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January Book Reviews
by Selene Vasquez

Warm up those wintry nights with read-aloud stories sure to please all ages.

PICTURE BOOK: AGES 3 THRU 6

Molly and the Magic Wishbone by Barbara McClintock. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 32 pp., $16.00). Based loosely on a story by Charles Dickens with traditional fairy tale charm, the books tells the story of a family of endearing kittens frolic and bustle in a quaint Victorian setting. Magical in scope this story of the importance of family over material possessions is nearly purr-fect!

PICTURE BOOK: AGES 6 THRU 8

Katie and the Sunflowers by James Mayhew. (Orchard Books, 32 pp., $15.95). On a rainy day, a girl and her grandmother wander away from their garden and into the museum. Drawn to Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the girl discovers she can actually reach in and touch! An imaginative means of fostering fine-art appreciation for the very young.

POETRY: AGES 6 THRU 10

Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices. Selected by Paul B. Janeczko. Illustrated by Melissa Sweet. (HarperCollins, 32 pp., $15.95). Twenty-seven poems in the voices of a seashell, a cat, a tree, etc. by such great poets as Karla Kuskin, Bobbi Katz, and Douglas Florian. Playful illustrations compliment the kid-friendly couplets, haiku and outright funny lines presenting the world in a new light.

FICTION: AGES 8 THRU 10

The Orphan Singer by Emily Arnold. (Scholastic, unpaged, $16.95). Poverty-stricken and abandoned at the ospedalo (a choral school for orphans), little Catarina and her magnificent voice seem to assure her future, if not for her vivacious pranks presenting a danger to her own survival. Evocative watercolor and pastel illustrations bring to life this18th-century Venice setting of glorious architecture, strolling nobility and the harsh reality of street urchins.

Selene S. Vasquez is a media specialist at Orange Brook Elementary School in Hollywood, Florida. She was a children’s librarian for the New York Public Library.

 

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