"Here is the key to the house." And so the story begins. Once you take the key, oh, what wonderful adventures you'll have! You will meet a book and the book will introduce you to a bird. The bird? She has a song! A beautiful song that she'll sing for you if you listen. Beth Krommes illustrated this 2009 Caldecott illustration award winner with black and white scratchboard with yellow highlights. This is a wonderful book for children who enjoy nursery rhymes. Also good for those readers who like cumulative stories; for example, “This is the House That Jack Built,” and “Hush Little Baby.”The Graveyard Book (2008) Neil Gaiman.
Nobody Owens, Bod for short, lives in a graveyard. Yes, you read correctly, a graveyard. He lives among tombstones and the ghosts that inhabit the underneath of those stones. He is raised by a lovely elderly couple who never had children when they were alive. Bod also has a guardian, and he's a member of the "undead." All work together to help Bod solve the mystery of what happened to his family. Gaiman won the 2009 Newbery award for excellence in children's literature for this tale of the dead. This book bridges the gap between children’s and teen literature. Also, with vampire characters and the walking dead, this book serves as a light suggestion before readers consume the Twilight series.The Uglified Ducky: A Maynard Moose Tale (2008) Willy Claflin.
A very uglified ducky in the piney woods of Maine suffers from a bad case of antlers. In addition, when it's time to make a proper ducky sound but instead goes "gronk aroo." Parents and doctor are baffled. Then, one day, the ducky meets a "magnifusent brown beasty" and he learns that he may not be a ducky after all. This story is great for those children with a sophisticated sense of humor. It could also be used with those readers addicted to Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling” or fairy tales all around.
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