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These recommendations appear in the Sunday edition
of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
- Sunday, March 7
Ages 3 to 6 - Night Lights by Susan Gal.
While preparing for bedtime, a little girl and her dog note all the different kinds of lights that brighten up the night, from headlights to moonlight.
Ages 10 to 14 - The Adventures of Jack Lime by James Leck..
Jack, a teenage sleuth with narcolepsy, comes to the aid of his friends whenever they have a problem.
- Sunday, February 28
Ages 3 to 7 - Albert the Fix-it Man by Janet Lord.
A cheerful repairman fixes squeaky doors, leaky roofs, and crumbling fences for his neighbors, who return the kindness when he catches a terrible cold.
Ages 9 to 14 - A Faraway Island by Annika Thor.
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
- Sunday, February 21
Ages 6 to 10 - Crow Call by Lois Lowry.
Liz accompanies her father, newly returned from World War II, on an early morning hunting trip in rural Pennsylvania.
Ages 10 to 14 - Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Liam, who is 12 but looks much older, is selected as the adult chaperone for a secret space flight that becomes lost in space.
- Sunday, February 14
Ages 2 to 5 - Pouch! by David Ezra Stein.
A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder each time.
Ages 4 to 8 - Archie and the Pirates by Marc Rosenthal.
Archie’s resourcefulness and hard work pay off when he is stranded on an island, and his new friends help him defend the island from an attack by rough and smelly pirates.
- Sunday, February 7
Ages 3 to 6 - Big Wolf & Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme.
Big Wolf, who had always lived alone at the top of the hill and was getting along just fine until Little Wolf came along, discovers the rewards of friendship.
Ages 7 to 10 - A Book by Mordicai Gerstein.
A girl who is part of a family of characters in a book searches the pages of the book for her story.
- Sunday, January 31
Ages 5 to 7 - Billy & Milly, Short & Silly by Eve B. Feldman.
Friends Billy and Milly are featured in 13 stories, each consisting of 3 or 4 short, rhyming words.
Ages 8 to 12 - A Whole Nother Story by Cuthbert Soup.
Ethan Cheeseman and his three children, pursued by spies and government agents for two years, would like to settle in a nice small town and complete their work on a time machine, but their pursuers are about to catch up.
- Sunday, January 24
Ages 3 to 8 - Robot Zot! by Jon Scieszka.
Arriving in a suburban kitchen, which is their first stop on a mission to conquer planet Earth, tiny but brave Robot Zot and his mechanical sidekick Bot battle fearsome kitchen appliances.
Ages 5 to 8 - The Trouble with Sisters and Robots by Steve Gritton.
After frantically trying to stop his out of control robot from turning everything it touches into metal, Kyle finally listens to his little sister's advice.
- Sunday, January 17
Ages 4 to 8 - Gnash, Gnaw, Dinosaur! by Tony Mitton.
Dinosaurs come back with a big hello in these poems and colorful lift-the-flap illustrations.
All ages - Creature A B C by Andrew Zuckerman.
Striking photographs against a pristine background illustrate each letter of the alphabet.
- Sunday, January 10
Ages 5 to 8 - The King's Taster by Kenneth Oppel.
The royal chef takes Max the dog, the royal taster, on several international journeys to find a dish for the land's pickiest king.
Ages 7 to 10 - The Boy who Invented TV: the Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull.
This picture-book biography explains how Farnsworth held on to his dream to develop television and the scientific concepts behind it.
- Sunday, January 3
Ages 4 to 7 - Goldilocks by Ruth Sanderson.
After finding the bears' cottage in the woods and making a mess inside, Goldilocks helps the family clean up and enjoys a nice meal.
Ages 9 to 14 - Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur.
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
- Sunday, December 27
Ages 3 to 6 - Where Teddy Bears Come From by Mark Burgess.
When Little Wolf cannot fall asleep, he decides that he needs a teddy bear and goes into the woods to see if he can find out where to get one.
Ages 10 to 12 - The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech.
In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets a girl named Zola whose father has come to open a school, and the angel and Zola rescue a group of ragtag orphans.
- Sunday, December 20
Ages 3 to 7 - The Little Red Elf by Barbara McGrath.
A penguin and a hare refuse to help an elf plant, grow, and decorate an evergreen tree but nevertheless expect to open the presents found under its branches on Christmas Day.
Ages 10 and up - A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck.
Twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, have surprising gifts bestowed upon them by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
- Sunday, December 13
Ages 3 to 8 - The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney.
An adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.
Ages 7 to 11 - The Doll Shop Downstairs by Yona Zeldis McDonough.
Nine-year-old Anna thinks of a way to save her family's beloved doll repair shop when World War I breaks out; based on the story of the first Madame Alexander dolls.
- Sunday, December 6
Ages 5 to 8 - Let's Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile.
Frankie and Sal, who have done it all, decide to try doing nothing, and discover that’s not as easy as it might seem.
Ages 10 to 13 - Faith, Hope, and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites they have a lot in common.
- Sunday, November 22
Ages 5 and up – Nubs: the True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle by Brian Dennis.
Nubs befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
Ages 8 to 13 - The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo.
Peter, a ten-year-old orphan, encounters a fortune teller who tells him that an elephant will lead him to his sister whom he thought was dead, and embarks on a series of adventures in his search for her.
- Sunday, November 15
Ages 4 and up - All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant.
A young boy savors a day on his family’s farm, exploring nature, napping in a hammock with his mother and hiking in the woods with his father.
Ages 9 to 12 - The Dream Stealer by Sid Fleischman.
A plucky Mexican girl tries to recover her dream from the Dream Stealer who takes her to his castle where countless dreams and even more adventures await.
- Sunday, November 8
Ages 5 to 8 - The Elevator Man by Stanley Trachtenberg.
When the elevator in a 1950s apartment building is modernized, a young resident misses the operator.
Ages 10 to 13 - Operation Yes by Sara Lewis Holmes.
When Miss Loupe, a beginning teacher who uses improvisational acting in her class at an Air Force base school, learns her brother has been injured, class members use what they have learned to help her and her brother, as well as other wounded soldiers.
- Sunday, November 1
Ages 2 to 6 - Posy by Linda Newbery.
Posy the kitten has lots of adventures catching spiders, swiping crayons, tangling yarn, and cuddling.
Ages 9 to 12 - Everything for a Dog by Ann M. Martin.
Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, while Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
- Sunday, October 25
Ages 5 to 7 - Oddly by Joyce Dunbar.
A lost little boy is found by three new friends and takes them home with him just in time for supper.
Ages 9 to 14 - The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan.
In the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness, as well as local bullies, his father's failed expectations, and a little sister with an eye for trouble.
- Sunday, October 18
Ages 2 to 5 - Bears on Chairs by Shirley Parenteau.
Four bears are happily sitting on their four chairs, until a fifth bear appears and does not have a chair.
Ages 7 to 10 - Dessert First by Hallie Durand.
Third-grader Dessert's love of treats leads to a change in her family's dinner routine, an awful mistake, and a true sacrifice after her teacher, Mrs. Howdy Doody, urges students to march to the beat of their own drums.
- Sunday, October 11
Ages 5 to 8 - Yoon and the Jade Bracelet by Helen Recorvits.
Although she wanted a jump rope for her birthday, Yoon is happy to receive a jade bracelet passed down from her grandmother, and when she wears the bracelet to school it seems as if her wish for a jump rope and a friend is about to come true.
.Ages 8 to 12 - The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O'Connor.
The highlight of Popeye's summer is learning vocabulary words with his grandmother until a motor home gets stuck nearby and Elvis, who lives inside, joins Popeye in investigating strange boats floating down the creek.
- Sunday, October 4
Ages 3 to 6 - The Sleepy Little Alphabet: a Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town by Judy Sierra.
Sleepy letters of the alphabet get ready for bed.
Ages 6 to 9 - What Really Happened to Humpty? From the Files of a Hard-Boiled Detective by Joe Dumpty as told to Jeanie Franz Ransom.
Detective Joe Dumpty rushes to investigate the mysterious circumstances under which his older brother, Humpty, fell from a wall on his first day as captain of the new Neighborhood Watch program.
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