New Book Tuesdays: Week 6
FALL IS HERE! Tomorrow is the first day of Fall, and I'm so STINKING excited about it! Fall is my favorite season, so I am thrilled to announce some new Fall books just in at the library.
New Picture Book
Fall Mixed Up by Bob Raczka. This is a great (and really funny) book for Fall. It's also a Junior Library Guild selection. Students will love picking out the things in the pictures as well as the text that are "mixed up".
"Every Septober, Every Octember, Fall fills my senses with scenes to remember." "Bears gather nuts. Geese hibernate. Squirrels fly south in big figure eights." Fall is all mixed up in this silly book from Bob Raczka!. Can you find his mistakes in the words and pictures? Fall Mixed Up is a collection of mixed-up fall images from the imagination of Bob Raczka taken to their visual extremes in the intricate mixed-media illustrations of Chad Cameron." -Image and blurb from goodreads.com
New Chapter Book
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste. This spooky book is based on a Caribbean folktale, and is a Junior Library Guild selection.
"A spine-tingling tale rooted in Caribbean folklore that will have readers holding their breath as they fly through its pages. Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest. Those shining yellow eyes that followed her to the edge of the trees, they couldn't belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger speaking to the town witch at the market the next day, she knows something unexpected is about to happen. And when this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne's house, cooking dinner for Corinne's father, Corinne is sure that danger is in the air. She soon finds out that bewitching her father, Pierre, is only the first step in Severine's plan to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn't know she possessed to stop Severine and save her island home. With its able and gutsy heroine, lyrical narration, and inventive twist on the classic Haitian folktale "The Magic Orange Tree," The Jumbies will be a favorite of fans of Breadcrumbs, A Tale Dark and Grimm, and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon." -Image and blurb from goodreads.com
Check out the book trailer below.
New Nonfiction Book
Awesome Autumn: All Kinds of Fall Facts and Fun by Bruce Goldstone. This book is awesome! The photos are gorgeous, and the book explains Fall in a very easy to understand manner.
"Autumn is awesome! Leaves change color. Animals fly south or get ready to hibernate. People harvest crops and dress up as scary creatures for Halloween. And then there are pickup football games to play, Thanksgiving foods to eat, leaf piles to jump in—all the amazing things that happen as the air turns crisp and cool. With colorful photographs, lively explanations, and classic craft ideas, Bruce Goldstone has created a festive and fascinating exploration of autumn’s awesomeness." -Image and blurb from goodreads.com
