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GirlForce: Shine
A Girl's Guide to Total Beauty
by Nikki Goldstein
Bloomsbury, 2010
$12.99 (pbk),176 pages, Ages: 9 and up.
In this fun, feel-good guide, girls learn to make the best of what nature gave them and celebrate their unique look.
Topics include: discovering your beauty type, keeping your skin fit, making the most of your features with makeup and pampering yourself.
This is a great pick-me-up for girls who want to be happy with who they are and not feel pressured to look like an impossible ideal.
If you like this, check out GirlForce, the first book in the series, and stop by www.girlforce.com.
Big Fat Little Lit
edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Picture Puffin Books, 2006
$14.99, ages 9-12, 144 pages.
This amazing collection of 36 comic stories and games culled by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Spiegelman and his wife Mouly will have your traveler with their nose in the book until there's no more book to read.
Celebrity artists, from Maurice Sendak to William Joyce and David Macaulay, bring their singular wit and talents to the page.