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 Reach For the Stars: Bad News for Outlaws [10:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Illustrator: R. Gregory Christie (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 CarolRhoda Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 9780822567646

This true tale of swindlers, slayers, smarts and skill will lasso listeners of all stripes.

Other biographies on JOMB:

• It’s A Snap! George Eastman’s First Photograph
• One Beetle Too Many — The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
• Neo Leo (the Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci)
• The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
• The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur

More of the wild west on JOMB:

• Buffalo Music
• Smoky Mountain Rose (An Appalachian Cinderella)
• Sing, Sophie

More freedom reading on JOMB:

• Let Freedom Sing
• Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog
• Priscilla and the Hollyhocks
• Freedom Child of the Sea
• Follow the Drinking Gourd

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.

 

 Waves, Ruts and Resilience: Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus [13:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Kristen Tracy (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Random House (on JOMB)
ISBN: 9780385736879

A big thanks to guest host Lucy (10) for joining Andrea today to discuss this book.

Life can be challenging and fair’s got nothing to do with it. Parents are people. Friendship’s a worthwhile risk. There’s a lot to think about when you’re ten in the real world. Which is why I’m so glad Lucy (10) and I read this fun and fabulously thought provoking book.

Mentioned in this chat:

• Life Without Limbs: Nick Vujicic
• Don’t Need Friends
• Horrid Henry

More books including less-than-perfect families on JOMB:

• The Grandmother Doll
• When-I-was-a-little-girl
• My Dad’s A Birdman
• Mummy Never Told Me
• more here.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.

 

 Competition for The Captain: Lunch Lady [5:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Jarrett Krosoczka (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Jarrett Krosoczka
Published: 2009 Knopf (on JOMB)
ISBN: 9780375846847

Lunch Lady arrived this week and our young Jarrett fans were on these books “like cheese on macaroni”. Today Lucy (10) and Bayla (8) share their thoughts on the first two books in this zany graphic novel series.

For a behind the scenes glimpse at the making of Lunch Lady , check out our video interview with author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka:

• Rock Stars of Reading part 9: Digital Jarrett Krosoczka

More Jarrett on JOMB:

• Rock Stars of Reading part 08: Jarrett Krosoczka
• Interview with Jarrett Krosoczka
• Rock Stars of Reading part 20: Advice for aspiring readers
• Rock Stars of Reading part 7: Creators of the Round Table

HOTLINE VOICES: An anonymous caller tells us why she loves My Friend Isabelle (by Eliza Woloson and Bryan Gough).

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show.

 

 Left Reeling: You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! [5:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Jonah Winter (on JOMB)
Illustrator: André Carrilho (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Schwartz & Wade (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0375837388

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Gilded, stylized illustrations, scads of stats and lilting, laid back narration present an inspiring tale of persistence, power, poise and prevalent potential in this intimate look at the short but striking career of one of baseball’s greats.

More sports on JOMB:

• Baseball Hour
• Across the Alley
• Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
• The Bat Boy and His Violin
• Baseball Saved Us
• Dino-Hockey
• The Magic Hockey Stick

HOTLINE VOICES: Radio Producer and Sound Artist Paolo Pietropaolo explains why he loves Fantastic Mr. Fox (by Roald Dahl).

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487, so we can include your audio in our show

 

 Bring Down the House: The Greatest Power (The Gecko & Sticky) [11:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Wendelin Van Draanen (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Stephen Gilpin (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Knopf (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0375843779

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One wisecracking lizard, one over-caffeinated monkey and 200 pages of action, attitude and assombroso alliteration transform run-of-the-mill read-aloud adults into comedy superstars. Talk about the greatest power!

You can check out Lucy & Bayla’s Sticky-inspired artwork here.

Other books mentioned:

• Clementine’s Letter
• Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger (Kevin Bolger on JOMB)

HOTLINE VOICES: Owen (9) and Riley (9) share their enthusiasm for Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

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 Swamps, Chainsaws & Solipsism: Fiendish Deeds (The Joy of Spooking) [9:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: P.J. Bracegirdle (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 McElderry Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1416934162

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Hard-core horror meets sumptuous simile in this gripping exploration of siblinghood, self-destruction and sanitized sameness.

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 The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau [6:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Dan Yaccarino (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Dan Yaccarino
Published: 2009 Knopf Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0375855734

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Colour drenched, stylized illustrations, carefully selected quotes and simple, informative text open our eyes and imaginations to the creativity, curiosity and commitment of this explorer, inventor, filmmaker extraordinaire.

More eye-opening biographies on JOMB:

• One Beetle Too Many — The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
• Marco Polo
• Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
• Buffalo Music
• Priscilla and the Hollyhocks
• The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur

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 Come to the Castle!: A Visit to a Castle in Thirteenth-Century England [5:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Linda Ashman (on JOMB)
Illustrator: S. D. Schindler (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Roaring Brook Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1596431555

Humour, grimaces, gluttony and grime cleverly deliver a bonanza of not-soon forgotten feudal facts in this rhyming rundown of Medieval careers.

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Other books mentioned:

• A Medieval Feast
• Stella, Unleashed!
• The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe
• One Witch

Pop over to Carol’s Corner for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

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If you are feasting this holiday week, Bon Appétit!

Looking for fabulous rhyming books and poetry collections for your Poetry Month Celebration? Check out some of our all time favourites:

• Duck Tents
• There’s a Babirusa in My Bathtub
• Zorgamazoo (A Novel in Rhyme)
• Falling For Rapunzel
• On the Scale, a Weighty Tale
• My Pup
• Baseball Hour
• Sleeping Dragons All Around
• Wish (Wishing Traditions Around the World)
• One Witch
• Sandy Mackenzie, Why Look So Glum?
• Darkness Slipped In
• The Noisy Airplane Ride
• Stella, Unleashed
• But If They Do…
• Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
• Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep
• Jillian Jiggs
• Dirty Dog Boogie
• If I Had a Million Onions
• Biscuits in the Cupboard
• The HICCUPotamus
• Missing Math (A Number Mystery)
• A isn’t for Fox (An Isn’t Alphabet)
• Someday When My Cat Can Talk
• Over in the Ocean (in a Coral Reef)
• Best Friend on Wheels
• Full House (An Invitation to Fractions)
• Jazz ABZ (An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits)
• There Were Monkeys in my Kitchen!
• Roar of a Snore
• Where in the Wild?
• Science Verse
• Grandma’s Feather Bed
• Dino-Hockey
• The Looking Book
• Hallowe’en Hoots and Howls
• Iggy Peck, Architect
• Farm Flu
• Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast
• No Dragons for Tea
• The Hound from the Pound
• Sitting on the Farm
• The Crow
• Cassandra’s Angel
• The House That Crack Built
• Kid Tea
• The Eensy-Weensy Spider
• Drumheller Dinosaur Dance
• And the DISH Ran Away with the SPOON
• Big Black Bear
• Safe and Sound
• The Piggy in The Puddle
• Oh No, Not Ghosts!
• Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
• And To Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends
• Monster Goose
• Snowsong Whistling
• Rattlebone Rock
• Cinderella Skeleton
• The Party
• The Magic Hockey Stick
• The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
• Hamlet for Kids
• Poodlena
• Cat Magic
• Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood
• Bill in a China Shop

And don’t forget to check out the Poetry Month excitement starting Wednesday at The Miss Rumphius Effect and GottaBook — between the two of them, they’ll treat us to more than 66 poets and previously unpublished poems, at least one a day for the entire month.

Have a happy Poetry Month!!

 

 Flow and Freedom: Journey to the River Sea [4:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Eva Ibbotson (on JOMB)
Published: 2002 Penguin (on JOMB)
ISBN: 033039715X

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Today, our 9 year old daughter, Lucy, tells us why she absolutely adores this beautifully written and inspiring Amazon adventure.

Click here to listen to our chat with Eva Ibbotson on her 83rd birthday.

Other beloved books by Eva Ibbotson:

• Which Witch?
• The Great Ghost Rescue
• The Secret of Platform 13
• The Star of Kazan
• The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
• Dial-a-Ghost
• Island of the Aunts (a.k.a. Monster Mission)

Click here for other Eva Ibbotson book reviews by Lucy and click here to see the postcard Eva sent to Lucy and Bayla earlier this year in response to their 84th birthday cards.

LISTENER HOTLINE: Chuck Stanley enjoys sharing his childhood love of Fox in Socks (by Dr. Seuss) with his own children.

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 Of Comfort and Coping: Michael Rosen's Sad Book [7:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Michael Rosen (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Quentin Blake (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Candlewick Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0763641049

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This beautifully honest confession of the ups, the downs, the confusion and fond memories of a father dealing with the death of his son offers a rare, candid, detailed look at sadness, solitude and the strength to carry on.

More thoughtful resilience on JOMB:

• The Sound of Colors
• Connecting with Val Willis: The Magic of ‘My Horse, My Passion’

You can celebrate Poetry Friday by watching and listening to Michael Rosen performing each one of the poems from his out-of-print book of children’s poetry ‘The Hypnotiser’ here.

Pop over to Wild Rose Reader for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

HOTLINE VOICES: Maureen Stanley shares her love of The Giving Tree (by Shel Silverstein).

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 Trapped Air Trickiness: Bubble Homes and Fish Farts [7:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Fiona Bayrock (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Carolyn Conahan (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Charlesbridge (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1570916705

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Quick! What’s used for communication, transportation, self defence, sound-dampening, warmth, entertainment and hatching and doesn’t cost a cent? If you didn’t say “bubbles” – and even if you did – you will be blown away (how could we resist?) by this beautifully illustrated and light hearted look at the ingenious uses of suds in the wild.

More fascinating animal facts on JOMB:

• There’s a Babirusa in My Bathtub
• Animals at the EDGE (Saving the World’s Rarest Creatures)
• Where in the Wild?
• Nic Bishop’s Frogs
• A Horse in the House
• Over in the Ocean … in a Coral Reef

HOTLINE VOICES: Chel Pixie recalls a colourful favourite, The Very Hungry Caterpillar (by Eric Carle).

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.