Books with author Dave Martin

Kids leap into reading with Brand New Readers! Four lively new stories from David MartinOne of the best-loved authors in the Brand New Readers series makes his author-illustrator debut with four funny tales about a playful pair of frogs. Ribbit!Visit www.brandnewreaders.com for a complete listing of Brand New Readers, an online sample, a downloadable certificate, and, for teachers, reading levels and early intervention levels.

This title features sweet illustrations and simple language that bring the Christmas holiday to life for the youngest of children. At Christmas time, a tree from the outside comes inside, just waiting to be decorated. And some of the tree's ornaments are inspired by outdoor things, too - a snowflake, a ball, a bird, and a star. Spare language and luminous collage paintings offer a fresh, inviting look at well-loved traditions. This title is perfectly priced for holiday promotions. It is a very young concept book that intersperses real items with tree ornaments. It features multicultural cast of characters.

Part personal quest, part family memoir, part World War II history- and one horrifying family secret. What if you found out that your grandfather-the man who had been a demanding, magnetic presence throughout your childhood-was a Nazi SS officer? This is the confession that Martin Davidson, already into middle age, received from his mother upon his grandfather Bruno Langbehn's death, and The Perfect Nazi is Davidson's exploration, using the skills he honed as a documentary producer for the BBC, of the truth behind this dark family secret. As Martin dove into his research, drawing on an astonishing cache of personal documents as well as eyewitness accounts of this historical period, he learned that Bruno's story moved lock-step in time with the rise and fall of the Nazi party. He realized that his grandfather was in many ways the "perfect Nazi," his individual experiences emblematic of the generation of Germans who would plunge the world into such darkness-and he discovered all that he would have to come to terms with.