Happy Halloween!

Children's

Laura Numeroff news: The latest book by Laura Numeroff is called, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. This cat first appeared in the book, If You Give a Pig a Party. I've ordered lots of copies for the library.

The publisher is offering a cupcake cooking contest to win a trip for 3 to the Wilton School of Cake Decoration in Illinois in conjunction with the release of Numeroff's latest book. Here are the rules if you know any little kids who might want to try it.

http://www.mousecookiebooks.com/play.asp

There are at least two more " If you Give " books in the works.

TEEN News:

Yesterday I sent in an order for Teen CDS including the soundtrack to Twilight.

I alos ordered Demi Lovato's "Don't Forget"

Britney Spears' "Greatest Hits: My Perogative"

Kid Rock's "Rock N Roll Jesus"

Mute Math's "Mutemath" ( Their music is in the Twilight soundtrack)

Adele's "19"

and more.

Ann

More Children's news

Children's news :

The movie 'Beauty and the Beast' is not available to purchase now. Baker & Taylor does not have it and Disney is not selling it right now. I believe it is 'in the vault'.

I see that there are 55 holds on the one remaining copy and that is unfortunate but we can't really do anything about that until Disney decides to release the movie again.

Meanwhile maybe you can encourage the little patrons to reserve 'Kung Fu Panda' or 'Space Chimps' or 'Wall-e'?

'Kung Fu Panda' only has 4 holds today and 'Space Chimps' has just one hold as of today.

Teen News:

Yesterday I sent in an order for 50 copies of the book, 'Robert Pattinson: Eternally Yours' a non-fiction book about the lead actor in the movie 'Twilight'.

There are eight pages of photos in this book!

Ann

Third week in October

What's new at CDO?
Children's - I'm seeing a lot of Holiday titles in the Baker & Taylor carts so I'm ordering lots of these for the system. They are mostly Picture books and Board books, and mostly Christmas themed with some Hanukkah and Kwanzaa stories too.
These should arrive before the holidays since I'm ordering them quite early.

Did you like the book, 'Love that Dog'?
Sharon Creech has a new novel out called, 'Hate That Cat'.
School Library Journal says " Once again, all of the poems are addressed to Miss Stretchberry, and Jack's growing excitement as he discovers the delights of sound ("Tintinnabulation! ") and expression is palpable.


Teens - This week I ordered lots of copies of the movie ' The Incredible Hulk'. We'll see how it compares to the Lou Ferrigno TV version (1978-1982).

CosmoGirl magazine ceases publication in December 2008. If your branch receives CosmoGirl, you will see a substitute magazine to fill out the rest of the subscription. I'm not sure what that substitute magazine will be yet.
It seems as if print media is having a challenging time lately making a profit so we may see other magazines also struggling in the future.

More later,
Ann

Middle of October

Children's news: Remember last year's Lemony Snicket holiday book called, The latke who couldn't stop screaming : a Christmas story ?
Well, Lemony Snicket has another new title just published called, The Lump of Coal.
It's Children's Fiction illustrated by Brett Helquist, 6.25" x 6.25" in size.
'A lump of coal that wants to be an artist, but would settle for making decorative marks on a piece of grilled meat, rolls out of a forgotten bag of charcoal one winter and takes a spin through town seeking a miracle.' is the annotation from the publisher. I ordered 47 copies for the library.
Teen news:
I have recently ordered many copies of these DVDs:
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with Brendan Fraser
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, with America Ferrera
Time Bandits with Terry Gilliam and John Cleese
New CDs:
Identified by Vanessa Hudgens
Devil without a Cause by Kid Rock
Funhouse by Pink
That's all for now,
Ann

Books & Movies

There are some new movies coming out this Fall that are based on Children's and Teen books.
I recently saw previews for Twilight, City of Ember, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and The Tale of Despereaux. I want to see all of them and read the books too of course.
When the preview for Twilight came up on the screen, the teens in the theater all gasped or screamed they were so excited !
http://www.twilightthemovie.com/ is the link to the movie's official web site if you want to take a look.
I'm hoping lots of movie watchers will come to the library and check out all of these books because they loved the movies so much.
And, we'll order the movies once they are realeased onto DVD.
Movies and book tie-ins might make an attractive display somewhere in your library if you have the space?

Monday October 6th

Sarah Ferguson, 'Fergie' has a new children's book just out, called ' Tea for Ruby'.

It's a Picture book.

Jamie Lee Curtis also has a new children's book published called, 'Big Words for Little People'

There are already holds on both of these titles.

For teens, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have published a new book called, 'Influence'. It offers 'an intimate look at the lives of these two young moguls, their careers in entertainment and fashion, and the inspirations that kept them on track in both their business and personal lives'.

There isn't a waiting list yet for this book...

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ' is a new movie opening up and there's a great interview with the authors on NPR today, October 3rd. The book is written by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan.
There's been quite a lot of press about this movie and about the main actor, Michael Cera. He was in 'Arrested Development' and 'Juno'.
The library owns the movie 'Juno' if you'd like to reserve it.
I've ordered lots (89) more copies of this book for Express check out! I hope they check out like hot cakes. Now I'm going to have to read it myself.

Kids and Teen book news from CDO

October!

I've been busy ordering many, many new kids and teen books, DVDs, CDs, audio books for the library.

I love the first week of every month because I have a whole new pot of money to use to order great stuff!

Watch for more news from CDO about new Teen and Children's materials.

Ann D.