spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
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BETTY MACDONALD’S<br />
MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE<br />
read by Karen White<br />
MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE<br />
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down<br />
house and smells like cookies. She was even<br />
married to a pirate once. Most of all, she<br />
knows everything about children. She can even<br />
cure them of any ailment.<br />
“White perfectly captures the voices of the<br />
children as well as the desperation of the<br />
parents… This recording will find a large<br />
audience in public libraries and elementary<br />
school libraries.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
3 CDs • 978-0-3072-0738-8 • $30.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.2 • IL: 2-5 • LL: 1070 • 2 hrs. 57 mins.<br />
HELLO, MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE<br />
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a way with children,<br />
good and bad. This time she must deal with a<br />
bully, a slowpoke, a crybaby and a show-off.<br />
She has positive cures for Answer-Backers,<br />
Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders, and other<br />
boys and girls with strange habits.<br />
“Listeners will be amused by the cures. White<br />
narrates the story with excellent pacing.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
3 CDs • 978-0-7393-5095-9 • $30.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.2 • IL: 2-5 • LL: 930 • 3 hrs. 4 mins.<br />
MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE’S MAGIC<br />
The children love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle,<br />
because she is lots of fun. Parents love her<br />
because she can cure children of bad habits.<br />
The treatments are unusual, but they work!<br />
“Karen White is a fine narrator…White is as<br />
no-nonsense as Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle herself.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
3 CDs • 978-0-7393-5517-6 • $30.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.2 • IL: 2-5 • LL: 1070 • 3 hrs. 26 mins.<br />
MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE’S FARM<br />
Ms. Piggle-Wiggle has left her upside-down<br />
town house and has moved to a farm in the<br />
country. With the help of her cows and pigs<br />
and horses, she’s still curing girls and boys of<br />
their bad habits.<br />
3 CDs • 978-0-7393-3098-2 • $30.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.2 • IL: 2-5 • LL: 840 • 3 hrs. 5 mins.<br />
HAPPY BIRTHDAY,<br />
MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE<br />
by Betty MacDonald &<br />
Anne MacDonald Canham<br />
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with a brandnew<br />
bundle of wonderfully magical cures for<br />
any bad habit. And while Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle<br />
is working her magic, the kids are working<br />
some of their own, planning a birthday bash!<br />
“A delightful and humorous listening experience<br />
that will appeal as much to children today<br />
as the original Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories did<br />
to another generation 50 years ago.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
3 CDs • 978-0-7393-6152-8 • $24.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.4 • IL: 2-5 • LL: 870 • 3 hrs. 38 mins.<br />
ANN M. MARTIN’S AND<br />
LAURA GODWIN’S<br />
DOLLHOUSE<br />
ADVENTURES<br />
read by Lynn Redgrave<br />
THE DOLL PEOPLE<br />
The 100-year-old Doll family<strong>—</strong>beautifully<br />
crafted china dolls<strong>—</strong>meet their new neighbors,<br />
the Funcrafts, a doll family made of plastic.<br />
“Veteran actress Lynn Redgrave’s narration<br />
gives the illusion of the story being read by an<br />
entire cast.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
3 CDs • 978-0-7393-6434-5 • $30.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.0 • IL: 3-7 • LL: 570 • 3 hrs. 51 mins.<br />
THE MEANEST DOLL<br />
IN THE WORLD<br />
When Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft<br />
accidentally hitch a ride to Kate’s school in her<br />
backpack, they find themselves in a wholly<br />
unfamiliar world where they meet an evil<br />
princess doll, Mean Mimi.<br />
“Redgrave does an admirable job of voicing the<br />
various characters and imbuing Mimi with a<br />
sly, sneering intonation.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
4 CDs • 978-0-8072-2005-4 • $38.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.0 • IL: 3-7 • LL: 570 • 3 hrs. 55 mins.<br />
THE RUNAWAY DOLLS<br />
When Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft’s<br />
new friend, Till May, is at risk of being sent<br />
back to England, Annabelle and Tiffany run<br />
away to keep the family together.<br />
“Lynn Redgrave narrates with a measured<br />
cadence that allows the story to gently unfold,<br />
and her distinct vocalizations for each of the<br />
dolls make it easy to follow the plot.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
4 CDs • 978-0-7393-7181-7 • $38.00<br />
Grade: RL: 4.4 • IL: 3-6 • LL: 730 • 4 hrs. 57 mins.<br />
See pages 47, 48, 51, and 57 for more titles by<br />
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MEGAN MCDONALD’S<br />
STINK<br />
read by Nancy Cartwright<br />
STINK: THE INCREDIBLE<br />
SHRINKING KID<br />
Stink is the shortest one in his family and the<br />
shortest second <strong>grade</strong>r in his class.<br />
“Will keep listeners glued to their headphones...Appropriate<br />
for group or individual<br />
listening.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
Capitol Choices: AudioBooks Too Good to Miss<br />
1 CD • 978-0-3072-0669-5 • $20.00<br />
Grade: RL: 3.0 • IL: 1-5 • LL: 480 • 41 mins.<br />
STINK AND THE INCREDIBLE<br />
SUPER-GALACTIC JAWBREAKER<br />
When Stink buys a mammoth jawbreaker<br />
that doesn’t break his jaw, he writes a letter of<br />
complaint<strong>—</strong>and receives a ten-pound box of<br />
21,280 jawbreakers for his trouble!<br />
“Not only a boisterously entertaining audiobook,<br />
but a delightful educational tool as well.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Publishers Weekly<br />
“Nancy Cartwright shines as narrator. Her<br />
intensity…What a delightfully painless way to<br />
bone up on letter-writing skills!”<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
1 CD • 978-0-7393-3589-5 • $20.00<br />
Grade: RL: 3.0 • IL: 1-5 • LL: 580 • 41 mins.<br />
STINK AND THE WORLD’S<br />
WORST SUPER-STINKY SNEAKERS<br />
STINK AND THE GREAT<br />
GUINEA PIG EXPRESS<br />
by Megan McDonald<br />
read by Nancy Cartwright<br />
Two great titles on one audio join Stink on a<br />
class field trip to the science museum where he<br />
discovers that his very own nose has amazing<br />
sniffing abilities. Soon the new junior olfactory<br />
wiz is engrossed in toilet water, corpse flowers,<br />
and all things smelly. Then join Stink as he<br />
jumps aboard the Great Guinea Pig Express.<br />
“Stink is a delightful protagonist, comical and<br />
bright.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
“Cartwright (best known as the voice of Bart<br />
Simpson energizes the stories with her quick<br />
reading pace…kids who love Stink will be<br />
delighted with the audio version of two humorous<br />
chapter books.”<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
2 CDs • 978-0-7393-6387-4 • $24.00<br />
Grade: RL: 3.0 • IL: 1-5 • LL: 610 • 1 hr. 37 mins.<br />
STINK: SOLAR SYSTEM<br />
SUPERHERO<br />
When Stink learns that Pluto has flunked out<br />
of the Milky Way for being too shrimpy, he<br />
takes a stand for the sake of little planets (and<br />
little people) everywhere.<br />
“Nancy Cartwright does a nice job of pacing<br />
the story and gives the major characters unique<br />
and suitable voices. Fans of the series as well as<br />
newcomers will enjoy this zany tale.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
“The funny words (“double freaky-deaky”) and<br />
silly scenarios, make for a fast read about the<br />
triumph of the little guy and the wonders of the<br />
universe.”<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
1 CD • 978-0-3077-3850-9 • $15.00<br />
Grade: RL: 3.4 • IL: 7-12 • LL: 530 • 58 mins.<br />
Series Collections<br />
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