Books We Read – April 2010

Spring is here, and so is the slow erosion of reading time. From now until summer, the monthly booklists will see the pinch as we spend more time outside and with sports. Maybe shorter is better, time will tell!

If you have read and reviewed one of the books, please feel free to add it to the Website; add a link in the comments here; or send me an email at thereadingtub [at] gmail [dot] com with “book review” in the title. I’m happy to send traffic your way.

Received: 25
Read: 26
Reviewed (new): 24

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Favorite Re-Reads

[openbook booknumber=”9780811856836″ templatenumber=”3″] – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9780375835971″ templatenumber=”3″] kid pick
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Help Me Be Good series (various titles) [openbook booknumber=”9780717285822″ templatenumber=”3″]  kid pick

Reading Beyond the Books

[openbook booknumber=”9780971847705″ templatenumber=”3″] This as annotated music book for teaching kids to play the piano.

Bilingual Books (All Audiences)

none this month

Picture Books (All Audiences)

nonfiction [openbook booknumber=”0789488833″ templatenumber=”3″] kid pick
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The Beginning of People’s Chicken
written by Delena Deatherage
Ill by Joe Kent
(AuthorHouse, 2009) our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”0152057668″ templatenumber=”3″] kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9780152062354″ templatenumber=”3″] kid pick our review page
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Guess … Giggle … Wiggle
written by Martha Swirzinski and Anita Tieman
ill. Martha Swirzinski and Anita Tieman
(Whole Child Publishing, Inc. 2009) our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”157765952x” templatenumber=”3″] kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9780545143141″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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It’s Just My Imagination
written by Rick Keeling
Ill Cristan Hellan
(Black Rose Writing, 2009) our book talk
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Kick … Catch … Buzz
written by Martha Swirzinski and Anita Tieman;
ill. Paul Trahadias and Susan Trahadias
(Whole Child Publishing, Inc. 2009) our book talk
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Leap … Laugh … Plop
written by Martha Swirzinski and Anita Tieman
ill Martha Swirzinski and Anita Tieman
(Whole Child Publishing, Inc. 2009) our book talk
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Learn Along with Lily
written by Donna McNaughton; ill. by Mike Motz (Raindrop Books, 2008) [openbook booknumber=”978-0979967702″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780786851843″ templatenumber=”3″] kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9781580891486″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780061575174″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780763644468″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk

Easy Readers (for New and Developing Readers)

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Illustrated Short Chapter Books

[openbook booknumber=”9780061688683″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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Ripley RBI #1: Scaly Tale
written and illustrated by Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
(Ripley Entertainment, 2010) [openbook booknumber=”9781893951525″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk

Middle Grade Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Closed for the Season
written by Mary Downing Hahn
(Clarion Books, 2009) [openbook booknumber=”054708451X” templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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Kendra Kandlestar and the Shard from Greeve
written and illustrated by Lee Edward Fodi
[openbook booknumber=”9781934812372″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780060577322″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk

Young Adult Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

[openbook booknumber=”9780312566814″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780060880415″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780060546045″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
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Book Talks Updated with Teen Reviews

(Links go to Reading Tub website review.)

[openbook booknumber=”9780060797072″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
[openbook booknumber=”9781595436160″ templatenumber=”3″] our book talk
Where Would Cows Hide
written by D.C. Stewart, illustrated by Paul S. Tritton (Baker-Tritton Press, 2008) our book talk

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