Kids Book Index
Katie Vernon
On Halloween night, Weenie the hot dog weighs a series of costume possibilities. The choices pair contrasting ideas: a pumpkin or vampire, zombie or ice-cream cone, bacon-and-eggs skillet or burger, banana or Frankenstein. Each outfit changes Weenie’s expression, including a worried look from a dragon costume facing a knight. The board book turns the difficulty of choosing into a sequence of visual jokes.
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Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True StoryDave Eggers, illustrated by Júlia SardàThis account recounts the relocation of Annie Miller’s three-story Idaho home. After losing her money and raising pigs for income, Annie faced a city prohibition on livestock. Rather than leave either the pigs or her house, she and her son Douglas decided to move the building beyond the city limits. Workers placed it on massive logs and used horses to pull it forward, repeatedly moving the rear logs to the front. The four-mile journey took a month, with Annie and Douglas reportedly living inside during the move.Historical People, Places, and EventsOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Gertie, the Darling Duck of WWIIShari SwansonIn April 1945, a duck later named Gertie nested on a high piling in Milwaukee’s downtown river near a drawbridge. Her unusual nesting place drew crowds to the bridge as people waited to see whether her eggs would hatch and her ducklings would be safe. After a storm sent ducklings into the choppy water, bridge tenders repeatedly rowed out to rescue them. Gertie and her young were reunited, displayed briefly in a department-store window, and then released at a local park lagoon.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global CelebrityNicholas DayThis historical account interweaves two stories connected to the Mona Lisa. One follows the 1911 theft of the painting from the Louvre and the investigation that did not locate either the artwork or those who took it. The other examines Leonardo da Vinci: his wide-ranging interests, artistic skill, and the circumstances that led him to paint Lisa Gherardini’s portrait in the early sixteenth century. It also traces how public and media response to the theft changed the painting’s cultural prominence.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details