by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Historical Fiction
When word comes that father’s ship may have gone down, Aunt Alice sends eleven-year old Digory Beale off to find out if father is still alive and instructs him that if his father is indeed deceased, Digory is to just keep on going. She can’t feed and house...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
What happens when a baby bat is knocked out of his mother’s arms and dropped into a nest of birds? The bat is encouraged to act like a bird even though it’s really a bat. How can the bird and the bat get along? Are they the same or are they...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Mystery
Ready for some action? Mr. Munroe is making fudge for a community bake sale but unfortunately when the family heads out to the library, they leave the fudge behind. Are they being tested? ‘Yes and we’re about to flunk,’ says Harold. The animals agree...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Mystery
It’s Chester the Cat versus Bunnicula the Vampire Bunny! Ohh, it’s just a cute little bunny but then the vegetables in the Munroe’s kitchen all turn white. It had to have been a vampire bunny! Ready to Read Level 3 48 pages Ages 5-8
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Mystery
The Great Karlovsky is about to do his magic hat trick and he will pull vicious vampire bunnies out of his hat. Protect yourselves! Grab the garlic pizza! Another hilarious adventure with Chester the cat, and Harold and Howie the dogs. ‘I don’t know what...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Historical Fiction
It’s 1917 in Moundville, Alabama and Dit Sims is looking forward to making friends with the son of the new town postmaster. Well, that is until the new son turns out to be twelve-year old Emma, a young African American girl. How can he be friends with a girl?...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Sutter can drink his way through just about anything. His father left the family and works up in one of those very impressive high rise office buildings. Or does he? Sutter and his best friend, Ricky, go looking for girls and it’s Ricky who ends up with a...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
This is a beautifully poetic breeze describing the connection between a father and a son. It could be read to a preschooler or maybe a thoughtful toddler. The father and son are African American and the narrative has a spiritual feel to it. Just a lovely way to define...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Kanga is large and Roo is small and the charm of the Winnie the Pooh characters resounds throughout this simple opposites book. Dirty or clean and happy or sad-all sorts of opposites are clearly and warmly illustrated
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
How lucky is Molly Lou Melon to have a grandmother who teaches her to like who she is and to never be afraid to shine! How unlucky is Molly Lou Melon when she has to move to a new place and try to make new friends because there she runs up against Ronald Durkin, big...
