Free Book Friday!
Doesn’t that sound great? Visit here to find out what teen book will be given away this coming Friday, and enter to possibly win. There is also this site which will direct you to the Teens page, Fiction (for adults), Romance, and/or Indie books. One or another of the categories may be closed for a while, but will reopen when books are available. It’s a quick, easy, and fun way to find out about some new titles.
I recently read Frankie Works the Night Shift by Lisa Westburg Peters. Frankie, a cat wearing an apron, “works” in a hardware store. The simple text and clever illustrations in this counting book reveal all of Frankie’s duties (he calls three meetings – with neighborhood cats and dogs). But when a mouse is on the scene, Frankie really gets to work. Kids will love the mess left behind, and the fact that Frankie “doesn’t do much of anything during the day.” Photos of real animals, tools, and furniture blend with drawings to give us a fun look at Frankie’s night. This picture book will work well (if you are planning ahead) for the 2012 Summer Reading Program about nighttime: Dream Big – Read!
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
