Inside the List
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
Sammy Hagar may have lost his job fronting Van Halen, but he zooms to the top of the hardcover nonfiction list this week with “Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock.”
April 03, 2011
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Sammy Hagar may have lost his job fronting Van Halen, but he zooms to the top of the hardcover nonfiction list this week with “Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock.”
This Week | Children's Picture Books | Weeks on List |
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1 | SILVERLICIOUS, written and illustrated by Victoria Kann. (Harper/HarperCollins, $17.99.) Pinkalicious has a loose tooth — her sweet tooth. (Ages 4 to 8) | 7 | |
2 | DREAM BIG, LITTLE PIG!, by Kristi Yamaguchi. Illustrated by Tim Bowers. (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99.) A most persistent ice-skating pig learns to believe in herself. (Ages 4 and up) | 1 | |
3 | A SICK DAY FOR AMOS McGEE, by Philip C. Stead. Illustrated by Erin E. Stead. (Roaring Brook, $16.99.) Animals care for a zookeeper. (Ages 2 to 6) | 10 | |
4 | THE EASTER EGG, written and illustrated by Jan Brett. (Putnam, $17.99.) A story of caring and the hatching of spring. (Ages 4 to 8) | 10 | |
5 | LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft. (DK, $21.99.) An annotated visual dictionary. (Ages 7 and up) | 65 | |
6 | OF THEE I SING, by Barack Obama. Illustrated by Loren Long. (Knopf, $17.99.) The president speaks of heroes in a letter to his daughters. (Ages 5 to 8) | 18 | |
7 | INTERRUPTING CHICKEN, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein. (Candlewick, $16.99.) A rooster struggles to tell a bed-time story. (Ages 4 to 8) | 9 | |
8 | I BROKE MY TRUNK!, by Mo Willems. (Disney-Hyperion, $8.99.) Gerald tells Piggie the long, crazy story about breaking his trunk. (Ages 4 to 8) | 6 | |
9 | WE ARE IN A BOOK!, by Mo Willems. (Hyperion, $8.99.) Gerald and Piggie return to the page, and ponder their existence there. (Ages 4 to 8) | 5 | |
10 | KNUFFLE BUNNY FREE, written and illustrated by Mo Willems. (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins, $17.99.) A little girl and her well-loved companion take a trip that leads to unexpected discoveries. (Ages 3 to 7) | 18 | |