Our Spring 2010 Midwest Connections Picks for children offer great reading for all ages!
“My name is King.
I am a dog.
I am also a detective.”
THE BUDDY FILES
Books 1, 2 and 3 in the series
Dori Hillestad Butler
THE BUDDY FILES Book 1:
THE CASE OF THE LOST BOY
ISBN 978-0-8075-0910-4
THE BUDDY FILES Book 2:
THE CASE OF THE MIXED-UP MUTTS
ISBN 978-0-8075-0911-1
THE BUDDY FILES Book 3:
THE CASE OF THE MISSING FAMILY
ISBN 978-0-8075-0912-8
Albert Whitman & Company
www.albertwhitman.com
$14.99 each Hardcover
On sale March 2010
Children’s fiction/mysteries for ages 6-8
Kids will love this new series of early chapter book mysteries starring King, aka Buddy, a smart, funny, tail-wagging hero! His efforts to understand and communicate with the humans in his life are both convincing and hilarious.
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One cold morning in early spring, a plastic bag blows out of a landfill. Where do the wind and chance take it?
BAG IN THE WIND
Ted Kooser
Illustrated by Barry Root
Candlewick Press
www.candlewick.com
$17.99 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3001-0
Children’s picture book
Printed on paper containing 100 percent recycled post-consumer waste
In his singular first children’s book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, follows a plastic bag on its capricious journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople’s lives. Beautiful illustrations by Barry Root evoke the gusty, damp days of early springtime.
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IN A HEARTBEAT
Loretta Ellsworth
Walker & Company / Macmillan
$16.99 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-8027-2068-9
Young adult fiction
“IN A HEARTBEAT by Loretta Ellsworth was an amazing book. It was given to me as a new unknown book that I could read and review, and I read it all in one sitting. The story is told by Eagan and Amelia, two teenage girls connected by life and death. The two different narratives make this story impossible to put down. I recommend this book to everyone who has a heart.”
– Rachel Hettrick, Book Mouse, Ottawa, IL *
