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Holiday Roundup
The Stone Center's Roundup of Spring Holiday Books features new and old favorite books about Spring holidays.
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Other Books Featured at the Stone Center
Bestsellers
In addition to the Stone Center's latest acquistions, the New York Times Book Review's weekly listings of bestselling fiction, picture books, and series are on display on the front porch making it easy to locate these hot titles.
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Great First Line, Great Book
"The day the Germans invaded I was asleep on Henry V's throne."
Hitler's Canary
by Sandi Toksvig
(Roaring Brook, 2007)
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Book of the Month
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Meerkat Mail
Written & illustrated by Emily Gravett
Simon & Schuster, 2007
Tired of his home in the very dry and very hot Kalahari Desert and thinking that his family is sometimes too close (their motto is "Stay Safe, Stay Together"), Sunny Meerkat visits various mongoose relatives in search of an alternative lifestyle. By the end of the week, however, he is glad to be home. Lift-the-flap postcards with messages written back home by Sunny add interest and also offer information about the animals and their habitats. ca
Emily Gravett won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2005 for Wolves (Simon & Schuster, 1006). Gravett's Orange Pear Apple Bear (Simon & Schuster, 2007) was on the 2007 Kate Greenaway Medal Short List.
Visit Emily Gravett's official website (www.emilygravett.com) for information about her books and related games and crafts.
A recommended nonfiction books about meerkats for young children: Lunde, Darrin. Meet the Meerkat. Illus. by Patrica J. Wynne. Charlesbridge, 2007.
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