The New Yorker and Book Sense Help Readers Cut Through the Hype

The November 8 issue of The New Yorker, on newsstands last week, featured the latest installment of "Just Kidding," highlighting independent booksellers' title recommendations for children and young adults, from the Book Sense Picks lists. The special insert also includes a full-page ad featuring the top ten titles on the Autumn 2004 Book Sense Kids' Picks. The ad and insert copy direct readers to independent bookstores and www.booksense.com for more book suggestions.

Among the titles and booksellers featured in the special insert are:

• Kim Fox of Schuler Books & Music in Grand Rapids, Michigan, recommending Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin (Harcourt)
  
• Sue Carita of The Toadstool Bookshop in Milford, New Hampshire, recommending Zazoo by Richard Mosher (Graphia/Houghton Mifflin)
  
• Nicole White of Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California, recommending Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins (Delacorte)
  
• Dana Harper of Brystone Children's Books in Fort Worth, Texas, recommending Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Machiyo Kodaira (Holt)
  
• Carl Wichman of Varsity Mart in Fargo, North Dakota, recommending Gregory Maguire's Leaping Beauty and Other Animal Fairy Tales, illustrated by Chris L. Demarest (HarperCollins)
  
• Laura Ziock of Altamont Books in Livermore, California, recommending T.H. White's Mistress Masham's Repose (The New York Review Children's Collection)
  
• Leigh Ann Johnson of Seattle's University Book Store recommending A Musical Journey: From the Great Wall of China to the Water Towns of Jiangnan by Liow Kah Joon (SilkRoad Networks)
  
• Betty Bennett of Bennett Books in Wyckoff, New Jersey, recommending Wild About Books by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Marc Brown (Knopf)
  
• Carol Moyer of Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, North Carolina, recommending Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables, retold and illustrated by Helen Ward (Chronicle Books)
  
• Kelly Justice of The Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, recommending When the Sky Is Like Lace by Elinor Lander Horwitz (Viking)
  
• Wendi Gratz of Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati recommending Dog Blue by Polly Dunbar (Candlewick)
  
• Susie Fruncillo of Lake Country Booksellers in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, recommending The Best Pet of All by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Hanako Wakiyama (Dutton Children's Books)
  
• Erin Shuster of Schuler Books & Music in Lansing, Michigan, recommending Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood, illustrated by Bruce Wood (Blue Sky/Scholastic)
  
• Lois Proctor of The Bookseller in Ardmore, Oklahoma, recommending Goodnight Goodnight Sleepyhead by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Jane Dyer (HarperCollins)