by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
It’s 1300 and the king has chosen you to fight the rebel lord who is challenging his power. The rebel lord is in his castle. You will have to gather your forces and outwit this enemy. How will you set up camp and what weapons will you use? How will your men...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
It’s 20,000 B.C. and you are the leader of a small band of clansmen surviving in the ice age. You live in tundra and winter is coming. How will your people survive? Where will you live? What will you eat during the winter? What will you wear and what tools will...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
How wonderful to believe that you can do anything. That is exactly what this dog thinks about himself and he imagines himself doing all those wonderful jobs. He could even be a superhero. This is a dog of many dreams. Lucky for him he has an owner who loves him just...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Lucky Max, the dog, is the king’s taster. He tastes the king’s food before the king eats it to be sure the food is safe for the king to eat. Life is grand until a new king comes along. Now, the cook and the taster have a big problem. The king does not like...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Pierre is a fox without a friend who lives at the bottom of a ‘sky-high mountain.’ One day he decides to drive over the mountain to find himself a friend. He’s lonely. So with a lot of tooting and zooming and even some screeching, fox sets off on his...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Fiction
Jill is very excited because tonight her two best friends, Meg and Annie, are coming to spend the night at her farm for a Pony Scout sleepover. The girls get to meet the horses they will ride the next day. One of the horses is new to the farm, Rosy. Rosy is a little...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Non-Fiction
If you have a reluctant reader who laughs through all of the Dr. Seuss books, here is a wonderful series for you. The energy of the Cat travels through the pages as you set out on your adventure into space. There’s a visit to each planet and a few interesting...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
I can just see the wide eyes of the young listeners as the pages turn and the different animals are revealed in all their glory. ‘Chimpanzees are cheeky’ and ‘hoopoes are happy.’ Do you know what a hoopoe is? Me either. The book gently explores...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Okay, all you desperate parents out there whose toddlers or preschoolers don’t like to sit for a book, take heart. This is hilarious. So, meet Marvin the Ape. He isn’t all that happy at the zoo, so one day he heads out when nobody’s looking. No one...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
When your monster is 7 feet tall, you know he is ready to be potty trained. He will need to be about 200-300 years old unless he is a three-eyed purple monster with horns. They should be about 400 before they’re ready for their own potty. You’ll have to...
