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Warriors Creator

visits

Friday, September 5^th

 4:30 to 6:30

Cover to Cover will host Victoria Holmes, one of three writers collaborating on the Warriors series and known collectively by the pseudonym Erin Hunter. Victoria will give a short talk about the series, read from Book Four of The Power of Three series Eclipse, and autograph books for her many fans. Please call Cover to Cover at (614) 263-1624 and lets us know if you will be attending and to reserve tickets for the autograph line. There are no limits on books purchased that evening for autographing, but we will limit books brought from home to one per person.

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BOARD BOOKS

 Hands Can - $7.99

 Hands can do all kinds of things! A rhyming text with eye-catching color photos offers just the encouragement young children need to explore their world - hands on.

Hands can hold things.
Hands can mold things.
Hands can catch
and hands can throw.

Hands can do much more, of course - wave hello and goodbye, play peekaboo, touch things, clap, even tie a shoe. For the very young, hands are a never-ending source of discovery and a means of mastery in an ever-unfolding world. With singsong rhythm, simple design, and alluring color photos of toddlers, HANDS CAN invites the littlest readers to discover the many things hands can do.

 Trains - Lap Edition - $12.99

 Byron Barton introduces young readers to the excitement of trains in this bold and colorful book. All aboard as the train journeys through a town, past workers repairing a rail and into the station.

 EARLY PICTURE BOOKS

 Butterfly, Butterfly - $12.99

 Little ones will hover over this colorful look at insect critters as they peek through die-cuts and enjoy a final pop-up surprise.
Lucy sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden, along with a bright green beetle, a brilliant blue dragonfly, some red ladybugs, and many more flying and crawling things. But when will the radiant butterfly appear again? Petr Horácek uses his trademark saturated hues and simple shapes to create an enticing view of the world of colors - and a peekaboo look at the slow-paced life abuzz in the backyard garden.
 

 Duck, Duck, Goose - $15.99

 Duck & Goose, Goose & Duck. Feathered friends forever . . . or are they? That's what we discover in this charming and hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Duck & Goose. You see, there's a challenge to their friendship: a little whippersnapper of a duck named Thistle. Thistle's good at everything (or so she thinks), from math to holding her breath to standing on her head. Duck thinks she's fantastic. But Goose does not! And so Goose is faced with a problem close to the hearts of children everywhere: what happens when your best friend makes a new friend?

 A Good Day - $16.99

It started out as a bad day for little yellow bird, little white dog, little orange fox, and little brown squirrel. Until . . .
A discovery, and love, and luck and persistence, and a different point of view changed all that. What can turn a bad day into a good day? You decide.

PICTURE BOOKS

 Froggy Plays T-Ball - $15.99

 It’s Froggy’s first day on the T-ball team, and he couldn’t be more excited,with his dad as the coach and his whole family cheering him on. But when Coach Dad tells him to catch some flies out in right field, he takes the advice with his usual gusto—literally! Froggy can’t seem to do anything right, but once he starts paying attention, his playing improves. He even hits a home run, and runs all the way—to his house! The perfect introduction to a favorite sport, Froggy Plays T-Ball reminds kids that it’s not whether you win or lose—it’s how you play the game (without getting bonked on the head!).

 Henry's Freedom Box - $16.99

 Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. When Henry grows up and marries, he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.

 Pirates Don't Change Diapers - $16.00

Ahoy, mateys! Braid Beard and his pirate crew are back in another swashbuckling adventure. The members of the gang drop by Jeremy Jacob’s house because they’ve run into a boatload of trouble and need to dig up the treasure buried in his backyard. The only problem is that their hooting and hollering wakes up Jeremy’s wee sister from her nap. Now the pirates, who know nothing about caterwauling babies, get to learn all about dirty diapers and strained spinach. Life on the high seas was never this hard! Pirates Don’t Change Diapers reunites Melinda Long and David Shannon, the team behind the bestselling How I Became a Pirate, for more fun. Aargh!

POETRY 

 Here's A Little Poem - $21.99

 This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one's library and a georgeous gift to be both shared and treasured.
Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes to A. A. Milne. Greeting the morning, enjoying the adventures of the day, cuddling up to a cozy bedtime - these are poems that highlight the moments of a toddler's world from dawn to dusk. Carefully gathered by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters and delightfully illustrated by Polly Dunbar, HERE'S A LITTLE POEM offers a comprehensive introduction to some remarkable poets, even as it captures a very young child's intense delight in the experiences and rituals of every new day.

 Bronzeville Boys and Girls - $16.99

 In 1956, Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks created a collection of poems that celebrated the joy, beauty, imagination, and freedom of childhood. She reminded us that whether we live in the Bronzeville section of Chicago or any other neighborhood, childhood is universal in its richness of emotions and experiences. And now a brand-new generation of readers will savor Ms. Brooks's poems in this stunning reillustrated edition that features vibrant paintings by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold.

FOLKTALES

The Little Red Hen - $16.99

"Oh joy of joys!" That’s the last line of The Little Red Hen, and it is also the perfect expression of how the book makes readers feel. The beloved story of the hardworking hen and her lazy neighbors, with its Golden Rule message and its sassy finale, is just as relevant and satisfying as ever. And who better to enliven it than the masterful Jerry Pinkney, who, through his warm, winsome, and slyly funny depiction, has created a definitive interpretation of the tale. Cheerful and classically beautiful, this is the ideal edition for every child’s library.

 The Trouble With Wishes - $16.99

A sculptor named Pyg carves a statue of a goddess so beautiful, so perfect, that he falls head over heels in love with her. He buys her gifts, tells her stories, and wishes with all his heart she were a real, live woman. The trouble with wishes is...sometimes they come true!

MIDDLE READER

 A Friendship For Today - $16.99

 The year is 1954, the place is Missouri, and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the first African American students to enter the white school in her town. Headstrong, smart Rosemary welcomes the challenge, but starting this new school gets more daunting when her best friend is hospitalized for polio. Suddenly, Rosemary must face all the stares and whispers alone. But when the girl who has shown her the most cruelty becomes an unlikely confidante, Rosemary learns important truths about the power of friendship to overcome prejudice.

 Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers - $12.99

Follow your nose to a hilarious Stink-fest no kid will want to miss!
GROSS ME OUT! STINK-O! SKUNKSVILLE!
Stink Moody's class is going on a field trip to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, and he can't wait to see the Vomit Machine, the Burp-O-Meter, and the Musical Farts. Best of all, when he gets to the Everybody Stinks exhibit, Stink discovers that his very own nose has amazing sniffing abilities - and he learns that some people have real jobs sniffing stuff for NASA! Soon the junior olfactory wiz is engrossed in toilet water, corpse flowers, and all things smelly, and he and Sophie of the Elves are set to go toe-to-toe in a stinky sneaker contest. Will Stink's fetid footwear be foul enough to earn him a Golden Clothespin Award? Stink's loyal fans will be holding their breath for his latest outrageous solo adventure.

 The Treasures of Weatherby - $15.95

Harleigh J. Weatherby IV feels misunderstood. At age twelve he is about as tall as a six-year-old, and no one lets him forget it. At school the bullies nicknamed him "Hardly." Now he is homeschooled at the Weatherby mansion, where strict Aunt Adelaide is always on his case about something.

Then Harleigh meets Allegra. When she literally flies over the walls of Weatherby and into Harleigh's life, the two form an unlikely friendship. Allegra is fascinated by the enormous Weatherby mansion, and against Harleigh's orders, sneaks inside. Together they discover that someone is trying to find -- and steal -- the long-lost Weatherby treasure. Will Harleigh and Allegra be able to foil the villain and save Weatherby House?

Three-time Newbery Honor winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder combines a cast of quirky characters with an eerie old mansion to create a spellbinding tale of mystery and magic.

YOUNG ADULT

 An Abundance of Katherines - $16.99

 When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun - but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself by Printz medalist John Green, acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska.

 The Black Tattoo - $19.99 

Debut author Sam Enthoven delivers a sprawling fantasy epic set in modern day London, about a fourteen-year old boy, Charlie, who thinks he's been given superpowers, but in fact has been possessed by a demon. The adventure brings Charlie--as well as his friend, Jack, and Esme, the one girl raised to stop the demon--from the streets of London into Hell itself, as they prepare for a battle with ultimate stakes.

The book combines the heart-stopping action of superhero comics and movies; the creepy, cool creatures of the best fantasy books; the semisupernatural martial arts fighting of movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix; and a healthy dose of humor to produce a knockout fantasy unlike anything you've seen before.

 Among the Free - $16.95

"Enough games," the man said, raising the gun yet again. "And enough of the Population Police, I say."

This time he cocked the gun and aimed carefully.

This is real, Luke thought. This is really going to happen.

"No, don't!" he screamed.

Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police laws. Now, in the final volume of Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful Shadow Children series, Luke inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped?

With all of the plot twists and excitement Haddix's fans have come to expect, Among the Free brings the Shadow Children sequence to a chilling conclusion.

NONFICTION

 Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship - $16.99

In this exciting follow-up to Owen & Mzee, the New York Times bestselling story about an orphaned baby hippo named Owen and the 130-year-old giant turtle, Mzee, Craig Hatkoff explores the language of love, friendship, and nurturance that these two incredible creatures share with one another. This book traces their first year together, including their adorable playful ways and the unique "language" that they have developed.

 A Seed is Sleepy - $16.95

Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.

 Ohio (State Shapes) - $9.95

Young readers are invited on a tour of the state considered to be America's "heartland," the state where more presidents were born than any other. Die-cut in the distinctive shape of Ohio, this delightful entry in the State Shapes series features lots of fun facts about Cleveland and Cincinnati, Lake Erie, and the hills and valleys of Appalachia. There's plenty of history, culture, folklore, plants, animals, sports, fairs, and more to be found within the covers of State Shapes Ohio—and plenty of fun, too.