Mercy Watson No.3 finally showed up in this town.

We have been checking the shelves for weeks for the new story in the series, this one is called "Mercy Watson Fights Crime" by Kate Dicamillo. I love the quality of these books, the size and excellent colour illustrations by Chris Van Dusen . This book may of come into the bookshop before we found it because they had been mishelved and were in with the American Girl series of books!?! Is this the last one in the series? I looked and cannot see any more on Amazon, that would be a shame.

New book finds from last week.

Well Lumpy is back at school and enjoying being a Second Grader, I was sad the first few days but now I am getting back into and it's not so bad!! I am keeping busy right now redoing our family room, a new three piece has finally been chosen but actually has four pieces. So now it is floor covering, Lumpy Senior is keen to replace the carpet with hardwood, that is not working out so simple or cheap, but more about that later.

So onto the new book finds in the Kids Fiction area of my bookshop with a 20oz white chocoalte mocha, skimmed milk, no whipped cream in hand and absolutely no interuptions.....

"Golden & Grey: The Nightmares That Ghosts Have" by Louise Arnold is the follow up to "Golden & Grey (An Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost)" series about a 11yr old boy and a ghost who becomes his friend. In the UK the title of the first book is "The Invisible Friend" and the new one is "Ghost School"

Yeah "Framed" is on the shelves here! Same author as the book and movie "Millions", Frank Cottrell Boyce has written a new book based on an true story from WWII about paintings stored in slate mines in Wales. A young welsh boy is the main character in this story and it is set in tiny village. A book after my heart!!





"Escape From Castle Cant" by K.P.Bath is another second in a series, the first being "The Secret Of Castle Cant". We just got the first one, but I have not had chance to read it yet, inside the cover says...A shy girl-A loyal Servant-A cunning spy and rebel-until she discovers the truth.....

Here is possible new series by a new author P J Haarsma The sci-fi is called "The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1" and involves a 14yr old boy with special abilities with computer communication that bring attention to him when thing go wrong in the alien factories.

"Part Of Me" by Kimberly Willis Holt

"Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow" by James Howe

"Mistmantle Chronicles, The: Urchin and the Heartstone - Book #2" by M. I. McAllister

"The Palace of Laughter: The Wednesday Tales No. 1" (Julie Andrews Collection) by Jon Berkeley

PlanetEsme wrote a review on this in her Book-A-Day Plan last week.

"The Beasts of Clawstone Castle" by Eva Ibbotson

"Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Walendas" by Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin

Fusenumber8 wrote a long review on this book last thursday, go read her thoughts.

"Dear Max" by DJLucas AKA Sally Grindley

"The Snow Spider" by Jenny Nimmo First in the new Magician Trilogy.

"Corby Flood" by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell This was the only one I bought, Lumpy so enjoyed the Fergus Crane (see previous posts in July) edition of the Far Flung Adventures. So I could not resist getting it to read aloud, especially when I discovered that the dust jacket unfolded to produce a large version of the map!! That's brilliant as now L can look at the map as the story goes along, instead of my halting my oral adventure so that he can find the destinations as they are mentioned. Wonderful idea, love, love, love it and I will post photos of it later when blogger is behaving itself. As well as photos to go with the books I've listed. By the way it was xmas in August for me finding all these delicous new books, all of them hardbacks.

If anyone has reviewed any of these books already please let me know and I will glady add a link to it.

A New Fly Guy!

Woohoo, look what I found for Lumpy yesterday, a third book in Tedd Arnold's "Fly Guy" series. It had just been added to the bookshops shelf, following "Hi, Fly Guy" two months ago and the original "Super Fly Guy" last year. Great timing to cheer my wee fella up as he had four baby teeth pulled in the morning, he did wonderful, but I was feeling like the worse mother ever. Those suckers still has huge roots on them, and this professional & well paid dentist had pliers in my kids mouth, boohoo. The fairy left him $20, that was the main thought that got him thru the ordeal, he needed more money to save up for a army tank he has spotted in Target ( and the fairy had amazinglyy figured out how much he needed, bloody clever these fairies!)

New Angie Sage Series

Found these cute little books today at the bookshop, and the author is a good old English lady, Angie Sage who wrote the Septimus Heap tales Magyk, Flyte and Physik ( I have Magyk on its way to us/me right now so looking forward to reading that). So this new series is called "Araminta Spookie" ( in the UK it is Araminta Spook not Spookie!) and they are very very similar in size and style as the Spiderwick Chronicle books, which I adore. The story is about a haunted house which the Aunt wants to sell, Araminta her neice wants to stop her!!




I found the books shelved in the Kds Fiction rather than the Intermediate Readers like the SC series are. They are going on my wishlist, the cover illustration reminds me a lot of the USA edition of the 'Pure Dead' series by Debi Gliori.