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Choosing Books as Gifts for Children
Recommended Titles
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Children in Kindergarten through Third Grade
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Dino-Dinners by Mick Manning; illustrated by Brita Granström
Holiday House, 2007; $16.95
Several different kinds of dinosaurs, depicted in large watercolors, tell about their food preferences in first-person. Sidebars with small line drawings present brief facts.
Dolores Meets Her Match by Barbara Samuels
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007; $16.00
Dolores and Duncan, her beloved cat, eventually make friends with Hillary, the new girl in class, and her special Siamese kitten, Harold.Gimme Cracked Corn & I Will Share by Kevin O’Malley
Walker, 2007; $16.95
Full of puns and over-the-top illustrations, this silly story about a chicken looking for treasure is sure to elicit laughter.Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman; illustrated by Julie Paschkis
Henry Holt, 2007; $16.95
This unique telling of the story of Cinderella incorporates elements from different cultures’ traditional versions of the tale.Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll; illustrated by Christopher Myers
Hyperion, 2007; $15.99
The classic nonsense poem is interpreted in dramatic illustrations as a showdown on an urban basketball court.Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney
Little, Brown, 2007; $16.99
Jerry Pinkney’s signature art enriches this familiar tale.Living Color by Steve Jenkins
Houghton Mifflin, 2007; $17.00
Brilliantly colored cut-paper collages depict several brightly hued animals. Facts about each animal, with special attention to reasons for the coloration, are presented in simple language.Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Paula Kuhumbu; photographs by Peter Greste
Scholastic, 2007; $16.99
After an orphaned baby hippopotamus named Owen and a 130-year-old tortoise named Mzee become unlikely friends, they develop their own ways of communicating with each other.“The Trouble with Dogs…” Said Dad by Bob Graham
Candlewick, 2007; $12.99
The family dog’s exuberance necessitates a call to the dog trainer.When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach; illustrated by David Small
Atheneum, 2007; $16.99
A boy goes shopping with his mother and is delighted to find that a live dinosaur is being given away with every purchase at every store.