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Review of Sato the Rabbit
Sato the Rabbit by Yuki Ainoya; illus. by the author; trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky Primary Enchanted Lion 64 pp. g 2/21 978-1-59270-296-1 $16.95 Sato is a little boy in a rabbit costume, a kind of Japanese second cousin to Max in his wolf suit. In a set of...
Review of Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems
Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye; illus. by Rafael López Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 256 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-301345-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-301347-6 $9.99 A substantial volume of poems by Nye, the Palestinian American poet and current Young People’s Poet Laureate, is a pleasure on...
Review of Pity Party
Pity Party by Kathleen Lane Middle School Little, Brown 208 pp. g 1/21 978-0-316-41736-5 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-41735-8 $9.99 Katya is a nervous middle schooler whose fertile imagination defaults to disaster. The voice in her head warns of poisoned Halloween candy, looming social ostracism, imminent acne, and rabid raccoons. In...
Review of The Weird in the Wilds
The Weird in the Wilds [Tales of Triumph and Disaster!] by Deb Caletti; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Putnam 272 pp. g 9/20 978-1-9848-1308-4 $13.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-1309-1 $8.99 In our introduction to Henry Early in A Flicker of Courage (rev. 1/20), the big reveal was that this...
Review of If You Come to Earth
If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Primary Chronicle 80 pp. g 9/20 978-1-4521-3779-7 $18.99 Quinn, a small child in a red gnome hat, writes a letter to potential visitors to our planet to explain to them what we’re about: our location in the universe,...
Review of Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror
Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Natasha Farrant; illus. by Lydia Corry Intermediate Norton 217 pp. g 5/20 978-1-324-01556-7 $19.95 The framing structure for this collection of princess stories is elaborate. When an enchantress is invited to be the godmother to a princess, she realizes that she doesn’t know...
Review of We Dream of Space
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 392 pp. g 5/20 978-0-06-274730-3 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-274732-7 $9.99 In the foreground of this novel are three siblings. Twelve-year-old Fitch lives for video games and is angry through and through. His twin sister Bird is an amiable,...
Review of Indian No More
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis with Traci Sorell Intermediate Tu/Lee & Low 209 pp. g 9/19 978-1-62014-839-6 $18.95 This novel (based on McManis's childhood) is set against the background of U.S. government actions beginning in the 1940s that terminated the status of many Native Nations and forced relocation of families living on reservations. With a stroke of the pen, in 1954, eight-year-old Regina Petit...
Review of Fing's War
Fing’s War by Benny Lindelauf; trans. from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen Intermediate, Middle School Enchanted Lion 411 pp. 6/19 978-1-59270-269-5 $16.95 This sequel to Nine Open Arms (rev. 9/14) falls into two parts. In the early chapters we follow the fortunes and adventures of the Boon family, in 1938...