Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

Meeting an eccentric professor after moving to a new home in Norway, 11-year-old Nilly learns about the professor's gaseous invention that is powerful enough to send people into outer space, an innovation that Nilly and his friend Lisa must keep out of evil hands

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Kinetic Contraptions: Build a Hovercraft, Airboat, and More With a Hobby Motor

Provides step-by-step instructions for building two dozen hobby motor projects using readily available materials, in a guide for budding engineers that includes such examples as a mechanical bubble maker, a double paddle-wheeler and a waterless snow globe.

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Letters to a Soldier

When Mrs. Julie Hutt's fourth-grade class in Roslyn, New York, wrote letters to soldiers abroad to thank them for their service and ask them what it is like to be a U.S. soldier, First Lieutenant Falvey, a military police officer serving in Baghdad with the Army National Guard, answered their questions and shares his own personal photographs and words along with the children's letters.

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The Blessing of the Beasts

Francesca the cockroach and her good friend Martin the skunk, whom she met some time ago in a trash can, live in a soup kitchen on the poor side of town. When three uptown roaches bring word of a blessing of the animals to be held at the cathedral across town, Francesca decides that she and Martin should go. (She was after all, named after Francis the good human, who loved the unlovable). The lowly but determined friends manage to cross town - Francesca in Martin's left ear - and join all manner of creatures great and small for a glorious celebration and blessing. Ethel Pochocki is the author of several previous children's books and is a former librarian at the New York Public Library. Engravings by Barry Moser are almost haunting in their beauty, even - and maybe especially - the ones of the animal outcasts. Both text and pictures are witty and elegant. Readers of any age will be reminded that God's love is for all, even the least of these.

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