Make your New Year's Resolution Reading
by Selene Vasquez

Picture Books: Ages 5 thru 8

I.Q. Goes to the Library
by Mary Ann Fraser
(CIP, unpaged, $15.95)
With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, this little mouse pays homage to Library Week by exploring all the resources and services offered in a contemporary school media center. A winning follow-up story to his first adventure I.Q. Goes to School .

Good Night Sam
by Marie-Louise Gay
(CIP, unpaged, $14.95)
A wide-eyed toddler makes his older sister find their doggie so he can sleep peacefully. A gentle story about all those monsters in the closet, menacing shadows on the wall, and unknown noises that compose our childhood bedtime fears. Delicate watercolor and pen drawings with moonlit highlights.

Fiction: Ages 5 thru 12

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Robert Sabuda
(Simon and Schuster, 12 pp., $24.95).
Breathtaking three-dimensional tribute to a gloriously magical tale. A veritable feat of paper engineering with six dazzling spreads, shiny foils, and the most imaginative movable insets.

Babar's Museum of Art
by Laurent De Brunhoff
(CIP, 44 pp., $16.95)
Babar and Celeste establish a museum in the old Celesteville train station echoing such noted classic artwork as Rubens, Cezanne, Whistler, and Pollock. An introduction to museums for the young with Babar's gentle and wise reminder "There are no rules to tell us what art is."#

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