The Family Storybook Treasury
$18.99, Ages 4 - 8

Open the pages of this 304 page treasury with a child you love, and share the timeless tales and modern classics featured within. There's Curious George, Lyle the Crocodile, Martha the talking dog, the Five Little Monkeys, Mike Mulligan and more - along with poems by Douglas Florian, Calef Brown, and Joyce Sidman, among others. With a bonus audio CD of all 8 stories, this collection is a great value.

King Jack and the Dragon
Written by Peter Bentley
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
$17.99, ages 4 - 8

Jack, Zack, and baby Caspar spend all day fighting dragons in their homemade fort. But when Sir Zack and Caspar are taken inside for bed, King Jack - alone on his throne - finds himself feeling a bit less brave. A rollicking read-aloud with a charming surprise ending and Helen Oxenbury's spare, expressive illustrations, this kid-pleaser is a classic in the making.

The Princess and the Pig
Written by Jonathan Emmett
Illustrated by Poly Bernatene
$16.99, ages 4 - 8

There's been a terrible mix-up in the royal nursery. Priscilla the princess has accidentally switched places with Pigmella, the farmer's new piglet. The kindly farmer and his wife believe it's the work of a good witch, while the ill-tempered king and queen blame the bad witch -- after all, this happens in fairy tales all the time! While Priscilla grows up on the farm, poor yet very happy, things don't turn out quite so well for Pigmella. Kissing a frog has done wonders before, but will it work for a pig? This delightful story's frequent nods to well-known fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Princess, and Thumbelina, plus hilarious illustrations, will delight readers of any age.

A Zeal of Zebras: An Alphabet of Collective Nouns
By Woop
$17.99, ages 4 - 8

An embarrassment of pandas, a galaxy of starfish, a shiver of sharks...these are all collective nouns used to describe their groups. Woop Studios, acclaimed for their work on the Harry Potter movies, has illustrated these quirky phrases, creating beautiful art that has been collected here for the first time. The colorful introduction to animals and the alphabet is accessible for young children, while the gorgeous, whimsical art and clever wordplay make it perfect for design-savvy parents and inspired gift givers. Longer than the standard picture book, with high design and production values, this is a volume readers will want on their coffee tables in addition to their child's bookshelf.

The Money We'll Save
By Brock Cole
$16.99, ages 4 - 8

When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we'll save! But it's not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely. How the family joins together to solve this last difficulty makes for a very funny and satisfying holiday story. One of the best new Christmas books of this season!

Every Thing On It
By Shel Silverstein
$17.99, ages 7 and up

"A spider lives inside my head
Who weaves a strange and wondrous web
Of silken threads and silver strings
To catch all sorts of flying things,
Like crumbs of thought and bits of smiles
And specks of dried-up tears,
And dust of dreams that catch and cling
For years and years and years..."
Have you ever read a book with everything on it? Well, here it is, an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings from the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, Light in the Attic, and Falling Up. You will say Hi-ho for the toilet troll, get tongue-tied with Stick-a-Tongue-Out-Sid, play a highly unusual horn, and experience the joys of growing down.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
By Jeff Kinney
$13.95, ages 8 and up

Here comes Book 6 in the phenomenally popular series! The first 50 fans to preorder (book goes on sale November 15) or come into CBW to get their book will received a bookplate signed by Jeff Kinney! Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?

The Summer I Learned to Fly
By Dana Reinhardt
$15.99, ages 11 and up

$15.99 Drew's a bit of a loner. She has a pet rat, her dead dad's Book of Lists, an encyclopedic knowledge of cheese from working at her mom's cheese shop, and a crush on Nick, the surf bum who works behind the counter. It's the summer before eighth grade and Drew's days seem like business as usual, until one night after closing time, when she meets a strange boy in the alley named Emmett Crane. Who he is, why he's there, where the cut on his cheek came from, and his bottomless knowledge of rats are all mysteries Drew will untangle as they are drawn closer together, and Drew enters into the first true friendship, and adventure, of her life. A lovely book that will stay with the reader after the last page is turned.

The Berlin Boxing Club
By Robert Sharenow
$17.99, ages 12 and up

Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But to the bullies at his school in Nazi era Berlin, it doesn't matter that Karl has never set foot in a synagogue or that his family doesn't practice religion. Demoralized by relentless attacks on a heritage he doesn't accept as his own, Karl longs to prove his worth to everyone around him. So when Max Schmeling, champion boxer and German national hero, makes a deal with Karl's father to give Karl boxing lessons, Karl sees it as the perfect chance to reinvent himself. A skilled cartoonist, Karl has never had an interest in boxing, but as Max becomes the mentor Karl never had, Karl soon finds both his boxing skills and his art flourishing. But when Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl must take on a new role: protector of his family. Robert Sharenow skillfully takes the readers into the time and place and the emotions of the characters. An engrossing read!