Monday, March 29, 2010

Some New Books for March












Open Me Up
by Laura Buller, Julie Ferris, Niki Foreman, Fran Jones, Susan Kennedy, Ashwin Khurana, and Richard Walker

This nonfiction book is all about the body. The book is divided into eight sections: Being Human, Outside In, Moving Framework, In Control, Fueling Your Body, Maintenance and Transportation, Malfunctions and Medicine, and Life Story. These sections cover all of the body systems, parts, and other interesting facts about how the body works. There is also discussion of how people in the past looked at the human body, and how the body has affected life. There are also discussions about DNA and reproduction. Throughout the book are colorful pictures and illustrations to help understand different parts of the body and how they affect a person’s life.

















I Can Help
by David Hyde Costello

One day a little duck gets lost in the tall grass, but a monkey says that he can help. While helping the duck, a limb breaks and the monkey starts to fall, but the giraffe is there to help. Then the giraffe has trouble reaching the leaves in a very tall tree, but gorilla is there to help pull the tree down to where the giraffe can reach. Each nice thing, which an animal does for another, leads to that animal also needing help. Will there be another person there to help everyone who tries to help someone else?
















The Intrepid Canadian Expedition
by Sara Pennypacker and pictures by Macky Pamintuan

Flat Stanley is back for another adventure. Stanley’s flat shape makes skiing hard for him, but there are lots of advantages that come from being flat, too. However, Stanley’s shape has started to make him feel lonely, because there were no other kids like him. Then Stanley’s brother, Arthur, hurts his ankle on the ski slope, and Arthur tells Stanley to take Nick, the boy who helped him with his ankle, with him to the World Snowboarding Championships in Arthur’s place. Stanley believes he might make a new friend. Nick tells Stanley that he is really good at snowboarding once they get to the competition and Stanley volunteers to be his snowboard. They make quite a team. Then Stanley and Nick launch themselves into the air, but they are unable to come down. They keep gliding along with the wind. When they finally land, they are met by an Inuit man who takes them to his home to get warm. They learn from an Inuit shaman that they must make a journey to Niagara Falls to find their families. Will they be able to make it that far? Has Flat Stanley found a new friend?

















Wendel’s Workshop
by Chris Riddell

Wendel is an inventor, and he is so busy inventing that he does not have time to tidy up his workshop. Then one day he builds a robot to help him out, and he names the robot, Clunk. Unfortunately, Clunk was very, very bad at tidying up. He could not seem to get anything right. He put tea cups in the sock drawer and poured Wendel’s tea into a boot. So Wendel throws Clunk out onto the scrap heap. Wendel spends that whole night creating a new robot, the Wendelbot. The Wendelbot worked better than Clunk, but he took tidying up too seriously. Suddenly, Wendelbot decides that Wendel is not tidy enough, and the Wendelbot throws Wendel out onto the scrap heap. Once Wendel is on the scrap heap, he finds Clunk. They work together to make more robots in order to stop Wendelbot. Will they be successful at stopping Wendelbot? Will Wendel treat Clunk like he did before?

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