Category: Children's books
6 review(s) found that match this category.
Alley the Cat
Winter 2003
In a graphic style reminiscent of Walt Disney cartoons, Alley the Cat, by Jarrett W. Mentink '98, '01 tells the story of Miss Alley, who not only breaks the "old rule" that "cats don't like mice," but actually finds mice "quite cool." In contrast, ga...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Graphic novel
The Little Book of Dinosaurs
Fall 2008
I can remember, as a boy of 10 or 12 in Massachusetts in the early ’50s, prowling the stacks at the Cambridge Public Library—a ponderous but beautiful Romanesque stone building set in a park between Cambridge High and Latin School and Rindge Tech...
Categories: Children's books
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Dizzy
Summer 2008
Meet Dizzy, a Pacific white-sided dolphin who romps through the pages of this book at a—well, at a dizzying pace. Aimed at a readership of 3- to 8-year-olds, the story, such as it is, follows Dizzy through days spent flying among the clouds, hi...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Dolphins
Recess at 20 Below
Summer 2008
Perhaps more than most books for children, Cindy Lou Aillaud's Recess at 20 Below has its feet firmly planted in the real world. The reason for that, of course, is that it's illustrated with the author's own photographs of children at the school in D...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Alaska
Unique Monique: Moki Time
Winter 2003
Young readers of Unique Monique: Moki Time, by Corinne Tyler Isaak '92, Karen A. Cooper, and illustrator Don Nutt will scarcely notice that they're learning to tell time and acquire new words, as they follow five-year-old Monique—or Moki—through ...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Children
Olive the Little Woolly Bugger :: Olive and the Big Stream :: Olive Goes for a Wild Ride
Winter 2009
Flyfishing— a sport and an art practiced for centuries—fascinates me
with its smooth casts and rhythm, but I had never connected flyfishing
with kids. At least not until Olive the Woolly Bugger, a cartoon “streamer” fly starring in a series...
Categories: Recreation, Children's books
Tags: Flyfishing
