Off the shelf: library trip...

Monday, January 10, 2011

library trip...

I went to the Main Library with John's class on Friday, and I was checking on the new releases bookshelf up front. There were many temptations. Kathy Appfelt (author of The Underneath) has a new book called Keeper that is about mermaids. I also saw a wonderfully illustrated version of Randall Jarrell's story The Bat-Poet-- a favorite story of mine about a bat who can't sleep during the day and ends up observing the daytime creatures and writing poems about them.

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JoanJanuary 11, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Oops. I guess I was in a hurry when I typed the above. The author's name is Kathi Appelt.
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The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Nick is not excited about spending his summer away from his friends and television to hang out with his Grandma in her cabin by the river, but he soon finds interesting ways to fill his days and evenings when he comes upon a special raft.

Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright. This is the story of how two children happen upon an old neighborhood that is almost abandoned and how they bring new life to its old buildings.

The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars which opens:
Sometimes at night when the rain is beating against the windows of my room, I think about that summer on the farm. It has been five years, but when I close my eyes I am once again by the creek watching the black fox come leaping over the green, green grass.

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall is about the antics of the four Penderwick sisters who are vacationing in a summer cottage.