New Pooh

Are you cheering or jeering over the new Winnie the Pooh adventure? Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the first authorized sequel to the original Milne books, is being released today!

The author is David Benedictus, who made 2 adaptations of the original books for audio. They are illustrated by Mark Burgess, a children's book illustrator, working in what looks very much like the Shepard style.

"The first Pooh book in 80 years?" you say. "What was all the Disney stuff, chopped liver?" Disney bought the television, film, and merchandising rights in 1961, but the Milne estate retained the rights to sequels. I'm not really clear myself on the difference, but my guess is that all those Disney books are considered "merchandising" of the various film and TV characters.

And speaking of characters, the new book will introduce a new friend to the Wood: Lottie the Otter. Are we ready for this? :)

New Books!

I worked at ALA Midwinter as a volunteer, so got to explore the exhibits for awhile after. I spent most of the time looking at new books. Here are some of my favorites (thanks to Betsy for ordering quickly):

Martha Doesn't Say Sorry by Samantha Berger

Little Oink by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Stella Unleashed by Linda Ashman (Colorado Author)

Also since Beth Krommes won the Caldecott, we have ordered more of her books. My favorite is Grandmother Winter.

You can always find more new books, dvds and cds for kids on Tales' Treehouse. I update it a couple of times a week.