Children's Books for Fall, H - Ha
Compiled by Sally Lodge -- Publishers Weekly, 7/19/2004

HCI/HCI TEENS
Paperbacks
Teen Spirit: One World, Many Paths
($11.95) by Paul Raushenbush examines the world’s major religions. (13-19)Paperback Series
Taste Berries for Teens
releases Short Stories and Encouragement on Being Cool, Caring and Courageous by Bettie B. Youngs and Jennifer Leigh Youngs ($12.95, 13-19). And Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV continues with More Stories of Life, Love and Learning by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Kimberly Kirberger ($12.95, 13-19).
HACHAI
Braid the Challah
and I Am a Torah ($5.95 each) by Beily Paluch, illus. by Patti Argoff, are rhyming board-book tales. (1-3)Paperback
The Secret Tunnel
($8.95) by Joy Nelkin Wieder is a tale about Jews who outwit the enemy and dig a life-saving tunnel. (7-10)
HANDPRINT BOOKS (Chronicle, dist.)
Barnyard Friends
($17.95) by Karen Baicker, illus. by Pamela Thomson, offers a board book of poems with felt pieces. (2-5)Noisy City Day
and Noisy City Night ($7.95 each) by Sara Anderson. These board books depict city life. (2-5)Bless This Mouse
($14.95) by Dianna Hutts Aston, illus. by John Butler. A mouse in a woodland setting recites a prayer. (2-up)Woodkins: Kirsty’s Big Adventure
by Dawn Bently, illus. by Priscilla Burris; and Kelly’s Great Day by Bently, illus. by Kathleen Kemly ($12.95 each) are books packaged with a wooden doll and accessories. (4-6)Petropolis
($16.95) by Susanne Santoro Whayne, illus. by Christopher Santoro. Where do pets go when no one is at home? (4-8)The Genie in the Book
($15.95) by Cindy Trumbore, illus. by R.W. Alley. A boy inadvertently releases a kind genie. (7-11)BrainJuice: English, Fresh Squeezed!
($14.95) by Carol Diggory Shields, illus. by Tony Ross, compiles 40 poems about the English language. (7-11)
HARCOURT
Olive, My Love
The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)
($14.95) by Avi, illus. by Tricia Tusa, is a fable offering insight into the meanings of things great and small. (All ages)Omnibeasts: Animal Poems and Paintings
($18) by Douglas Florian brings together poems from the author’s earlier collections. (All ages)The Worm Family
($16) by Tony Johnston, illus. by Stacy Innerst, introduces a family of proud worms. (3-7)Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail
($16) by Coleen Salley, illus. by Janet Stevens. A possum learns about his ancestor’s role in history. (3-7)Farmer Dale’s Red Pickup Truck
($16) by Lisa Wheeler, illus. by Ivan Bates. When this farmer gives barnyard animals a lift, will his truck survive? (3-7)Calavera Abecedario: A Day of the Dead Alphabet Book
($16) by Jeanette Winter focuses on the Day of the Dead celebration. (3-7)The Incredible Water Show
($16) by Debra Frasier spotlights mysterious, miraculous water. (3-up)Boris and Bella
($15) by Carolyn Crimi, illus. by Gris Grimly, presents a tale about unlikely pals. (4-7)Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth
($16) by Alison McGhee, illus. by Harry Bliss. Is a third-grade teacher really a 300-year-old alien who collects baby teeth? (4-7)Pinduli
($16) by Janell Cannon. A hyena teaches other animals of the African savanna about the power of words to hurt and to heal. (5-8)Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine
($16) by Kathryn Lasky, illus. by John Manders, offers a fractured fairytale celebrating science and invention. (5-8)Gordimer Byrd’s Reminder
($16) by Robert Weinstock. Gordimer knows he’s destined for greatness, but he’s getting tired of waiting for it. (5-8)Gifts
($17) by Ursula K. Le Guin is set in a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous gift. (12-up)The Grand Tour: Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality
($17) by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. Kate and Cecy are on a grand tour of the Continent with orders from Wellington to thwart a magical plot to take over Europe. (12-up)Series
Mr. Putter and Tabby
issues Mr. Putter & Tabby Write the Book by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Arthur Howard ($14, 6-9). And Chet Gecko Mysteries adds Murder, My Tweet by Bruce Hale ($14, 8-12).Reissues
Hands: growing up to be an artist
by Lois Ehlert ($14.95, all ages); The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, illus. by Louis Slobodkin, introduction by Helena Estes ($16, paper $6, 6-10); and Half Magic: Fiftieth-Anniversary Ed. by Edward Eager, illus. by N.M. Bodecker, introduction by Jack Gantos ($18.95, 8-up).Series Reissues
Harcourt Young Classics
reissues four novels by William O. Steele and three by Theodore Taylor ($17 each, Odyssey Classics paperback $5.95, 8-up).Paperback Reprint
A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly, ($8.95, 14-up).Paperback Series Reprints
Mr. Putter and Tabby
return in Mr. Putter & Tabby Stir the Soup by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Arthur Howard ($5.95, 6-9). And Chet Gecko Mysteries reprints Chet Gecko’s Big Box of Mystery ($14.95, 8-12).Paperback Reissues
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
by Ursula K. Le Guin ($5.95, 12-up); and I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant ($5.95, 12-up).
HARCOURT/GREEN LIGHT READERS
Sam and the Bag
($12.95, paper $3.95) by Alison Jeffries, illus. by Dan Andreasen. Sam the cat learns how to play just like his bigger pals. (4-6)Best Friends
($12.95, paper $3.95) by Anna Michaels, illus. by G. Brian Karas, is a rhyming tale starring pals Dan and Zack. (4-6)Lucy’s Quiet Book
($12.95, paper $3.95) by Angela Shelf Medearis, illus. by Lisa Campbell Ernst. When Lucy reads her favorite book aloud, her noisy brothers actually listen. (5-7)Tomás Rivera
($12.95, paper $3.95) by Jane Medina, illus. by Edward Martinez, presents a biography of this writer. (5-7)
HARCOURT/GULLIVER
Where Is Bear?
($16) by Lesléa Newman, illus. by Valeri Gorbachev. Forest animals play hide-and-seek. (2-5)Sleeping Cutie
($16) by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney. A magical toy solves Cutie’s bedtime problem. (3-7)What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile?
($16) by Judy Sierra, illus. by Doug Cushman, is a time-telling tale featuring five monkeys and a crocodile. (3-7)Between Heaven and Earth: Bird Tales from Around the World
($22) by Howard Norman, illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon, collects stories about birds. (7-10)Regarding the Sink: Where, Oh Where, Did Waters Go?
($15) by Kate Klise, illus. by M. Sarah Klise. Sixth graders take a class trip to China to solve a mystery. (9-12)Series
Iris and Walter
reappear in Iris and Walter and the Substitute Teacher by Elissa Haden Guest, illus. by Christine Davenier ($15, 6-9).Paperback Series Reprints
Iris and Walter
reprints Iris and Walter and Cousin Howie by Elissa Haden Guest, illus. by Christine Davenier ($5.95, 6-9). And Great Episodes issues Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family by Ann Rinaldi ($6.95, 10-14).
HARCOURT/LIBROS VIAJEROS
Paperback in Spanish
Cosechando esperanza: La historia de César Chávez (
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez) by Kathleen Krull, trans. by F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada, illus. by Yuyi Morales ($7, 6-9).
HARCOURT/MAGIC CARPET
Paperback
The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin
($6.95) by Jane Yolen is an omnibus edition of this trilogy. (8-12)Paperback Reprints
Wizard at Work
by Vivian Vande Velde ($5.95, 8-12); Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer and Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur by Jane Yolen ($6.95 each, 12-up).Paperback Reissues
The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore
, compiled and ed. by Bruce Coville ($5.95, 8-12); and Elsewhere and Nevernever by Will Shetterly ($6.95 each, 14-up).
HARCOURT/RED WAGON
Everywhere Babies
($6.95) by Susan Meyers, illus. by Marla Frazee, is a board book depicting all kinds of families. (6 mos.-3 yrs.)Good Night, Mr. Night
($6.95) by Dan Yaccarino. This board book celebrates the quiet mystery of nighttime. (6 mos.-3 yrs.)Noisy Kisses
($8.95) by Barney Saltzberg describes a noisy game. (6 mos.-3 yrs.)Board Book in Spanish
Besos de animales (
Animal Kisses) by Barney Saltzberg, trans. by F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada ($8.95, 6 mos.-3 yrs.).
HARCOURT/VOYAGER
Paperback Reprints
The Pig in the Spigot
by Richard Wilbur, illus. by J.otto Seibold ($7, all ages); Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert; and The Maestro Plays by Bill Martin, Jr., illus. by Vladimir Radunsky ($7 each, 3-7); Sit, Truman! by Dan Harper, illus. by Cara Moser and Barry Moser; Little Whistle’s Dinner Party by Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Tim Bowers; and Cinderella Skeleton by Robert D. San Souci, illus. by David Catrow ($6 each, 3-7); and A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting, illus. by Nancy Carpenter ($6, 6-9).
HARPERCOLLINS
The Book of Fairy Poetry
Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa’s Twin
($19.99)Winners Never Quit!
The Cuddle Book
Baby Bat’s Lullaby
I Love You! A Bushel and a Peck
Thanks for Thanksgiving
If You’ll Be My Valentine
Bunny Christmas
I Know It’s Autumn
Bartholomew’s Blessing
Henry the Christmas Cat
How to Make a Night
Queen of Hearts
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
The Teeny Tiny Ghost and the Monster
The Giant and the Beanstalk
Saturday Night at the Beastro
The Monster Trap
The Story of Halloween
Walking the Bible: An Illustrated Journey for Kids Through the Greatest Stories Ever Told
The Dragons of Spratt, Ohio
Emily Post’s The Guide to Good Manners for Kids
Fourth Grade Fuss
The Get Rich Quick Club
Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales
Millions
Measle and the Wrathmonk
Burying the Sun
The Dark Pond
Rider in the Dark: An Epic Horse Story
The Skull Talks Back and Other Haunting Tales
Blood Secret
Raven’s Point
Teen Idol
This Must Be Love
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events
I Fall Down joins Science Play
by Vicki Cobb, illus. by
Julia Gorton ($15.99, 3-5).
Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science
gains From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer, illus. by James
Graham Hale ($15.99, paper $4.99, 3-6).
Math Start
adds a trio of titles by
Stuart J. Murphy ($15.99, paper $4.99, 3 up-7 up).
Joining I Can Read
are Baa-Choo! by Sarah Weeks, illus. by Jane Manning; Christmas Presents: Holiday Poetry and Hanukkah Lights: Holiday Poetry, selected by Lee
Bennett Hopkins, illus. by Melanie Hall; Valentine
Hearts: Holiday Poetry, selected by Hopkins, illus. by Joann Adinolfi; I Am the Turkey by Michele Sobel Spirn, illus. by Joy
Allen; and Wildlife Conservation Society: Tigers by
Sarah L. Thomson ($15.99 each, 4-8).
The Stink Files
issues Dossier 002: To Scratch a Thief
by Holm and Hamel, illus. by Brad Weinman ($14.99, 7-10).
Two novels join
The Girls of Lighthouse Lane
by Thomas
Kinkade and Erika Tamar ($12.99, 10-up).
Warriors
by Erin Hunter releases The Darkest Hour ($15.99, 10-up).
R.L. Stine’s Dangerous Girls
continues with The Taste of Night ($14.99, 12-up).
And The Princess Diaries
welcomes The Princess Present by Meg Cabot ($8.99, 12-up).
Reissues
Christmas in the Barn
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement C.
Moore, illus. by Mary Engelbreit ($16.99, 4-8)
Engelbreit’s Queen of Christmas
($15.99, 4-8)
Part-Time Dog
by Jane Thayer, illus. by
Lisa McCue ($14.99, 4-8)
And The Day I Swapped My
Dad for Two Goldfish
by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
($16.99, 5-up).
Series Reissues
C.S. Lewis’s Narnia
reissues The Chronicles of Narnia,
illus. by Pauline Baynes ($29.99, all ages); The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe, retold by Hiawyn Oram, illus. by Tudor Humphries
($16.99, 3-7); and The Magician’s Nephew Book and
CD, performed by Kenneth Branagh ($29.99, 8-up). And I Can Read
reissues Emmett’s Pig by Mary Stolz, illus. by Garth Williams
($15.99, 4-8).
HARPERCOLLINS/AMISTAD
Paperback Reprint
The Dream Bearer
HARPERCOLLINS/JULIE ANDREWS COLLECTION
The Legend of Holly Claus
Reissue
The Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart
HARPERCOLLINS/AVON
Paperbacks
The Midnight Colt
Paperback Series
Phantom Stallion
Paperback Reprint
Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
Paperback Series Reprints
Warriors
And
Dangerous Girls
by R.L. Stine issues its debut book of the
same title ($5.99, 12-up).
Paperback Reissue
Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Paperback Series Reissues
Phantom Stallion
And Meg Cabot’s The Princess Diaries
reissues Vol. III & IV: The Highs
and Lows of Being Mia ($13.99, 8-up).
HARPERCOLLINS/COTLER
It’s Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel
Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation
The Best Halloween Ever
More Perfect Than the Moon
My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark, by George Shannon
Series
Abarat
Paperback Reprints
One Candle
And Wasteland
by Francesca Lia Block ($7.99,
12-up).
Paperback Reissues
Caleb’s Story
Beautiful Boys
, Goat Girls
and Weetzie Bat
by Francesca Lia Block ($4.99 each,
8-10).
Paperback Series Reissue
Abarat
HARPERCOLLINS/EOS
The Saint of Dragons
Predator’s Gold
A Sterkarm Kiss
Paperback Series
The Books of Magic
Paperback Reprint
Mortal Engines
Paperback Reissues
Sabriel
HARPERCOLLINS/GERINGER
Arrowville
Under My Hood I Have a Hat
Paperback Reprint
The Dulcimer Boy
HARPERCOLLINS/GREENWILLOW
If Not for the Cat
Don’t Get Lost
I Spy Shapes in Art
Doodler Doodling
The Train of States
Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia
Birthday Pony
The Little Gentleman
Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
Snow-walker
Cobwebs
A Crack in the Line
Series
The High-Rise Private Eyes
Reissues
A Box of Treats: Five Little Picture Books About Lilly and Her Friends
My Car
by Byron Barton ($6.99, 2-up).
Paperback Series
Amelia Bedelia
Paperback Reprints
Farfallina & Marcel
The Midnight Horse
by Sid Fleischman, illus. by Peter Sís ($4.99, 8-12)
Disappearing Act
by Fleischman ($5.99,
8-up)
and Chinese
Handcuffs
, Ironman
and King of the Mild Frontier
by Chris Crutcher ($6.99 each,
12-up).
Paperback Series Reprints
Rowan of Rin
Paperback Reissue
Runaway Pony
HARPERCOLLINS/HARPERFESTIVAL
Apples, Apples
Baby’s First Christmas
Sharing Is Fun
Santa’s Night
Lola’s Trick or Treat
Silver Bells
Mrs. McMurphy’s Pumpkin
Wild Witches’ Ball
Reissues
Charlotte’s Web/Stuart Little Slipcase Gift Set
Paperback Series
Biscuit
Four titles join
Build-A-Bear Workshop
by Catherine Hapka,
illus. by Jim Valeri ($3.50-$7.99 each, ages 2-6 to 6-10).
My Little Pony
trots on in five books,
including Pony Parade
by Kate Egan, illus. by Gayle Middleton
($3.99, 2-6)
Wishes Do Come True! by Ann Marie Capalija, illus. by Lyn Fletcher ($3.50, 4-7)
Little Critter
returns in three tales by Mercer Mayer ($3.29-$6.99 each, ages
2-6 to 3-7)
Charming Classics
by Louisa May Alcott welcomes A Louisa
May Alcott Christmas Book and Charm: Selected Holiday Stories and Poems
($6.99, 8-12).
HARPERCOLLINS/HARPERKIDS ENTERTAINMENT
Paperback Series
Astro Boy
Benji Returns
issues three Festival
Readers ($3.99-$4.99 each, ages 4-7 to 8-12)
Wonder Woman
stars in two Festival
Readers by Nina Jaffe, illus. by Ben Caldwell ($3.99 each, 4-7)
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
releases eight tie-in volumes ($3.99-$35.99
each, 10-up).
HARPERCOLLINS/RAYO
Paperback in Spanish
Tiburones (Sharks)
HARPERCOLLINS/TEGEN
Superhero Christmas
A Firefly in a Fir Tree: A Carol for Mice
Gigi and Lulu’s Gigantic Fight
The Lighthouse Cat
Annie, Between the States
Comedy Girl
Series
Outdoor Adventures
HARPERCOLLINS/HARPERTEMPEST
The Alison Rules
Cruise Control
Paperback Reprints
Inside Out
Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir
by Zoe Trope ($7.99, 14-up).
HARPERCOLLINS/HARPERTROPHY
Paperback Series
My Weird School
Paperback Reprints
I Love You All Day Long
Harold at the North Pole
by Crockett
Johnson ($5.99, 3-8)
Santa Comes to Little House
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, illus. by Renée Graef ($5.99, 4-8)
Destination: Space
by Seymour Simon
($6.99, 5-up)
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, adapted by Stephen Krensky, illus. by Dean
Morrissey ($6.99, 7-10)
The Secret Knowledge
of Grown-Ups: The Second File
by David Wisniewski
The Story of Clocks and Calendars
by
Betsy Maestro, illus. by Giulio Maestro ($6.99 each, 7-up)
Christmas in Canaan
by Kenny Rodgers and Donald Davenport ($6.99,
8-12).
Paperback Series Reprints
Harold and the Purple Crayon
and Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish, illus. by Lynn Sweat
Emma’s Strange Pet by Jean Little, illus. by Jennifer Plecas
Minnie and Moo: The Night of the Living Bed by Denys Cazet; and Dinosaur Hunter by Elaine Marie Alphin, illus. by Don Bolognese ($3.99 each, 4-8).
Joining Don’t Know Much About
is The Solar System by Kenneth C. Davis, illus. by Pedro
Martin ($6.99, 6-9).
Laurence Yep’s Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1885
offers
The Traitor ($6.99, 10-up).
Paperback Reissues
Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’
The Pinballs
by Betsy Byars ($5.99,
10-up)
Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli ($6.50, 12-up).
Paperback Series Reissues
Little House
HARPERENTERTAINMENT
The O’Reilly Factor for Kids
Paperback Series
Mary-Kate & Ashley
Thoroughbred
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