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Where the Best Books Are!
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Read fun reviews of the best new releases and old favorites, get personalized help finding just the right book, enter book giveaways, watch book review trailers and view great holiday lists at Where the Best Books Are! Begun in Fall 2009 by former Rocky Mountain News Children's Book Reviewer Jennifer Miller, Where the Best Books Are! strives to make your search for the perfect children's book easy, entertaining and interactive.
Recent Posts
Wrap a Bow Around This! Holiday Gift Guide 2009
Nothing says to a child, "I love how you think," like the gift of a great book.This holiday celebrate your child's curiosity by tying a ribbon around one or more of these exciting new titles!Below I've selected 50 books, 10 in five categories, that a...
Sweet Beginnings: 10 Storybook Collections, Learning Books, Early Readers and Short Chapter Books
A Little Books Boxed Set Featuring Little Pea, Little Hoot, Little Oink, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Jen Corace, Chronicle Books, $19.99, ages 4-8. Three adorable stories about the challenges of being little are reproduced as small boar...
The Unique and Unusual: 10 Novelty Books and Craft Books/Kits
Magical Menagerie, by Junzo Terada, Chronicle Books, $24.95. Build 20 enchanting animals from paperboard punch-outs in this unique kit of 3-D sculptures by Japanese artist Terada. Simply punch out the pieces and fit them into slots to make such whi...
Page-Turners: 10 Novels To Sweep You Away
Odd and the Frost Giants, by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Brett Helquist, HarperCollins, $14.99, ages 9-12, 128 pages. Twelve-year-old Odd finds the courage to take on an evil giant who's turned mythical gods into animals after losing his father on a...
Wondrous Read-Alouds: 10 Picture Books
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Brett Helquist, HarperCollins, $17.99, age 4-8. Helquist, the illustrator of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, makes you feel every scowl, and look of regret and glee that passes ...
Stellar Returns: 10 Repackaged, Retold, Reissued or Deluxe Editions
The Little Prince: Deluxe Pop-Up Book, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Houghton Mifflin, $35, ages 9-12, 64 pages. Saint-Exupery's artwork leaps off the page in this pop-up edition of his 1943 fantasy about a pilot who rediscovers his sense of wonder ...

