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March Highlights of the Month
[ Math in March ] [ Moving Stories ] [ Saint Patrick's Day ]
[ Monsters, Fairies and Fantasy Fiction ] [ Poetry ]
[ Moons, Magic, Music... True* Chapter Books ]
[ Microscopic World ]
Math in March
- Marvelous Math: a Book of Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins; illustrated by Karen Barbour (811/MAR)
- G is for Googol: a Math Alphabet Book written by David M. Schwartz; pictures by Marissa Moss (510/SCH)
- How Big Were the Dinosaurs? by Bernard Most (567.9/MOS)
- Emeka's Gift: an African Counting Story by Ifeoma Onyefulu (513.2/ONY)
- Each Orange Had 8 Slices: a Counting Book by Paul Giganti, Jr.; pictures by Donald Crews (513.5/GIG)
- If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz; illustrated by James Warhola (513.2/SCH)
- Anno's Magic Seeds by Anno (513/ANN) The reader is asked to perform a series of mathematical operations integrated into the story of a lazy man who plants magic seeds and reaps an increasingly abundant harvest.
- Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno (512/ANN)
- Anno's Math Games by Mitsumasa Anno (793.7/ANN)
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Moving Stories: Books that became Movies
- Read the original books: The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. (FIC/DIT)
- Watch animated movies of stories such as Anansi and the Pot of Beans and A Tale of Two Frogs Available free from August House. Titles change.
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Harry Potter
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Saint Patrick's Day and Irish Folklore
- Saint Patrick's Day from the History Channel
- The Last Snake in Ireland: a Story about St. Patrick by Sheila MacGill-Callahan ; illustrated by Will Hillenbrand (270.2/MAC)
- Fin M'Coul: The Giant of Knockmanyhill by Tomie dePaola (398.22/DEP)
- Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato: an Irish Folktale by Tomie dePaola (398.2/DEP)
- St. Patrick's Day by Dorothy Rhodes Freeman. (394.268/FRE)
- St. Patrick's Day by Mary Cantwell. (394.268/CAN)
- St. Patrick's Day in the Morning by Eve Bunting; illustrated by Jan Brett (E/BUN)
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Monsters, Fairies, and other Fantasy Books
- Magyk, Flyte, Physik: the three books in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage (FIC/SAGE) As apprentice to the Extraordinary Wizard, Septimus, the seventh son of a seventh son, experiences many exciting adventures involving ghosts, wizards, dragons, time travel, and magic.
- Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure by Georgia Byng (FIC/BYNG) Molly Moon, is hypnotized and eventually transport back to nineteenth century India, where she meets a maharajah with a speech defect as well as former versions of herself.
- The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (FIC/DIT)
- The Lightning Thief, The Titan's Curse, and The Sea of Monsters by Ron Riordan (FIC/RIORDAN) This trio logy (Percy and the Olympians) feature the adventures of Percy and his friends in the real world of Greek gods and goddesses.
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean (FIC/GAI) Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
- Fairest by Gail Levine (FIC/LEV) In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza, an unattractive woman with a magical voice, learns to balance her appearance with her talent, meanwhile, her singing attracts both Prince Ijori, who cannot resist it, and Queen Ivi, who plots to use it to benefit herself.
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (FIC/BAB) Would you choose to live forever?
- Books by Lloyd Alexander such as The Arkadians (FIC/ALE)
- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (FIC/ROW)
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. 13 books from The Bad Beginning to The End (FIC/SNI)
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Moons, Magic, Music... True* Chapter Books *True = Non-Fiction.
- The Book of Wizard Magic: in Which the Apprentice Finds Marvelous Magic Tricks, Mystifying Illusions & Astonishing Tales by Janice Eaton Kilby, Terry Taylor; illustrations blindly Burnett (793.8/KIL)
- Magic Shows You Can Give by Bill Severn; illustrated by Yukio Tashiro (794.8/SEV)
- The Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole; illustrated by Bruce Degan
- Darkness over Denmark: the Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews by Ellen Levine (940.53/LEV)
- Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng (940.54/AAS)
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Microscopic World
- Yuck!: A Big Book of Little Horrors: Micromarvels in, on, and around You! by Robert Snedden (579/SNE)
- There's a Zoo on You! by Kathy Darling (579/DAR)
- Yikes!: Your Body, Up Close! written by Mike Janulewicz; designed by Mike Jolley; edited by Dugald Steer (611/JAN) Presents over fifty microscopic images of parts of the human body including the tongue, eyes, hair, skin, and bone.
- Sea Soup: Phyhytoplankton by Mary M. Cerullo; photography by Bill Curtsinnger (579.8/CER) Discusses the microscopic organisms known as phytoplankton and the important functions they serve in replenishing earth's atmosphere, in the marine food chain, and more.
- Janice VanCleave's Microscopes and Magnifying Lenses: Mind-boggling Chemistry and Biology Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects by Jan VanCleave (502.8 VAN)
- Germs on Their Fingers; Gérmanos en Tus Manos by Wendy Wakefield Ferrin; art by Beverly Ashley Broyles (SP E/WAK) A rhyming story which tells how one mom, worried about germs, started a campaign to promote handwashing with soap. Presented in English and Spanish, with a Web site reference.
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Books of Poetry
- Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms by Charles R. Smith Jr. (818/SMI)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride illustrated by Ted Rand (811.3/LON)
- Celebrate America in Poetry and Art: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Photographs, and other Works of Art from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution edited by Nora Panzer (811.008/SMI)
- Pish, Posh, Hieronymus Bosch by Nancy Willard; illustrations by the Dillons (811/WIL)
- I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus; paintings by Michele Wood (780/IGU)
- All About the Symphony Orchestra and What it Plays by Dorothy Commins, foreword by Thomas Scherman, drawings by Warren Chappell, photos by Constantine Manos and others (785.06/COM)
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