Happy Pentecost!

Enjoy the humour, wit and clever craziness of our book selection this week, but first let's get creative with duck tape!

TAPE IT & MAKE IT
101 Duct Tape Activities
by Richela Fabian Morgan 

For many years a useful item in every household toolbox,duct tape has now taken on a second life as a medium for hobbyists of all ages. This fun-filled book offers dozens of creative ideas and easy-to-follow instructions for using duct tape to make everything from wallets and coin purses to novelty neckties and household decorations. Separate chapters give directions for projects that include—

   Duct Tape Accessories, clothing, flowers, animals, skyscrapers and more!
   

CHICK’S SICK!

by Kyle Newburn

CHICK’S SICK

By Kyle Mewburn

"Sun sets. Time to rest. Into hen house. Sit on nest." Another hilarious tale from an award-winning team, this sequel to Duck's Stuck features a sneaky snake who comes along to help the farm animals solve the problem of why Chick can't lay an egg - with surprise results!

999 Tadpoles Find a New Home

A sophisticated Picture Book full of energy & absurdity!

“We’ll have to move,” says Mother, after realizing the pond is too small. But moving a family of 999 young frogs is fraught with danger! Hungry snakes are crawling through the grass. Hungry hawks are flying through the sky. A young frog makes a mighty tasty morsel.

Never underestimate the quick wits of 999 young frogs!

RE-ZOOM

By Istvan Banyai

Re-Zoom resumes, or more accurately, reprises, the layout and nothing-is-as-it-seems perspective of last season's Zoom. Featuring detailed drawings this text-free volume opens with a red-on-blue cave painting that, with the turn of a page, becomes a detail on a wristwatch. The next spread reveals that the watch belongs to a young man doing a rubbing of carved hieroglyphs... and so on. To surprise his audience, Banyai toys not only with spatial relations but with time and with cultures: people in 19th-century garb, admiring an image of Napoleon, turn out to be on a movie set; a woman in traditional Japanese dress sports a yellow Walkman. There are nods to the arts as well. The finale-which leaves readers in a subway tunnel...

a clever solution. 

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

By W E Joyce

The story starts in New Orleans with the Keaton-like Mr. Morris Lessmore writing a book on the balcony of a hotel. A menacing storm swirls into town, blowing away houses and street signs, taking Mr. Lessmore and his unfinished book with it. Lessmore is transported to a land filled with fluttering novels; a land where he can dedicate his life to filling his book with the abundance of words 

he is now surrounded with.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VljJIQuPDSE
   

   
   

STUCK

By Oliver Jeffers

We meet a little boy named Floyd who, one day, winds up with his kite stuck in a tree. The most logical thing to do, Floyd thinks, is to throw his shoe at it. When that gets stuck, what’s he to do but throw his other shoe? With each page something, or someone, new ends up stuck and each character or object is more colourful and outrageous then the one that came before it. With his “logical” decisions Floyd takes us on a journey with one objective in mind- to get his kite un-stuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hipx6HJs4XQ