Winter 2002-2003 Children's Book Sense 76 Top Ten Picks

Here's the first of the Winter Kids' 76, intended for use from December and into the new year. (The next Kids' 76 won't be until late spring 2003.) This is the result of great recommendations, as always, but the Top Ten was child's play to figure out, if you will!

This 76 will be in the November white box mailing, if we can get it off to, and back from, the printer in time. Stay tuned.

Full 76 to run here next week.

Carl
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1. A HOUSE CALLED AWFUL END: Book One of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy, by Philip Ardagh; illus. by David Roberts (Holt, $14.95, 0805068287) Ages 9-12.

2. A CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE, by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic, $15.95, 0439388805) Ages 9-12.

3. FEED, by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick, $16.99, 0763617261) Teens.

4. TOOT & PUDDLE: Top of the World, by Holly Hobbie (Little, Brown, $15.95, 0316365130) Ages 4-8

5. FIREBOAT: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, written and illustrated by Maira Kalman (Putnam, $16.99, 0399239537) Ages 4-8.

6. THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION, by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson Books/Atheneum/S&S, $17.95, 0689852223) Teens.

7. THE SANDS OF TIME, by Michael Hoeye (Dutton, $14, 0399238794) Ages 9-12. Also a Listening Library Audio (0807208833)

8. NEW YORK'S BRAVEST, by Mary Pope Osborne; illus. by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Knopf, $15.95, 0375821961) Ages 4-8.

9. THE SPIDER & THE FLY, by Mary Howitt; illus. by Tony DiTerlizzi (Simon & Schuster, $16.95, 0689852894) Ages 4-8.

10. CATALYST, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking, $17.99, 0670035661) Teens. Also a Listening Library Audio (0807209392)