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		<title>The Apothecary by Maile Meloy &#8211; Harry Potter with a Cold War Twist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maile Meloy&#8217;s (pronounced MY-lee like Miley Cyrus) middle-grade novel The Apothecary is a bit like Harry Potter meets the pharmacy meets the Cold War.  Instead of wizards and spells you have apothecaries and magical elixirs, and instead of evil Voldemort you have governments bent on nuclear domination. The year is 1952.  The place is London.  Janie Scott has been forced to move from Los Angeles with her screenwriter parents who have been blacklisted.  Soon she meets and makes friend with the daring and adventurous Benjamin Burrows, a classmate who is practicing his espionage skills in the hopes of one-day being a spy for Great Britain.  Heaven knows, he&#8217;d never like to be like his dull apothecary father who runs a boring pharmacy that has been in the family for generations. But boring old dad isn&#8217;t just a pharmacist&#8211;he&#8217;s a chemist, a scientist with an ancient book called the Pharmacopoeia that is full of directions for elixirs, potions, and chemical reactions.   Benjamin&#8217;s father is also involved in a plot to save the world from the devastating effects of the atom bomb.  Soon Janie and Benjamin are running from Russian spies, double-agents, and truancy officers as they race to save Benjamin&#8217;s father and prevent nuclear disaster.  The Apothecary is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babies Who Love Trains:  Freight Train by Donald Crews</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let me hasten to say that this book isn&#8217;t just for babies.  However, Freight Train  (HarperCollins, 1978) is a great picture book for babies.  It&#8217;s also a book that can grow with your baby.   Donald Crews won a Caldecott Medal for Freight Train.  It&#8217;s got a sleek, graphic arts feel as page by page it moves us along the tracks from railroad car to railroad car:  &#8221;Red caboose at the back, Orange tank car next&#8221; right up to the &#8220;Black steam engine.&#8221;  The book teaches about trains, colors, motion, opposites like country and city, day and night-and all in just twenty-two pages. Not all my children loved trains (although one particular little boy did!), but they all loved this book.  Our well-worn picture copy is a paperback, but I&#8217;ve also seen Freight Train as a board book in two different sizes.  I just bought it for a new baby, a baby boy who just might love trains.]]></description>
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