by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
What is Ramadan? Who celebrates it? Our children can understand their world a little better when they have learned about the different faiths and practices of others. This brightly illusrated and vividly patterned book shows Muslim families practicing their traditions...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
Will and Marty’s mother thought the calm, quiet library would be the perfect place for her cantankerous boys to spend their summer afternoons. Little did she know that after she dropped them off and sped away, the two boys were caught in the sights of the...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Short Stories
This book actually contains one beast, two aliens, three inventors and four fantastic tales by the talented Garth Nix. To give you a feel for this book, in the first story Peter absent-mindedly trips on a sewer grate and falls into a tunnel inhabited by rat-pirates....
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Lose the race or lose a friend? Fourth-grader Mina has just moved to a new town and a new school and she really wants to fit in. Happily she finds herself a group of friends who shares sleepovers, parties and even a friendship ball of yarn that grows with each get...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Science Fiction
The year is 2085 in Atherton, a new world created by Dr. Harding who directed the migration from the Dark Planet years ago. Atherton is divided into the Flatlands, a place of mystery and danger; the Highlands, home of the rich and privileged and those who are allowed...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Henry and his bunny friends have a great life on an island shooting each other out of cannons and reading books until the note comes. It’s a message in a bottle that floats up and it says, ‘We’re coming to steal all yer loot.’ And it’s...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
this is a very boldly illustrated collection of eight nursery tales including Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, The Little Red Hen, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs, Henny Penny, The Enormous Turnip and the Musicians of Bremen. The stories are the...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
When Douglas Wood was young, he had ADHD and that made learning to read hard for him. His teacher, Miss Little, made him stay after school to practice reading. Douglas wanted to be anywhere but there. Then, Miss Little handed him a book called The Little Island....
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
It’s the first day of school and a young boy is having a nightmare about school. He’s dreaming that his new teacher is going to be a monster. She has all sorts of horrifying teaching techniqes like biting a student in half to demonstrate fractions! She...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
The class is about to take its first trip to the media center and stories are circulating about the librarian, otherwise known as ‘the Laminator.’ If you talk in the library, she’ll laminate you. Yep, you better be on your best behavior because that...
