books i've read may 2010

5.1.10

• Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty (PB)
  
• In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap by Alexs Pate (A-NF)

5.2.10

• Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich (A)

5.5.10

• Adored by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)

5.6.10

• Itty Bitty by Cece Bell (PB)
• The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood & Renata Liwska (PB)

5.7.10

• Oddly by Joyce Dunbar & Patrick Benson (PB)
• The Falling Raindrop by Neil Johnson & Joel Chin (PB)

5.8.10

• New Mexico Curiosities by Sam Lowe (A-NF)

5.9.10

• The Naughty List by Suzanne Young (YA)
• Ms. Wiz Spells Trouble by Terence Blacker & Tony Ross (Y)

5.10.10

• Cat the Cat, Who Is That? by Mo Willems (PB)
• Big Wolf & Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec (PB)
  
• My Heart Is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall (PB)
• Lom and the Gnatters by Kurusa & Isabel Ferrer (PB)
• Bee-Wigged by Cece Bell (PB)

5.11.10

• Be Generous: 101 Meditations and Suggestions to Get You Through the Day (and Night) by David Marell (A-NF)
• On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (A-NF)

5.12.10

• happyface by Stephen Emond (YA)

5.13.10

• The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward (PB)
• Strega Nona's Harvest by Tomie dePaola (PB)
• My Garden by Kevin Henkes (PB)
• Hiccup the Seasick Viking by Cressida Cowell (PB)
• The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, & Lisa Rinzler (A-NF)

5.14.10

• Riding Invisible by Sandra Alonzo & Nathan Huang (YA)

5.15.10

• The Costume Party by Victoria Chess (PB)
• Kitty's Cuddles by Jane Cabrera (PB)
• Bob and Otto by Robert O. Bruel & Nick Bruel (PB)
• Stanley's Beauty Contest by Linda Bailey & Bill Slavin (PB)
• Wallace's Lists by Barbara Bottner, Gerald Kruglik, & Olof Landstrom (PB)
• Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Bemelmans Marciano (A-NF)
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan (YA)

5.16.10

• Beautiful Dead: Jonas by Eden Maguire (YA)
• Foyle's Further Philavery: A Cornucopia of Lexical Delights compiled by Christopher Foyle (A-NF)

5.17.10

• Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George (YA)

5.18.10

• Creature by Andrew Zuckerman (A-NF)
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey (A-NF)
• Vatos by Jose Galvez & Luis Alberto Urrea (A-NF)
• Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg (A-NF)
• The Best Camera Is the One That's With You by Chase Jarvis (A-NF)
• Bookworm by Rosamond Purcell (A-NF)

5.19.10

• The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting (YA)

5.20.10

• Hip Hop Dog by Chris Raschka & Vladimir Radunsky (PB)
• Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett & Noah B. Jones (PB)
• Green Angel by Alice Hoffman (YA)
• Green Witch by Alice Hoffman (YA)

5.21.10

• My So-Called Death by Stacey Jay (YA)

5.22.10

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (A-NF)

5.24.10

• Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers (YA)
• How to Twist a Dragon's Tale by Cressida Cowell (Y)

5.26.10

• The Waking: Dreams of the Dead by Thomas Randall (YA)
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise (A-NF)

5.27.10

• Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors by Joyce Sidman & Beckie Prange (Y-NF)
• Just Like Bossy Bear by David Horvath (PB)
• The Grouchies by Debbie Wagenbach & Steve Mack (PB)
• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun & Spite by June Casagrande (A-NF)

5.30.10

• Mortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right by June Casagrande (A-NF)

5.31.10

• Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths by Mardy Grothe (A-NF)
• Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss (A-NF)

05.10 total: 59

23 picture books; 19 adult non fiction; 1 adult fiction; 13 young adult fiction; 2 youth fiction; 1 youth non fiction