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|  | Now You Are 4 by Gabriella Buckingham, Lois Rock Description not available.Four-year-olds spend their birthdays drawing, dreaming, making friends, cutting cake, and playing. AUTHOR: Gabriella Buckingham, Lois Rock PUBLISHER: Good Books FORMAT: Hardcover CATEGORY: General 
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 | Grave Concerns by Rebecca Tope Description not available.Determined to offer cheap, environmentally sound burials at Peaceful Repose Cemetery, Drew Slocome is disturbed to discover that the cemetery contains one too many corpses, the body of a mysterious elderly woman found buried in the field unbeknownst to its owners. By the author of A Dirty Death. AUTHOR: Rebecca Tope PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC FORMAT: Hardcover CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Etcher's Studio by Arthur Geisert The art of etching is conveyed through the story of a young boy who assists his grandfather, an etcher, as he prepare for a print sale. As he hand-colors his grandfather's etchings, the young boy imagines himself within the pictures he is coloring, and soon he is off on a magical adventure. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Arthur Geisert PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company FORMAT: Hardcover CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber The panoramic novel takes place in the 1870s, and focuses on a writer named William Rackham who is married to the sickly, depressed Agnes but is so enamored of a prostitute named Sugar that he hires her as governess for his daughter. Around these characters, the tumult of Victorian London is revealed as the story spirals into a tale of ambition, love, and revenge. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. AUTHOR: Michel Faber PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers FORMAT: Hardcover CATEGORY: General 
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 | Rising up, Falling Down Description not available.Explains the cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation that provides fresh water to the earth. PUBLISHER: Compass Point Books FORMAT: Hardcover CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Amber Spyglass by Joan Slattery, Philip Pullman The final entry in the His Dark Materials trilogy, THE AMBER SPYGLASS weaves together a number of story strands as the final battle between good and evil approaches. Will, with the help of a pair of Gallivespian agents, searches for Lyra who has been hidden away by the devious Mrs. Coulter. Scientist and ex-nun Mary Malone, trapped in an alternate world, must develop a device to track the progress of Dust lest the world's inhabitants, the mulefa, perish forever. And, all the while, a priest/assassin searches painstakingly through the worlds to prevent Lyra from fulfilling her ultimate destiny. AUTHOR: Joan Slattery, Philip Pullman PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books FORMAT: Paperback CATEGORY: General 
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