New Materials

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Welcome to Aunt Ted's Corner, home to information on all the new books, DVDs, and audiobooks that can now be found in the Children's Library.

Aunt Ted was a beloved friend of the Athenaeum, of children's books, and of storytelling. A corner of the Children's Library, as well as this corner of the website, is named in honor of her love for children, books, and the explosion of imagination that results when the two are combined.

Featured New Materials

Grandpa Green by Lane Smith

From Amazon.com: In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.

Call Number: PIC SMI

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

From Amazon.com: The bear's hat is gone and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that sparks the bear's memory and renews his search with a vengeance. Told completely in dialogue, this delicious take on the classic repetitive tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humor and winks at the reader with a wry irreverence that will have kids of all ages thrilled to be in on the joke.

Call Number: PIC KLA

Making a Friend by Alison McGhee

From Amazon.com: Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a snowman! Is there anything as wonderful as snow? Is there any better friend than a snowman? Snow isn’t forever, though. The wind shifts, the weather warms and snow melts into spring. The Snowman has become something else—the fog, the rain. But, how can this boy forget his good friend? He doesn’t … and he doesn’t have to.

Call Number: PIC McG

Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking by Philippe Coudray

From Amazon.com: Benjamin Bear does everything in his own funny way, whether it's drying dishes on a rabbit's back or throwing a ball at a friend to make him play. In this series of gags starring a very loopy bear, Philippe Coudray creates a zany world that makes kids think and solve puzzles, drawing all readers into the game.

Call Number: JE COU

The Memory Bank by Carolyn Coman

From Amazon.com: The Memory Bank is the story of Hope Scroggins, who lives with her beloved sister Honey and the Dursley-esque parents they share. In fact these parents are so horribly awful that one day, when the sisters disobey the rule against "no laughing", they banish Honey forever, telling Hope that she must simply ""forget" her. Hope knows that she has to find her sister again, before her memories of Honey fade. But before she can even begin to look, she's whisked away to the World Wide Memory Bank, where her accounts are in disarray...

Call Number: JF COM