New Children's Music CD's
	Congratulations to Dre Towey! SUGAR ON TOP has been selected as a 2009 Parents' Choice Silver Award winner!    Dre Towey recorded her first solo CD for children, Chester the Dog to much deserved acclaim.    Her newest, Sugar on Top, continues her skillful wordplay, strong instrumentation and hip delivery. Adults will be reminded of singer/songwriters such as Jonatha Brooks, Suzanne Vega and particularly Michelle Shocked (to whom Towey owes much of her vocal style), but kids will simply love her unbridled spunkiness..... Towey writes intelligent, fun and slyly educational songs that kids will love, and which parents will easily welcome into their car and their home.
	PUTUMAYO Picnic Playground    Music, food and good times just seem to go together. This summer, Putumayo Kids celebrates the joys of eating with a brand new, globe-trotting CD from their award-winning children’s Playground series. Released just in time to enhance summer get-togethers, Picnic Playground serves up a colorful basket full of tasty musical treats.
	PUTUMAYO European Playground    European Playground, the newest release in Putumayo Kids’ acclaimed Playground series of CDs, is a collection of 15 songs that takes families on a fun-filled cross-genre musical tour around the continent.  Europe is a favorite destination for travelers who marvel at the continent’s rich cultural variety. Europe is home to almost 50 countries, each with its own unique culture, history, traditions, food and music. European Playground features a lively and engaging selection of family-friendly music from contemporary artists from these very diverse regions. The multilingual songs are easy to sing and dance along to, no matter what language you speak.
	New Children's Picture Books
Which Puppy?          by Kate Feiffer	Kate Feiffer: Which Puppy?    Which puppy will be chosen as the Obama family pet? Dogs across the world devise competitions for sending the best pet puppy to the White House. This tale is heart-warming, funny, and of course, has a happy ending.
	Kate Feiffer: My Mom Is Trying to                         Ruin My Life    Funny, funny, funny! This mother seems perfect to everyone - she bakes, she's thoughtful, she smells nice - but to her daughter she's too helpful, too involved...she's trying to ruin her life. Kate Feiffer does a great job of conveying the friction (and love!) between children and parents in this imaginative book.
	Intermediate Favorites
Just One Wish      Janette Rallison	Janette Rallison: Just One Wish    This book doesn't sound like it should be funny (the 6 year-old brother has cancer) but Annika Truman's plucky personality will have you laughing out loud. She wants her little brother's biggest wish to come true: getting an archery lesson from Teen Robin Hood, and she goes to hilarious lengths to meet the hunky TV show actor and convince him to visit her house...all in less than 3 days!