by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Fantasy
Imagine that you have been Graced with the ability to defend yourself in any fight and to always prevail even to the death. Now, imagine that you are a woman. A Graceling, Katsa is the niece of a vengeful King who uses her and her unique power to punish errant...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Mean Jean is always bullying people out on the playground at recess. She’s mean and she’s scary. Then, one day a girl comes along who isn’t afraid of Mean Jean. So, just how do you handle a bully? Can you really make friends with a bully?
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
It’s great when you have friends in your neighborhood to play with and it’s not so great when somebody moves in who tries to push you around and be mean. So, just how do you handle a bully? Dad has a recipe for enemy pie and he starts to teach the...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Action / Adventure
The sound of a ‘soft metallic click’ like ‘the sound of an automatic pistol being cocked’ reaches the ears of Max Gordon one night as he is jogging the track around his school. A killer is waiting just a ‘few minutes away.’ Get the...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Vietnam was a beautiful country ruled by an emperor until war came. Forced to flea, a woman drops her pearl combs but takes the time to scoop up a seed. She leaves her country and moves to America. That seed becomes the link between her family and the country she left...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
Have you ever stood and looked out at farmlands and wondered what stood there in centuries past? This beautifully illustrated book reaches all the way back to the year 800 and then follows the change in community and farming that would have occurred all the way up to...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
Ten thousand years ago, what was it like on your street? This book follows the evolution of a street through time. We begin with the Stone Age Hunters, progress through the Iron Age, on into Roman Times, the Vikings, through the Medieval Times, on through the...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Oh, how fun! This is the story of the train getting all the people on board and then setting forth through the land of businessmen and school children and ladies having tea. It’s a good one for those children who are looking to their books to teach them all...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Imagination run as riot as the hair on the top of his head. The next time you see someone with crazy hair let your mind leap ahead and envision what could be hiding in there? That’s the fun of this book with some very sophisticated illustrations by David McKean....
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Tiddler is a little fish with a big amount of energy. He needs to swim that energy out so his mom sends him out of their cave and tells him to go ‘swim till you’re tired, but watch out for the Big Fish.’ So out Tiddler goes into the great wide ocean....
