by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
2008 Geisel Honor Award 2008 Caldecott Honor Award Open this book to the delightful cut out pages revealing first, the chicken, and then the egg, first the seed and then the flower. So the rhythm continues, and the wonder of each beginning is revealed. This book is a...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
2008 Geisel Honor Book I have used this in story times for babies, ages 0-23 months, and we really have a good time bouncing the babies to the beat. “Mama sings high – Daddy sings low”! The text rolls you from page to page, and the pictures swing...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
It’s Halloween night and what do the monsters do? Rich illustrations warm the pumpkins, the witches and the black cats. The verse includes the occasional Spanish word. It’s an adventure in more ways than one.—from the publisher 32 pages ...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Trixie and Daddy are off to the laundromat to do the family wash. Happily, Trixie gets to help stuff the clothes into the washer. Then, it’s time to walk home again. Suddenly, Trixie realizes that Knuffle Bunny is missing. She tries with every bone in her body...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Trixie is so excited to show her one and only Kuh-nuffle Bunny to her friends at school and is stunned to see her classmate has a Knuffle Bunny, too. Night falls, and bunnies run amok causing great angst. What to do?
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
What a fabulous tall-tale, and this time it’s aimed at the young ladies in the group. Angelica Longrider is our heroine. Not much to talk about at birth – no, she was barely taller than her mother and “couldn’t climb a tree without help.”...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
A vivid re-telling of the timeless tale of the expectant mother who craves the rapunzel growing in the neighbor’s garden. When the father goes to collect the plant, he finds himself face to face with the owner, a witch, who bargains with him for his first-born...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Brrrrrr…. Baby it’s cold in here! The whole family is cold. That is until, one by one, they set forth bravely, never to be seen again. And then only the child is left shivering in the dark. What is going on? Entertaining and funny- with a...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
What a powerful picture book that takes us step-by-step through the life of a boy growing up in Czechoslovakia under Communist domination. Through his pictures and sparse text Peter Sis gives young readers a chance to experience and think about how dark and difficult...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Follow five Africans newly off the boat in Charleston, SC to the plantation of Ol’ Man Deboreaux, where they are about to become slaves. Hard work and the whip are their promises for the future. But where have they gone? Send out the dogs. This is a powerful...
