EAGLEMONT PRESS
(NBN, dist.)
Series
Adventures of Riley introduces South Pole Penguins and Polar Bear Puzzle by Amanda Lumry and Laura Hurwitz ($15.95 each, 4-8).
EDC/USBORNE
Series
Baby Board Books with CD adds Happy Baby Board Book with CD by Fiona Watt ($15.99, 6 mos.-up). Bath Books presents Glug, Glug, Glug Bath Book by Stella Baggott ($14.99, 9 mos.-up). Find-its Board Books has four additions by Phil Roxbee Cox, Duck, Kitten, Puppy and Teddy ($6.99 each, 9 mos.-up). There are four new First Picture Board Books:Dinosaurs,Math, Nature and Playground Games ($11.99 each, 9 mos.-up). Luxury Touchy-Feely Board Books gains Christmas Eve Board Book by Fiona Watt ($11.99, 9 mos.-up) and Watt's Sparkly Christmas Angel ($15.99, 9 mos.-up). That's Not My Pirate by Watt and Rachel Wells joins Touchy-Feely Board Books ($7.99, 9 mos.-up). Play Books offers Busy Bus by Felicity Brooks and Muddy Hippo by Brooks and Matt Durber ($10.99 each, 1-up). Look and Say Board Books gains Backyard Look and Say by Jo Litchfield and Durber ($7.99, 2-up). There are three new Touchy-Feely Flap Books : Hide-and-Seek Bunnies, Hide-and-Seek Christmas and Hide-and-Seek Dragons ($16.99 each, 2-up). Card Games deals out Christmas Snap by Katie Lovell ($8.99, 3-up). And Luxury Flap Books adds Who's Making That Smell? by Jenny Tyler and Phillip Hawthorn ($9.99, 3-up).
Picture Book Classics has three additions: Christmas Carol, Gingerbread Man and Heidi ($9.99 each, 3-up). New Picture Books are On a Pirate Ship by Sarah Courtauld, Under the Sea by Anna Milbourne and Windy Day by Milbourne and Elena Temporin ($9.99 each, 3-up). There are eight new Kid Kits ($11.99-$17.99 each, 3-up to 7-up). Beginner's Nature releases Antarctica and Bugs by Lucy Bowman and How Flowers Grow by Emma Helbrough ($4.99 each, 5-up); and Planet Earth by Leonie Pratt ($4.99, 6-up). Beginners Social Studies introduces Cowboys by Catriona Clarke and Firefighters by Katie Daynes ($4.99 each, 5-up). Bible Tales Readers offers First Stories from the Bible by Heather Amery and Gillian Doherty ($17.99, 5-up). First Reading adds Fox and the Crow, Fox and the Stork and Sun and the Wind by Mairi Mackinnon, Wish Fish by Lesley Sims ($8.99 each, 5-up); Emperor and the Nightingale by Rosie Dickins and Graham Philpot, Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Susanna Davidson and Mike Gordon, Hare and the Tortoise by Mairi Mackinnon and Daniel Howarth, Princess Polly and the Pony by Susanna Davidson and Dave Hill and Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by Davidson and Jacqueline East ($8.99 each, 6-up). Activity Cards adds two titles: 50 Things to Do on Vacation by Cationa Clarke and 50 Science Things to Make and Do by Kate Knighton ($9.99 each, 6-up). Yummy Little Cookbook by Rebecca Gilpin and Catherine Atkinson is new to Children's Cooking ($7.99, 6-up).
Explainers presents Everyday Things by E.C. Humberstone ($14.99, 7-up). Famous Lives Gift Books welcomes Julius Caesar by Rachel Firth and Stephen Parkhouse and Leonardo da Vinci by Rosie Dickins and Karen Ball ($8.99 each, 7-up). Illustrated Stories gains Illustrated Fairy Tales by Sarah Courtauld and Dickins ($19.99, 7-up). See Inside Board Books releases See Inside Fairyland by Susanna Davidson and Rafaella Ligi and See Inside Pirate Ships by Rob Lloyd Jones ($12.99 each, 7-up). Young Reading continues with Mermaids by Russell Punter ($8.99, 7-up). Young Reading Gift Books adds 14 titles ($8.99 each, 7-up to 8-up). Miniature Editions presents Little Book of Animals by P. Dows-well ($6.99, 8-up). History Encyclopedias introduces Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by Lisa Miles and Struan Reid ($16.99, 9-up). Joining World Atlas is World Atlas of Dinosaurs by Stephanie Turnbull and Emma Helbrough ($16.99, 10-up). World Wars releases First World War by Ruth Brocklehurst and Henry Brook ($19.99, 10-up). And Illustrated Dictionaries presents Illustrated Dictionary of Science by C. Oxlade ($29.99, 12-up).
Paperback Series
What's Happening presents What's Happening at the Zoo? by Heather Amery and Stephen Cartwright ($5.99, 3-up). Joining Activity Books is Christmas Sticker Book by Lucy Bowman ($8.99, 6-up) and Face Painting by Chris Caudron and Caro Childs ($12.99 spiral, 6-up). Starting Point Science adds What Makes You Ill? by Mike Unwin and Kate Woodward and Why Do People Eat? by Kate Needham and Lindy Dark ($4.99 each, 6-up). Young Puzzle Adventures continues with Uncle Pete's Pirate Adventure by Susannah Leigh ($4.99, 6-up). Puzzle Dinosaurs, also by Leigh, joins Young Puzzles ($6.99, 6-up). Ballerina Dreams issues Ballet Magic and Dancing Friends by Ann Bryant ($7.99 each, 10-up). Billie and the Parent Plan offers Billie and the Parent Plan by Bryant ($4.99, 10-up). Famous Lives releases Explorers by Felicity Everett and Struan Reid ($8.99, 10-up). Earthquakes and Volcanoes is a new Geography title by Fiona Watt ($7.99, 10-up). Hobby Guides releases Rocks & Fossils by M. Bramwell ($6.99, 10-up). Usborne Classics Retold presents Huckleberry Finn by Henry Brook and Ian McNee and Jane Eyre by Anna Claybourne ($4.99 each, 10-up). And World of Ballet adds World of Ballet by Judy Tatchell ($9.99, 10-up).
EERDMANS
Little Apple Goat ($16) by Caroline Jayne Church. A goat's habit of eating fruit from an orchard saves the day. (3-7)
Still My Grandma ($16) by Véronique Van den Abeele, illus. by Claude K. Dubois. A girl finds a way to continue special traditions with her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's. (4-8)
Angels Among Us ($17) by Leena Lane, illus. by Elena Baboni, offers 12 biblical stories featuring angels. (5-10)
Four Feet Two Sandals ($17) by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Muhammad, illus. by Doug Chayka. While in a refugee camp waiting to go to America, two girls become friends. (7-10)
Eli Remembers ($18) by Ruth Vander Zee and Marian Sneider, illus. by Bill Farnsworth. Eli learns how Rosh Hashanah candles represent his family's connection to the Holocaust in Lithuania. (8-12)
Annie's War ($15) by Jacqueline Levering Sullivan. A girl in Washington state learns to fight discrimination and loneliness during WWII. (8-12)
826 BOOKS
(PGW/Perseus, dist.)
The 826 Quarterly, Vol. 7 ($15) collects poetry and prose by San Francisco Bay Area students. (8-18)
The 826 NYC Review, Issue Three ($14), illus. by Scott Seeley and Sam Potts, is a literary journal featuring the work of New York City students. (8-18)
Exactly ($28) compiles writing by 54 students from Raoul Wallenberg High School and illustrations by 37 San Francisco Bay Area illustrators. (8-up)
Sonny Paine, Issue Two ($8) by New York City high school students is a collection of stories. (13-18)
This Is Not a Test ($12) by students from the School for Democracy and Leadership in New York presents writings about disaster. (13-18)
ENCHANTED LION BOOKS
Little Eagle ($16.95) by Chen Jiang Hong. An orphan becomes an apprentice to a Kung Fu master. (4-8)
Thumbelina of Toulaba ($16.95) by Daniel Picouly, illus. by Olivier Tallac, is a retelling set in an imaginary world with a Caribbean flavor. (4-8)
Tales of a Lost Kingdom: A Journey into Northwest Pakistan ($17.95) by Erik L'Homme, illus. by François Place, collects three folktales from the ancient kingdom of Chitral. (8-up)
Chinese Mythology: Stories of Creation ($14.95) by Claude Helft, illus. by Chen Jiang Hong, compiles eight creation myths. (10-up)
