Historical October 1986 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
It’s hard to believe that a single sneeze can start a wild chain reaction, but that’s just what happens inside a barn on a quiet, warm afternoon when a small fly lands on a farmer’s nose.
The Big Sneeze is a big, beautiful picture book for preschoolers. Third and fourth graders will welcome the sequel to The Stories Julian Tells.
In More Stories Julian Tells, Julian, his little brother Huey, and his best friend Gloria share unusual new adventures.
They discover that frogs sometimes wear shoes and that Superboy eats broccoli.
This delightful mixture of warmth and mischief is written by Ann Cameron. Quentin Corn, a new fantasy for middle grades, is a funny combination of Charlotte’s Web and The Emperor’s New Clothes.
When Quentin the pig realizes that he will be the “guest of honor” at an upcoming barbecue, he snatches pants and a shirt from a clothesline and runs away, managing to pass himself off as a young man.
In his new identity, Quentin does odd jobs for a living and finds a room in a boarding house in town. Only children seem to see through his very superficial disguise, but they don’t give him away. Wonderful drawings in the book add to the heartwarming absurdity. Happily Ever After . . . Almost, for older readers, is a fast-paced, funny story that tells how Kitty’s mother and J.R.’s father marry and create more complications in an already very extended, complicated family. Divorces, remarriages, new babies, new homes, and strange pets result in satisfactions as well as problems for the children involved.
A boy who times absolutely everything with his stopwatch and a girl who yearns for a vest made of soda can flip-tops learn to be very compatible siblings.
The amazing feats of magician Harold D. Russell are much harder to believe than any story at the Kiosk. Children who finished all their books in the Summer Reading Club were invited to enjoy refreshments and Mr. Russell’s magic show at Cabanne Library on August 30, thanks to the generosity of Central West End Savings and Loan and the local McDonald’ on Delmar.
Congratulations to Kiosk readers Jessica Hawk, Stacey Bradley, Dennay Mundy, Gwendolyn Pendleton, Yolanda Love, Tim Schoemehl, Ozell Hicks, Jamie Faulkner, and Talasha Barksdale!
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, October 1986.
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