Pam Muñoz Ryan, read by multiple narrators, music by Corky Siege. Scholastic Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 10.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-545-78836-6
It’s hard to imagine a better way to experience this story than in the audiobook format. Music infuses the entire plot line; the characters are cellists, pianists, conductors, and singers. They hear orchestras and have chamber concerts in their...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author . Scholastic/Signature $4.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-439-12042-5
"With a hint of magical realism, this robust novel set in 1930 captures a Mexican girl's fall from riches and her immigration to California," said PW
in our Best Books citation. Ages 8-12. (June)
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-439-26969-8
Fifth-grader Naomi's great-grandmother has been a loving guardian for Naomi and Owen, her handicapped brother, since their mother divorced their father and abandoned them in Lemon Tree, Calif., seven years before. When the children's mother,
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Pam Muñoz Ryan. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-439-87402-1
The fairy tale that opens this elegant trio of interconnected stories from Ryan (The Dreamer) sets the tone for the rest of the book, in which a mystical harmonica brings together three children growing up before and during WWII. Friedrich, an...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author . Scholastic Apple $5.99 (246p) ISBN 978-0-439-26997-1
Fifth-grader Naomi's great-grandmother has been a loving guardian for Naomi and her brother since their mother abandoned them seven years before; now she has suddenly reappeared. In a starred review, PW
called this "a tender tale about...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (327p) ISBN 978-0-439-87362-8
An overprotected orphan, an imperious guardian who dies suddenly, a tender reunion with long-lost rustic relatives—Ryan (Esperanza Rising
) opens her tween crowd-pleaser with tried-and-true material, and follows with even more of a sure thing,
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Jerry Pallotta, Joint Author, Frank Mazzola, Jr., Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88106-954-9
In a high-tech approach to a low-tech subject, computer-generated crayons strike different poses on each page of this surprisingly animated counting book. The crayons appear in rows, pyramids and pairs do-si-do-ing in a line; they stand on their...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Claudia Rueda, Illustrator , illus. by Claudia Rueda. Scholastic $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-26968-1
A sense of enchantment pervades this tender love story, which begins when a mysterious bird called a pitacoche
, arrives in the San Juan valley. Rueda (Going to Grandma's Farm
) depicts the gray-brown adobe town as dull in hue but elegant in its
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Selznick. Scholastic $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-26967-4
The creative team behind Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
returns with a picture book biography as understated and graceful as its subject, singer Marian Anderson (1897-1993). Tracing the African-American diva from her beginnings as an eight-year-ol
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator Scholastic $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-96075-5
In this sparkling picture book based on a true incident, Ryan (Riding Freedom, with Selznick) proves that Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt truly were ""birds of a feather."" Friends in real life, America's First Lady invited the ""First Lady of...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator Scholastic $5.99 (138p) ISBN 978-0-439-08796-4
PW's starred review called this fictionalized biography of equestrian Charlotte ""Charley"" Parkhurst--who lived her life disguised as a man and was the first woman voter in the U.S.--an ""ebullient and tautly structured novel that moves along at a...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Sís. Scholastic Press $17.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-439-26970-4
Ryan's (Paint the Wind
) wandering and imaginative prose and Sís's (The Wall
) quietly haunting art fuse in this fictionalized account of Pablo Neruda's upbringing in the small town of Temuco, Chile. Precocious, terribly shy,...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Joe Cepeda, Illustrator , illus. by Joe Cepeda. Scholastic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-18303-1
Muñoz's (Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride) rollicking birthday tale stars one Spanish-speaking grandmother, one very long list of party preparations and a band of enterprising mice. Rosa María spends all week getting ready for her...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Ralph Masiello, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88106-845-0
Strike up the band and prepare to salute-this patriotic picture book unabashedly celebrates the Stars and Stripes. In a series of earnest verses, Ryan (One Hundred Is a Family) introduces young readers to our national symbol and the ideals for which
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, David M. McPhail, Illustrator , illus. by David McPhail. Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0501-3
In the opening illustration in this winsome tome, a mother reads to her two children as their stuffed animals look on and rain falls outside. Then, as a rainbow fills the sky, the siblings play in a mud puddle while their toy menagerie watches from...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Pam Munoz Ryan, Author Scholastic Press $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-439-12041-8
Told in a lyrical, fairy tale - like style, Ryan's (riding Freedom) robust novel set in 1930 captures a Mexican girl's fall from riches, her immigration to California and her growing awareness of class and ethnic tensions. Thirteen-year-old...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator Scholastic Press $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-590-95766-3
The true story of Charlotte ""Charley"" Darkey Parkhurst, a woman who lived her life disguised as a man so she could be a stagecoach driver, is the basis for this ebullient and tautly structured novel. Charlotte, a girl who ""couldn't sew a stitch...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Brian Selznick, Illustrator Scholastic en Espanol $4.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-439-23761-1
Gr 4-6-Based on the true-life experience of Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst, this Spanish translation of Muoz Ryan's popular 1999 title, promises to keep independent readers engaged through to the end. Charlotte finds her niche caring for horses after
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Mark Astrella, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88106-987-7
This rhyming picture book about the pleasures of a day at the beach gets off to a rocky start. ""Hello, ocean,/ my old best friend./ I'm here,/ with the five of me, again!"" read the opening lines, but only four figures appear on the page. It may...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Luther L. McDougal, III, Author, Mark Astrella, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-372-3
Relayed in Spanish as well as English, this rhyming picture book pays tribute to the pleasures of a day at the beach. ""Astrella's acrylics on airbrushed paper take on an almost photographic quality,"" wrote PW. Ages 3-8. (July)
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Kathleen McInerney, Read by , read by Kathleen McInerney. Scholastic Audiobooks $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-545-04512-4
When her imperious grandmother dies suddenly, 11-year-old Maya, an orphan, is sent to Wyoming to live with her mother's family—strangers to her, thanks to her grandmother's high-handed notions. There Maya discovers a love of horses, especially...
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Pam Muñoz Ryan, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham, Scholastic Press, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-23135-0
Ryan's (The Dreamer) exuberant story takes a fresh look at sibling dynamics from the perspective of a beleaguered macaroni penguin caught between bossy Big Sister Baloney and twin Bothersome Babies Baloney. "When it is absolutely necessary, or most...
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Pam Muñoz Ryan, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic Press, $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-48166-3
Tony Baloney the penguin faces his first day of school in this early reader, and as in his eponymous 2010 picture book, he uses imagined conversations with his stuffed bird, Dandelion, to work out his feelings. “What if I get lost on the way to the...
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Rafael Lopez, Illustrator , illus. by Rafael López. Charlesbridge (0p) ISBN 978-1-58089-116-5
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Rafael Lopez, Illustrator , illus. by Rafael López. Charlesbridge $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58089-117-2
López's (My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia
) stylized, exuberant paintings make it clear why no other state in the continental U.S. has California's magical pull on the popular imagination. A whirlwind loop tour whisks readers through
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Pam Munoz Ryan, Author, Pamela Munoz Ryan, Author, Dennis Nolan, Illustrator , illus. by Dennis Nolan. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5492-9
In poignant poetry, Ryan (Esperanza Rising
) reminds readers that the first Christmas Eve was not the wintry celebration that many children know today, but rather a miraculous balmy night in a faraway desert. Nolan (The Perfect Wizard
) effectively...
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Benrei Huang, Illustrator, Pam Munoz Ryan, Author Hyperion Books $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-56282-672-7
The politically correct concept driving this counting book is that families are not just parents and children; in fact, ``every ONE on earth'' can be a family ``caring for the fragile universe.'' Huang's clear watercolors, kid-friendly with their...
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