by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Fantasy
Oh what fun! Okay, Lady Lamorna wants a new dress (who doesn’t), but hers is going to be special with skulls and webs and ivy. She is putting her order in to the Ancient Crones, but when she goes to the treasure box, all of her money is gone. She hatches a plan...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Pele wasn’t always a famous soccer player. No, he began in very humble surroundings, playing with a grapefruit or a stuffed sock and forming the Barefoot Team because he could not afford shoes. In this bilingual biography, we see Pele’s humble beginnings...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
Miss Cleo and family are about to set off on vacation. She has to share the car and the plane and the window with her awful siblings. When they finally get to their destination, they are in Colorado. It’s a summer day and a perfect time for a hike. But when they...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
It isn’t easy to live in fear, and these days our children have so many scary things around them, the economic crisis, war, and global warming, just to name a few. Julia handles her fear by making masks to wear when she goes out side. Every day she chooses just...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Non-Fiction
Nine-year-old Alec has written a book of advice for the younger members of the male sex, explaining to them how to get along with girls. He’s thought it through well and is obviously a man of experience. You know those wild girls? How do you handle them? What...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Mystery
Paul Mouse has a huge problem with cheese: Whenever he sits on it, his bottom turns blue. How embarrassing. One day, he and his mouse friends, a Tinby and a four-legged Terrorist Transportaton Unit (a dog) go to a restaurant. Now, they’ve all heard the myth...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
Two young bats, Fink and Fang, are trying to go to sleep, but nothing’s working. One tries telling the other a scary bat story about a Swamp Owl. Doesn’t work. Along comes their big brother who tells them an adventurous pirate story. Nope – still...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
Mutual Scrivener is being enrolled in Gordon Liddy Community Middle School. This is his first time in a public school, since he’s always been home-schooled so no one could corrupt him. His parents warn him to watch the students and the teachers for signs of...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
For a long time we’ve needed a book that helps children understand what it’s like to break an arm or a leg, and here it is. Miss Kate Larkin unfortunately breaks her arm and goes to the hospital. She ends up in a cast and has all the discomfort of not...
by Dawn | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
Winner of the 2009 Newbery Medal Oh, this is a good one. Now, to warn you, it starts out pretty graphically, and you may wonder if this is a good book for kids or not. Well, I wouldn’t hand it to anyone under ten, but it’s a blockbuster for the rest of us....
