The Horn Book Magazine back issues from May 2005:
The Fox.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> The Fox Clever.Cunning.Crafty ....
Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2005; ... January/February 2005 Horn Book I fail to see why K T. Horning ("On Spies and Purple Socks and Such") saw the need to tie Harriet the Spy and the other titles she discusses to "gay themes." What purpose does this serve except to provide fodder for the p.c. police and book ...
One at a time.(Editorial)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2005 ... In his review of Camille Paglia's new critical anthology of poetry, Break, Blow, Burn, Clive James (echoing David McCord) writes, "Good poems are written one at a time: written that way and read that way." We're pleased in this special poets-and-poetry issue of the Horn Book to publish ...
Spiral staircase.
May 01, 2005; ... No one will ever approach you and say, "This looks like a good day to curl up and read poetry." You have to do that for yourself. One great thing is--you can sneak it in, between all the other things you are doing. The poet William Stafford carried his own poems on small cards in his ...
Take Sound.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Take Sound Each word a poem.Take sound--Its mysteries abound:To hear a sound;To sound to find;Or to be soundIn body, mind;A stretch of waterWide and clear;To registerUpon the ear--Each separate meaning...
After the Baby.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> After the Baby I am bored!I've already talked to my baby brother,played with my cars,read two books with the babysitter,worked a puzzle, and watched TV.The babysitter saidshe's going to take meto the playground,after the baby finishes ...
"Writing poetry for children is a curious occupation": Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
May 01, 2005; ... The flashy Ted and Sylvia story is Line big-screen biopic--with Gwyneth Paltrow in the starring role. For more serious students of literature, there are other stories. There is Ted's version in his verse collection, Birthday Letters (1998), ostensibly written to Sylvia on birthdays long ...
Sunglasses.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Sunglasses Hey, check out this guyin his wraparound shades,frames shiny as a dime,lenses like curved mirrors.His eyes are a mysteryto be ...
Red Shoes.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Red Shoes Twenty cents on the rummage sale tabletwenty cents for my old red shoesrough and scuffedand smelling of hot feet but oh when my grandmotherbought them for methey were cat-smoothcrimson as October.Cradled in crisp tissue, ...
Poetry in prose.(Reader at Large)
May 01, 2005; ... This has the best first chapter in the history of the world," exulted a thirteen-year-old friend, Laura. She pulled from our bookshelves Kevin Crossley-Holland's The Seeing Stone. "Listen to this!" she said, and read aloud, "Tumber Hill! It's my clamber-and-tumble-and-beech-and-bramble ...
All Night Melodies.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> All Night Melodies (Miss Crandall's Boarding School for Young Ladies of Color, Canterbury, Connecticut, 1833) An evening on the piano: ecstasycould not be sweeter. Even simple scalespromise hymn chords, while six-note harmonymust be a taste of heaven's ...
Rubber Baby.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Rubber Baby Rubber baby buggy bumperBlubber baby diaper dumperMother maybe wipe her rumperRubber baby buggy bumper Rubber baby pink and purpleBlubber baby drink and burpleBrother baby stink and slurpleRubber baby pink and purple ...
Reappraising Uncle Shelby.
May 01, 2005; ... Few poets are simultaneously as loved and as despised as Shel Silverstein. In the final issue of Signal, my friend Richard Flynn laments the popularity of Shel and his "evil twin" Jack Prelutsky. Flynn regrets that Silverstein has become synonymous with American children's poetry, offering ...
Squirrel Undecided.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Squirrel Undecided Which tree next?Which tree's best? Can't seemto make up his mind,dashes alongthe telephone line,powers upthe Ponderosa pine,races to the oak,scurries to ...
Kryptonite.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Kryptonite Lois liked to see the bullets bounceoff Superman's chest, and of courseshe was proud when he leaned intoa locomotive and saved the crippledorphan who had fallen on the tracks. Yet on those long nights when he wasreadjusting longitude ...
December Day.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> December Day Blue jays flash and squawkwith exuberant disregard for stillness,while birch and fir,full and bent with ice,sway in the wind, ...
Purposeful poetry.(Field Notes)
May 01, 2005; ... "I need a poem to go with a unit on diseases." "I need a poem about respecting other people's property." "I need a poem for a lesson I'm doing on invertebrates." "Where are your poetry books about personal hygiene?" Upon hearing such requests posed by education students and ...
Memorial Day Cookout.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Memorial Day Cookout The grill is chirping ....
Wolf Song.(Poem)
May 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Wolf Song The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6 The full moon floatsIn the cold forbidding skyThere is no ...
Gunilla Bergstrom: Good Night, Alfie Atkins.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Gunilla Bergstrom Good Night, Alfie Atkins; illus. by the author; trans. by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard 32 pp. R&S/Farrar 5/05 ISBN 91-29-66154-4 $15.00 g Gunilla Bergstrom Very Tricky, Alfie Atkins; illus. by the author; trans. by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard 32 pp. R&S/Farrar ...
Lynne Bertrand: Granite Baby.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Lynne Bertrand Granite Baby; illus. by Kevin Hawkes 32 pp. Kroupa/Farrar 4/05 ISBN 0-374-32761-0 $16.00 (Primary) In this original tall tale, it takes one little baby to flummox five mountain-size (think Swamp Angel) sisters and one ordinary, level-headed girl to set things ...
Niki Daly: Ruby Sings the Blues.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Niki Daly Ruby Sings the Blues; illus. by the author 32 pp. Bloomsbury 6/05 ISBN 1-58234-995-9 $16.95 (Primary) Ruby's small body contains an enormous voice, one that drives neighbors, parents, and teachers crazy. On the page, Ruby's words, in large, bold letters, get a little ...
Eva Eriksson: A Crash Course for Molly.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... * Eva Eriksson A Crash Course for Molly; illus. by the author; trans, by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard 32 pp. R&S/Farrar 5/05 ISBN 91-29-66156-0 $16.00 (Primary) The young pig who so proudly took her first solo shopping trip in Molly Goes Shopping (rev. 5/03) here learns to ride ...
Lisa Campbell Ernst: This Is the Van That Dad Cleaned.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Lisa Campbell Ernst This Is the Van That Dad Cleaned; illus. by the author 32 pp. Simon 5/05 ISBN 0-689-86190-7 $15.95 (Preschool, Primary) "The House That Jack Built" gets taken for a new spin in the family van. From the moment Dad ushers his three children into the newly ...
Marie-Anne Gillet: Standing Up.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Marie-Anne Gillet Standing Up; illus. by Isabelle Gilboux 32 pp. Kane/Miller 3/05 ISBN 1-929132-71-9 $14.95 (Preschool) Standing Up celebrates a uniquely male rite of passage with gusto and charm. Our small hero is perfectly happy sitting on the potty until the day he spots ...
Arthur Howard: The Hubbub Above.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Arthur Howard The Hubbub Above; illus. by the author 32 pp. Harcourt 5/05 ISBN 0-15-204592-9 $16.00 (Primary) Sydney loves the peace and quiet of her high-rise apartment: "the screeches, the scrunches, [and] the vroom, vroom, VROOMS" of the city don't reach the fifty-second ...
Leo Landry: Eat Your Peas, Ivy Louise!(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Leo Landry Eat Your Peas, Ivy Louise!; illus. by the author 32 pp. Houghton 5/05 ISBN 0-618-44886-1 $12.00 (Preschool) But how can Ivy Louise eat those peas when they're performing such splendid circus acts on the tray of her high chair? It might look like Ivy Louise is just ...
Susan Milord: Three about Thurston.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Susan Milord Three about Thurston; illus. by the author 32 pp. Houghton 4/05 ISBN 0-618-42850-X $15.00 (Primary) Conceited, clever, and chauvinistic, Thurston struts his rooster pride in three sly stories. In the first, he adds a recipe-defying ingredient to round out the taste ...
Roxie Munro: Amazement Park.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Roxie Munro Amazement Park; illus. by the author 40 pp. Chronicle 4/05 ISBN 0-8118-4581-8 $16.95 (Primary, Intermediate) The cover illustration, which features roller-coaster cars starting down a precipitous, near-vertical drop, should scare off any motion sickness sufferers ....
Carl Norac: My Daddy Is a Giant.(Brief Article)(Children's Reviews)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Carl Norac My Daddy Is a Giant; illus. by Ingrid Godon 32 pp. Clarion 5/05 ISBN 0-618-44399-1 $16.00 g (Preschool) Admiration exaggerates a tot's knee-high perspective: "When we play hide-and-seek, my daddy has to hide behind a mountain. And when the clouds are tired, they come ...
Antoine O Flatharta: Hurry and the Monarch.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Antoine O Flatharta Hurry and the Monarch; illus. by Meilo So 40 pp. Knopf 6/05 ISBN 0-375-83003-0 $14.95 g Library edition ISBN 0-375-93003-5 $16.99 (Primary) A kaleidoscope of butterflies swarming across the jacket invites readers into this fictionalized account of one monarch ...
Amy Lowry Poole, reteller: The Pea Blossom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Amy Lowry Poole, reteller The Pea Blossom; illus. by the reteller 32 pp. Holiday 4/05 ISBN 0-8234-1864-2 $16.95 (Primary) Five peas growing in a pea pod, impatient for their release, try to plan their future. Four of them have big plans--to fly to the sun, to have dinner with ...
Michael Rosen: Michael Rosen's Sad Book.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... * Michael Rosen Michael Rosen's Sad Book; illus. by Quentin Blake 32 pp. Candlewick 3/05 ISBN 0-7636-2597-3 $16.99 (Intermediate) The narrator/author shares his profound depression following his eighteen-year-old son's death: "I loved him very, very much but he died anyway." ...
Barney Saltzberg: Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Bed?(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Barney Saltzberg Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Bed?; illus. by the author 32 pp. Candlewick 4/05 ISBN 0-7636-2399-7 $15.99 (Preschool) "Have you put your toys away?" "Have you used the bathroom?" "Did you choose a book?" Cornelius P. Mud answers "YES!" to his unobservant ...
Pat Sherman: The Sun's Daughter.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Pat Sherman The Sun's Daughter; illus. by R. Gregory Christie 32 pp. Clarion 3/05 ISBN 0-618-32430-5 $16.00 g (Primary) Sherman cites Hopi and Pueblo stories and the Greek myth of Persephone but says that her original tale was particularly inspired by Iroquois Corn Maiden ...
Teri Sloat: This Is the House That Was Tidy & Neat.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Teri Sloat This Is the House That Was Tidy & Neat; illus. by R. W. Alley 32 pp. Holt 5/05 ISBN 0-8050-6921-6 $16.95 g (Preschool, Primary) In Sloat's rolling cumulative verse, a proper Edwardian household ends up in bedlam when Mom goes downtown. The trouble starts as soon as ...
Catharina Valckx: Lizette's Green Sock.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Catharina Valckx Lizette's Green Sock; illus. by the author 40 pp. Clarion 5/05 ISBN 0-618-45298-2 $15.00 g (Preschool, Primary) Out for a walk, young bird Lizette is delighted to find a single green sock: "I'm lucky .... You don't find a beautiful sock like this every day!" In ...
Tom Willans: Wait! I Want to Tell You a Story.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Tom Willans Wait! I Want to Tell You a Story; illus. by the author 32 pp. Simon 4/05 ISBN 0-689-87166-X $15.95 (Preschool, Primary) When a hungry tiger comes along and announces, "I'm going to eat you, little muskrat," the fast-talking muskrat says, "Wait!" and spins a tale to ...
Elizabeth Winthrop: Squashed in the Middle.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Elizabeth Winthrop Squashed in the Middle; illus. by Pat Cummings 32 pp. Holt 5/05 ISBN 0-8050-6497-4 $16.95 g (Preschool, Primary) Daisy's big, noisy family loves her, and they all have lots to say about her. "'Daisy's very shy,' her mother told the butcher." "'Daisy doesn't ...
Janet S. Wong: Hide & Seek.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Janet S. Wong Hide & Seek; illus. by Margaret Chodos-Irvine 40 pp. Harcourt 4/05 ISBN 0-15-204934-7 $16.00 (Preschool) Instead of staring at the oven timer, a cookie-baking father and son play a quick game of hide-and-seek. The boy's reluctance to remain in one spot for long ...
Joan Aiken: The Witch of Clatteringshaws.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Joan Aiken The Witch of Clatteringshaws 135 pp. Delacorte 1/05 ISBN 0-385-73226-0 $15.95 Library edition ISBN 0-385-90252-2 $17.99 (Intermediate) A year after her death, the arrival of Aiken's final Wolves novel is a welcome farewell from this grande dame of children's ...
Keith Baker: Lucky Days with Mr. and Mrs. Green.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Keith Baker Lucky Days with Mr. and Mrs. Green; illus. by the author 72 pp. Harcourt 3/05 ISBN 0-15-216500-2 $16.00 (Primary) While the days described here may be lucky for Mr. and Mrs. Green (the pair of alligators introduced in Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green), they're even more ...
Colin Bateman: Running with the Reservoir Pups.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Colin Bateman Running with the Reservoir Pups 265 pp. Delacorte 1/05 ISBN 0-385-73244-9 $15.95 Library edition ISBN 0-385-90268-9 $17.99 (Intermediate, Middle School) Eddie Malone is in trouble--his dad left his mum for another woman, so his mum had to get a new job at a ...
Joan Bauer: Best Foot Forward.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Joan Bauer Best Foot Forward 182 pp. Putnam 5/05 ISBN 0-399-23474-8 $16.99 g (Middle School, High School) Back home in Chicago after their road trip to Texas and self-discovery (Rules of the Road, rev. 5/98), Jenna and Mrs. Gladstone are back at work in the shoe store, trying to ...
Michael Cart, editor: Rush Hour: Face; A Journal of Contemporary Voices (Volume Three).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Michael Cart, editor Rush Hour: Face; A Journal of Contemporary Voices (Volume Three) 214 pp. Delacorte 4/05 Paper edition ISBN 0-385-73032-2 $9.95 g Library edition ISBN 0-385-90182-8 $12.99 (High School) The best volume in this series so far leads off with its best entry, ...
Cecil Castellucci: Boy Proof.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Cecil Castellucci Boy Proof 204 pp. Candlewick 3/05 ISBN 0-7636-2333-4 $15.99 (High School) Victoria, a Los Angeles teen who renames herself Egg after the heroine of her favorite movie, Terminal Earth, describes her style as "post-apocalyptic." She has a tough-girl attitude to ...
Carl Deuker: Runner.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Carl Deuker Runner 216 pp. Houghton 5/05 ISBN 0-618-54298-1 $16.00 g (Middle School, High School) He knows it's wrong, but he does it anyway. When Chance Taylor is offered a suspicious job--retrieving packages hidden on his daily running route and stashing them away for later ...
Ariel Dorfman and Joaquin Dorfman: Burning City.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... * Ariel Dorfman and Joaquin Dorfman Burning City 263 pp. Random 5/05 ISBN 0-375-83203-3 $15.95 g Library edition ISBN 0-375-93203-8 $17.95 (High School) "Heller and his bike burst onto Sixth Avenue, and none of the cars saw him coming .... It was pure choreography, instant ...
Mordicai Gerstein: The Old Country.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Mordicai Gerstein The Old Country 133 pp. Roaring Brook 5/05 ISBN 1-59643-047-8 $14.95 g (Intermediate, Middle School) In a time and place evoking Mitteleuropa, back when tanks and bombers were still new and unfamiliar, peasant girl Gisella gazes so deeply into a fox's eyes that ...
K.L. Going: The Liberation of Gabriel King.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... K. L. Going The Liberation of Gabriel King 154 pp. Putnam 6/04 ISBN 0-399-23991-X $15.99 g (Intermediate) A feel-good Southern coming-of-age story places possibly the wimpiest boy in the history of recent literature at a crossroads in history. The year is 1976, and a peanut ...
Elissa Haden Guest: Iris and Walter and the Field Trip.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Elissa Haden Guest Iris and Walter and the Field Trip; illus, by Christine Davenier 44 pp. Gulliver/Harcourt, 3/05 ISBN 0-15-205014-0 $15.00 (Primary) In their ninth adventure, best pals Iris and Walter venture forth from their familiar settings of home and school for a field ...
Pete Hautman: Invisible.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... * Pete Hautman Invisible 149 pp. Simon 6/05 ISBN 0-689-86800-6 $15.95 g (Middle School, High School) Gifted in math, and recognizably clever when constructing architectural models (he's building an elaborate railroad system in his basement), Doug reveals that it's human ...
Stephanie Hemphill: Things Left Unsaid.(Brief Article) (Young Adult Review) (Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Stephanie Hemphill Things Left Unsaid 261 pp. Hyperion 3/05 ISBN 0-7868-1850-6 $16.99 (Middle School, High School) High school sophomore Sarah is ready for a change, "tired of being the Sarah / my mother constructs, / predictable as lettuce on a diet, / ribbons in my hair, ...
Ruth Horowitz: Big Surprise in the Bug Tank.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Ruth Horowitz Big Surprise in the Bug Tank; illus, by Joan Holub 48 pp. Dial 2/05 ISBN 0-8037-2874-3 $15.99 (Primary) "Can I keep it?" is a question parents have heard for years, as their children bring home one potential pet after another. But seldom has such a plea been made ...
Diana Wynne Jones: Conrad's Fate.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Diana Wynne Jones Conrad's Fate 375 pp. Greenwillow 4/05 ISBN 0-06-074743-9 $16.99 Library edition ISBN 0-06-074744-7 $17.89 (Intermediate) In this new Chrestomanci novel, a sequel to The Lives of Christopher Chant, Jones once more turns her attention to a confused adolescent ...
Lene Kaaberbol: The Shamer's Signet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Lene Kaaberbol The Shamer's Signet 314 pp. Holt 5/05 ISBN 0-8050-7342-9 $16.95 g (Intermediate, Middle School) Dina has inherited her mother's eyes--powerful Shamer's eyes that can expose and chasten miscreants' most closely held crimes. On the run from the despotic Drakan of ...
Jessica Scott Kerrin: Martin Bridge, Ready for Takeoff!(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... * Jessica Scott Kerrin Martin Bridge, Ready for Takeoff!; illus. by Joseph Kelly 120 pp. Kids Can 3/05 ISBN 1-55337-688-9 $14.95 Paper edition ISBN 1-55337-772-9 $4.95 (Primary) Martin Bridge means well, he really does. But his wonderful plans don't always turn out right ....
Margo Lanagan: Black Juice.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... * Margo Lanagan Black Juice 200 pp. Eos/HarperCollins 3/05 ISBN 0-06-074390-5 $15.99 g Library edition ISBN 0-06-074391-3 $16.89 (High School) From the stunning first story, "Singing My Sister Down," these ten stories are mesmerizing. Whether post-apocalyptic, dystopian, or ...
Leo Landry: Sea Surprise.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Leo Landry Sea Surprise; illus. by the author 64 pp. Holt 6/05 ISBN 0-8050-6645-4 $15.95 g (Primary) When you are a mermaid and your best friend is a shark, you'd better get used to hearing your friend say, "Let's bite something." Kate is the mermaid and Dave is the shark with ...
Elsa Marston: Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing Up in the Arab World Today.(Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing Up in the Arab World Today)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Elsa Marston Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing Up in the Arab World Today 135 pp. George Braziller 4/05 ISBN 0-8076-1551-X $22.50 Paper edition ISBN 0-8076-1554-4 $15.95 (Middle School, High School) Each of the five stories in this collection is set in a different part of the ...
Nicola Morgan: Chicken Friend.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Nicola Morgan Chicken Friend 151 pp. Candlewick 3/05 ISBN 0-7636-2735-6 $15.99 (Intermediate, Middle School) A move from London to the country plus a hefty dose of early adolescent angst have put Becca's self-image under siege. Craving friendship from "seriously cool and trendy" ...
Julie Anne Peters: Far from Xanadu.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Julie Anne Peters Far from Xanadu 282 pp. Tingley/Little 5/05 ISBN 0-316-15881-X $16.99 g (High School) A decade after M. E. Kerr's straight-up look at lesbian gender roles in Deliver Us from Evie (rev. 1/95), Peters sets another strong-willed butch in a small midwestern farming ...
Gary Soto: Help Wanted: Stories.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Gary Soto Help Wanted: Stories 216 pp. Harcourt 5/05 ISBN 0-15-205201-1 $17.00 g (Middle School) Soto's collection introduces a cross section of contemporary Mexican-American kids dealing with family, friendship, and first love. Carolina longs for a more cultured existence where ...
Kate Thompson: Fourth World.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Kate Thompson Fourth World 330 pp. Bloomsbury 4/05 ISBN 1-58234-650-X $16.95 (Intermediate, Middle School) Human-animal genetic manipulation is the motor that drives this gripping book, the first in a science fiction trilogy (The Missing Link). Christie, thirteen, is comfortably ...
Ruth White: The Search for Belle Prater.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 01, 2005; ... Ruth White The Search for Belle Prater 170 pp. Farrar 4/05/ ISBN 0-374-30853-5 $16.00 g (Intermediate, Middle School) In October 1953, Belle Prater disappeared from her home in an isolated holler in western Virginia (Belle Prater's Boy, rev. 9/96). Her son, Woodrow, now content ...