ISAIAH SAYS ...

The best place on a cold dark November evening is snuggled in Grandma's lap, with a favorite book. Isaiah and Pat want to tell you about two of their favorite kid's picture books.

OTIS

There was once a friendly little tractor... After working hard all day, Otis ... would leapfrog bales of hay ... play ring-around-the-rosy with the ducks ... and sometimes ... just sit under the apple tree and watch the farm below.

Then one day ...

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Otis is an unforgettable story about friendship, love, trust, perseverance, and about what makes each of us special. The sweet and gentle illustrations will bring a smile to your face. We read a lot of picture books, say Pat and Isaiah, and this is one of our all-time favorites.

New York Times best-selling illustrator Loren Long wrote and illustrated Otis. He lives in Cincinnati with his family. Learn more at www.lorenlong.com

Buy Otis, written and illustrated by Loren Long - $17.99 (hardback).

Come Back Soon

Intricate, playful illustrations and a message of forgiveness and friendship make this lovely book a wonderful wintery read.

Icetown is a fabulously sculpted whale and penguin wonderland at the South Pole. When Elephant the architect arrives in Icetown, things do not go smoothly at all! But just as friends will travel far across the sea to be with one another, good friends will always help to make things right. A story of friendship, travel, and global community, Come Back Soon will cheer anyone who has every made a mistake and been forgiven.

A practicing architect for many years, author/illustrator Daniel Schallau calls himself an "imaginary architect," designing fantastic cities and buildings for animals to live and work and play in. Enjoy learning more at www.danielschallau.com.

Buy Come Back Soon, written and illustrated by Daniel Schallau - $17.00 (hardback).

Wimpy Fans Give 4 Cheers!

Wimpy Kid Book #4 — Dog Days" — will be here October 12! Available for pre-purchase now! Wimpy Kid Fans give Four Cheers!

Book #4 is the first Wimpy Book that gets out of school. In book four, it's summer vacation, the weather's great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where's Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn.

Greg, a self-confessed "indoor person," is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg's mom has a different vision for an ideal summer...one packed with outdoor activities and "family togetherness."

Whose vision will win out? Or will a new addition to the Heffley family change everything?

With big, friendly font, fast action, middle-school humor, and a cartoon on every page, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid illustrated-novel series has become a best-selling phenomenon.

Author Jeff Kinney loves to laugh, and you will too when you read the Wimpy Kid Series. "I wanted to write a story about all the funny parts of growing up, and none of the serious parts," Jeff writes on his website. "I decided to write a book about what it's really like to be a kid, or at least what it was like for me."

Kinney says he's part of a new generation of very visual readers. Cartoons and video games are a big part of his life. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is a hybrid, he says: half-comic, half-novel. There's a cartoon on every page. These are not just illustrated books: the cartoons are integral to the plot.

Jeff says he wrote these books as a lark, just for fun. The wimpy kid is no role model, he warns. But now he gets email after email from parents of reluctant readers saying: this is the first book my son has ever made it through...thank you for turning the light on for my child.

Asked what other books Wimpy fans might enjoy, Jeff replied The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. These books are also very visual, with visual elements integral to the form, something Jeff thinks we may see a lot more of in the future.
Check out the official website of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book 1) - $12.95	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Book 2) - $12.95	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Book 3) - $12.95	PRE-PURCHASE Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Book 4) - $13.95	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself Book - $10.95

Kid's Book Reviews:

Splish Splash!
What are Leavenworth's kayaker's reading?

Eric Link, kayaker, videographer, orchardist, lamb-grower, cheesemaker, and now a Thursday Farmer's Market kahuna, is the kind of guy who will break his back at his work - literally! Stop by the Thursday Market to ask him the story sometime, and to compare favorite books.

The Deltora Quest has Eric and his son Otto hooked right now. In fact, when Otto fell asleep, Eric stayed up reading to the end of the book — it was such a page-turner, he just had to find out what happened next! With over fifteen books in three series, Emily Rodda's award-winning Deltora adventures are widely praised for their intriguing riddles and codes, fast pace, and epic setting. In a society where leisure and lethargy allowed a corrupt few to seize power, three very different children — the son of a valiant king, the son of a grayguard (the villian's henchmen), and Jasmine, a wild child from the Forests of Silence — work together to recover scattered jewels from a magical belt to restore their homeland. What more could you want, says Eric, than something so fun to read you're almost pulling it out of your child's hand ... while it also raises realistic, compelling, ethical dilemmas?

The Forests of Silence, Book one of The Deltora Quest Series - $5.99
The Deltora Quest Series I - the first eight books in one hardbound volume - $19.99

BECAUSE EARTH DAY IS ONE YEAR LONG

My name is Jalen. I am six years old. I can read. Grandma Pat has a new grandson now, my new cousin. That's good. But he sleeps a lot. And I will always be older than him.

I am going to tell you about green books. That means books about loving the Earth.

I like the book All in A Day. It says "A day is all you have to be, it's all you get to keep..." I like my Mom to read me this book because it sounds like a poem and it makes me feel happy. I like the page where it says "You can make a wish, and start again..." On that page the little boy is blowing dandelion seeds all over and I like to do that too. Stephen says the pictures were from making lots of little cuts in one piece of paper. The pictures are super nice. Stephen says the author has a Newberry Honor and a Newberry Medal.

Buy All in A Day by Cynthia Rylant - $17.95

Stephen, he is one of my Dads, he made a whole section of green books in our bookstore. He gets to do whatever he wants to in the bookstore. He likes to play guitar, and I play the drums.

Stephen and my Mom like a book called Change the World for Ten Bucks. There was one page they wouldn't show me. My Mom and Dad say even though we know some of it, we can learn from this book. It is fun and funny and has a lot of good ideas in it. It is like a teacher who makes you laugh instead of yelling at you. I like the pictures. We all like this book.

Buy Change the World for Ten Bucks: small actions x lots of people = big change by "We Are What We Do" - $10.00

Suite Scarlett is a fascinating story about Scarlett Martin. Scarlett's family owns the Art Deco Hotel. When Scarlett turns fifteen, she is expected to take over the care of a special suite in the hotel. When a guest comes to stay in Scarlett's suite for the whole summer, Scarlett becomes her personal assistant. Find out what happens when she has to deal with her nineteen year old brother's acting career, her eighteen year old sister's love life and her eleven year old cancer surviving sister. Will her summer be what she expected it to be? You'll have to read the book to find out.

Toss Suite Scarlett lovingly into your cart for 16.99

Wyatt Brown reviews
The 13th Reality, Book 1: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner

The 13th Reality by James Dashner is an amazing book that will capture the imagination.

It has great characters like the mysterious master George who keeps you guessing till the end with 12 clues on how to meet master George and if he is worthy of the mighty task of bringing down the evil mistress Jane. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a passion for reading.

Toss The 13th Reality lovingly into your cart for $17.95

Karol Ramos reviews
Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles De Ling

A terrific tale of a little and big friendship between two different girls, who are really alike. Read about their adventure as they search for an author and some other fairytale characters.

Toss Little (Grrl) Lost lovingly into your cart for $17.99