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The Picnic Basket
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We send teachers and librarians free books; they tell us what they think! The Picnic Basket offers school and library professionals tastes of new and forthcoming children's books with first-come, first-serve sample copies of books for kids of all ages. Read the books, then post your reviews here for your colleagues to read.
- Added on: Nov 19th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Deborah Sloan
- Listed in: Books Education
- Tags: publishing book review children's books teacher librarian sample copy
Recent Posts
January\'s Sparrow • Nonfiction picture book
January's Sparrow written and illustrated by Patricia Polacco Just out! • Philomel, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group • Nonfiction picture book • Ages 8 and up A tour de force of such emotional and dramatic impact that young readers...
Last Night I Sang to the Monster • YA fiction
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz September 2009 • Cinco Puntos Press • Ages 14 and up "I cried with Zach all the way through this book: tears of rage and sorrow—sometimes laughing—and fina...
Chaucer’s First Winter • Picture book
Chaucer’s First Winter by Stephen Krensky • illustrated by Henry Cole Just out! • Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers • Picture book • Ages 2 – 6 Chaucer knows that bears are supposed to sleep through the winter. But it's much...
Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles • Picture book
Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles by J. Patrick Lewis • illustrated by Lynn Munsinger July 2009 • Chronicle Books • Ages 4-8 Story: The book's jacket flaps tell it all: Quickie tricky b...
Opuestos: Mexican Folk Art Opposites in English and Spanish • Picture book
Opuestos: Mexican Folk Art Opposites in English and Spanish by Cynthia Weill • wood sculptures from Oaxaca by Quirino and Martin Santiago August 2009 • Cinco Puntos Press • Ages 2 - 7 Learn about opposites - in both...
Thursday's thinkings...
Here's who and what have been on my mind this week (besides Laura Rennert's dinosaur book): My friend Deborah Heiligman -- because her incredibly well-researched and well-told biography CHARLES AND EMMA: THE DARWINS' LEAP OF FAITH (...
