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Night Before Christmas (A Blue Ribbon Book)

47 reviews
James Marshall

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1992

Jan Brett Night Before Christmas
I LOVE Jan Brett's books! I buy them anytime I see them whether on sale, old ones on Amazon as remainders, or new.. They make great gifts. I have a backup of many to give to children, particularly my granddaughters. The illustrations in this one are so beautiful it is really a keepsake to save as well as enjoy. Give it as a gift and you will make some child very happy and a parent happy,too.

Is Your Mama a Llama? (Blue Ribbon Book)

52 reviews
Deborah Guarino

Tandem Library, 1999

Love it!
I just love this book, its addictive! When choosing a book to read my daughter before bed I usually end up picking this one!

Aquarium Corals : Selection, Husbandry, and Natural History

53 reviews
Eric H. Borneman

TFH Publications, 2001

Plump Full of Knowledge!
Ever since I received this book, my customers get the opportunity to bring photos of their corla for me to identify them. This is wondrful!

Versatile Vizsla

16 reviews
Marion I. Coffman

Alpine Blue Ribbon Books, 2004

The Versatile Vizsla
This book was highly recommended to me by a Vizsla dog breeder as the authority on raising and training your Vizsla. After reading the book I have to agree that this is an excellent book. It covers all aspects of the breed from birth to death. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in buying this lovely breed of dog or to anyone who is currently the owner of a Vizsla.

The Dirty Cowboy

14 reviews
Amy Timberlake, Adam Rex

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2003

What a wonderfully funny story!
My 3 year old thinks that this is the greatest book ever written. The story is engaging and the illustrations are priceless. My husband and I would read this story even if we didn't have kids. It's awfully hard not to like the dirty cowboy or his dog.

How to Raise a Puppy You Can Live With

53 reviews
Clarice Rutherford, David H. Neil

Alpine Blue Ribbon Books, 2005

Best of Its Kind
This is the best book I've found on raising a puppy. Especially helpful is the week by week detailed description of what a new owner may expect developmentally from the puppy, and what the puppy needs for each stage of growing. I've given this book to every new puppy parent I've known!

Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber to Speak for Animals on Death Row

17 reviews
Randy Grim

Blue Ribbon Books, 2005

Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber to Speak for Animals on Death Row
Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber to Speak for Animals on Death Row is the heart warming story of Quentin and his guardian Randy Grim. Quentin is a very unique dog for a variety of reasons, perhaps surprisingly the least of which is that he miraculously survived fifteen minutes in the gas chamber while watching his fellow inmates die. Quentin's crime: his family moved to a home ...

Westies: From Head to Tail

17 reviews
Ruth Faherty

Alpine Blue Ribbon Books, 2001

The most comprehensive book on Westies out there
If you are serious about Westies, you absolutely MUST have this book. Faherty has a writing style that's humorous and informative, and she gives the nitty-gritty on the mysterious art of handstripping. No other resource out there gives this much detail. I've taken the plunge and am stripping my own Westie, and Faherty's comprehensive chapter on grooming has been a tremendous help. This book ...

Actual Size (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

15 reviews
Steve Jenkins

Houghton Mifflin, 2004

Amazing, amazing book.
Between the paper-cut collage, the huge pages, the factual information done in a fun way and just the overall style of the book makes this one of my favorites I've reviewed so far. Children and adults will love to measure themselves up to the 3 foot giant gippsland earthworm and find out that the giant squid's eyeball is bigger than their head. There is even an open out middle page of the ...

Ruby the Copycat

12 reviews
Peggy Rathmann

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1993

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Ruby, in this delightful story, starts school new and finds an iconographic fascination with a girl who does everything easily and beautifully, Angela. Angela for lack of a better way to explain this is simple sugar and spice and cheer squad and Peggy Lipton all rolled into one dynamite girl. Miss Hart, the teacher, in time observes Ruby as each day she escalates levels of imitation and pure ...

A Boy and His Bunny (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))

10 reviews
Sean Bryan

Arcade Publishing, 2005

Wonderful for kids, thought provoking for parents
On the face, this book is a wonderful, adventurous story about a boy with a bunny on his head. My 6 year-old daughter loves the wonderful places they visit, especially the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. My son, 3, simply loves the silliness of it all, right from the opening line, "Once upon a time, a boy woke up with a bunny on his head." The book is more than worth the purchase price if for this ...

The Principal's New Clothes

8 reviews
Stephanie Calmenson

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1991

A great "remake" of a classic
As the title implies, this book is a modernized version of Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale, The Emperor's New Clothes. The general plot remains the same: the principal (the Emperor, in the original) has a new outfit made by tricksters who convince him that the material is special, and that it can only be seen by intelligent people. The principal sends various liaisons to check on the ...

Sarah Morton's Day

11 reviews
Kate Waters, Russ Kendall

Scholastic, 1991

Brings history to life!
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrom Girl is an exceptional teaching tool for the young "history detectives" in your circle. Textbooks are never enough. What better way to understand that the "story" of history happened to real people who looked just like us, had needs and families just like us, but lived a different lifestyle because of the time in which they lived. Follow this ...

The Alaskan Malamute: Yesterday and Today

11 reviews
Barbara A. Brooks, Sherry E. Wallis

Alpine Blue Ribbon Books, 1998

Helluva dog. Helluva book.
This book tells it straight about the butchest dog there is. You can't say fairer than that.

Go Figure!: A Totally Cool Book About Numbers (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

8 reviews
Johnny Ball

DK CHILDREN, 2005

It really IS cool!
As a homeschooling parent, I have read a lot of math books written for children. Go Figure! is one of the freshest and most fun! The pages are saturated with information, and my one complaint is that it feels a bit visually overwhelming. Don't let the colorful pages fool you, this book is very meaty and will take some time to digest. My son really enjoyed the section on ancient number systems. ...

I, Jack (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))

8 reviews
Patricia Finney

HarperCollins, 2004

children's books
This is a great story told from the perspective of the dog. The unconventional format was enlightening to our child who is used to reading stories told by little girls or other narrators.

Santa's Favorite Story (Blue Ribbon Book)

10 reviews
Hisako Aoki, Ivan Gantschev

Scholastic Trade, 1991

Christmas hasn't got anything to do with Santa!
"No, no, no," said Santa in a kindly voice, "Christmas hasn't got anything to do with me. Sit down and I'll tell you all the story of the first Christmas." "Santa's Favorite Story" is an attractively illustrated (with watercolors) picture book for children, which helps to de-emphasize Santa's role in Christmas, and helps to place the focus where it should belong. I'm sure the real Saint Nicholas ...

The Happy Lion (Blue Ribbon Book)

8 reviews
Louise Fatio

Scholastic Trade, 1991

an excellent story
my 3 yr old daughter and i chose this book at the library today based on the reviews i read from amazon; and the book did not disappoint. the story is very well written; simple and not too complicated, however, not so simple as to lose the interest of the child/reader. I am finding as my daugher is building her library, that most of her favorite books are the older ones, such as this; with very ...

Out of Order (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))

9 reviews
A. M. Jenkins

HarperTeen, 2003

OUT OF ORDER is a realistic book.
Colt Trammel is trying to make sense of his high school world. His classes are like gibberish, his girlfriend Grace freaks after he tells her he loves her, and his lab partner is a new girl with green hair, for Pete's sake. The only time Colt knows what's going on is when he's playing baseball. A.M. Jenkins is a master at drawing readers right into the characters. Colt is not a simple jock ...

Treatise on the gods

9 reviews
H. L Mencken

Blue Ribbon Books, 1933

Hard Headed Skeptic of the Theological Arts
H. L. Mencken was a rare man indeed. He was a hard headed skeptic of the theological arts, but took an intense, scholarly interest in it, and it was a boon to the universe of thoughtful men when he decided to report back to them on what he found there. The book he wrote will stand for a long while as the best of its kind--at once dispassionate and informative, with more than a little of his ...

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