New Releases by ANDREW CLEMENTS

The dazzling cut-paper artistry of Caldecott medalist David Wisniewski combines with Andrew Clements''s free-verse celebration of woodworking tools to tell the story of a surprise in the making. The evocative description of each workshop tool-ruler, axe, saw, hammer, and the rest-is accompanied by a vivid, dramatically composed illustration showing how it is used in the step-by-step construction of an ornate, old-fashioned carousel. An eager young apprentice assists one craftsman after another as the project takes shape and is rewarded with a toolbox of his won. Young wood-working enthusiasts will enjoy the affectionate and knowledgeable portraits of familiar tools as well as an acclaimed artist''s vision of the magic simple tools can do.

Details the course of Hurricane Andrew, which hit the southeastern United States in 1992, and describes the recovery efforts that followed the storm.

This pairing of fiction and non-fiction literature features a story about a boy and his father on a desert camping trip and a mystery they uncover and a monograph about desert ecology.

Milo, who does not share his family''s fondness for peas, invents a machine to make the unpleasant vegetables disappear.

Adorable Allegra''s pint-sized perspectives on a world filled with wonders Inspired by the sounds of early morning -- a bird chirping, Daddy stirring oatmeal, tin clattering in a bag on board Encora''s bicycle -- Allegra has a great idea for music time at Little Blue Day Care.

When Buster was a baby his family made a wish for him. They soon find out that Buster was all that and more.

An acting troupe performs a special show for the moon when he comes down for a visit. Features split pages that can be flipped to combine different characters and costumes and die-cut pages with a moon on a string.

One Christmas Eve Santa has a secret helper who sets off in a reindeer-drawn sleigh with a huge sack of toys, just like Santa. But who is it? And will the helper do the job as well as Santa?

A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman''s net.