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Review of Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird's Amazing Journey
Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird’s Amazing Journey by Robert Burleigh; illus. by Wendell Minor Primary Ottaviano/Holt 40 pp. 4/20 978-1-62779-369-8 $18.99 In the late days of summer in the northeastern United States, a ruby-throated hummingbird (here called Tiny Bird) “feels a pull and knows it must go” on its migration journey...
Review of Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric Rohmann Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 2/20 978-0-8234-4285-0 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4304-8 $11.99 A worker bee breaks out of her honeycomb cell and begins a task-filled life in her colony. The “teeming, trembling flurry” of bees within the...
Review of Oil
Oil by Jonah Winter; illus. by Jeanette Winter Primary Beach Lane/Simon 40 pp. g 3/20 978-1-5344-3077-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-3078-5 $10.99 When the Exxon Valdez runs aground in 1989 and dumps oil along the Alaskan coast, the damage done is brutal, extensive, and long-lasting. With confidence in his young audience’s...
Review of Anna & Samia: The True Story of Saving a Black Rhino
Anna & Samia: The True Story of Saving a Black Rhino by Paul Meisel; illus. by the author Primary Farrar 32 pp. 10/19 978-0-374-30577-2 $17.99 When a newborn black rhinoceros is abandoned in a Kenyan rhino sanctuary in 1985, conservationist Anna Merz steps in to rescue and raise the baby...
Review of All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander; illus. by Vivien Mildenberger Intermediate Houghton 94 pp. 8/19 978-1-328-88420-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-03619-7 $9.99 In the prosperous city of Delft, in seventeenth-century Netherlands, Antony van Leeuwenhoek was a cloth merchant. But even without formal...
Review of Being Frog
Being Frog by April Pulley Sayre; photos by the author Preschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp. 2/20 978-1-5344-2881-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2882-9 $10.99 A green frog moves through its woodland environment, its motions described in short rhyming sentences that match the pace of the creature as it hunts, crawls, jumps,...
Review of The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa’s Last Great Herds by Sy Montgomery; photos by Roger Wood and Logan Wood Intermediate, Middle School Houghton 162 pp. 6/19 978-0-544-76113-1 $24.99 Montgomery takes readers on safari, joining a group led by eminent scientist Dr. Richard Despard Estes to follow wildebeest migrations through...
Review of Predator and Prey: A Conversation in Verse
Predator and Prey: A Conversation in Verse by Susannah Buhrman-Deever; illus. by Bert Kitchen Primary, Intermediate Candlewick Studio 32 pp. g 4/19 978-0-7636-9533-0 $18.99 Buhrman-Deever imagines the relationships between predators and prey as poetic standoffs. Animal antagonists express their behaviors and needs in a variety of creative poetic formats, sometimes...
Review of The Lost Forest
The Lost Forest by Phyllis Root; illus. by Betsy Bowen Primary University of Minnesota 40 pp. 4/19 978-0-8166-9796-0 $17.95 In 1882, a survey team mapping out the wilderness areas of Minnesota made a mistake. As the land was being divided into townships, one of the surveying crew came to Township...