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With three cats and a dog in our house, we are definitely animal lovers, and my daughter, who will turn one in just a couple of weeks, absolutely loves our animals. She also loves Tricycle Press's Busy Animal Board Books.

• Busy Kitties, by John Schindel, photography by Sean Franzen
• Busy Penguins, by John Schindel, photography by Jonathan Chester
• Busy Doggies, by John Schindel, photography by Beverly Sparks
• Busy Monkeys, by John Schindel, photography by Luiz Claudio Marigo
  

Each page in the book features a full-color photographs of an animal(s) demonstrating the action word on the page that will help your child build vocabulary. For example, in the Busy Kitties book, we see "Kitty hissing/ Kitty kissing/ Kitty running/ Kitty sunning" and more.

My daughter is fascinated by the photographs in these sturdy books and just sits there and smiles as she flips the pages. I also appreciate that they will introduce her to other animals, like monkeys and penguins, that she doesn't have the chance to see in their natural habitats.


Other books in the series that we're adding to our wish list include:

• Busy Bunnies, by John Schindel, photography by Steven Holt
• Busy Horsies, by John Schindel, photography by Casi Clark
• Busy Piggies, by John Schindel, photography by Steven Holt
  
• Busy Barnyard, by John Schindel, photography by Steven Holt
  

These would all make a great addition to your young child's library.

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I read in Publishers Weekly online about a book coming out in October from Bloomsbury called The Glitch in Sleep. I have to admit I like the premise:"12-year-old Becker Drane becomes a Fixer for the Department of Sleep, where a Glitch has occurred."

Obviously, Bloomsbury thinks it has potential, because the coauthors, John Hulme and Michael Wexler, are on a West Coast pre-pub tour. The two, who have been best friends since they were kids, had breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with book buyers, booksellers and librarians, and also met with their target market—kids in 20 markets from San Diego to San Francisco to Seattle.

In order to chronicle their experiences during the tour, Hulme and Wexler created an online diary, which can be read on The Seems Web site www.theseems.com In September, the site will also contain a blog by the book's main character, Becker Drane, and a Fixer's Lounge, which fans will need a password to access (the password can be found in the book).

Twentieth Century Fox has optioned film rights. Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) is set to direct, and the book's co-authors will write the script. [Full disclosure: probably not my first choice of directors, but this isn't my book, is it? Although I kind of wish it were.]

Have you ever been jealous of someone else's idea?





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