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Cover: Welcome to America, Champ

Booklist Reviews "Welcome to America, Champ!"

The luxurious Queen Mary oceanliner once sailed with diapers drying on clotheslines suspended over the ship’s emptied swimming pool. Why? This was part of a unique cargo transported by luxury liners in 1946: tens of thousands of “soldier brides” and their children who immigrated… View →

 
Cover: Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears

Midwest Book Review: "Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears"

Jasper’s Story: Saving Moon Bears is a children’s picturebook about the real-life troubles suffered by Asian moon bears. For fifteen long years, Jasper was confined and miserable in a cage, held by bear farmers in rural China. The bear farmers removed bile from Jasper’s View →

 
Cover: Maestro Stu Saves the Zoo

Midwest Book Review: "Maestro Stu Saves The Zoo"

To save a zoo, a young boy must unite all the animals who dwell there. “Maestro Stu Saves The Zoo” is a lyrical children’s picturebook beautifully illustrated by Tim Bowers, as author Denise Brennan-Nelson tells a story of how young Stu struggles to save his favorite… View →

 
Cover: Memoirs of a Hamster

Kirkus Reviews "Memoirs of a Hamster"

His hamster-ish outlook is effectively conveyed in his narrative and in Bowers’ low-angle cartoon views of a chubby-cheeked, bright-eyed pet who, though once susceptible to temptation, clearly enjoys the familiar comforts of wheel and water bottle—to which he is returned following a… View →

 
Cover: No Pirates Allowed! Said Library Lou

Kirkus Reviews "No Pirates Allowed Said Library Lou"

A librarian endows a treasure-hunting pirate with reading skills as well as training him to hush up in this bland valentine to… Sending other users fleeing from their computer screens and cozy reading nooks to cower in the stacks, Big Pirate Pete bursts into the Seabreezy View →

 
Cover: In Andal's House

Examiner.com Reviews "In Andal's House"

“In Andal’s House” by Gloria Whelan is a book that can be read with two different outcomes. It’s a story about class, or caste, as it’s called in… The tale begins in Kumar’s house where his family is eating dinner. If the difference in clot View →

 
Cover: Memoirs of a Hamster

Time Out Chicago Kids Reviews "Memoirs of a Hamster"

Who’s the luckiest hamster in the world? Seymour is. At least that’s what he believes, living the good life relaxing in his wood shavings, munching yogurt drops and running on his wheel. His happiness fades after Pearl, the sly cat, taunts Seymour with visions of a sunroom brimming with… View →

 
Cover: He's Been a Monster All Day

Booklist Reviews "He's Been a Monster All Day!"

With his rosy cheeks and impish smile, how could the little boy in this picture book possibly be mistaken for a monster? But that’s exactly what his mother, surrounded by a path of destruction, calls him: “He’s been a monster all day!” The boy, who overhears her, looks so sad about being View →

 
Cover: He's Been a Monster All Day

Kirkus Reviews "He's Been a Monster All Day"

A mother’s descriptive complaint sets her misbehaving preschooler to imagining the enjoyment of the crude mischief of a monster’s… Transforming himself into a scaly-skinned, green-faced ghoul, this boy begins to growl and grumble, sneer and scowl. He befriends the pet monster View →

 
Cover: Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears

Booklist Reviews "Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears"

Get ready to wipe away a few tears after reading this. Jill Robinson has dedicated her life to rescuing the bears of China who’ve been abused by those extracting bear bile for use in traditional Asian medicines. Jasper is one of them, a moon bear, held in a tiny cage for 15 years before… View →