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The Book That Dripped Blood (Interactive), Dahl, Michae

The Book That Dripped Blood (Interactive)
Reading Level: Grades 1-3 • Interest Level: Grades 3-8

Author: Dahl, Michael

Illustrator: Kendall, Bradford

ISBN: 9781434206152 / 1-4342-0615-7

Publisher: Stone Arch Books, Copyright: 2008

Guided Reading Level: K, Lexile Level: 550L, Page Count: 40
Interactive Book Price: $23.95
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Author Bio

Michael Dahl

Michael Dahl

 is the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults. He has written The Everything Kid's Joke Book and Gotcha Covered!  His Finnegan Zwake mystery series published by Simon & Schuster won rave reviews and two of its titles were shortlisted for the Edgar and the Anthony Mystery Awards. His nonfiction has won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award three times. Dahl has spoken at numerous schools, libraries, and conferences across the country on graphic novels and books for boys, and has been a featured speaker at ALA, AASL, NYAEC, TLA, NOLA, EncycloMedia and IRA.

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     Did you know that the Central Library has a Cellar? OK…it’s really a basement, but I like the clever play on words, when you consider that library volunteers and others organize and “SELL” new and used books there. I visited the Book Cellar, located at 600 Soledad San Antonio, TX 78205. The Phone is: (210) 227-9519. The hours of operation are Monday through Wednesday from 11:00 am until 3:00 pm, Thursdays from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm and Friday through Sunday from 11:00 am until 3:00 pm.

     According to Linda and Evelyn, Cellar staff, you can find books that have been taken out of circulation from the branches of the San Antonio Public Libraries, books that have been donated from private estates and even that for whatever reason other book sellers and bookstores, decided to donate volumes and volumes of books to The Book Cellar. I also spoke with Rowena and Margret. Rowena asked me if I was there to take her on a date and Margret, took her glasses off, looked me in the eyes and asked me who I was. Charlie was there too; he was busy in the back.
          Book Cellar Fun Facts
• Prison librarians from area prisons come to the Book Cellar to purchase books for  their clientele.
• The Book Cellar is a great place for Teachers, and those that aspire to teach to gather literature resources.
• One Hour Free Parking at the Central Library location.
• Book Cellar web site: http://guides.mysapl.org/content.php?pid=37834&sid=278159

     The prices you ask? Let me tell you…the prices! I bought four books for one-dollar and fifty cents that ended up having a potential value of six-hundred and two-dollars and twelve-cents. This doesn’t include the value that the joy of reading or the sharing the written word brings to me, difficult for me to put a price on something like that.

     Below is a summary of the books that I selected, what was paid and an approximant value of the books purchased or savings.
     “The Land of Nod and Other Poems for Children” by Robert Louis Stevenson, a hard cover book for seventy-five cents. On line I found a “paperback” copy of the same book that listed for five-hundred-ninety-four dollars and sixty-nine cents. Wow…I have a book worth five-hundred-ninety-three dollars and ninety-four cents.
     The second book I selected is entitled, “Zalta’s Diary, a Child’s Life in Sarajevo”, by Zalta Filipovic and paid twenty-five cents for it. The book is about an eleven-year old girl that lives through the war in for two years in Sarajevo Bosnia and is eventually allowed to leave the country with her family. Amazon sells the exact copy for one-cent, a penny…ok..I know, but the revised edition list for 15.99, plus shipping plus 3 to 9 days of waiting for the book to arrive, Cha-Ch’ing, cost of the book is going up. The revised edition has a different front cover…with a photo of Zalta, with lots of barbed wire and demolished building. A new photograph, increase of price, plus, plus: I’ll spend the extra .24 cents.
     The third book selected is entitled, “Created by God, About Human Sexuality for Older Boys and Girls”, by Doris Brown Glass with James H. Ritchie. Created by God takes on the spiritual approach to addressing exactly what the title says it’s about; “About Human Sexuality for Older Boys and Girls”…Not sure how I’d use this book in a public school classroom. It would be a great resource to use for answering some of the hard to answer questions children ask. Anyway, I paid fifty-cents. The online book store named after a river in the brazilin jungle has it listed, new, for 6.95 cents. My savings on this book was a whopping, six-dollars and forty-five cents.
     And book number four is entitled “Bali, Life and Legends, An activity book with seventeen worksheets, filled with facts and information on the Balinese-Indonesian way of life. I got it for twenty-five cents. I did not find this book listed on any of the webs book stores, but it did have a price tag listing it for, 1.98, half of the second originals sellers’ price. So…I can safely say that I saved about one-dollar and seventy-three cents.
     All in all I had a great time talking to the staff and browsing through the book selections at the Book Cellar. Now if I can only find a book teaching me how to make time stand still I could stay for more than an hour.