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Author: Idries Shah (on JOMB) Illustrator: Natasha Delmar (on JOMB) Published: 2006 Hoopoe Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 1883536421 This delicately illustrated tale of travel and tragedy reminds us that today s disaster just might be a necessary step towards the ultimate attainment of our heart s desire. Other books mentioned: The Farmer s Wife The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal More middle eastern reading on JOMB: Silent Music (A Story of Baghdad) Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story 52 Days by Camel My Friend Jamal The Butter Man Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In The War The Rich Man and the Parrot Sanji and the Baker Interview with Suzan Nadimi 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: Kenneth Oppel (on JOMB) Illustrators: Steve Johnson (on JOMB) and sneaked treats! More gallivanting animals on JOMB: Safe and Sound Someday When My Cat Can Talk More food on JOMB: A Medieval Feast The Butter Man The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating The Tortilla Cat Too Many Tamales Treasure for Lunch Berry Magic Chopsticks Mammoth Pie On Top of Spaghetti Pumpkin Soup Sanji and the Baker More kings on JOMB: The King of Capri The King’s Equal Rumplestilskin’s Daughter The Red Wolf Wenceslas More dogs on JOMB here. HOTLINE VOICES: Eden Spodek who will be at PAB09 has fabulous childhood and parenthood memories of Where the Wild Things Are (by Maurice Sendak) 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: Jonah Winter (on JOMB) Illustrator: André Carrilho (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Schwartz s greats. More sports on JOMB: Baseball Hour Across the Alley Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer The Bat Boy and His Violin Baseball Saved Us Dino-Hockey The Magic Hockey Stick HOTLINE VOICES: Radio Producer and Sound Artist Paolo Pietropaolo explains why he loves Fantastic Mr. Fox (by Roald Dahl). 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: Caren McCormack (on JOMB) Illustrator: Martha Avilés (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Marshall Cavendish (on JOMB) ISBN: 0761454675 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Earth toned preparations and pastel pomp treat us to a slightly slighted little sibling s view of what seems like a very cool coming of age tradition. Other books mentioned: The Lime Green Secret Jamela’s Dress The Fisherman and the Turtle 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: Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (on JOMB) Illustrator: Christy Hale (on JOMB) Published: 1998 Lee & Low Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 1584300817 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Earthy tones and textiles of Tanzania softly serve warm embraces and learned love in this beautiful tale of motherhood mimicry and the joy of nurturing. 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: Samantha Vamos (on JOMB) Illustrator: Santiago Cohen (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Viking (on JOMB) ISBN: 0670063010 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Generously speckled with spanish phrases and illustrated in homey hot oranges, pinks and golds, this intimate account of a family s industrious wait for a new baby radiates pure joy. HOTLINE VOICES: A young reviewer tells us about her favourite book, The Borrowers (by Mary Norton) 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: Eva Ibbotson (on JOMB) Published: 2002 Penguin (on JOMB) ISBN: 033039715X Chapters.ca Amazon.com Today, our 9 year old daughter, Lucy, tells us why she absolutely adores this beautifully written and inspiring Amazon adventure. Click here to listen to our chat with Eva Ibbotson on her 83rd birthday. Other beloved books by Eva Ibbotson: Which Witch? The Great Ghost Rescue The Secret of Platform 13 The Star of Kazan The Beasts of Clawstone Castle Dial-a-Ghost Island of the Aunts (a.k.a. Monster Mission) Click here for other Eva Ibbotson book reviews by Lucy and click here to see the postcard Eva sent to Lucy and Bayla earlier this year in response to their 84th birthday cards. LISTENER HOTLINE: Chuck Stanley enjoys sharing his childhood love of Fox in Socks (by Dr. Seuss) with his own children. 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: Rosalind Allchin (on JOMB) Illustrator: Rosalind Allchin Published: 2001 KidsCan Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 1553375262 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Happy Valentine s Day! Even the most wonderful romance can come with the challenge of fitting in with in-laws. This fabulously illustrated twist on The Frog Prince treats us to an entertaining string of slip-ups and scandals as a starry-eyed frog samples life in the Royal Family. More frogs on JOMB: The Frog Prince Continued Two Frogs HOTLINE VOICES: Karen Alonge s Valentines contribution is about a mysterious love letter with a twist in Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch (by Eileen Spinelli and Paul Yalowitz). 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, what are your favourite renditions of The Frog Prince? Leave us a message in the comments, below.

Author: Demi  (on JOMB) Illustrator: Demi Published: 1990 Henry Holt and Co. (on JOMB) ISBN: 0805082271 Chapters.ca Amazon.com This delicately illustrated tale of integrity and patience invites us to examine the perplexing pervasiveness of professed perfection. Other books mentioned: Marco Polo More honesty on JOMB: Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big Too Many Tamales Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers When-I-was-a-little-girl Do Unto Otters HOTLINE VOICES: Gabbi tells us about her son s favourite part of I Love You Stinky Face (by Lisa McCourt and Cyd Moore). 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: Demi  (on JOMB) Illustrator: Demi Published: 2008 Marshall Cavendish (on JOMB) ISBN: 0761454330 Chapters.ca Amazon.com It s hard to believe that fifty-six pages of 700 year old travel details could consistently engross two seven and nine year old girls. Hard to believe, but, in the case of this beautifully illustrated and mesmerizing window to the world, nothing but the truth. More exotic locations and travels on JOMB: 52 Days by Camel Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In The War Taj Mahal Sanji and the Baker Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep Red Butterfly You can read more about the veracity debate over Marco Polo s incredulous journey here. HOTLINE VOICES: A listener tells us about a book loved by both herself and son, the rhythmic and rhyming Bear Wants More (by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman). 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. Thanks to our daughter Lucy (9) for contributing the title of this post.

Author: James Rumford Illustrator: James Rumford Published: 2008 Roaring Book Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 1596432764 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Loops, dots, masts and curves glide gracefully across exotically patterned images of football, friends and family as a young Iraqi contemplates practice, peace and beauty. More of Islam and the Arab World on JOMB: Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story 52 Days by Camel My Friend Jamal The Butter Man Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In The War The Rich Man and the Parrot Sanji and the Baker Interview with Suzan Nadimi HOTLINE VOICES: Musician and father Curtis Harnanan shares his love for An Island Christmas (by Lynn Joseph and Catherine Stock) 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: Zetta Elliott (on JOMB) Illustrator: Shadra Strickland (on JOMB) Published: 2008 Lee s issues of addiction and loss. More dreams of flight on JOMB: My Dad’s A Birdman Fly, Eagle, Fly I Can Hear the Sun Tudley Didn’t Know Chopsticks Falling Angels Today I Will Fly! Pop over to Brimstone Soup for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A. HOTLINE VOICES: Marlive Harris, founder of the gritskids.com book club tells us about Little Lion Goes to School (by Kellie Magnus and Michael Robinson) 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. Welcome to Just One More Book!! If you re a newcomer to our website or are unfamiliar with audio podcasts and how the Just One More Book! audio programs promote children s books, the people that create them and a general love of reading, you may find this video to be a helpful on-ramp to becoming part of the Just One More Book!! community. Click here to view the embedded video.

Author: Roseanne Thong (on JOMB) Illustrator: Elisa Kleven (on JOMB) Published: 2008 Chronicle Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 0811857166 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Splashing, soaring, leaping and dreaming, gorgeously detailed watercolour and collage illustrations whisk us into the midst of vivid wishing traditions across the globe in this beautiful reminder of our universal desires. Other books mentioned: Snowsong Whistling The Puddle Pail Pop over to Yat-Yee Chong for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A. HOTLINE VOICES: Thanks to Illustrator Chris Forrest for sharing two of her favourites, Make Way for Ducklings (by Robert McCloskey), The Sky is Falling on Henny Penny (by Marie Schubert). 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: Linda Granfield (on JOMB) Published: 2008 Scholastic Canada (on JOMB) ISBN: 043993558X Chapters.ca Accessible narrative, detailed annotations and a thought-provoking collection of photographs, postcards, pins and poems shed light on the ceremony, symbolism, chronology and controversy commemorating our global family s losses to war. More books about war and peace on JOMB: Angel Girl A New Coat for Anna The Donkey of Gallipoli (A True Story of Courage in World War I) If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor, 1918 A Poppy is To Remember The Diary of Laura’s Twin (A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers) Gleam and Glow Janusz Korczak’s Children What We Remember The Cello of Mr. O Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In A War One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II Seven Brave Women And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends Aunt Claire’s Yellow Beehive Hair HOTLINE VOICES: Author Alison McGhee shares the reasons why Swiss Family Robinson (by Johann D. Wyss) is one of her childhood favourites. 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: Shenaaz Nanji Illustrator: Yvonne Cathcart Published: 2000 Second Story Press (on JOMB) ISBN: 1896764320 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Bhajias, samosas and imaginative snowy play are front and centre in this appetizing tale of friendship, acceptance and the perceived risk of being seen as different. Other books mentioned: Carla s Sandwich A Bad Case of Stripes More flavours of The East on JOMB: Lights For Gita Mama’s Saris In the Heart of the Village Taj Mahal A Horse in the House HOTLINE VOICES: Thanks to editor/author Sandhya Nankani for telling us about Divali Rose (by Vashanti Rahaman and Jamel Akib). 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.