Sleeping Dragons all Around

• Title: Sleeping Dragons All Around
• Author: Sheree Fitch
• Price: Out of Print
• Publish Date: October 1 1992
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Pages: 32
• IBSN: 0385253982
• Classification: Poetry
• Genre: Picture Book/Verse

Annotation: Melissa has trouble sleeping because she's scared. Maybe it's because of the sleeping dragons around her bed. Based on her son's fears when he was sleeping and scared while at the same time studying The Eve of Sty. Agnes, Ms. Fitch creates a one of a kind antidote to nightmares!

Evaluation: Scared of the night? How about a little poetry? Sheree Fitch creates a story of poems that fight the bedtimes blues and Michele Nidenoff creates illustrations that keep the monsters in check and make them colorful and vivid and fairytale cute with character! Also, I am a HUGE, HUGE fan of the Romantic Poetic John Keats, so I recognized the line right away from the Eve of St.Agnes! Super cute reference that will make poetry-loving moms and dads beam when reading it!

Website of Sharee Fitch/Sleeping Dragons All Around: http://www.shereefitch.com/books/sleepingDragonsAllAround.php

The Poem -The Eve of Saint Agnes by John Keats: http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/eveofstagnes.html

Find at a Library: http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Sleeping+Dragons+all+Around

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Title: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Author: B. G. Hennessy

Pages: 40

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Publisher Date: March 7, 2006

ISBN: 0689874332

Classification: Picture Books/Fairy Tales

Annotation: The Boy who tends sheep is bored and doesn't know what to do with himself. So out on his little mountainside he makes up a new game, one that he thinks will be really funny. He cries, "WOLF!!!!!!!!!!!" And everybody in the town below comes running...but is this game really funny at all? And what happens when the wolf really comes?

Evaluation: This book takes an old folk tale and familiar saying a new, modern spin, that even the most modern children will be able to relate to. The illustrations are really at the heart of this retelling. They are vulgar (but tame enough for little eyes) and with this edge, convey the feeling of mischief the boy gets himself and the town into. If trying to teach a lesson, or just have a down right good laugh, you'll love this little book!

Author Website: http://www.bghennessy.com/

Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose

Hardcover: 128 pages

Price: $25.99
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile; First Printing edition
Publishing Date: October 2, 1985
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399212582

Genre: Mother Goose/Nursery Rhymes

Annotation: Beloved children's writer Tomie dePaola's take on 200 classic Mother Goose Rhymes.

Evaluation: From the first year on, children delight in the rhythm and wonder of nursery rhymes. Here, Tomie dePaola gives a fresh, whimsical take on classic Mother Goose as well as a bunch of not as well known rhymes. The pictures are classic dePaola and will not only bring Nursery Rhymes into the Nursery but will likely have you heading to the library and looking for more dePaola titles. Mother Goose is wonderful for devloping early literacy skills with rhyme and play!

Author Website: http://www.tomie.com/

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Flip Up Fairy Tales)

Title: Goldilocks And The Three Bears (Flip Up Fairy Tales)

Author: Estelle Corke

ISBN-13:

978-0859536080

Price: $7.99

Publisher:

Child's Play International

Pages:

24

Classification: Fairy Tale/ Lift the Flap Book

Annotation:

Goldilocks wanted to try everything in the three bears house! And so will little readers, as they delightfully try the flip-ups that appear throughout the lively retelling of this classic story.

Evaluation:

"Open" the front door and see the three bears on the other side leaving their home as they let their famous bowls of porridge cool. A surprise is on every page, just like the surprise little bear finds in his bed when he gets home! This is a fun, interactive way to experience a classic fairytale and a storytime in general!

Alice and Greta

Title: Alice and Greta

Author: Steven J. Simmons and Cyd Moore

Pages: 32

Price: $7.95 (Paperback)

Publisher: Charlesbridge+ Publishing

Publisher Date: July 1999

ISBN: 0881069760

Classification: Picture Books

Annotation: Whatever you do comes back to you?

While good witch Alice uses her powers for good, Greta, bad witch and sister to Alice, uses her powers for quite the opposite. In this colorful and cool fairy tale of good witch bad witch, Greta must learn "the brewmerang principle": that whatever you "brew" comes back to you.

Evaluation: I absolutely love this book. It is one of my all time favorites. I love to read it aloud (it's best for 3, 4, or above in age). A wonderful tale about doing good in a classic good witch bad witch genre. Kids are mesmerized by the vidiv colors and root for the witches and their antics. This book and it's series of titles are all ripe to be re-found as a special title in children's literature. The illustrations are phenomenal.

Illustrator Website: http://www.cydmoore.com/books_colormagic.html

The Princess and the Potty

Title: The Princess and the Potty

Author: Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Pages: 40

Publisher: Aladdin

Publisher Date: 2005

ISBN: 0689878389

Classifications: Issues, Toilet Training/Parenting/Picture Book

Annotation: What do you do when you have a little Princess who refuses to use the potty? Consult the royal counsel of course!

Evaluation: Every little princess has to do it! This clever little toilet (or should I say Toilette?) training tale appeals to the little princess inside! Sometimes little girls or boys feel somewhat royal and refuse to train! What a perfect medicine is this fairy tale like book for the family who just can't get their little prince or princess on the "throne." Each and every character is relatable and parents and children alike will get a kick out of this book!