if you liked…then try…

Here are some outstanding titles to buy for that special kid to celebrate Children’s Book Week (May 11-17, 2009).

For the very young, read Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book.  Fiction Addiction in Greenville SC carries this title and many others by Scarry.

If you like Scarry’s books, you may like the picture books by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle.

For 4 to 8-year old girls, try the Fancy Nancy series of books by Jane O’Connor.  Fountain Bookstore in Richmond VA carries the series.

If you like the Fancy Nancy series, you may also like Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk.

For 9 to 12-year olds, buy Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow by James Rollins.  You can find this title and many others by Rollins at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville NC. 

If you like the Jake Ransom series, you may also like Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.

More Summer Reads: 

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) – Rick Riordan

The Awakening (Darkest Powers, Book 2) – Kelley Armstrong

Along for the Ride – Sarah Dessen

Chasing the Bear:  A Young Spenser Novel – Robert B. Parker

Paddington at the Beach – Michael Bond

Please buy these and many other titles at your local independent bookstore!

IF YOU LIKED TODAY’S BOOKS, TRY THESE:

March by Geraldine Brooks – the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.

The March by E. L. Doctorow – as the Civil War was moving toward its inevitable conclusion, General William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, leaving a 60-mile-wide trail of death, destruction, looting, thievery and chaos.

The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams – generally recognized as one of the most important novels of the tumultuous 1960s, this novel vividly evokes the hope, courage, and bitter disappointment of the civil-rights era.

Seven Laurels by Linda Busby Parker – set in a small community between Montgomery and Birmingham, this novel brings home the historic struggle for civil rights through the personal story of one man and his family from the 1950s onward.