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Sue Bradford Edwards Writer--Reviewer--Teacher--Historian   RESUME Reviews of Books Written for Children--Round Ups "Browsing: Adventures for Young Readers." Roundup of Alexander McCall Smith's Akimbo and the Elephants, Rick Riordan's The Lightening Thief, Alice Hoffman's The Foretelling, N.M. Browne's The Story of Stone, Rick Yancy's The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. D13, January 8, 2006. "Browsing: Books for Young Readers." Roundup of Patricia Reilly Giff's Don't Tell the Girls: A Family Memoir, Tea Emesse's Nova Rocks, Lois Ruby's Journey to Jamestown, Patricia Hermes' The Brothers' War, J.B. Cheaney's My Friend the Enemy, Joseph Bruchac's Code Talker, Lynn Rubright's Mama's Window, Leander Watt's Ten Thousand Charms. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. C10, August 7, 2005. "Uplifting, Educational with a dash of fun: Your recipe for good summer reads." Roundup of Linda Saport's Circles of Hope, Jeanette Winter's The Librarian of Basra, Kathleen Karr's Mama Went to Jail for the Vote, Jill Esbaum's Ste-e-e-e-eamboat A-Comin, Leslie Sills' From Rags to Riches, Jen Bryant's Georgia's Bones, Jennifer Belle's Animal Stackers, and Susan Stockdale's Carry Me! Animal Babies on the Move. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E1, 4, August 10, 2005. "Newbery and Caldecott Winners Offer Strength and Humor," in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F8, January 23, 2005. "Browsing Picture Books: From the Library of for Gifts, These Books are Fun." Roundup of Mo Willems' Knuffle Bunny, Rosemary Wells' My Kindergarten, Lise Lunge-Larsen's The Hidden Folk: Stores of Fairies, dwarves, Selkies and other Secret Beings, Bill Martin, Michael Sampson and Lois Ehlert's Chicka Chicka 1 2 3, Patricia Newman's Jingle the Brass, Susan Roth's Hard Hat Area, David Harrison's Earthquake: Earth's Mightiest Moments, Michael Elson Ross' What's the Matter in Mr. Whiskers' Room, Emily Arnold McCully's Squirrel and John Muir, and Janell Cannon's Pinduli. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E3, November 17, 2004. "Picture Books Bring the World into Young Readers Homes." Roundup of Jules Feiffer's Daddy Mountain, Mo Willems' The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, Lisa Wheeler's Te Amo, Bebé, Little One, Barbara Odanaka's Skateboard Mom, Alexander Stadler's Lila Bloom, Oliver Jeffer's How to Catch a Star, Stub Smith's Goldilocks and the Three Martians, Claire Ewart's Fossil, Richard Sobol's An Elephant in the Back Yard, Bruce Edward Hall's Henry and the Kite Dragon, and Kelly Milner Hall's Albino Animals. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 18, 2004, p. E3. "Browsing: Novels for Young Readers." Round up of Kathleen Karr's Exiled: Memoirs of a Camel, Mary Ann Rodman's Yankee Girl, Kathy Waldan Kaplan's The Dog of Knots, Ann Rinaldi's Sarah's Ground, Linda Oatman High's Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip, Uma Krishnaswami's Naming Maya, Ned Vizzini's Be More Chill, Eoin Colfer's The Supernaturalists, and N.M. Browne's Basilisk. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E3, July 21, 2004. "Books for Young Readers Touch on Some Weighty Subjects." Round up of David Elliot's Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle, Marthe Jocelyn's Mable Riley, Carolyn Marsden's Silk Umbrellas, Anne Holm's I Am David, Rodman Philbrick's Young Man and the Sea, Paul Janeczko's World's Afire, Marianne Mitchell's Firebug, E.L. Konigsburg's The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, Joyce Carol Thomas' Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone, Sheila P. Moses' The Legend of Buddy Bush. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E3, June 2, 2004. "New Titles for Young Readers: Picture Books Jump-start Kids in Reading." Round up of Constance Levy's The Story of Red Rubber Ball, Karma Wilson's Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo, Rose-Marie Provencher's Slithery Jake, Candace Fleming's Gator Gumbo, Meilo So's Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: a Tale of a Very Greedy Cat, Lorena Eliasen's The Chameleon and the Dragonfly, Paul Fleischman's Sidewalk Circus, Ann Jungman's The Most Magnificent Mosque, Linda Sue Parks' The Firekeeper's Son, Leslie Connor's Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel, Bernie Fuchs' Ride Like the Wind: A Tale of the Pony Express, Margot Theis Raven's Circle Unbroken, and Jeanette Winter's Elsina's Clouds. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E1, 3, May, 19, 2004. "Newbery and Caldecott Awards: Library Association Announces Top Prizes in Children's Literature," in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F10, January 18, 2004. "Browsing: Books for Young Readers: Teen Titles Deal with Stuttering, Anorexia, God and the Sea." Roundup of Tracy Mack's Birdland, Han Nolan's When We Were Saints, John Ashby's Sea Gift, Celia Rees' Pirates, Nina Kiriki Hoffman's A Stir of Bones, Janet Taylor Lisle's The Crying Rocks, and Marly Youman's The Curse of the Raven Mocker. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. C13, November 30, 2003. "Books for Young Readers: Holocaust, Civil War, Immigrants Create Tension Involving Children." Roundup of Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed, Patricia Reilly Giff's Maggie's Door, Mary Hooper's At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Pat Hughes' Guerilla Season, Colby Rodowsky's Not Quite a Stranger, Jeanette Ingold's Mountain Solo, Carolyn Mackler's The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand, Kate di Camillo's The Tale of Despereaux, Dick King-Smith's The Nine Lives of Aristotle, and Kelly Milner Hall's Dinosaur Mummies: Beyond Bare-Bone Fossils. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E4, October 15, 2003. "Summer Reading Suggestions Offer Youngsters Lots of Getaways." Roundup of Jeannine Atkins' Wings and Rockets: the Story of Women in Air and Space, Dori Hillstead Butler's Sliding into Home, Jane Buchanan's The Berry-Picking Man, Jane Yolen's Sword of the Rightful King and Mightier than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys, Jenny Nimmo's Midnight for Charlie Bone, Ann Downer's Hatching Magic, Charles de Lint's A Circle of Cats, Laura Williams McCaffrey's Alia Waking, Wendy Mass' A Mango-Shaped Space, Kathleen Karr's Gilbert and Sullivan Set Me Free and Clara Gillow Clark's Hill Hawk Hattie. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E3, July 16, 2003. "Browsing: Books for Young Readers: New Children's Books Offer Thoughtful Issues to Ponder." Roundup of Mike Costa's Macaroni Boy, Marcus Sedgwick's The Dark Horse, Michele Torrey's To the Edge of the World, Paul Sullivan's Maata's Journal, Rachel Cohn's The Steps, Karen Cushman's Rodzina, Lois Lowry's The Silent Boy, Esmé Raji Codell's Sahara Special, Daniel Ehrenhaft's The Last Dog on Earth, Langer Karwoski's Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark, Richard Maurer's The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E3, May 28, 2003. "Read Aloud Opportunities Abound in Poetry for Youngsters." Roundup of Joyce Sidman's Just Us Two: Poems about Animal Dads, Marilyn Singer's Fireflies at Midnight, Lee Bennett Hopkins' Alphathoughts: Alphabet Poems, Douglas Florian's bow wow meow meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs, Tony Johnston's The Ancestors are Singing, David Harrison's The Alligator in the Closet and Other Poems around the House, Tony Mitton's Plum, Ron Koertge's Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, and Miriam Stone's At the End of Words. In the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, p. F1, April 9, 2003. "Books in Their Baskets: Easter and Passover books, plus Books without Holiday Themes, Make Great Gifts for Young Readers." Roundup of Lloyd Douglas' Let's Get Ready for Passover, Tanya Lee Stone's P is for Passover, Nancy Krulik's No Matzoh for Me, Anita Reith Stohs' An Easter Alleluia, Bethany Roberts' Easter Mice, Beck Ward's Mama Hen and Her Baby Chicks, 1, 2, 3, William Boniface's Five Little Easter Eggs, Five Little Bunny Rabbits, and Easter Bunnies Everywhere, Harriet Ziefert's This Little Egg went to Market, Shana Corey's Players in Pigtails, Anastasia Suen's Raise the Roof, Darcy Pattison's The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman, Julia Donaldson's The Spiffiest Giant in Town, John M. Muth's Stone Soup, Janet Steven's Jackalope, Mary Casanova's One-Dog Canoe, and Astrid Lindren's Mirabelle. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E1, E4, April 16, 2003. "Children's Book Awards." Roundup of Caldecott winner Eric Rohmann's My Friend Rabbit; Honor books--Peter McCarty's Hondo and Fabian, Jerry Pinkney's Noah's Ark, and Tony DiTerlizzi's The Spider and the Fly; Coretta Scott King winners Nikki Grimes' Bronx Masquerade and Talkin' About Bessie; Newbery winner Avi's Crispin: Cross of Lead; and honor books Stephanie Tolan's Surviving the Applewhites, Patricia Reilly Giff's Pictures of Hollis Woods, Ann Martin's A Corner of the Universe, and Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpions. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F10, February 2, 2003. "Fun or Frightening: Halloween Books Say BOO!, article with reviews in sidebars: Melanie Walsh's "Monster, Monster," Jarret J. Krosoczka's "Baghead," Ed Boxall's "Francis the Scaredy Cat," Stan and Jan Berenstain's "The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree," Rowland-Grey Ellis and Teddy Kentor's "The Scariest Alphabet Book." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. D1, 4. October 23, 2002. "Browsing: Books for Young Readers," roundup of Cynthia Leitich Smith's Indian Shoes, Richard Easton's A Real American, Claire Rudolph Murphy's Free Radical, Michael J. Rosen's ChaseR: A Novel in E-mails, Sally M. Walker's Fossil Fish Found Alive, Catherine Thimmesh's The Sky's the Limit, Susan Heyboer O'Keefe's My Life and Death by Alexandria Canarsie, and Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F11, July 28, 2002. "Books for Young Readers: Books Show Young Readers what it Takes to Be a Hero," roundup of Linda Sue Parks' When My Name Was Keiko, Carolyn Marsden's The Gold Thread Dress, Sharon Creech's Ruby Holler, Eva Ibottson's Journey to the River Sea, Susan Meddaugh's Lulu's Hat, Ann Tompert's The Pied Piper of Peru, Dennis Denenberg and Lorraine Roscoe's 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet, David J. Smith's If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People, Margy Burns Knight and Mark Melnicove's Africa Is Not a Country, and Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark. In St. Louis Post- Dispatch, p. E1-2, June 5, 2002. "Excellence Awaits Young Readers of Newbery Medalists." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 2002, pp. G8-9. "Browsing Young Readers," roundup of Celia Ree's Witch Child, Brian Jacques' Taggerung, Kate Thompson's The Beguilers, Vivian Vande Velde's Being Dead, Bruce Coville's The Monsters of Morley Manor, Elaine Marie Alphin's Ghost Soldier, Nancy Price Graff's A Long Way from Home, Richard Mosher's Zazoo, Tim Wynne-Jones The Boy in the Burning House, Sid Hite's A Hole in the World, Adrian Fogelin's Anna Casey's Place in the World, Jean Ferris' Of Sound Mind, Mildred D. Taylor's The Land, Karen Hesse's Witness, Francisco Jiménez's Breaking Through, Joan Hiatt Harlow's Joshua's Song, Cathryn Clinton's The Calling, and Lucy Frank's Just Ask Iris. In St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. G10-G11, November 11, 2001. "Browsing Young Readers," roundup of Roland Smith's Zach's Lie, Laurence Yep's Angelfish, Meredith Ann Pierce's Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood, Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk, Priscilla Cummings' A Face First, Kimberly Willis Holt's Dancing in the Cadillac Light, Julia Alvarez's How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay, and Shelley Tanaka's Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of the Day America Entered World War II. In St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F8, July 22 2001. "Characters Give Children Someone to Identify With," Roundup of C.S. Adler's One Unhappy Horse, Jane Buchanan's Hank's Story, Jane Kurtz's Jakarta Missing, An Na's A Step from Heaven, Deborah Wiles' Love, Ruby Lavendar, Mary E. Pearson's Scribbler of Dreams, Ron Koertge's The Brimstone Journals, Paul Janezcko's A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems. In St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. D3, June 18, 2001. "Browsing Young Reades," roundup of Linda Sue Park's A Single Shard, Carla Joinson's Diamond in the Dust, Elisa Carbone's Storm Warriors, Peter Mandel's My Ocean Liner: Across the North Atlantic on the Great Ship Normandie, Susanna Vance's Sights, Kate DiCamillo's The Tiger Rising, Gail Langer Karwoski's Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier, Connie Goldsmith's Lost in Death Valley: The True Stories of Four Families in California's Gold Rush, Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley's Places in Time: A New Atlas of American History and Journeys in Time: A New Atlas of American History. In St. Louis Post- Dispatch, p. F8, April 15, 2001. "The Year's Best in Children's Literature: Newbery Medal: Awards Go to Stories of Family Separation," review of Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder, Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn- Dixie, Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Loses Control, Sharon Creech's The Wanderer, and Joan Bauer's Hope Was Here, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F9, January 21, 2001. "Don't Overlook These Teens Who Found Their Voices," Round-up of Emily Rhoads Johnson's Write Me If You Dare, Patricia McCormick's Cut, Ann Turner's Learning to Swim, Betsy Franco's You Hear Me?, Patricia Reilly Giffs' Nory Ryan's Song, Pam Muñoz Ryan's Esperanza Rising, Katherine Sturtevants' At the Sign of the Star, Karen Cushman's Matilda Bone, Anne Rinaldi's The Staircase, Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin's The Doll People, and Joan Lennons' There's a Kangaroo in My Soup, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. D1-2. December 18, 2000. "Browsing Children's Books," Round-up of George Saunders' The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, Vivian Vande Velde's The Rumpelstiltskin Problem, Vivian Vande Velde's Magic Can Be Murder, Marianne Carus' That's Ghosts for You, Elaine Marie Alphin's Counterfeit Son, Berit Haahr's The Minstrel's Tale, Gary Blackwood's Shakespeare's Scribe, J.B. Cheaney's The Playmaker, Kezi Matthews' John Riley's Daughter, Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Loses Control, and R.L. Stine's Don't Forget Me!, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F10. October 15, 2000. "Browsing Young Readers," Round-up of Peggy Brooke's Jake's Orphan, Lemony Snicket's The Miserable Mill, Zilpha Keathly Snyder's Gib and the Grey Ghost, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel's Visiting Miss Caples, Sharon Creech's The Wanderer, Colby Rodowsky's Spindrift, David Almond's Kit's Wilderness, and Mary E. Pearson's David V. God, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F8. May 28, 2000. "Browsing Children's Books," Round-up of Anthony Horowicz's The Devil and His Boy, Lemony Snicket's The Wide Window, Mary Pope Osborne's Adaline Falling Star, Christina Kessler's No Condition is Permanent, Julie Anne Peters Define Normal, and Louise Plummer's A Dance for Three. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. C13. April 30, 2000. "Browsing Books for Young Readers," Round-up of Carolyn Meyer's Mary, Bloody Mary, Marissa Moss'Emma's Journal, Maureen Stack Sappey's Letters from Vinnie, Anne Rinaldi's The Coffin Quilt, Jennifer L. Holm's Our Only May Amelia, and Laura Williams' The Ghost Stallion. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. C13. October 3, 1999. "Browsing Young Readers," Round-up of Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House, Vera Propp'sWhen the Soldiers Were Gone, Peg Kehret's I'm Not Who You Think I Am, Robert Newton Peck's Cowboy Ghost, Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Runaways, and Barrie Dupre's Close to a Killer. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. C13. August 22, 1999. "Focus On: Children's Fantasy." Round-up of Terry Kretzer-Malvehy's Passage to Little Big Horn, Eric Kimmel's Sword of the Samurai, Bruce Coville's Odder Than Ever, Vivian Vande Velde's Never Trust a Dead Man, and Joan Aikin's Dangerous Games, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F12. June 13, 1999. "Books in Brief," Round-up of Ann Rinaldi's Cast Two Shadows, Gary Paulsen's Soldier's Heart, Suzanne Pierson Ellison's Best of Enemies, Jeanette Ingold's Pictures, 1918, Robert Cormier's Heroes, Ivy Ruckman's In Care of Cassie Tucker, Richard Peck's A Long Way From Chicago, Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword Song, and Geraldine McCaughrean's The Pirate's Son, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E3. November 18, 1998. "Books Take Young Readers on Trips of Discovery." Round-up of Diane Lee Wilson's I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade, Kathleen Karr's The Great Turkey Walk, Cynthia Rylant's The Islander, Carol Matas'Greater Than Angels, Jane Kutz's The Story Teller's Beads, Patricia Hermes' Cheat the Moon, and Virginia Walker and Katrina Roeckelein's Making Up Megaboy. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. C6. June 14, 1998. Contact Sue. Content © 2006 Sue Bradford Edwards