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Hello: How Nüwa Created the World by Viola Wang; illus. by the authorPrimary Little Bee 40 pp.2/24 9781499814927 $18.99e-book ed. 9781499814934 $9.99This story (inspired by the Chinese myth of Nüwa, who crafted humankind) takes readers and listeners on a journey back to a time “when the world was still young,”...
Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet by Nicola Davies; illus. by Emily SuttonPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.3/24 9781536231410 $18.99Davies showcases the important role that plants play on Earth as consumers of carbon, producers of oxygen, and mitigators of the effects of human-induced global warming. The meaning of “green”...
Next Stop by Debbie Fong; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School RH Graphic/Random 272 pp.3/24 9780593425206 $21.99Library ed. 9780593425213 $24.99Paper ed. 9780593425183 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593425190 $8.99Fong’s deeply moving graphic novel opens with an intriguing premise: Pia Xing, a reserved and lonely middle schooler, says goodbye to her father and embarks...
The First Day of May by Henrique Coser Moreira; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Levine Querido 40 pp.3/24 9781646143825 $15.99First published in Portugal, this wordless book celebrates—with abundant style—the blossoming of spring. Most spreads convey the action in a series of four or six small, square panels. In the opening...
Climbing the Volcano: A Journey in Haiku by Curtis Manley; illus. by Jennifer K. MannPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.1/24 9780823451661 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823457458 $11.99Manley offers a child’s point of view of a day-long hike up a mountain (identified in the back matter as the South Sister in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range)....
Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers by Zora Neale Hurston; adapted by Ibram X. Kendi; illus. by Jazzmen Lee-JohnsonIntermediate, Middle School Amistad/HarperCollins 208 pp.1/24 9780063098336 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063098350 $10.99In 1860, more than fifty years after the United States outlawed the slave trade, the ship Clotilda journeyed back to Alabama from West...
★ A New Car for Pickle [I Like to Read: Comics] by Sylvie Kantorovitz; illus. by the author Primary Holiday 40 pp. 6/24 9780823456208 $14.99 Pickle (a dog) and a bird friend decide to drive to Clover Farm to get some strawberries and fresh cream, but soon after they set...
Henry and the Something New by Jenn Bailey; illus. by Mika SongPrimary Chronicle 56 pp.3/24 9781797213903 $14.99In his second early-chapter-book outing (Henry, like Always, rev. 3/23), Henry—a sensitive child who presents as being on the autism spectrum—is ambivalent about a field trip to the natural history museum. “Henry was excited....
Just like Millie by Lauren Castillo; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp.4/24 9781536224818 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536237122 $17.99In this comforting story, a young girl and her mother move to a cozy apartment in a new city where she happily plays by herself whenever her mom has to work in...
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