New and Featured Books for Kids/Juvenile Readers for 02/08/2013:

Come and check out these and some of the other new books and materials (or at least new to us) for younger and juvenile readers added to our library collection…

EASY READING:

About A Bear by Holly Surplice

Mousetronaut by Mark Kelly and illustrated by C. F. Payne

Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson and illustrated by Jane Chapman

Harry Goes To Dog School by Scott Menchin

Homer by Elisha Cooper

Jo MacDonald Had A Garden by Mary Quattlebaum and illustrated by Laura J. Bryant

Good Luck Baby Owls by Giles Milton and illustrated by Alexandra Milton

Grammy Lamby And The Secret Handshake by Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise

Bears In Beds by Shirley Parenteau and illustrated by David Walker

What Will You Be, Grandma? by Nanette Newman and illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark

FICTION:

Ten Good And Bad Things About My Life (So Far) by Ann M. Martin

Captain Awesome Takes A Dive by Stan Kirby and illustrated by George O’Connor

Captain Awesome And The New Kid by Stan Kirby and illustrated by George O’Connor

Captain Awesome Vs. Nacho Cheese Man by Stan Kirby and illustrated by George O’Connor

Cam Jansen And The Graduation Day Mystery by David A. Adler and illustrated by Joy Allen

The Cruisers: A Star Is Born by Walter Dean Myers

Kizzy Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts

NON-FICTION:

Healthy Habits: Eat & Drink by Sue Barraclough

Healthy Eating by Megan Borgert-Spaniol

Get Healthy: Eat Well by Sarah Tieck

I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. and illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Mystery Math: A First Book Of Algebra by David A. Adler and illustrated by Edward Miller

Music Of Their Hooves: Poems About Horses by Nancy Springer and illustrated by Sandy Rabinowitz

13 Art Mysteries Children Should Know by Angela Wenzel

Boys Who Rocked The World: Heroes From King Tut To Bruce Lee by Michelle Roehm McCann

Who Am I? – How Your Brain, Genes And Body Work Together To Make You You by Richard Walker

Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story From Afghanistan by Jeanette Winter

I, Galileo by Bonnie Christensen

Cowboys: Voices In The Western Wind by David L. Harrison and illustrated by Dan Burr

Do You Know Dewey? – Exploring The Dewey Decimal System by Brian P. Cleary and illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

Hands Around The Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books by Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya, with collages by Susan L. Roth

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Please note that books mentioned here could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk, OR call us, OR send us an email at robinsbaselibrary@gmail.com and  we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured books for Adults:

02/07/13.

01/31/13.

01/02/13.

12/27/12.

And for Young Adults:

02/06/13.

12/28/12.

12/05/12.

08/17/12.

And for Kids/Juvenile Readers:

12/22/12.

11/29/12.

11/15/12.

10/29/12.

More reading material.

Some reading material from around the internet:

John Titor, the man who told the internet that he had come from the future.

An archivist explains how to access veteran’s records.

The food we eat might control our genes.

The secret of Madame Tussaud’s success.

The strategies of a preschool teacher.

The 20 best video games of 2011.

Prince Phillip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, is in the hospital with heart problems.

Where celebrities fall in the Uncanny Valley.

On Wikipedia, cultural patrimony, and historiography.

FX is developing a 1980s spy drama.

Kermit The Frog is a terrible boyfriend.

HBO canceling Bored To Death, Hung, and How To Make It In America, and is renewing Enlightened.

When it comes to the new Mission: Impossible movie, how tall is everyone?

Roger Ebert’s top films of 2011.

Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO show finally has a name: The Newsroom.

The 8 minute trailer for David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Steve Jobs to be awarded a posthumous Grammy.

The golden age of divorced women on TV.

from here.

The new datacenters and their architects.

NASA builds six-foot crossbow to harpoon comets.

The retreat of the Arctic sea releases deadly greenhouse gas.

Girl thought to be swept away by tsunami is found alive 7 years later.

Putting scientists on Mars in permanent colonies.

Urban legends about urban development.

Look at these amazing pictures from space.

The most common place on Earth for meteorites to crash? Antarctica.

National security expert warns of Asian space race.

The case for enhancing people.

by Tom Gauld, from here.

Watch a nice little video clip about the Dalkey Archive Press.

What literature owes the Bible.

Classic novels reinvented with genderswitching.

A review of Stephen King’s 11/22/63.

The secret history of secondhand books.

Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson were both born in the month of December.

How much do books cost these days?

Ridiculous origins for 7 everyday words.

James Ellroy hates everything.

from here.

The physics of how cats drink.

The number of homeless children is currently the highest ever in American history.

The year in political cartoons.

Make sense of the Middle Ages.

Ten plotlines you’ll find over and over again in science fiction.

A very nice looking fake house.

Are you the only one?