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Author: Vanessa Newton (on JOMB) Illustrator: Vanessa Newton Published: 2009 Chronicle Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 9781934706909 Spot-on sixties-style illustrations, simple, springboard text and a soulful, sing along refrain shine a celebratory light on 18 individuals who stood tall and opened doors for generations. More freedom reading on JOMB: Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog Priscilla and the Hollyhocks Freedom Child of the Sea Follow the Drinking Gourd We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.

Author: Kristen Tracy (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Random House (on JOMB) ISBN: 9780385736879 A big thanks to guest host Lucy (10) for joining Andrea today to discuss this book. Life can be challenging and fair s got nothing to do with it. Parents are people. Friendship s a worthwhile risk. There s a lot to think about when you re ten in the real world. Which is why I m so glad Lucy (10) and I read this fun and fabulously thought provoking book. Mentioned in this chat: Life Without Limbs: Nick Vujicic Don’t Need Friends Horrid Henry More books including less-than-perfect families on JOMB: The Grandmother Doll When-I-was-a-little-girl My Dad’s A Birdman Mummy Never Told Me more here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.

Author: Paul Fleischman (on JOMB) Illustrator: David Roberts (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Candlewick Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 0763624985 Clean lines, comical details and snappy, generous first person narration sweep us into this suspenseful tale of strategy, solidarity and overlooked superpowers. Other books mentioned: Iggy Peck, Architect The Mysterious Benedict Society Miss Nelson is Missing More independent thinkers on JOMB: Willow Odd Velvet Suki’s Kimono Ruby’s Wish Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick Silly Tilly more here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.

Author: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (on JOMB) Illustrator: Margot Tomes (on JOMB) Published: 1976 Marshall Cavendish (on JOMB) ISBN: 9780761455462 Chapters.ca Amazon.com With its chatty narrative, droll dialogue and playfully illustrated play-by-play, this plucky retelling of the traditional Slavic tale is practically bound theatre. Other books mentioned: Brave Irene The Three Sillies Cupid and Psyche More shady step-families on JOMB: Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave Cinderella Skeleton Smoky Mountain Rose (An Appalachian Cinderella) Ella’s Big Chance We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show

Author: P.J. Bracegirdle (on JOMB) Published: 2008 McElderry Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 1416934162 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Hard-core horror meets sumptuous simile in this gripping exploration of siblinghood, self-destruction and sanitized sameness. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Eileen Spinelli (on JOMB) Illustrator: David Slonim (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Marshall Cavendish (on JOMB) ISBN: 0761455256 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Rhyming triplets and edge-to-edge smile-inducing illustrations follow the carefree foolishness of an unconventional goose and remind us to savour the spice of life. More independent thinkers on JOMB: Willow Odd Velvet Suki’s Kimono Ruby’s Wish Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick more here. Pop over to Under The Covers for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Maxine Trottier (on JOMB) Illustrator: Paul Morin (on JOMB) Published: 1999 Fitzhenry and Whiteside (on JOMB) ISBN: 1550051520 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Dazzling light glows against darkening shadow as this warmly told memory of friendship and fortitude peeks into a dim chapter in Canadian history. Other books mentioned: Gleam and Glow Naomi s Tree Naomi s Road Baseball Saved Us For more information about the Japanese Internment of 1942-1945, visit Vanishing British Columbia, Canada: A People s History, and Canadian Nikkei. You can read about more of our favourite Canadian, Asian-themed children’s books in this essay by Andrea at Paper Tigers. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Linda Ashman (on JOMB) Illustrator: S. D. Schindler (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Roaring Brook Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 1596431555 Humour, grimaces, gluttony and grime cleverly deliver a bonanza of not-soon forgotten feudal facts in this rhyming rundown of Medieval careers. Chapters.ca Amazon.com Other books mentioned: A Medieval Feast Stella, Unleashed! The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe One Witch Pop over to Carol s Corner for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487. If you are feasting this holiday week, Bon Appétit!

Author: Shirley Hughes (on JOMB) Illustrator: Shirley Hughes Published: 2003 Simon ll all be watching this weekend, understands that we really don t want everything we want. More from the Jazz Era on JOMB: When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum Ben’s Trumpet Jazz ABZ (An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits) HOTLINE VOICES: Thanks to Maddy Lau of Styling with Renee Michelle shares her memories of The Little Prince (by Antoine de Saint Exupéry). We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal (on JOMB) Illustrator: Jane Dyer (on JOMB) Published: 2006 Harper Collins (on JOMB) ISBN: 006058081X Chapters.ca Amazon.com Sweet, silly, scrumptious little scenarios sneakily cement understanding of twenty-two slippery social concepts in this clever and captivating conversation-starter. More recipes for happiness on JOMB: Some Helpful Tips for a Better World and a Happier Life Do Unto Otters Lady Lupin’s Book of Etiquette HOTLINE VOICES: Baked goods are mightier than the sword in Jonny Goldstein s favourite, The Apple Strudel Soldier (by Tom McGowen and John E. Johnson). We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Kathy Kacer (on JOMB) Published: 2008 Second Story Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 1897187394 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Musings and melodrama of a modern twelve year old, careful chronicling of a young prisoner of the Warsaw Ghetto and dozens of potent photographs stitch together the present and the past in this engaging and educational look at bullying, bigotry and backbone. Other books mentioned: Janusz Korczak’s Children Angel Girl HOTLINE VOICES: Thank you to a former education instructor at University of Victoria for sharing her high opinion of Shimmerdogs (by Dianne Linden). We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487. November 2-9th, 2008 is the 28th Annual Holocaust Education Week. Coordinated by the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, UJA Federation, the event will offer more than 100 timely and thought-provoking educational and cultural programs, including a series of compelling, first-hand testimonies from survivors. For more information, click here.

Author: Marianna Mayer (on JOMB) Illustrator: K. Y. Craft (on JOMB) Published: 1994 Harper Collins (on JOMB) ISBN: 0688085008 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Dark, detailed and delightfully distasteful, this splendid version of the gruesome Russian Cinderella folktale has thrilled and enthralled our girls for years. More Hallowe’en and October reading on JOMB: Rattlebone Rock Oh No, Not Ghosts Cinderella Skeleton The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe One Witch Cat Magic Halloween Hoots and Howls Snowsong Whistling Pumpkin Soup Have a Happy Hallowe en!! HOTLINE VOICES: Thanks to author Valerie Hobbs for telling us about one of her childhood favourites, The Owl and the Pussycat. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Laurie Friedman (on JOMB) Illustrator: Ofra Amit (on JOMB) Published: 2008 CarolRhoda (on JOMB) ISBN: 0822587394 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Dark, heart wrenching yet beautiful images and aching, intimate first person narrative tell the true tale of holocaust prisoner Herman Rosenblat and the young girl who saved his life, twice. HOTLINE VOICES: Thanks to author/illustrator Lee Edward Fodi for telling us about Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation (by Avi). We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Alexis O’Neill (on JOMB) Illustrator: Laura Huliska-Beith (on JOMB) Published: 2008 Scholastic (on JOMB) ISBN: 0545010233 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Sunny school-yard action, frisky text and heaps of humorous details propel us through bliss, boastfulness, betrayal and back again in this spirited tale of friendship lost and found. Other books mentioned: The Recess Queen HOTLINE VOICES: An unidentified JOMB listener/author/illustrator recommends Kiss Good Night (by Amy Hest) and Dig Dig Digging (by Margaret Mayo and Alex Ayliffe). We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487. To those of you celebrating Yom Kippur, G mar Chatimah Tovah.

Author: Laurie Keller (on JOMB) Illustrator: Laurie Keller Published: 2007 Henry Holt and Co. (on JOMB) ISBN: 0805079963 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Cluttered with comedy, melodrama and earthy, Looney-Toonesque artwork, this brilliant guide to social success is as hilarious as it is helpful. (…er…actually….maybe more hilarious than helpful, as we now hear our girls screaming at each other DO UNTO OTTERS, REMEMBER, DO UNTO OTTERS!!!!! ) Other books mentioned: Lady Lupin’s Book of Etiquette HOTLINE VOICES: Michelle Mitchell from Scribbit: Motherhood in Alaska shares her thoughts about The Little Golden Book Anthologies.

Author: Elisa Carbone Illustrator: E. B. Lewis (on JOMB) Published: 2008 Knopf Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 037582247X Chapters.ca Amazon.com Haunting, heartbreaking and not for the faint of heart, this gorgeously illustrated true tale of trial and triumph opens our eyes to the horrors of slavery and the depths of devotion of one loyal dog. More helpful dogs on JOMB: Heroes of Isle aux Morts Rosie: A Visiting Dog’s Story How Smudge Came For more information about The Cybils, The Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards, pop over to Cybils Central, check out the 2007 and 2006 winners and prepare to nominate your favourites of 2008. HOTLINE VOICES: A listener shares her thoughts about The Land of Smeared. We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Author: Bill Richardson Illustrator: Marc Mongeau (on JOMB) Published: 2003 Annick Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 1550377868 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Toasty tones, a hint of terror and boisterous, confident rhyme make this gleeful triumph over imagined dangers a rowdy and reassuring bedtime read. Other books mentioned: There Were Monkeys in my Kitchen More bedtime and frights on JOMB: Oh No, Not Ghosts! Is a Worry Worrying You? Go to Bed, Monster! Stay tuned at the end of this review for a special treat: Author/Illustrator extraordinaire, Mo Willems, shares his thoughts on Dinosaur vs. Bedtime, a new book written and illustrated by Bob Shea. Pop over to Biblio File for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

Author: Cary Fagan (on JOMB) Illustrator: Nicolas Debon (on JOMB) Published: 2008 Tundra Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 0887768393 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Dizzying perspectives, deadpan musings and the small scale dramas of everyday life turn a slo-mo tumble from a sixth storey window into an entertaining peek at excess, ingratitude and the thrill of being loved.