This May, children’s author, Bernard Waber, will be bringing Lyle the Crocodile back to the bookshelves, almost fifty years after the popular character was created. Lyle Walks the Dogs was a collaboration between Waber and his daughter, Paulis, who will be illustrating the new Lyle books due to her father’s failing eyesight. This article from Publishers Weekly describes how the father and daughter duo are working on the new Lyle projects and their illustrations. Lyle Walks the Dogs will be released on the 3rd. Check it out!
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Popular children’s author, Louis Sachar, is coming out with a new book in May! The Cardturner, written for children ages twelve and up, has gotten a starred review from Publishers Weekly:
I realize that reading about a bridge game isn’t exactly thrilling,” 17-year-old narrator Alton tells readers early on. Luckily, this funny and thoughtful novel is as much about building bridges—between generations and maybe even between life and death—as it is about playing cards. Alton gets roped into serving as a card turner for his great-uncle, Lester Trapp, a bridge whiz who recently lost his eyesight (Alton’s job is to read Trapp’s cards for him). Though Alton barely knows Trapp, his opportunistic mother won’t miss a chance for Alton to get in good with his “favorite uncle,” who’s wealthy and in poor health. To Alton’s surprise, he becomes enamored of the game and begins to bond with his crusty uncle—who shares insight into synchronicity and the connection between reality and perception. With dry, understated humor, Alton makes the intricacies of bridge accessible, while his relationships with and observations about family members and friends (including an ex-girlfriend, a manipulative best friend, and especially Trapp’s former card turner) form a portrait of a reflective teenager whose life is infinitely enriched by connections he never expected to make.
Here’s the rest of this week’s children’s lit reviews from Publishers Weekly.
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You may ever want to buy 39 Clues Book 8: The Emperor’s Code, which is available for sale today.
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With the February opening of Fox’s The Lightning Thief film and the May 4th release of the first book in the highly anticipated Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan is on the way to having one exciting year. Check out this Publishers Weekly article on the children’s author.
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The Easter Bunny is arriving on Sunday…Are you ready? If the Easter basket for that special little person seems lacking, be sure to stop by the Lizard’s Tale and stock up on the best treats of all-Books! The always amazing Jan Brett has a new picture book, The Easter Egg that is sure to be a spring and Easter classic. If you’ve ever wondered where the Easter Rabbit gets all his beautiful eggs or how he began his career, this book is for you!
Other notable Spring/Easter picks include: Marshmallow, Peep!, The Velveteen Rabbit, Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, Runaway Bunny, and of course any of the Peter Rabbit books.
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Rick Riordan’s new Egyptian mythology series isn’t out yet, but if you need something to read in the meantime, check out Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide. It is fully illustrated and even comes with trading cards on the inside front cover.
And here’s a sneak peak of book 1 in Rick Riordan’s new series out on May 4, 2010: The Red Pyramid, first in The Kane Chronicles.
The product descriptiopn: Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.
One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a “research experiment” at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.
Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them–Set–has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe–a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
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Read the book before the movie comes out in theaters this Friday, March 19.
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Due to the success of last fall’s Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, Dutton Children’s Books will be releasing some more new Classic Pooh books starting in April. There will be a number of additional books based on the A.A. Milne stories, including “hardcover picture books, board books, paperback storybooks, sticker books and novelty books, will feature artwork inspired by the classic E.H. Shepard illustrations and editorial content tied to the world of A.A. Milne’s original stories.” Here’s the article from Publishers Weekly.
New books on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland are also coming out, including a novelization of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie and several new versions of the classic, including one that features a compilation of artwork from older editions.
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Ricky Gervais, comedian and creator of the British “Office,” has recently written two children’s books! Flanimals and More Flanimals began as stories that Gervais would tell to his young nephew for fun.
Gervais had wanted to write a book on the Flanimal creatures from the stories for years, and recently talked about the project with Publishers Weekly.
Click here to read the interview.
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Publishers Weekly reports that a children’s series from mystery writer, John Grisham, is in the works. Grisham’s new books will be for middle readers, and will center around Theodore Boone, a thirteen-year-old “legal whiz kid.” The first book in the series, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, will be released in the U.S. on May 25.
Read more on Grisham’s new book series here.
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