A few new titles...

I LOVE when new titles come out! We get new titles about 4 times a year: January, March, July, and October. It is always so exciting to see what amazing new books we can offer our customers! Here are a few of our new January titles...

50 Things to Spot at the Airport
Find out about the things you see at the airport - with 50 things to spot, your trip to the airport can become a voyage of discovery.

What a great idea for families traveling over spring break! These activity spotter's cards give kids 50 things to spot as they travel through the airport...perfect for layovers! I really wish we had these when Rowen & I traveled to Hawaii in April...our flight out of Memphis was delayed 2 hours and these would have definitely come in handy!


Big Book of Big Animals
From the mighty elephant to the amazing colossal squid, open the huge fold-out pages to reveal some of the tallest, longest and heaviest animals in the world-and discover the biggest animal that's every lived.

The other 2 books in the Big Books series (Big Book of Big Dinosaurs and Big Book of Big Machines) have been extremely successful! They were both very popular at my preschool book fairs this past fall, so I am very excited about another book in this series. This book has fold-out spreads so young children can grasp how BIG these animals are.


Lift-the-Flap Word Book With lots of flaps to lift, this charming book lets young children have fun matching words and pictures. It's the ideal way to give beginner readers practice in word recognition and also provides plenty for pre-readers to find, name and talk about.

As a mom of a child with a cochlear implant, we are constantly working on learning new vocabulary. I am so excited about this book! I think it will be great for toddlers who are learning words all the way up to beginning readers. It will also be a great book for special needs children and speech therapists!


Chloe & Levesque Book 3: Scared to Death
One day Tessa was standing on Chloe’s porch, looking scared. Two days later she was dead. Chloe can’t shake the thought that she didn’t ask Tessa what was wrong, even though she’d seemed frightened. Now she has to find out who might have wanted Tessa out of the way. And she can’t help wondering what it was, the night Tessa came for help, that had her scared to death...

I have become a big fan of this Kane Miller series for middle school & high school students. As a Nancy Drew girl growing up, I would have LOVED this series! The main character, Chloe, reminds me of a spunkier Nancy Drew. The Vancouver Sun described the series as "John Grisham for teens." I have so enjoyed reading the first 2 books in the series. There are now 4 books available in the series: Over the Edge, Double Cross, Scared to Death, and Break and Enter. This series gives us even more options to offer middle school & high school librarians! Go here to read an excerpt from Scared to Death.