What You Need to Know About Kids by Josiah Lowder with Kristine K. Lowder - Ever want to know what a real man is, how to build a snow fort, charge up San Juan Hill, travel in space, deal with pesky brothers, why we have money, or what Jesus is like? Josiah Lowder, age six, reveals answers to these questions and more in his first book, "What You Need to Know About Kids." Replete with the sage wisdom of a six year-old on all the big and little questions of life, "What You Need to Know About Kids" includes Josiah's observations on how to fly a space shuttle, deal with sibling rivalry, survive a tangle with blackberry bushes and "three dusty days of rubber bands." Additional chapters include What You Need to Know About: Babies, Ladies, Marines, and "little kids trying to destroy the weekend." "What You Need to Know About Kids" is more than a children's book--it's a life adventure seen through the eyes of a loquacious first grader. Told in Josiah's own words as dictated to Mom, this book will bring a mist to your eye and a smile to your heart . Copyright: 2005 by Kristine K. Lowder. All rights reserved. 81 pages - $8.99
What You Need to Know About Kids, Book II by Josiah Lowder with Kristine K. Lowder
He’s baaaack. Josiah Lowder, age seven, is on a roll. "What You Need to Know About Kids, Book II" is the companion volume to his first book of the same title. Volume II includes "everything you need to know" about: Church, Christmas, Widows, Dads, George Washington, the Olympic Games, Mailmen, Cheetahs, Hannibal, “If I Was a Millionaire,” the Little Big Horn, Moms, Brothers, the Titanic, and Dreams. Josiah’s latest tome also features “parachuting snakes,” the wonders of time machines, and expeditions to a cemetery. Josiah even tells you “everything you need to know” about Birthdays, Bigfoot, Blackbeard, how Pennsylvania was “invented,” bathing off “sad germs,” his own private armies, and Mom’s personal favorite, the Tales of George and Gracie Iguana. Told in Josiah’s own words as dictated to Mom, "What You Need to Know About Kids, Book II" contains more of the hilarious, heart warming insights and epiphanies of a locquacious First Grader who's truly in a class by himself. Copyright 2006 by the author. All rights reserved. 90 pages - $8.99
BIRTH OF THE REPUBLIC by Alden Carter
Washington and the Continental Army won a decisive victory at Yorktown.Yet what would independence mean? Could so many people living in such a vast land really govern themselves? Many doubted, but the writing of the Constitution provided a resounding affirmation of “the Glorious Cause.”
COLONIES IN REVOLT by Alden Carter
Excerpt: “Many in the crowd on the Boston street were boys not yet in their teens. They shouted, cursed, and pitched rocks and snowballs against the house of the man accused of informing for the hated British customs service. Windows shattered, rocks splintered walls and furniture. Then a musket barrel flamed from a window, and the crowd fell back in panic as the sound of a gunshot echoed down the street.
AT THE FORGE OF LIBERTY by Alden Carter
The Continental Army suffered defeats, brutal marches, and cruel winters. Baron von Steuben told Washington that no European army could have survived. Yet, survive it did to triumph in one of the remarkable campaigns in history.
DARKEST HOURS by Alden Carter
For two terrible years, the American Revolution seemed doomed. Only the determination of Washington and the endurance of his soldiers kept the Cause alive. On Christmas 1776, they would gamble everything and win undying glory.
LAST STAND AT THE ALAMO by Alden Carter
The story of the Alamo has been told and retold in books and films so many times that the truth is often difficult to distinguish beneath the layers of dramatic license. Alden Carter’s Last Stand at the Alamo strips away the myth to recount the events as they really happened. At last a good explanation for young people of how and why 183 Texans and many times their number of Mexican soldiers died fighting over a tumbledown mission in a dusty corner of Texas.
THE CIVIL WAR: AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Alden Carter - Examines the war that cost more than 500,000 lives, from the Battle of First Bull Run to the final surrender of the Confederate Army in 1865.
THE SHOSHONI by Alden Carter - Come into the lives of these hardy desert people, whose exquisite adaptation to a rugged environment provides a lesson for us all.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG by Alden Carter - For three days in early July 1863, the hills around the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg thundered with the sound of battle. The titanic Battle of Gettysburg would change the course of the Civil War and American history. Alden Carter's stirring account of the greatest battle ever fought on American soil--long been a standard in children's literature--is now available as an e-book on CD or download.
BATTLE OF THE IRONCLADS by Alden Carter - In the spring of 1862, two strange vessels battled on the waters of Hampton Roads, Virginia. On the shores spectators watched as the C.S.S. Virginia (known popularly as the Merrimack) slugged it out with the U.S.S. Monitor in the first battle of ironclad warships. Both ships would survive the fight, neither would be afloat a year later. Yet, the thunderous clash on this sunny March morning would change world history.
THE MEXICAN WAR: MANIFEST DESTINY by Alden Carter - Grade 4-8-- Carter clearly describes the various campaigns of The Mexican War . All of the books have decent maps that help readers to keep the places and events straight. Illustrations, mainly full-color reproductions of paintings, are plentiful, with one or two per double-page spread. Report writers will find plenty of well-organized, attractively presented information. Theodore Roosevelt's personality comes through well in The Spanish-American War. Carter's books help to fill gaps in many history collections. --Steven Engelfried, Alameda County Library, CA
THE BUNNIES by Joe Cowley
Beatrix Potter, move over. Here is a children's book to delight everyone - the continuing saga of The Bunnies, told by someone young enough to know it, old enough to spoof it. But instead of Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, you've got Knuzzle, Krouch, and Relacks, members of the infamous Nickname Club, and the wonderful Bunny family - Papa, Mama, the sons Cool and Baby, and the daughters Twinkle and Sparkle. It's the story of everyday life in Furrific Town, with voice-over by the author. It's an imaginative story-book filled with wit and humor that will delight the parents as well as the children to whom it is read. $8.95 - Paperback - 78 pages
FOU-FOU'S NEW 'DO (AND A TUTU, TOO) by Deborah J. Rebolloso
A Children's eBook published by Long Story Short Publishing Company.
Fou Fou the flea shares a home with beaucoups brothers and sisters in a flea market in Paris. She doesn't mind being named FouFou (silly silly) if she gets to eat her favorite food, croissants. In this delightful adventure, Fou Fou finds a way to add some frou frou to her life. She enlists the help of a flea friend to create a new 'do and a tutu, too. The added bonus? Both hair and tutu are her favorite color, orange! A unique feature of Fou Fou's story is the interweaving of basic French words throughout, along with a pronunciation guide at the end. Fou Fou's story combines three elements designed to enthrall a youngster: the joy of reading (or being read to), the thrill of discovering creative solutions to problems and the pleasure of learning a new language - eBook - $5.99 - 33 pages
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