Meet Mark Teague

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Author/illustrator Mark Teague gives us advice on writing and tells us about his process for writing and illustrating books.

Meet Melanie Watt

Author-illustrator Mélanie Watt teaches kids how she creates her famous characters, Chester the cat and Scaredy Squirrel.

Meet Chris Van Allsburg

The award-winning author and illustrator talks about the process of bringing an idea to life in words and pictures.

Black Beauty

The story is told by the horse himself, named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country.

If you love horses, this is a classic story for you.....

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The follow-up to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" finds young wizard Harry Potter and his friends facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.

Matilda

Matilda is a gifted girl forced to put up with a crude parents and a mean principal.  But one day she discovers she has special powers....Read this fun adventure written by Ronald Dahl!

Fantastic Mr. Fox

After 12 years of marriage, Mr. Fox breaks a promise to his wife and raids the farms of their human neighbors, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Giving in to his animal instincts endangers not only his marriage but also the lives of his family and their animal friends. When the farmers force all of the animals deep underground, Mr. Fox has to resort to his craftiness to rise above the opposition.

Stuart Little by E.B. White

When the Littles go to an orphanage to adopt a new family member, a charming young mouse named Stuart is chosen. While George is doesn't like his new brother at first, the family cat, Snowbell, is even more unhappy about having a mouse as his "master" and plots to get rid of him.

Stuart decides to face these problems with as much love and courage as he can muster. In doing so, he shows his beloved new family that great things can truly come in small packages.  You can find this book in our library with this call number:  FIC WHI

Creepy Carrots

Jasper Rabbit loves carrots—especially Crackenhopper Field carrots. He eats them on the way to school.
He eats them going to Little League.
He eats them walking home.
Until the day the carrots start following him...or are they? 

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

When hard times hit Swallow Falls, its townspeople can only afford to eat sardines. Flint Lockwood, a failed inventor, thinks he has the answer to the town's crisis. He builds a machine that converts water into food, and becomes a local hero when tasty treats fall from the sky like rain. But when the machine spins out of control and threatens to bury the whole world under giant mounds of food, Flint finds he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Jungle Book

Mowgli, an abandoned child raised by wolves, has his peaceful existence threatened by the return of a man-eating tiger. Facing certain death, Mowgli must overcome his reluctance to leave his wolf family and return to the "man village." But he is not alone on his quest: He has Bagheera the panther, and the carefree bear Balloo, as he braves the jungle's many challenges.

Ivan: the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate

In a moving picture book, Katherine Applegate tells the true story of the gorilla who inspired her Newbery Award--winning novel, The One and Only Ivan. 

Captured as a baby, Ivan was brought to a Tacoma, Washington, mall to attract shoppers. Gradually, public pressure built until a better way of life for Ivan was found at Zoo Atlanta. From the Congo to America, and from a local business attraction to a national symbol of animal welfare, Ivan the Shopping Mall Gorilla traveled an astonishing distance in miles and in impact.

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich

The Birchbark House is about a little indian girl named Omakayas and her family. Omakayas' little brother Neewo dies from small pox. Her whole family gets sick except for her because she had already been exposed to it. Two other people in her town died. How did Omakayas survive? Read the book to find out!

The Book With No Pictures

This simple yet imaginative book, The Book With No Pictures inspires laughter every time it is opened....let's meet the author and find out why!

I Survived the Shark Attacks...

In the summer of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by the local news: a Great White shark has been attacking and killing people up and down the Atlantic Coast, not far from Chet's hometown of Springfield, New Jersey.

Then one day, swimming with his friends, Chet sees something in the water. . .

Meet Kate DiCamillo

Author Kate DiCamillo

• Shares insights into her beloved stories and characters,
• Reveals the threads of hope, love and unlikely friendships that weave throughout her books, and
• Introduces the real china rabbit that helped inspire her to write The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
  

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Judy Moody

This summer, third grader Judy Moody is planning the most super-duper, double-rare summer vacation ever with best friends Rocky and Amy. Except that it turns out Rocky is going to circus camp to learn to tame lions, and Amy is headed off to Borneo with her mom to save a lost tribe while Judy stays home with her pesky little brother Stink and second-best friend Frank Pearl.

Just when she thinks things are as rotten as they can be, her parents announce that they will be going to California and Judy will have to stay behind with her Aunt Opal, who she's never even met! It looks like Judy's best summer ever has just become her way worst summer ever....Or is it?

Meet David Shannon

Award winning author and illustrator David Shannon talks about his creative process. This interview also includes David’s advice to young authors and a cameo by the real-life Fergus!

Robert Munsch

Robert Muncsh is most known for his way of storytelling with expression and using different voices.  He has written dozens of entertaining books for children.  How many can you name?

Paddington

After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in the rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the London train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary Brown.

Although Paddington's amazement at urban living soon endears him to the Browns, someone else has her eye on him: Taxidermist Millicent Clyde has designs on the rare bear and his hide.