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In the seventeen years since The Time Warp Trio series was started and the nine years since my daughter first read it, it seems that is has become an animated television show! If you seek these books out, please be sure you find the originals as it is my understanding that there are some that are based on the television show, which is slightly different and not illustrated byLane Smith, Jon

The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science and Imagination selected by Mary Ann Hoberman, the current National Children's Poet Laureate and Linda Winston, a cultural anthropologist and teacher, has re-opened a door for me that I thought I had shut firmly. I was a child of the perfect age when Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends was first published in 1974. I still

Level 1 (Grades K-1)Level 2 (Grades 1 -2)Level 3 (Grades 2-3)I realize that I am often going on about the lack of high quality, beginning to read books that have appealing content both visually and texturally, and believe me, every title published by TOON Books meets all my criteria for a great beginning reader book, but really, above all else, these are just spectacular picture books that happen

Reading Toby Alone by French playwright Timothée de Fombelle, translated by Sarah Ardizzone, winner of the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation, and illustrated by François Place, is a bit like looking at an optical illusion where two different images vie for prominence - in a good way. The story of Toby Lolness, thirteen at the start of the story, and the events that cause him

**A Word of Warning**  I am a huge Adam Rex fan and, since he is both an author and artist, I have added as much of his incredible artwork as I could squeeze in here, as well as mentioning all (well, most) of his other projects, past present and future.  For the actual book review, scroll down to the second set of Boovs.  FYI:  Those are Boovs, above.  They are an alien life form that invades

Author/Illustrator: David Wiesner

That's right, it's Tuesday. But not just any Tuesday... it's SUPER TUESDAY. And Wiesner's masterpiece, which features a night of flying frogs, is oddly appropriate on this day. How so? Not just because the title is Tuesday, but because Wiesner's surrealist vision asks us to challenge the boundaries of what we believe is possible. And isn't that kind of the point of this whole process? It's Tuesday, a chance to imagine the world as you would like to see it and to cast your vote accordingly.

For a minute, allow yourself to imagine a world that has finally woken from the nightmare that is the Bush Administration and consider where we go from here. So, if you are in one of the 24 states participating in this political royal rumble, determine which candidate's policies, vision, and leadership speaks to you and most closely matches your hopes and dreams for this country... and then whether by car, bike, foot, or lily pad, get yourself to the polls and cast your vote.

Because it's Tuesday, and anything is possible.

For someone who loves picture books and used bookstores, I actually spend very little timein the children's sections of used bookstores. I guess this is because they are usually crammed in a neglected corner of the store, and usually nothing more than a mountain of chaos.

But this weekend while roaming the city on a unexpectedly beautiful day, I decide to brave the kid's section for a few minutes. I look over and the spine of one book pops out at me right away. It was a beautiful brand new hard copy of The Three Golden Keys by Peter Sis.



Sis is one of the modern giants of children's literature, who truly elevates the medium to the level of high art. His books bring to mind the fiction of Borges, Italo Calvino, and Orhan Pahmuk... but with the added bonus of beautifully intricate illustrations.

After reading through the book, I flip back to the front and find this inscription:


"REACH FOR THE BEST--PETER SIS"

I plopped over the $15 for the book and after a quick google search it turns out that this is an autographed first edition which currently sells for $150!

So I guess I did "reach for the best" when I bent down to pluck this treasure off the store's bottom shelf. Thank you, Mr. Sis! Or should I say, thank you whoever was foolish enough to let go of the book in the first place!

We are hoping to extend our family of writers here at the Bookshop Blog. If you are a bookseller and would like to share some observations with us we would love to publish your ideas. A quick perusal of the site should give you an idea of what we are looking for. Ideally we would like to create a blogging family of about 40 booksellers with each offering about 1 post per month. Of course you are free to write more if you’re to up to it.

The two main advantages to sharing your posts with us are increased exposure to your own web presence. You would be listed with our Contributing Writers permanently as well as links on each article to your site. The Bookshop Blog now attracts over 10 000 page views/ month from 5 000 unique visitors. Nice exposure. The second advantage is credibility and it comes from two directions. Writing on other sites will give you a certain ‘expert’ factor. I can point to Jill Hendrix who writes with us as well as Bookthink.com and our very own Nora from Rainy Day Paperback Exchange. The other part comes from links to your site or blog from us. We are a Google PR 5. For those who don’t know about Page Rank it means that links coming to you from this site will increase your site’s ‘value’ in Google’s eyes as we are considered somewhat of an authority site in the field of Books.

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"Hurry back! Hurry back! Be sure to bring your death certificate, if you decide to join us. Make final arrangements now! We've been dying to have you!" Thus moans Little Leota at the very end of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion ride, after you've left the "hitchhiking ghosts" and are on the moving walkway. She's tiny and for some reason some people feel they must throw pennies at her. Poor little thing. She's named after Leota Toombs, an imagineer at Disneyland that acted for Madam Leota (the head in the crystal ball) and Little Leota - Madam Leota's voice is another actress but Little Leota's voice is Leota Toombs.

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