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Review of Dreamers
Dreamersby Yuyi Morales; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.9/18 978-0-8234-4055-9 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4125-9 $18.99Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4258-4 $18.99Two pairs of eyes shine from the cover of Morales’s book — the infant’s eyes brilliant with curiosity, his mother’s gaze pensive. These two “migrantes” arrive on “the other side, / thirsty, in awe, /...
Review of The Grasshopper & the Ants
The Grasshopper & the Antsby Jerry Pinkney; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp.4/15 978-0-316-40081-7 $18.00 gMoving right up Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs, Pinkney transforms Aesop’s harsh
fable about the consequences of improvi
dence into one celebrating the value of the arts. Unlike his true-to-species characters in his Caldecott-winning...
Review of A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat
A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treatby Emily Jenkins; illus. by Sophie BlackallPrimary Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp.1/15 978-0-375-86832-0 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-375-96832-7 $20.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-375-98771-7 $10.99In four vignettes, set a hundred years apart from each other, parents and children make delicious blackberry fool from blackberries, cream,...
Review of My Grandfather's Coat
My Grandfather’s Coatretold by Jim Aylesworth;
illus. by Barbara McClintockPreschool, Primary Scholastic 32 pp.11/14 978-0-439-92545-7 $17.99Revisiting the Yiddish folksong celebrated in Simms Taback’s Caldecott-winning Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, Aylesworth extends its events over four generations, affording McClintock the opportunity to sample dress and households from the early twentieth century...
Review of Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Coldby Joyce Sidman; illus. by Rick AllenPrimary, Intermediate Houghton 32 pp.11/14 978-0-547-90650-8 $17.99In winter, bees (“we are nothing on our own”) keep their precious queen warm by massing together into a “sizzling ball.” Hibernating garter snakes, safe in a cave, “’round each other...
Review of The Way to the Zoo
The Way to the Zooby John Burningham;
illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp.8/14 978-0-7636-7317-8 $15.99“All I have to do is leave you at home when I go out for a while and it looks as if you had the whole zoo in here!” cries Sylvie’s mother. Actually, there...
Review of The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisseby Patricia MacLachlan;
illus. by Hadley HooperPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.10/14 978-1-59643-948-1 $17.99“If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived / in a dreary town…” Thus begins this speculative exploration of the painter’s early encounters with color, worded as a...
Review of Remy and Lulu
Remy and Luluby Kevin Hawkes;
illus. by the author with
miniatures by Hannah E. HarrisonPrimary Knopf 40 pp.9/14 978-0-449-81085-9 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-449-81087-3 $20.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-449-81089-7 $10.99Lulu, a lithe and clever little Parisian dog, used to live with a “great portrait painter,” but now she’s homeless. Remy, a hirsute itinerant...
Review of At Home in Her Tomb: Lady Dai and the Ancient Chinese Treasures of Mawangdui
At Home in Her Tomb: Lady Dai and the Ancient Chinese Treasures of Mawangduiby Christine Liu-Perkins;
illus. by Sarah S. BrannenIntermediate, Middle School Charlesbridge 80 pp.4/14 978-1-58089-370-1 $19.95e-book ed. 978-1-60734-615-9 $9.99Late in 1971, workers digging an air-raid shelter in Hunan Province found three tombs of a noble family from early...