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5 Let’s Read! Firehouse! Mama, Is It Summer Yet? Join Edward and his cousin Judy as they spend A little boy who can’t wait for summer keeps a hilarious day learning how to be fi refi ghters in asking his mama, “Is it summer yet?” Mama says, Mark Teague’s Firehouse! ($16.99, Orchard, 978- “Not yet, little one,” then points to the signs 0-4399-1500-7). From a fi re drill that leads to that spring is turning to summer – the softening a slippery slide down a fi re pole, to a hysterical of the earth, the nest-building of squirrels, the battle with an out-of-control fi re hose, Edward singing of birds – and encourages her son to is in for an action-packed adventure. And when savor the beauty of the season. In Mama, Is It faced with a real emergency, it’s Edward who Summer Yet? ($17.95, Abrams, 978-0-8109-8468- saves the day! Ages 3-5 4), Nikki McClure once again uses her unique paper cutouts to showcase wonderful images of nature and the joys of family. Ages 4+ Can I Play Too? Gerald and Piggie meet a new snake friend who wants to join in a game of catch. But don’t you need My Alphabet Playbook hands and arms to catch? Mo Willems (Knuffl e Pop-artist icon Romero Britto turns his talents Bunny) never fails to tickle readers of all ages. Like to teach children their ABCs in My Alphabet previous Elephant & Piggie Books, Can I Play Too? Playbook ($12.99, Little Simon, 978-1-416-99624- ($8.99, Hyperion, 978-1-4231-1991-3) turns reading 8). Little ones can press out the 26 bold and into play! Ages 4-8. Avail. 6/8 beautiful pieces and stack letters to make their own vibrant sculptures. Learning the alphabet just got even more fun! Ages 4-8 The Wicked Big Toddlah Toddie’s a baby just like any other... sort of. The thing is, he’s big — really big. That means really big First Shapes in Buildings diapers, really big teeth, really big everything. From Travel to twelve structures from around the world new booties that wear out the knitter to a bath in with varying geometric shapes in First Shapes in the ocean (it’s fun to play with boats!), Toddie goes Buildings ($16.95, Frances Lincoln, 978-1-8450- through all the stages of baby’s fi rst year... but it’s 7695-5) by Penny Ann Lane. Full-color photos just a little different for him. Kids will laugh out and simple texts reinforce learning everyday loud as they see Toddie get into more and more shapes; and they inspire children to appreciate trouble. It’s time for giant laughs all around with some of the world’s great structures and the The Wicked Big Toddlah ($7.99, Dragonfl y, 978-0- everyday environment around them. Ages 4-7 4404-1788-0) by Kevin Hawkes. Ages 4-8. Avail. 6/8

The Sandwich Swap Weird and Wonderful Animals Lily and Salma are best friends. They play together Meet the strangest animals in the world – from and stick together through thick and thin. But who tiny insects to ferocious mammals – in Weird and would have ever thought that ordinary peanut butter Wonderful Animals ($12.95, Ticktock Media, 978- or plain old hummus could come between them? 1-8489-8181-2) by Brenda Clarke and friends. The Sandwich Swap ($16.99, Hyperion, 978-1-4231- You’ll see these amazing creatures in full-color 2484-9), co-authored by Queen Rania of Jordan photographs and discover fascinating facts and based on her own experience, shows that these too. Ready for a wild excursion to the natural things hardly matter and that friendship is the most world? Come take a look. Ages 5-7 important thing of all. Ages 3-7

6 Dive into a Good Story Dark Life The Cardturner Set in an apocalyptic future where rising oceans have New from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of swallowed up entire regions and people live packed Holes, is The Cardturner ($17.99, Delacorte, 978-0-385- like sardines on the dry land left, Dark Life ($16.99, 73662-6), a novel of imperfect partners and infi nite Scholastic, 978-0-5451-7814-3) is Kat Fall’s harrowing possibilities. As the summer after junior year begins, tale of underwater pioneers who have carved out a Alton Richards fi nds himself becoming intrigued by life for themselves in the harsh deep-sea environment, his great-uncle Lester, by the game of bridge, and farming the sea fl oor in exchange for the land deed. especially by a pretty and shy girl. Alton soon struggles Action-packed and full of adventure. Ages 9-12 to fi gure out what it all means – and ultimately to fi gure out the meaning of his own life. Ages 12+ Crunch Dewey never guesses that the The Necromancer gas pumps would run dry the same week he promised After fl eeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to to manage the family bicycle-repair business. His London, Josh and Sophie Newman are fi nally home, parents are stranded up north with an empty fuel tank yet neither have mastered the magic they’ll need to and it’s up to Dewey and his sister to run the bike protect themselves from the Dark Elders. They’ve shop all on their own. Suddenly everyone needs a bike lost Scatty, and they’re still being pursued by Dr. John repaired. Award-winning author Leslie Connor has Dee. Most disturbing of all is that now they must ask created another timely family story fi lled with humor themselves if they can they trust Nicholas Flamel. and hope in Crunch ($16.99, Katherine Tegen, 978-0- Can they trust anyone? The Necromancer ($18.99, 0616-9229-1). Ages 10+ Delacorte, 978-0-385-73531-5), the fourth book in the bestselling series The Secrets of Nicholas Flamel by The Wide-Awake Princess Michael Scott, is a great summer escape. Ages 10+ Princess Annie is the younger sister to Gwen, the princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty. When Gwen White Cat pricks her fi nger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Cassel comes from a family of curse-workers – people Annie is awake, and only Annie – blessed or cursed who have the power to change your emotions, your with being impervious to magic – must fi nd Gwen’s memories, or your luck with the slightest touch true love to kiss her awake. The Wide-Awake Princess of their hands. White Cat ($17.99, Margaret K. ($16.99, Bloomsbury, 978-1-5999-0487-0) by E.D. McElderry, 978-1-4169-6396-7), book one in Holly Baker is a new fairy tale sure to delight. Ages 10-14 Black’s new Curse Workers series, is the mesmerizing tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love – or death – and your dreams might be more real than your memories. Ages 13-17 I feel Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour After a car accident claims her father’s life, Amy the need refuses to drive anywhere. So her mother recruits Roger, the son of a family friend, to drive Amy in the family car to their new house across the country. to read! They detour from the planned route, letting go of the past and focusing on their future – together. You’ll fi nd photos, maps, receipts and playlists from Amy’s scrapbook in Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour ($16.99, S&S, 978-1-4169-9065-9), a fun summer novel from Morgan Matson. Ages 12+

7  e Paper Boomerang Book Now you’ll be able to build them, throw them, and get them to return every time with The Paper Boomerang Book ($12.95, Chicago Review Press, Splendid 978-1-5697-6282-0) by Mark Latno. You’ll master impressive throws, like the behind-the-back toss, the boomerang juggle, the under-the-leg catch, and Summer the dreaded double-handed, backward, double- boomerang throw. Instructions Great Gi Neil Gaiman – renowned storyteller, bestselling for Grads author and Newbery Medalist – teams with Soccer award-winning illustrator Charles Vess to create a We love the DK Eyewitness Books! Soccer ($16.99, lushly imagined fairy-tale landscape for traveling DK Publishing, 978-0-7566-6294-3) features full-color through lands unknown and yet strangely familiar photographs of players in action, soccer uniforms, in Instructions ($14.99, HarperCollins, 978-0-0619- equipment, and memorabilia to present a unique look 6030-7). You’ll be transported to magical realms in into the game and the people who play it. You’ll also get this lovely keepsake. Ages 12+ a CD of clip art to use with fl yers for your own games, invitations, and more. Prince of Mist It’s war time, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Shadow of the Wind) offers an atmospheric, adventurous Vampire Lovers ghost story about a mysterious house that harbors an unimaginable secret in The Prince of Mist ($17.99, Little Coming  e Short Second Life of Bree Tanner Brown, 978-0-316-04477-6). Ages 12+ June 5th! Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this engrossing story of Bree Tanner, a character fi rst introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the A er the Kiss newborn vampire world she inhabits. In The Short Becca has been head-over-heels for Alec from the Second Life of Bree Tanner ($13.99, Little Brown, instant they met. He’s a brainy jock with a poet’s heart 978-0-316-1-2558-1), Stephenie Meyer offers an – perfect for her. Camille is careful with her words and irresistible combination of danger, mystery and protective of her heart, especially since Chicago. Then romance in the devastating story of Bree and the a new boy in her new town catches her off guard with a newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella surprise kiss. Too bad that new boy is Becca’s boyfriend, Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to Alec. Camille and Becca have never met, but their lives its unforgettable conclusion. will unravel and intertwine in surprising ways as they $1 from each book sold will support the disaster relief efforts of the American deal with what happens next in After the Kiss ($16.99, Red Cross in Haiti, Chile and other places as needed. Simon Pulse, 978-1-4424-0211-9) by Terra Elan McVoy. Ages 13+ Vampire Paper Dolls Here’s a fun birthday gift for your vampire-loving girlfriend or to use at a summer party. Sixteen We Are Paper Toys paper dolls portray the history of vampires, from What can you do with paper, some scissors, and a little earliest myth and literature to the new blood of bit of glue? You’d be amazed! You can become a paper television and movies. Starting with Lilith and engineer with We Are Paper Toys ($29.99, Collins Design, Cain, characters include Bela Lugosi in the 1931 978-0-0619-9512-5) by Louis Vou, the art director classic Dracula, the heroine of Buffy the Vampire for Monsa Publications. You’ll fi nd inspiration from Slayer, Bill from True Blood, and Edward from innovative contemporary artists and designers from Twilight in Tom Tierney’s Vampire Paper Dolls around the world. Avail. 6/8 ($9.99, Dover, 978-0-4864-7719-0). Avail. 6/17

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