PB Planet Daily Specials--7/20/09

Here are the PBs I read on my planet today--have you read them? What did you think?

Alligator Arrived with Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast by Crescent Dragonwagon, illustrated by José Aruego and Ariane Dewey (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987).

Bambi’s First Day by Felix Salten, illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (Sleeping Bear Press, Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group from BAMBI: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten, 1928 Simon & Schuster, Inc., renewed 1956 by Simon and Schuster.)

Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy by David Somar and Jacky Davis (Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers Group, 2009).

The Sand Children by Joyce Dunbar, illustrated by Mark Edwards (Crocodile Books, USA; Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 1999.)

The Travels of Igal Shidad (Safarada Cigaal Shidaad): A Somali Folktale, retold by Kelly Dupre, illustrated by Amin Amir, Somali translation by Said Salah Ahmed (Minnesota Humanities Center/Somali Bilingual Book Project, 2008).