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Review of The Whole Hole Story
The Whole Hole Story by Vivian McInerny; illus. by Ken Lamug Primary Versify/Houghton 40 pp. g 1/21 978-0-358-12881-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-12948-6 $12.99 Zia, a brown-skinned girl with a huge afro puff and an expansive imagination, discovers a hole in her pocket. Then the hole moves to the ground and enlarges,...
Review of America My Love, America My Heart
America My Love, America My Heart by Daria Peoples-Riley; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g 4/21 978-0-06-299329-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-308934-1 $12.99 In an immediate, evocative text, a child of color asks America — her country, which she loves — if America loves her back. Against black,...
Review of Seeking an Aurora
Seeking an Aurora by Elizabeth Pulford; illus. by Anne Bannock Primary Blue Dot Kids 32 pp. g 1/21 978-1-7331212-7-9 $17.95 A story from New Zealand about a rare natural wonder. A father awakens his child late at night to “find an Aurora.” The child asks, “What’s an Aurora?” but Dad...
Review of Milo Imagines the World
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña; illus. by Christian Robinson Primary Putnam 40 pp. g 2/21 978-0-399-54908-3 $18.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-593-35462-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-399-54909-0 $10.99 Harold and the Purple Crayon meets twenty-first-century urban realism in this picture book by the Last Stop on Market Street (rev....
Review of She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown; illus. by Eric Velasquez Primary, Intermediate Lee & Low 40 pp. g 8/20 978-1-62014-346-9 $19.95 “Unbought and Unbossed”: Shirley Chisholm’s 1968 campaign slogan, still relevant today. Russell-Brown (Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, rev. 11/14) engagingly presents...
Review of This Is Your Time
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges Primary, Intermediate Delacorte 64 pp. g 11/20 978-0-593-37852-6 $15.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-37853-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-37854-0 $9.99 A letter of love and care from civil rights icon Ruby Bridges to twenty-first-century children marks the sixtieth anniversary of her integration of William Frantz Elementary...
Review of A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart by Zetta Elliott; illus. by Noa Denmon Primary, Intermediate Farrar 32 pp. g 7/20 978-0-374-30741-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-374-38863-8 $9.99 In this powerfully lyrical poem, Elliott articulates what resides “deep down inside” of the African American, skateboard-loving, first-person protagonist:...
Review of All Because You Matter
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles; illus. by Bryan Collier Preschool, Primary Orchard/Scholastic 40 pp. g 10/20 978-1-338-57485-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-67474-3 $10.99 A richly illustrated affirmation for Black children — especially boys. An African American expectant mother and father eagerly await the arrival of their child, embracing him...
The Camping Trip
“People in cities don’t understand / falling in love with the land.” So goes a line from one of my favorite Girl Scout songs, “Moon on the Meadow.” Jennifer K. Mann’s picture book The Camping Trip takes protagonist and narrator Ernestine from being one of those “people in cities” to getting her first taste...
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