Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride by Marjorie Priceman, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005
A story based on the reports of one of the first flights of the Montgolfiers' hot air ballon in 1783, this book is a Caldecott Honor Book.
Duck & Goose written and illustrated by Tad Hills, Schwartz & Wade Books, Random House, New York, NY 2006
Duck and Goose learn ta bit about cooperation when they try to take care of a ball that they both think is their egg.
Badness for Beginners: A Little Wolf and Smellybreff Adventure by Ian Whybrow, illustrated by Tony Ross, Carolrhoda Books, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 2005
When Mom and Dad try to give some lessons in how to be bad wolves, Little Wolf and Smellybreff try hard but sometimes being bad is not as easy as it seems
Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole by Wong Herbert Yee, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 2005
Mouse and her neighbor Mole, who lives in the hole at the base of the oak tree, learn that housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier wnen they help each other.
Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World by Jane Breskin Zalbin, Dutton Children's Books, New York, NY, 2006
Biograpies of 16 people who came from different countries and lived at different times but who all tried to make the world a better place.
How Much: Visiting Markets Around the World, by Ted Lewin, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY 2006
From the floating fruit markets in Thailand to a flea market in New Jersey, this book explores the varied merchandise and sights of a number of different exotic or unusual marketplaces .
The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, NY 2004
An alphabet book in which each letter becomes three different objects as the book is turned in different directions, so for example the letter A becomes a bird's beak, a drippy ice cream cone, and the point of a star.
I Lost My Tooth in Africa by Penda Daikité, illustrated by Baba Wagué Daikité, Scholastic Press, New York, NY, 2006
While visiting her father's family in Mali, a young girl looses a tooth and places it under a calabash gourd, and receives a hen and a rooster from the African Tooth Fairy
The Penderwicks; A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Day by Jeannne Birdsall, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY 2005
This National Book Award winner tells the story of four sisters, ages four through twelve, who are vactioning on an estate in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts with their widowed father, and who share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother who owns the estate.
Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Pope Osborne, frescos by Bonnie Christensen, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY 2006
The story of daily life in the ancient city before the destruction of Pompeii and of its rediscovery, illustrated in the style of the frescos found on walls in the excavated ruins of the city.
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