August 30, 2012 Prolific children’s author and Nashville native Patricia McKissack has been honored for her picture book Never Forgotten. The PEN American Center recently awarded McKissack the PEN/Steven Kroll award, which, according to the PEN website, “acknowledge[s] the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers.”
Carol Buckley
Putnam Juvenile
32 pages
$16.99
“Brilliant color photographs of Tarra and Bella at home in the Elephant Sanctuary deftly illustrate this inspiring story of companionship, and an informative note about the Sanctuary provides a great resource for parents and teachers.”
— From the Publisher
Sharon Cameron
Scholastic Press
336 pages
$17.99
“Katharine Tulman discovers a fantastic world where science seems like magic when she arrives at her uncle’s remote estate to have him committed to a lunatic asylum. But instead of a lunatic she is confronted with a genius inventor with his own set of child-like rules, a brooding apprentice and a mysterious young student of science, the dwindling family fortune and the hundreds of families her uncle is using it to support. Having Uncle Tulman sent to the asylum is no longer an easy choice. And that’s when Katharine Tulman begins seeing things that aren’t really there.”
— From sharoncameronbooks.com
Annie F. Downs
Zondervan
224 pages
$9.99
“In Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head to Foot, author Annie F. Downs encourages young women to take a look at who they are through the way God created each part of them, and discover the practical ways they can use their lives to glorify God.”
— From the Publisher
Alan Gratz
Simon Spotlight
320 pages
$7.99
“The rules are simple: Draw a target. Track him down and ‘kill’ him with a spork. Take your victim’s target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn’t get to you first. No safe zones. No time-outs. The game ends when only one player remains. James T. Kirk is playing for fun. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy is playing to get closer to a girl. But when a series of terrorist attacks rock the usually placid Starfleet Academy campus, it becomes clear that somebody is playing the game for real.”
— From the Publisher
Alethea Kontis (Illustrated by Janet K. Lee)
Archaia Entertainment
30 pages
$11.95
“Best-selling author Alethea Kontis (The Dark-Hunter Companion, Enchanted) and Eisner Award-winning artist Janet K. Lee (Return of the Dapper Men, Jane Austen’s Emma) combine their talents to present a playful, incredibly visual interpretation of the alphabet by way of Lewis Carroll in this 26-letter celebration of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Packaged as a gorgeous poster board book, The Wonderland Alphabet is a surprising new look at one of the most beloved literary classics of all time.”
— From the Publisher
