by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Poetry
This collection of poems for young people beats to the pulse of the Black Arts Movement of the 60’s and 70’s. There is a sense of pride, of anger and of revolution. This is a powerful reflection of a voice that rang out for the times in which she was...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
This is a book about shapes. What could a triangle be? A wing on a flea or a beak on a bird? How about a rectangle? Or a circle? If you look around you, you’ll find the shapes everywhere in this colorful book. shapes geometry picture book preschooler Read aloud...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Picture Book
This is a bouncy, rhythmic dance you can do with your toddler on your lap. “Wiggle, move and bounce with me.” It’s the poetry and the fun all mixed in together. toddler babies poetry dance read aloud to 1s, 2s picture book sturdy pages...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
This book is the 1986 Newbery Medal Winner. This is a classic in my opinion, and it’s great historical fiction for those 3rd graders who get the assignment. Life on the prairie is hard, and Pa has decided he needs a wife and mother for his children, since Ma has...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Short Stories
This is a collection of five short stories all with a macabre twist. They range from a boy who changes places with a cat to an invisible princess. 160 pages 978-0152064617 Ages 8-12 *********** Children become cats and birds, a once-invisible young woman pieces...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Poetry
This is a collection of wonderful, insightful and humorous poems all about penguins. So, come to Antarctica with Judy Sierra and experience the life of a baby penguin as only she can imagine it. How do penguin fathers care for their babies? What does...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
This is a different kind of American history book because it imagines what it would have been like if the Americans had lost the Revolution. Wastrel son, fifteen-year-old Creighton is kidnapped and taken to the Americas to live with his uncle, Colonel Gower. One...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This is a fabulous read-aloud tale of a young fifth grade girl who is struggling to find her place in school and in the world. Just think of the words “student file” and you begin to understand. Sahara Jones’ discomfort is familiar to all as are the...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 24, 2009 | Action / Adventure
This is a fabulous tale of a boy, who stows away on a ship (the Flying Dutchman) and becomes a cook’s helper. When the ship stalls out along the coast of South America and the resources dwindle away, the boy and his dog wash up onto the shore and begin a journey...
