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    • Good Luck, Mrs. K! [book review]

    • Good Luck, Mrs. K! [book review]

    • Teachers--Juvenile fiction; Cancer--Juvenile fiction; Schools--Juvenile fiction; Books--Reviews;

    • Borden, Louise. Good Luck, Mrs. K.! Illustrated by Adam Gustavson. Simon & Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-689-82147-6. $15.00. Not paginated. A 2-4 PB Reviewed by Vicky M. Turner Third grade has just begun and the new teacher has a very strange name...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • The Atlas of Space [book review]

    • The Atlas of Space [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Space sciences--Juvenile literature; Astronomy--Juvenile literature;

    • Challoner, Jack. The Atlas of Space. Copper Beech, 2001. ISBN 0761321578. $28.90. 80 pp. A 4-7 NF Reviewed by Sharon Kuttler Until the 1920’s, most astronomers believed our galaxy was the entire universe. It is now known that there are billions...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Dovey Coe [book review]

    • Dovey Coe [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Murder--Juvenile fiction; Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction; Mountain life--North Carolina--Juvenile fiction; Debt--Juvenile fiction; Physically handicapped--Juvenile fiction; North Carolina--Juvenile fiction;

    • Dowell, Frances O’Roak. Dovey Coe. Illustrated by Frances O’Roark Dowell. Atheneum, 2000. ISBN 0-689-83174-9. $16.00. 181 pp. * 4-6 FI Reviewed by Nancy C. Evensen Dovey Coe takes this opportunity to set the record straight. She might have...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Coolies [book review]

    • Coolies [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Chinese Americans--Juvenile fiction; Brothers--Juvenile fiction; Railroads--Juvenile fiction; Loyalty--Juvenile fiction; Prejudices--Juvenile fiction; Bullying--Juvenile fiction; Determination (Personality trait) in...

    • Yin [Lau, Rosanna Yin]. Coolies. Illustrated by Chris Soentpiet. Philomel, 2001. ISBN 0-399-23227-3. $16.99. unp. A 3+ PB Reviewed by Vicky M. Turner During the Ching Ming (“Supreme Light”) Festival, Grandmother and Grandson gather to celebrate...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Childhood Plays [drama review]

    • Childhood Plays [drama review]

    • Drama--Reviews; Young adult drama;

    • Witkiewicz, Stanislaw. Childhood Plays. B 9+ Childhood Plays is a collection of three very short plays written by the Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz when he was a young boy. They can be viewed as flights of a child’s imagination or as...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Darkness over Denmark : The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews [book review]

    • Darkness over Denmark : The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Jews--Persecutions--Denmark--Juvenile literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Denmark--Juvenile literature; World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Denmark--Juvenile literature; World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Juvenile...

    • Levine, Ellen. Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews. Holiday House, 2000. ISBN 0-8234-1447-7. $18.95. 164 pp. * 10+ NF BI Reviewed by Irene Halliday During a five-year occupation by Nazi Germany, Danish resistance...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Wildflowers Around the Year [book review]

    • Wildflowers Around the Year [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Wild flowers--Identification--Juvenile literature; Wild flowers--Pictorial works--Juvenile literature; Wild flowers--Juvenile literature; Seasons--Juvenile literature;

    • Ryden, Hope. Wildflowers Around the Year. Illustrated by Hope Ryden. Clarion, 2001. ISBN 0-395-85814-3. $17.00. 90 pp. A 3-6 NF Reviewed by Sharon Kuttler From the common dandelion to the rare Lady’s slipper, Ryden’s beautiful photographs and...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • No Worries [drama review]

    • No Worries [drama review]

    • Drama--Reviews; Young adult drama;

    • Holman, David. No Worries. 52 pp. B- 6+ Set in contemporary Australia. No Worries is a musical that tells the story of Matty Bell, who lives with her parents on a ranch in the outback. She loves her life in the outback-helping her father with the...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Cassie Loves Beethoven [book review]

    • Cassie Loves Beethoven [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Juvenile fiction; Cows--Juvenile fiction; Music--Juvenile fiction; Fathers--Juvenile fiction; Widowers--Juvenile fiction; Determination (Personality trait)--Juvenile fiction; Islands--Juvenile...

    • Arkin, Alan. Cassie Loves Beethoven. Hyperion, 2000. ISBN 0-78-682489-1. $16.99. 188 pp. A 4-10 FI Reviewed by Jan Staheli Hallie and David think it would be fun to have a cow. A cow would bring milk, cheese, and ice cream, besides giving them...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Dancing Wheels [book review]

    • Dancing Wheels [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Dance for children with disabilities--Juvenile literature; Dance for children--Juvenile literature; Dancing Wheels (Dance group)--Juvenile literature;

    • McMahon, Patricia. Dancing Wheels. Illustrated by John Godt. Houghton Mifflin, 2000. ISBN 0-395-88889-1. $16.00. 48 pp. * 3-6 PB NF Reviewed by AnnMarie Hamar Mary Verdi-Fletcher has always wanted to be a dancer, but because she has spina bifida...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • The Giggler Treatment [book review]

    • The Giggler Treatment [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Dogs--Juvenile fiction; Revenge--Juvenile fiction;

    • Doyle, Roddy. The Giggler Treatment. Illustrated by Brian Ajhar. Scholastic, 2000. ISBN 0-439-16299-8. $14.95. 112 pp. B 3-6 FI Reviewed by Sharon Kuttler Mr. Mack sends his sons to their rooms without supper for breaking a window. Gigglers, small,...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Sindbad in the Land of Giants [book review]

    • Sindbad in the Land of Giants [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Sindbad the sailor--Juvenile fiction; Sailing--Juvenile fiction; Sailors--Juvenile fiction; Animals, Mythical--Juvenile fiction; Arabian nights--Juvenile fiction;

    • Zeman, Ludmila. Sindbad in the Land of Giants. Illustrated by Ludmila Zeman. Tundra, 2001. ISBN 0-88776-461-4. $17.95. 32 pp. * 1-3 FI PB Reviewed by AnnMarie Hamar Zeman’s story opens with Sindbad the sailor telling Sindbad the porter of the...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Buddy is a Stupid Name for a Girl [book review]

    • Buddy is a Stupid Name for a Girl [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Aunts--Juvenile fiction; Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction; Old age--Juvenile fiction; Alcoholism--Juvenile fiction;

    • Roberts, Willow Davis. Buddy is a Stupid Name for a Girl. Atheneum, 2001. ISBN 0-689-81670-7. $16.00. 278 pp. A 4-6 FI Reviewed by Vicky M. Turner Because their father is missing, Amy Kate (also known as Buddy) and her brother Bart are being...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [book review]

    • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Lions--Juvenile fiction; Children and war--Juvenile fiction; Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe--Juvenile fiction;

    • Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Illustrated by Christian Birmingham. HarperCollins, 2000. ISBN 00-60-29011-0. $15.95. A- PreS-2 PB Reviewed by Cinda Clement This edition of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, commemorating the...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Rats [drama review]

    • Rats [drama review]

    • Drama--Reviews;

    • Horovitz, Israel. Rats. 12 pp. B 9+ Two rats are in a baby’s crib in a slum neighborhood. As the play begins, the younger rat, Bobby, arrives from the most terrible place he has ever imagined-a neighborhood without any trash on the streets and...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • Lucky Peter’s Journey [drama review]

    • Lucky Peter’s Journey [drama review]

    • Drama--Reviews; Elves--Juvenile drama; Determination (Personality trait) in children--Juvenile drama;

    • Strindberg, August. Lucky Peter’s Journey. A- K-Adult Peter grew up inside a bell-tower, raised by a cold and cynical father. One day, his grandfather, an elf, grants him a chance to see the world. Once in the world, Peter meets Lisa, who...
    • Children's Book and Play Review
    • The 1930’s : Directions [book review]

    • The 1930’s : Directions [book review]

    • Books--Reviews; Olympics--Juvenile fiction; Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction; Runaway children--Juvenile fiction; Berlin (Germany)--Juvenile fiction; Germany--Juvenile fiction; Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)--Juvenile literature;

    • Hoobler, Tom and Dorothy. The 1930’s, Directions. Millbrook Press, 2000. ISBN 0-7613-1603-5. $21.90. 159 pp. A 2-7 FI Reviewed by Cinda Clement This book presents a boy’s view of America in the 1930s, coupled with a Jewish boy’s view of...
    • Children's Book and Play Review

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