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2007

HOUNDSLEY AND CATINA

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Howe
Author's First Name: 
James
Illustrator's First Name: 
Marie-Louise
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Gay
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2006

Houndsley attempts to cook while Catina fancies herself a writer. Gay’s soft watercolors emphasize their lack of talent while revealing their success at being a best friend.

LUGALBANDA: THE BOY WHO GOT CAUGHT UP IN A WAR

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Henderson
Author's First Name: 
Kathy
Illustrator's First Name: 
Jane
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Ray
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2006

Kindness and courage help a youngest royal brother gain power in this five-thousand-year-old survival adventure from ancient Iraq. Intricate, luminous illustrations and insightful historical notes underscore the Sumerian roots of this oldest extant tale.

OWEN & MZEE: THE TRUE STORY OF A REMARKABLE FRIENDSHIP

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Hatkoff
Author's First Name: 
Isabella
Second Author's First Name: 
Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Date: 
2006

Photographs reveal an orphaned baby hippopotamus and a cantankerous 130-year-old tortoise forming an unlikely friendship after the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

PHINEAS L. MACGUIRE...ERUPTS!

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Dowell
Author's First Name: 
Frances O'Roark
Illustrator's First Name: 
Preston
Illustrator's Last Name: 
McDaniels
Publisher: 
Atheneum
Publication Date: 
2006

A scientist at heart, Phineas rejects his partner’s plan to create a typical volcano for the science fair, but his partner, a new boy in class, has other ideas.

THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
DiCamillo
Author's First Name: 
Kate
Illustrator's First Name: 
Bagram
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Ibatoulline
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2006

As a china rabbit with a proud, cold heart travels throughout the world, the many people he meets teach him how to love.

MERCY WATSON GOES FOR A RIDE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
DiCamillo
Author's First Name: 
Kate
Illustrator's First Name: 
Chris
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Van Dusen
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Date: 
2006

Mercy Watson, the porcine wonder, takes the family Cadillac for a spin, and after a wild police chase, only a heap of hot-buttered toast can soothe her jangled nerves.

ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
DeFelice
Author's First Name: 
Cynthia
Illustrator's First Name: 
Andrea
Illustrator's Last Name: 
U'Ren
Publisher: 
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 
2006

An elderly couple unearths a pot that magically doubles whatever falls into it. All goes well until the old woman herself tumbles into the pot.

HEY THERE, STINK BUG!

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Bulion
Author's First Name: 
Leslie
Illustrator's First Name: 
Leslie
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Evans
Publisher: 
Charlesbridge
Publication Date: 
2006

Decorative block prints showcase insects that flit and fly in this collection of buggy poems that also includes brief factual information about each entry.

COUNTING OVEJAS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Weeks
Author's First Name: 
Sarah
Illustrator's First Name: 
David
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Diaz
Publisher: 
Atheneum
Publication Date: 
2006

Children can practice counting and colors in both English and Spanish as they read this luminously illustrated tale of a sleepless child trying to remove the sheep overtaking the bedroom.

OVERBOARD!

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Weeks
Author's First Name: 
Sarah
Illustrator's First Name: 
Sam
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Williams
Publisher: 
Harcourt
Publication Date: 
2006

Bright, bold illustrations coupled with a simple rhyming narrative demonstrate the pleasures of tossing toys from a crib or highchair. Lap-sitters and early readers will delight in joining Baby Rabbit’s exclamation, “Overboard!”

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