Holiday Gift Guide • 2012 • 20
Take 10: Children’s Books
And Then What Happened? What happens when Daisy’s ball is destroyed? When all the lights go out? When a family must flee their homeland? Adventure happens, that’s what – and so does discovery, learning and joy. Buy a child and book, and ask to share an hour. Here, a few of 2012’s best, for tots, teens and you. – Mary Connors, CTW Features
4 “Me… Jane,” by Patrick McDonnell
(Little, Brown and Co. div. of Hachette Book Group, 2011) $15.99 Caldecott Honor
1 “A Ball for Daisy,” by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011) $16.99 Caldecott Medal
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2 “Blackout,” by John Rocco (Disney
Hyperion Books, 2011) $16.99 Caldecott Honor
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“Grandpa Green,” by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press, 2011) $16.99 Caldecott Honor
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“Dead End in Norvelt,” by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011) $15.99 Newbery Medal “Rotters” audio book, written by Daniel Kraus, narrated by Kirby Heyborne (Random House audio, 2011) $35 Odyssey Award
7 “The Notorious Benedict Arnold,”
b y Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point, 2010) $19.99 YALSA Award for young adult nonfiction
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“Inside Out & Back Again,” by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2011) $16.99 Newbery Honor
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“Breaking Stalin’s Nose,” by Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt and Co., 2011) $15.99 Newbery Honor
10 “Where Things Come Back,” by John Corey Waley (Atheneum, 2012) $8.99 Printz Award.
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