Northampton November 2024 Children's Staff Picks

A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor. Annabelle Doll is eight years old- she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll people, day after day, year after year...until one day the Funcrafts move in. Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin,...

Sometimes ... miracles have bright blue eyes, a long fluffy tail, soft white fur, and are named... Yoda.

Describes the autumn activities and traditions that November's cooling temperatures bring.

Fall arrives in Bustletown. There's a big dance at the Fall Fest and a pumpkin carving competition at the Cultural Center. Children celebrate the opening of a new kindergarten with a lantern parade.

Longtime believer, Linus believes that this year the Great Pumpkin will come and he decides to keep watch all night in the pumpkin patch to welcome him. Charlie Brown dresses up as a ghost, but does not scare up the usual kinds of Halloween loot when trick-or-treating. Snoopy crashes into Violet's party, as well as Linus' vigil.

After seven goblins try to steal it, the Rainbow is careful never again to touch the earth.

"Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid. With her last shot at happiness lost in the deep blue sea, Jane must venture to the world underwater...

"Julieta is eager to honor her Abuelita's spirit on Día de Muertos but struggles to find the perfect gift"--

"This special collector's edition collects books three and four in the Hilda graphic novel series, Hilda and the Bird Parade & Hilda and the Black Hound, which inspired the award winning Hilda animated series on Netflix. If you like plucky and articulate heroines, sepia-seeped aesthetics and folklore, try this."--

When a cat and her human go out on walks, the human always leads. But when the cat leads, you stop more often. And when you take the cat way, you can see the most amazing things.