Books We Read – December

Happy New Year! Snow days pre-empted some mid-month work and the holiday trumped the rest of the year! So the December list of reading is fashionably late.  I wish I could say the same for the reviews … they’re backed up again.

As you’ll quickly see we enjoyed quite a few holiday books last month. We hope you did, too.

Received: 16 (8 Cybils nominee) ….. New Reads: 25 ….. New Reviews: 0


Please use these category headings to “jump” to your favorite children’s and young adult book categories. We hope this makes the monthly list (and our annual list pages) more enjoyable for you … not to mention a little more manageable to browse.

If you’ve read any of these books, we’d love to link to them so readers can learn more about them! Just click “Our Book Talk” to add your link to our website review (via Mr. Linky) or just paste the URL into a comment and I’ll do the rest.

Favorite Re-Reads (Kid Picks)

The Christmas magic
The Christmas magic; Lauren Thompson (Scholastic Press 2009)

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Drummer boy
Drummer boy; Loren Long (Philomel Books 2008)

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If you take a mouse to the movies

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Little Whistle

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The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker; Susan Jeffers (HarperCollins 2007)

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A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas

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An Ornaments

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Teddy Bears Trim the Tree

 

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Audio Books & Nontraditional Reading

None this month

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Bilingual Books (All Audience)

A Sweater for Duncan / Un sueter para Duncan
written by Margaret Gay Malone, illustrated by Lorraine Dey (Raven Tree Press, 2010)

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Picture Books (All Audiences)

Baby Santa by M. Maitland deLand; illustrated by Phil Wilson (Greenleaf Book Group, 2010)

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Christmas kitten, home at last

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Cop

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Dinosaur

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Horses (Early Bird Nature Books)
kid pick, nonfiction Horses (Early Bird Nature Books); (Lerner Publications 2000)

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Lawyer
Lawyer’s Week Before Christmas by Joseph Justice (Pelican Publishing 2010)

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Mary Engelbreit

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Pobble
Pobble’s Way; Simon Van Booy (Flashlight Press 2010)

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The Secret of St. Nicholas by Ellen Nibali; illustrated by Lon Eric Craven (Fairand Books, 2010)
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Easy Readers (for new and developing readers)

*C* Alien Alby (I Am Reading) by Kaye Umanski; Sophie Rohrbach (Kingfisher, 2010)
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Mac and Cheese
*C* Mac and Cheese; Sarah Weeks (Laura Geringer Books 2010)

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Max Spaniel
*C* Max Spaniel: funny lunch; David Catrow (Orchard Books 2010)

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*C* Yeti Spaghetti (I am Reading) by Samantha Hay; illustrated by Mark Beech (Kingfisher, 2010)

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Early and Illustrated Chapter Books

The Big Book of Questions & Answers

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The Case of the Rock

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Extraordinary Ernie & Marvelous Maud
*C* Extraordinary Ernie & Marvelous Maud; Frances Watts (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2010)

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*C* The Littlest Wrangler by J.R. Sanders, illustrated by Vin Labassi (Moonlight Mesa Associates)

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*C* The Middle Sheep by Francis Watts (William B. Eerdmans, 2010)

Scary stories to tell in the dark
kid pick Scary stories to tell in the dark; Schwartz, Alvin (Scholastic Inc. 1989)

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Middle Grade Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

The Ugly Truth

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Help! we have strange powers!
kid pick Help! we have strange powers!; R. L. Stine (Scholastic Inc. 2009)

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Rune Warriors: Ship of the Dead by James Jennewein and Tom S. Parker (Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins, 2011)
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Who is stealing the twelve days of Christmas?

 

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Young Adult Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

 

Chains
Chains; Laurie Halse Anderson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008)

 

 

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New & Updated Reviews of Books on Earlier Lists

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