom. Maria von Trapp. 31. Ruler of the Courtyard. Khan. 365. Rap A Tap Tap. Dillon. 151. Rumford. Nine Animals and the Well. 421. Rapp. 33 Snowfish. 375. Rumor. Thornhill. 213. Raschka. John Coltrane's Giant Steps. 32. Runaway Dreidel! Newman. 119. Rats! Conniff. 150. Runaway Girl. Greenberg. 403. Ravine. Hickman. 19. Rupp. Waterstone. 76. Read Anything Good Lately? Allen. 303. Russo. Trouble with Baby. 376. Real American. Easton. 13. Ryan. When Marian Sang. 172. Real, True Dulcie Campbell. DeFelice. 150. Ryder. Big Bear Ball. 77. Recorvits. My Name Is Yoon. 328. Rylant. God Went to Beauty School. 461. Rector. Tria and the Great Star Rescue. 32. .Puppy Mudge Takes a Bath. 248. Reeder. Before the Creeks Ran Red. 286. Sahara Special. Codell. 308. Reef. This Our Dark Country. 209. Saints. Sanderson. 287. Refugee Boy. Zephaniah. 87. Saladin. Stanley. 212. Regan. Chance. 459. Saldafia. Finding Our Way. 330. Reiche. I, Freddy. 459. Salley. Epossumondas. 77. Reiss, K. Paint by Magic. 32. Same Stuff as Stars. Paterson. 72. Reiss, M. Santa Claustrophobia. 170. Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes. Remember the Lusitania! Preston. 418. Van Draanen. 36. Remembering Manzanar. Cooper. 194. Sampson. I Pledge Allegiance. 68. Remote Man. Honey. 61. San Souci, D. Rabbit and the Dragon King. 248. Revenge of the Whale. Philbrick. 122. San Souci, R. Twins and the Bird of Darkness. Richards. How the Elephant Got Its Trunk. 78. 376. San Vicente. Festival of Bones. 124. Ripslinger. How I Fell in Love & Learned to Sanderson. Saints. 287. Shoot Free Throws. 419. Sandin. Good Night, Animals. 142. Ritter. Boy Who Saved Baseball. 460. Sandmare. Cooper. 309. River Boy. Anderson. 264. Sanger. iHola! Jalapefio. 33. Robbins. Apples. 171. Santa Claustrophobia. Reiss. 170. Roberts, B. Rosie to the Rescue. 329. Sayre. One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab. 461. Roberts, D. Made You Look. 460. . Secrets of Sounds. 210. Robin's Room. Brown. 8 Scaredy Cats. Bottner. 393. Rocklin. This Book Is Haunted. 75. Schanzer. How Ben Franklin Stole the Light- Rockwell. 100 School Days. 76. ning. 287. Rodari. One and Seven. 420. Schertle. All You Need for a Snowman. 210. Rodda. Fairy Realm: The Charm Bracelet. 286. . Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear. 421. Rodzina. Cushman. 269. . Pfo Peep! 388. Rogasky. Smoke and Ashes. 124. Schotter. Captain Bob Takes Flight. 462. Roller Coaster. Frazee. 401. . In the Piney Woods. 287. Rooftop Rocket Party. Chambers. 354. Schulman. Cop on the Beat. 125. Rooster and the Fox. Ward. 255. Schwartz, A. What James Likes Best. 288. Root, B. Gumbrella. 171. Schwartz, D. Millions to Measure. 330. Root, P. Big Momma Makes the World. 247. Schwartz, H. Invisible Kingdoms. 249. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 483

Schwarz, J. Ariel and Emily. 275. Slade. Dust. 291. Schwarz, R. Funky Junk. 360. Sleator. Parasite Pig. 249. Scranimals. Prelutsky. 75. Sleeping Beauty. Craft. 194. Scritch Scratch. Moss. 117. Sleeping Bunny. Keller. 277. Scrubba Dub. Van Laan. 334. Slim and Jim. Egielski. 14. Scrubbly-Bubbly Car Wash. O'Garden. 284. Sloan. Bury the Dead. 78. Sea Turtles. Cerullo. 440. Smith, Charles. Perfect Harmony. 79. Seal Island Seven. Bartlett. 48. Smith, Cynthia. Indian Shoes. 35. Second Summer of the Sisterhood. Brashares. Smith, D. If the World Were a Village. 35. 351. Smith, H. Way a Door Closes. 377. Secret Heart. Almond. 140. Smith, Lane. Pinocchio the Boy or Incognito Secrets of Sounds. Sayre. 210. in Collodi. 127. Sedgwick. Dark Horse. 421. Smith, Linda. Mrs. Biddlebox. 211. See Pip Point. Milgrim. 322. Smoke and Ashes. Rogasky. 124. Seeing Stone. DiTerlizzi. 442. Sneve. Enduring Wisdom. 330. Seeing Sugar. Brinson. 438. Snow. Lynn. 369. Segal. Morris the Artist. 462. Snow. Stojic. 175. Seinfeld. Halloween. 78. Snow Bears. Waddell. 254. Sense Pass King. Tchana. 213. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Aiken. 186. Seuling. From Head to Toe. 172. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Shadow Place. Tanzman. 81. Ljungkvist. 454. Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. Koertge. 453. Snyder, M. Hannah's Garden. 250. Shalant. When Pirates Came to Brooklyn. 173. Snyder, Z. Ghosts of Rathburn Park. 250. Shange. Daddy Says. 288. So You Want to Be an Inventor? St. George. . Muhammad Ali. 173. 79. Shannon. Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! 289. Someday. Koller. 64. Shaper. Haas. 18. Song Shoots out of My Mouth. Adoff. 224. Shatterglass. Pierce. 328. Sonny's War. Hobbs. 111. Shaw. Black-Eyed Suzie. 34. Sorcery & Cecelia. Wrede. 466. Shawn Fanning. Mitten. 28. Soul Moon Soup. Johnson. 240. Sheldon. Planet Janet. 289. Soul Searching. Fraustino. 154. Shell House. Newbery. 119. Souperchicken. Auch. 391. Shepard. Princess Mouse. 290. Sparrow Jack. Gerstein. 401. Shirley's Wonderful Baby. Gregory. 199. Spider and the Fly. Howitt. 112. Shoddy Cove. Levin. 409. Spinelli, E. Moe McTooth. 423. Shooting Monarchs. Halliday. 362. Spinelli, J. My Daddy and Me. 423. Shopaholic. Waite. 425. Spinner. Quiver. 251. Shreve. Trout and Me. 125. Spirin. Tale of the Firebird. 127. Shrouding Woman. Ellsworth. 14. Spitting Image. Crum. 310. Shyer. Rainbow Kite. 174. Springer. Lionclaw. 251. Sidman. World according to Dog. 290. Spurr. Pig Named Perrier. 36. Sierra. Can You Guess My Name? 211. . Surfer Dog. 36. . Silly & Sillier. 174. St. George. So You Want to Be an Inventor? Signers. Fradin. 234. 79. Silent Boy. Lowry. 320. Stadler. Catilda. 291. Silent Movie. Avi. 303. Stand Tall. Bauer. 48. Silly & Sillier. Sierra. 174. Stanley's Party. Bailey. 350. Silverman. When the Chickens Went On Strike. Stanley, D. Saladin. 212. 463. Stanley, Flat Again! Brown. 307. Simmons. Pool Boy. 422. Stanley, S. Monkey for Sale. 252. Sindbad's Secret. Zeman. 380. Stars in the Darkness. Joosse. 22. Singer. Boo Hoo Boo-Boo. 34. Stars. Tomecek. 293. Company of Crows. 175. Starting with Alice. Naylor. 118. . Fireflies and Midnight. 377. Stauffacher. Angel. 127. Singing the Dogstar Blues. Goodman. 447. Steig. Potch & Polly. 80. Six Days in October. Blumenthal. 145. .When Everybody Wore a Hat. 424. Skeleton Hiccups. Cuyler. 11. Stenhouse. Dirty Deed. 331. 484 * THE BULLETIN

Steps. Cohn. 229. Ten Kings and the Worlds They Ruled. Meltzer. Steptoe. Jones Family Express. 463. 27. Stern. I Saw a Bullfrog. 331. Ten Little Lambs. McGinty. 27. Stine. Beware! 80. Tenement. Bial. 99. Stink Alley. Gilson. 17. Terrible Underpants. Cooke. 356. Stojic. Snow. 175. Terrorism in America. Andryszewski. 5. Stone Soup. Muth. 282. Thank You, Sarah. Anderson. 225. Stonecutter. Watts. 129. Thanks, Mom. Emberley. 398. Stories from the Bible. Bible. 6. That Summer. Johnston. 21. Storm Catchers. Bowler. 437. That's Hockey. Bouchard. 145. Story of Noodles. Compestine. 230. Thayer. Casey at the Bat. 253. Strange Animals, New to Science. Pringle. 31. There Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me. Strasser. CON-fidence. 252. Neimark. 118. . Thief of Dreams. 292. There Was a Bold Lady Who Wanted a Star. Stravaganza. Hoffman. 238. Harper. 109. Stray Voltage. Doyle. 195. There's a Frog in My Throat! Leedy. 319. Street. There's a Frog in My Throat! 319. Thief Lord. Funke. 106. Stuve-Bodeen. Elizabeti's School. 175. Thief of Dreams. Strasser. 292. Substitute Teacher Plans. Johnson. 62. Things Will NEVER Be the Same. dePaola. Suen. Raise the Roof! 253. 270. Sullivan. Maata's Journal. 332. Thirsty Baby. Cullen. 310. Summerland. Chabon. 193. This Book Is Haunted. Rocklin. 75. Sumo Mouse. Wisniewski. 214. This Is the House that Jack Built. Taback. 81. Sunami. How the Fisherman Tricked the Ge- This Isn't about the Money. Warner. 177. nie. 81. This Our Dark Country. Reef. 209. Sunday Blues. Layton. 65. Thomas, J. Crowning Glory. 82. Surfer Dog. Spurr. 36. Thomas, S. Get Well, Good Knight. 176. Surviving the Applewhites. Tolan. 82. Thomson. Imagine a Night. 464. Swain. Hairdo! 176. Thorn Ogres of Hagwood. Jarvis. 161. Swallow. It Only Looks Easy. 332. Thornhill. Rumor. 213. Swan Lake. Tchaikovsky. 127. Three Silly Girls Grubb. Hassett. 110. Sweetblood. Hautman. 449. Thumbelina. Andersen. 4. Swimming Upstream. George. 156. Time Pieces. Hamilton. 159. Swinburne. Woods Scientist. 292. Timespinners. Gray. 314. Swords for Hire. Allen. 389. Timothy's Tales from Hilltop School. Wells. 85. Taback. This Is the House that Jack Built. 81. Tippy Lemmey. McKissack. 281. Tackylocks and the Three Bears. Lester. 164. Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! Shannon. 289. Tadpole. White. 336. Tithe. Black. 188. Tait. How to Be a Kid. 464. To Fly. Old. 121. Talbert. Holding the Reins. 333. To the Edge of the World. Torrey. 333. Tale of the Firebird. Spirin. 127. To the Top. Venables. 425. Tales from the House of Bunnicula: Invasion Toestomper and the Bad Butterflies. Collicott. of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6! 355. Howe. 61. Together Apart. Gray. 108. Tales from the House of Bunnicula: It Came Tolan. Surviving the Applewhites. 82. from Beneath the Bed! Howe. 61. Tom Finger. McClure. 205. Tales from the Odyssey: The Land of the Dead. Tomecek, Steve. Dirt. 127. Osborne. 169. Tomecek. Stars. 293. Tales from the Odyssey: The One-Eyed Giant. Too Many Valentines. McNamara. 245. Osborne. 169. Toot & Puddle: Top of the World. Hobbie. 60. Talkin' about Bessie. Grimes. 200. Torres. Crossing Montana. 83. Tanaka. Fire. 239. Torrey. To the Edge of the World. 333. Tanzman. Shadow Place. 81. Tracqui. Face-to-Face with the Ladybug. 83. Taylor. Lord of the Kill. 212. Trading Places with Tank Talbott. Butler. Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake. 127. 439. Tchana. Sense Pass King. 213. Traitor. Yep. 295. Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear. Scherdtle. 421. Tria and the Great Star Rescue. Rector. 32. JULY/AUGUST 2003 * 485

Troll King. Vornholt. 129. Waring. Alberto the Dancing Alligator. 129. Trouble with Babies. Freeman. 105. Warner. This Isn't about the Money. 177. Trouble with Baby. Russo. 376. Warrior Angel. Lipsyte. 242. Trout and Me. Shreve. 125. Warriors. Hunter. 277. Trudi & Pia. Hegi. 363. Warriors of Alavna. Browne. 50. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl. Brooks. Was That Christmas? McKay. 116. 266. Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig. Martin. 369. True Meaning of Cleavage. Fredericks. 273. Waterstone. Rupp. 76. True Prince. Cheaney. 149. Watts. Stonecutter. 129. Tulsa Burning. Myers. 168. Way a Door Closes. Smith. 377. Twin to Twin. O'Hair. 415. Weatherly. Child X. 84. Twins and the Bird of Darkness. San Souci. 78. Weaver. Claws. 335. Two Fools and a Horse. Derby. 395. Wedding Dress Mess. Masini. 370. Tyler on Prime Time. Atinsky. 5. Wee Free Men. Pratchett. 458. Ug. Briggs. 190. Week in the Woods. Clements. 193. Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool. Gray. 158. Weeks. Guy Wire. 214. Uncle Andy's. Warhola. 426. Wein. Coalition of Lions. 336. Under the Moon & over the Sea. Agard. 225. Weiss. Big City Cool. 214. Under the Same Sky. DeFelice. 358. Weitzman. Model T. 130. Understanding September 11th. Frank. 16. Welcome, Baby! Calmenson. 147. United Tates of America. Danziger. 12. Wells. Ruby's Beauty Shop. 130. Van Allsburg. Zathura. 127. . Timothy's Tales from Hilltop School. Van Draanen. Sammy Keyes and the Search for 85. Snake Eyes. 36. West. Me and My Robot. 427. Van Laan. Scrubba Dub. 334. Weston. Act I, Act II, Act Normal. 427. Van Leeuwen. Amazing Air Balloon. 424. What Are You So Grumpy About? Lichtenheld. Vande Velde. Heir Apparent. 177. 319. ._Wizard at Work. 465. What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? Jenkins. Veciana-Suarez. Flight to Freedom. 253. 277. Venables. To the Top. 425. What Happened to Lani Garver. Plum-Ucci. Very Worst Thing. Hayden. 450. 122. Vestergaard. Driving Daddy. 334. What James Likes Best. Schwartz. 288. . Wake Up, Mama! 334. What the Birds See. Hartnett. 275. Vietnam War. Young. 38. What Would Joey Do? Gantos. 107. Village That Vanished. Grifalconi. 109. Wheeler. One Dark Night. 465. Visiting Day. Woodson. 178. When Everybody Wore a Hat. Steig. 424. Voake. Ginger Finds a Home. 465. When Mammoths Walked the Earth. Arnold. Voice of Her Own. Lasky. 241. 98. Voigt. Bad Girls in Love. 84. When Marcus Moore Moved In. Bond. 437. Vornholt. Troll King. 129. When Marian Sang. Ryan. 172. Voyage of The Arctic Tern. Montgomery. 70. When Mommy Was Mad. Jonell. 22. Vrombaut. Clarabella's Teeth. 335. When Pirates Came to Brooklyn. Shalant. 173. Waber. Courage. 254. When the Chickens Went On Strike. Waddell. Snow Bears. 254. Silverman. 463. Wade. Condoleezza Rice. 335. Where Does a Tiger-Heron Spend the Night? Waifs and Strays. de Lint. 151. Carney. 9. Waite. Shopaholic. 425. Where I'd Like to Be. Dowell. 396. Waiting for Christopher. Hawes. 18. Where's Pup? Dodds. 271. Wake Up, Mama! Vestergaard. 334. While We Were Out. Lee. 278. Wald. Little Book of Latin American Folktales. Whipple. If the Shoe Fits. 85. 358. White Swan Express. Okimoto. 208. Wallace. Pumpkin Day! 84. White. Tadpole. 336. Walton. Bunnies on the Go. 293. Whittington. Body Marks. 155. Wandering Warrior. Chen. 307. Who Is Jesse Flood? Doyle. 152. Ward. Dragon Machine. 426. Who the Man. Lynch. 204. __ . Rooster and the Fox. 255. Who Will Tell My Brother? Carvell. 51. Warhola. Uncle Andy's. 426. Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve? Brett. 49. 486 * THE BULLETIN

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