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By Sourcebooks for The Children’s Book Review
Published: August 6, 2012
Do you fear approaching your Reluctant Reader? Have they been spotted this summer participating in questionable behavior with their books like building forts and extreme paper dolls? Identified by their atypical behaviors, the Reluctant Readers Road to Recovery Guide is here to help you create successful encounters with hesitant young readers everywhere. Panic no more and take control of rainy day havoc, poolside chaos and playground mayhem with a great book for your unique reader.
Reluctant Readers Road to Recovery Guide
The Make-Believer has more imagination frequent flier miles than a Pan Am stewardess! The best cure for this case of Reluctant Reading is Elliot and the Last Underworld War by Jennifer Nielsen (Author of The False Prince). The Make-Believer will be thrilled to join the sarcastically hilarious Elliot in the Underworld. As the King of the Brownies, Elliot has battled Goblins, tricked Pixies, and trapped a Demon. But now, the Demon has escaped and he’s ready for revenge. So, the Pixies, Shapeshifters, Elves, Goblins, and Brownies must join forces to battle the Demon head on before he has the chance to destroy Earth.
The Daredevil thinks trick-or-treating should apply to everyday life, especially the tricks! Cure their hunger for trouble with Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire by Francesca Simon. Not even your daredevil will believe what Henry is up to next in these four new wonderful and wacky tales. The international bestselling Horrid Henry series provides readers with a prankster whose relentless antics create a laugh-out-loud read. WARNING: Do not allow daredevils to consume milk while reading or milk may spray from the nose!
The BFF has matching bracelets with all her friends and wins Miss Congeniality every year. This is a case of Reluctant Reading that can only be cured with Hailey Twitch and the Wedding Glitch by Lauren Barnholdt. Hailey Twitch and her spirited sprite Maybelle, retu
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: August 6, 2012
Enter to win a Reluctant Readers Recovery Pack which features 4 fun books from Sourcebooks’ Reluctant Readers Road to Recovery Guide.
Panic no more and take control of rainy day havoc, poolside chaos and playground mayhem with a great book for your unique reader.
Giveaway begins August 6, 2012, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends September 3, 2012, at 11:59 P.M. PST.
Reading levels: Ages 7-13
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The Make-Believer has more imagination frequent flier miles than a Pan Am stewardess! The best cure for this case of Reluctant Reading is Elliot and the Last Underworld War by Jennifer Nielsen (Author of The False Prince). The Make-Believer will be thrilled to join the sarcastically hilarious Elliot in the Underworld. As the King of the Brownies, Elliot has battled Goblins, tricked Pixies, and trapped a Demon. But now, the Demon has escaped and he’s ready for revenge. So, the Pixies, Shapeshifters, Elves, Goblins, and Brownies must join forces to battle the Demon head on before he has the chance to destroy Earth.
The Daredevil thinks trick-or-treating should apply to everyday life, especially the tricks! Cure their hunger for trouble with Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire by Francesca Simon. Not even your daredevil will believe what Henry is up to next in these four new wonderful and wacky tales. The international bestselling Horrid Henry series provides readers with a prankster whose relentless antics create a laugh-out-loud read. WARNING: Do not allow daredevils to consume milk while reading or milk may spray from the nose!
The BFF has matching bracelets with all her friends and wins Miss Congeniality every year. This is a case of Reluctant Reading that can only be cured with Hailey Twitch an
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: September 21, 2011
It’s time to start prepping for the holiday season. First stop: Halloween. No tricks here—only treats!
When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
~Author Unknown
Our 2011 Halloween book list spotlights everything from growing pumpkins; overcoming fears (a great topic for youngsters that tend to get a little surprised when they no longer recognize their family and friends due to colorful costumes and scary masks); witches; skeletons; cats and bats; and plain-old, creepy stories that beg to be read on a dark night with a flashlight. From babies to beginning readers to middle graders to young adults, TCBR has you covered.
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Spooky Boo! A Halloween Adventure
by Lily Karr (Author), Kyle Poling (Illustrator)
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book: 12 pages
Publisher: Cartwheel Books; Brdbk edition (July 1, 2011)
Source: Publisher
Publisher’s synopsis: What’s Halloween without a haunted house? Come inside SPOOKY BOO! A HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE – it’s filled with tons of Halloween fun! With spooky lift-the-flaps, icky touch-and-feels, and outrageous mirrors throughout, this is one haunted house that trick-or-treaters will want to visit again and again!
Add this book to your collection: Spooky Boo! A Halloween Adventure
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Little Black Book
by Renee Khatami
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book: 14 pages
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (July 26, 2011)
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Publisher’s synopsis: Black is the new black in this darkly tantalizing touch-and-feel extravaganza for the senses! Now babies can enjoy this daring color in a novelty board book chock-full of gorgeous, full-color photographs. There are textures to touch, a flap surprise, and the scratch ‘n’ sniff scent of sweet licorice that you can almost taste!
Add this book to your collection: Little Black Book
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: August 5, 2010
Snow, in August? Horrid Henry Returns with New Tales of Mischief.
It’s never too early to plan for up-coming seasons. That’s why you’ll want to enter to win the latest book in the international bestselling children’s chapter books series, Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon. We have one copy of Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman for one very lucky reader!
Reading level: Ages 7-12
Paperback: 112 pages
Book overview: Horrid Henry continues his reign of mischief in the U.S. with the release of the award-winning Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross. The book includes four hilarious stories that detail Horrid Henry’s creation of a monster snowman, the writing of his own will (but more interesting is what others should be leaving him), his competition with Moody Margaret in the makeover business, and how Horrid Henry finagles his way out of detention to listen to his favorite author read his new book.
The Horrid Henry books are aimed at children ages 7–12 and are particularly popular with reluctant readers who revel in the misadventures of Horrid Henry, enjoy the comic illustrations by Tony Ross, and, most importantly, gain a sense of accomplishment when finishing each story.
Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman was the Galaxy British Book Award’s Best Children’s Book of the Year in 2008 (the “Oscars” of the book world). Francesca Simon is the only American author ever to have won; past winners include JK Rowling.
About the author: FRANCESCA SIMON is the creator of Horrid Henry and author of the series and one of the world’s best-loved children’s authors. Francesca was born in St. Louis, raised in Los Angeles, attended Yale and moved to the UK to study at Oxford. She then moved to north London, where she now resides with her husband and son, Joshua.
Francesca first worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue. After her son was born, she started writing children’s books full time. She has been invited to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen in celebration of children’s literature. The Horrid Henry series was made into a popular UK television show and there’s now a Horrid Henry stage show at the West End.
About the illustrator: TONY ROSS is a prolific illustrator of books for children, including Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry series, Martyn Beardsley’s Sir Gadabout stories.
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Here’s something unusual… there’s a series of books, 17 strong, that have been growing in popularity in more than 24 countries since the first book came out in 1994. And, would you believe, these books are just now becoming available in the United States. The biggest market in the world is one of the last major markets to get on board.
Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry books, joins Mark for what may be one of the most important interviews we’ve ever done on Just One More Book!! as they talk about books with universal themes, the penalty of growing old enough to read by yourself and Storybook Dads — breaking the cycle of crime through a literacy and family connection program for convicts in a high-security prison.
Mentioned in the interview:
Two of the Horrid Henry books are mentioned in our 500th episode, Chapter Book Chatter. By the way, we’re 9 episodes away from 600, now (not including our 21 part Rock Stars of Reading series).
We encourage you to learn more about the Storybook Dads program.
Photo: Francesca Simon’s website
Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon. Illustrated by Tony Ross. Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, 2009.
Also:
Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine
Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb
Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy
Horrid Henry isn't quite as bad as Jack Gantos' Rotten Ralph, but he's ever so much worse than Suzy Kline's Horrible Harry. He ruins dance class and the school play, turns a family camping trip into a wet disaster, and in general stomps his cantankerous way through life. It doesn't help that his little brother is Perfect Peter, who aims to be always agreeable and adorable, a ray of sunshine to parental eyes.
Kids might spend a nano-second wondering why on earth Henry has to be so bad all the time - but then they'll get on with the more important business of enjoying every second of Henry just doing what Henry has to do. Wouldn't we all love to just let our inner horridness flow, unchecked by such mundane considerations as parental and teacher disapproval? It's not always fun to be a grouch - his camping trip is pretty miserable as a result of his own unwillingness to have a good time - but on the other hand Perfect Peter's good behavior means that he is stuck always being prisoner when the kids play pirates.
Short sentences and chapters make this perfect for readers just moving from easy readers to chapter books. Tony Ross's exuberant Quentin Blake-like drawings enliven almost every page and bring out Henry's glowering charm to perfection. This paperback series is certain to be a hit with all sorts of kids - perfect, horrid, and in-between. After all, who can resist prose like this? "'I hate you!' shrieked Henry. He was a volcano pouring hot molten lava onto the puny human foolish enough to get in his way." (from Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy). That puny human would be Perfect Peter, of course.
Originally published in the UK.
K - gr. 3
The animated series Horrid Henry, based on the middle-grade Horrid Henry books written by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross, are coming out on DVD in the UK, with new episodes starting in the summer of 2009, and the second season airing on ITV1 and CITV in the spring of 2009. In addition, Horrid Henry will be produced as a live stage show in the UK, premiering this fall, and produced by Watershed Productions and Sheffield Theatres.
I always find the transformation from book to video or stage interesting, and hope that it brings more readers to the books.
What about you? Do you like it or dislike it? Or not care about it at all?
Thanks to Cynopsis Kids for the info.
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Most times the book is better. Just my $0.02
Madison, I agree with you. I think most times the book is better!
I still hope that the movie, tv show, or play will get people to check out the book it’s based on.
It’s always a mix of anticipation and fear. Please, let them get it right!
I hear you, Ms S. I feel the same way when it’s a book I love! Like Inkheart….