LADY DAISY

LADY DAISY
(By) Dick King-Smith. Illustrated by Jan Naimo Jones. New York:
Delacorte Press (1993,c1992) 131p. $14.00 ISBN 0-385-30891-4
A soccer playing nine-year-old boy finds, to the consternation of
his family, that his greatest treasure is an antique doll who,
unbeknownst to them, is able to communicate with him.


LYDIA, QUEEN OF PALESTINE
(By) Uri Orlev. Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
Boston: Houghton, 1993. 170p. $13.95 ISBN 0-395-65660-5
An engaging narrative about Lydia, a young Romanian Jewish girl
and self-proclaimed Queen of Palestine, who remains her
indomitable, ferociously imaginative self despite the hardships
of World War II, her parents' divorce, and the structured life of
a kibbutz.


THE MAN IN THE CEILING
Written and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. (New York:
HarperCollins, 1993) 185p. (Michael di Capua books) $14.89
ISBN 0-06-205036-2
Witty and sophisticated, this story focuses on Jimmy, a young
cartoonist, and his struggles to win acceptance in a world that
ridicules his talents.


MUMMIES & THEIR MYSTERIES
(By) Charlotte Wilcox. Winneapolis: Carolrhoda Books (1993) 64p.
$22.95 ISBN 0-87614-767-8
A well-organized, profusely illustrated examination of burial
customs, concentrating on mummies and the cultures which produced
them.