by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Sunrise Elementary has a big dragon of a problem: the librarian, Miss Lotta Scales. Miss Scales does not want any of those awful children touching her books and she certainly isn’t going to do storytime for them. Everyone tries to make her see the joy of sharing...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
‘What do you suppose she does. You know when she’s not a lunch lady?’ Hector, Dee and Terrence are wondering just that as they head to school one morning. Little do they know that a substitute teacher is waiting for them and so is the bully, Milmoe....
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
Done in black and white for the youngest of all listeners, this is a simple book with lots of possibilities for sharing. There is one mommy sheep and one baby sheep. What does a sheep say? Then there is one mommy pig and two piglets. The grand finale is one mommy duck...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
Meet Nip and Tuck, two troll brothers who live under a mushroom until a bear sits on it. These two guys are hilarious. They have to build a new house after the bear incident and they forget to include a roof. Then they go for a picnic down to the pond but they...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Humor
A simple, ‘Come here,’ request sends the two trolls into utter confusion. Are they here or are they there? Puzzling. A fall on the ice turns them into budding poets and the discovery of a clock out in the forest turns their lives upside down because it...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Action / Adventure
It can be hard to find an early reader book that a boy will be interested in reading. This one is about a robot named Otto which gives it a fighting chance. I counted them and your child will read sixteen new words in this book, several of which will happily repeat...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Matthias, a young mouse of the Redwall Abbey, yearns to prove himself as a warrior. But, as Father Abbot explains to him, this is a time of peace. Martin the Warrior had lived in the ‘wild days when strength was needed’ and after facing the enemy...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
What if you drew a magpie and it came to life? That’s exactly what happens in this magical, wordless story about a young boy who draws a magpie and then watches as the magpie takes matters into his own beak. Color emerges out of the black and white drawings and...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Action / Adventure
Toby Lolness is one and half millimeters high and running for his life. He has lived happily in the world of The Tree with his lovely mother, Maya, and his famous scientist father, Sims. Now, the evil, greedy ne’er-do-wells are after Toby because they believe he...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 8, 2009 | Picture Book
What’s it like to wake up at your house in the morning? Is it fun? Probably not as fun as it is as these animals wake up and get ready for the broccoli stew. Ewwww! ‘Shout out loud Good Morning Sun! Happy Morning Everyone!’
