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The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids.

As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and food-related discussion into book club gatherings, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp hear a common refrain from parents, librarians, teachers, community leaders and kids themselves: “How about writing a book for kids’ book clubs?” Indeed, in recent years youth organizations, parents, libraries, schools, and our local, state, and federal governments have launched thousands of book clubs for children as a way to counter falling literacy rates and foster a love of reading. Based on surveys representing five hundred youth book clubs across the country and interviews with parents, kids, educators, and librarians, The Kids’ Book Club Book features:

_- the top fifty favorite book club reads for children ages eight to eighteen; _- ideas and advice on forming great kids’ book clubs-and tips for kids who want to start their own book clubs; _- recipes, activities, and insights from such bestselling children’s book authors as Christopher Paolini, Lois Lowry, Jerry Spinelli, Nancy Farmer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Andrew Clements, Laurie Halse Anderson, Norton Juster, and many others.

From recipes for the Dump Punch and egg salad sandwiches included in Kate DiCamillo’s Because of Winn-Dixie to instructionson how to make soap carvings like the ones left in the knot-hole of a tree in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, this book provides a bounty of ideas for making every kids’ book club a success.

About the Author
JUDY GELMAN and VICKI LEVY KRUPP are book enthusiasts and cooks who came together as friends to coauthor The Book Club Cookbook: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors. Both authors live with their families in the Boston area.

Product Description
The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids.

As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and food-related discussion into book club gatherings, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp hear a common refrain from parents, librarians, teachers, community leaders and kids themselves: “How about writing a book for kids’ book clubs?” Indeed, in recent years youth organizations, parents, libraries, schools, and our local, state, and federal governments have launched thousands of book clubs for children as a way to counter falling literacy rates and foster a love of reading. Based on surveys representing five hundred youth book clubs across the country and interviews with parents, kids, educators, and librarians, The Kids’ Book Club Book features:

_- the top fifty favorite book club reads for children ages eight to eighteen; _- ideas and advice on forming great kids’ book clubs-and tips for kids who want to start their own book clubs; _- recipes, activities, and insights from such bestselling children’s book authors as Christopher Paolini, Lois Lowry, Jerry Spinelli, Nancy Farmer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Andrew Clements, Laurie Halse Anderson, Norton Juster, and many others.

From recipes for the Dump Punch and egg salad sandwiches included in Kate DiCamillo’s Because of Winn-Dixie to instructionson how to make soap carvings like the ones left in the knot-hole of a tree in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, this book provides a bounty of ideas for making every kids’ book club a success.

About the Author
JUDY GELMAN and VICKI LEVY KRUPP are book enthusiasts and cooks who came together as friends to coauthor The Book Club Cookbook: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors. Both authors live with their families in the Boston area.

Review
“The Art of Storytelling at it very best”, May 21, 2006 Reviewer: Clarissa Beaufort (San Francisco, CA) – See all my reviews Not since I was a little girl in Paris, reading Collodi’s masterpiece, have I fallen so in love with a fairy tale character. Not since “Pinocchio” have I found a fairy tale so complete, so inspiring and so well developed as “Pengey’s Many Adventures.” Pengey, I must admit has stolen my heart. His story is beset with so much trouble: abandonment, attacks by other animals and evil humans. But Pengey is undaunted by his troubles. He always takes time to, ponder his options, especially when he’s confused. Pengey’s always polite and because he is so well mannered he manages quite well in the world of humans. He has one true goal, to find his way back to that place where he knows he is loved. Back to the woman that saves him from starvation. It takes friends and Pengey finds a Parrot and a Puffin that become the best friends anyone could ever want. Still, even as a team, it’s a effort to overcome all of the obstacles and hardships, as mother nature seems to be conspiring against Pengey too. I’ll never give away the ending. But I’ll never forget it, as I sat in bed with my copy of Pengey, and crying my eyes out with tears of joy and happiness. This has just got to be the best children’s chapter book in 20 years. Go Pengey, Go! –Clarissa Beaufort (San Francisco, CA)

A charming tale, sure to capture the reader’s hearts from the very first page., November 5, 2006 Reviewer: Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) – See all my reviews “The Many Adventures of Pengey Penguin” is a delightfully entertaining novel for readers age 5 to 95. Pengey is an inquisitive, orphaned young emperor penguin, who is rescued from the brink of death near an abandoned weather station. Courage, curiosity, and plucky determination all power his penguin heart, and he speaks his mind openly; soon, all his talents will be tested to the utmost for the sake of not only himself, but also his animal and human friends. A charming tale, sure to capture the reader’s hearts from the very first page. –Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI)

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On a night alive with the lights of the Aurora Australis, a distant and abandoned weather station holds the only hope for a young emperor penguin who lies close to death on the most remote ice sheet in Antartica. His name is Pengey Penguin. Even though he was abandoned under the most unusual circumstances, he grew to be an adventurous spirit, undaunted by his troubles and driven by unwavering devotion to his principles and the love of Wendy, the human who saved him from certain death by starvation. Now it should be thoroughly understood that Pengey is not very tall and he is certainly not very strong, but he is very quick, extremely smart, exceedingly polite and very well mannered. This is his story, or at least how it all began. He already likes you, and it’s his greatest wish that you’ll like him, all his friends, and his bedtime story, too.

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Did you know that:

• Penguins are champion swimmers.
• They spend 75 percent of their lives in water.
• They are birds, but they can’t fly. Penguins are classified as birds because they have feathers.

Now you can explore a penguin’s world by finding out how they can swim so fast, what they eat, and why people need to protect their habitats. Acclaimed science writer Seymour Simon has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to take you on a journey to the Antarctic region for a close-up look at one of nature’s most beloved and sociable animals.

About the Author

Seymour Simon has been called “the dean of the [children's science book] field” by the New York Times. He has written more than 200 books for young readers and is the recipient of the Science Books & Films Key Award for Excellence in Science Books, the Empire State Award for excellence in literature for young people, and the Educational Paperback Association Jeremiah Ludington Award. Mr. Simon lives in Great Neck, New York.

Product Description
The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids.

As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and food-related discussion into book club gatherings, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp hear a common refrain from parents, librarians, teachers, community leaders and kids themselves: “How about writing a book for kids’ book clubs?” Indeed, in recent years youth organizations, parents, libraries, schools, and our local, state, and federal governments have launched thousands of book clubs for children as a way to counter falling literacy rates and foster a love of reading. Based on surveys representing five hundred youth book clubs across the country and interviews with parents, kids, educators, and librarians, The Kids’ Book Club Book features:

_- the top fifty favorite book club reads for children ages eight to eighteen; _- ideas and advice on forming great kids’ book clubs-and tips for kids who want to start their own book clubs; _- recipes, activities, and insights from such bestselling children’s book authors as Christopher Paolini, Lois Lowry, Jerry Spinelli, Nancy Farmer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Andrew Clements, Laurie Halse Anderson, Norton Juster, and many others.

From recipes for the Dump Punch and egg salad sandwiches included in Kate DiCamillo’s Because of Winn-Dixie to instructionson how to make soap carvings like the ones left in the knot-hole of a tree in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, this book provides a bounty of ideas for making every kids’ book club a success.

About the Author
JUDY GELMAN and VICKI LEVY KRUPP are book enthusiasts and cooks who came together as friends to coauthor The Book Club Cookbook: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors. Both authors live with their families in the Boston area.