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Review of Alice's Farm: A Rabbit's Tale
Alice’s Farm: A Rabbit’s Tale by Maryrose Wood; illus. by Christopher Denise Intermediate Feiwel 368 pp. g 9/20 978-1-250-22455-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-22456-9 $9.99 A folksy omniscient narrator tells the tale of two families, rabbit and human, that share a territory. Young cottontail Alice and her brother Thistle are enjoying their...
Review of Little Bird
Little Bird by Cynthia Voigt; illus. by Lynne Rae Perkins Intermediate Greenwillow 336 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-299689-3 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-299691-6 $8.99 In her latest animal fantasy, Voigt returns to the Old Davis Farm, a territory she has explored in three previous books (most recently Toaff’s Way, rev. 9/18). Little Bird is a curious...
Review of A Whale of the Wild
A Whale of the Wild by Rosanne Parry; illus. by Lindsay Moore Intermediate Greenwillow 336 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-299592-6 $17.99 The whale of the title could apply to either of two narrators. Vega, a late-adolescent orca whale, is just coming into her own as a wayfinder. The alternating voice is that of her...
Review of Saucy
Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata; illus. by Marianna Raskin Intermediate Dlouhy/Atheneum 304 pp. g 9/20 978-1-4424-1278-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4424-1280-4 $10.99 Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Becca, one of a set of quadruplets, discovers an ailing baby pig by the side of the road and brings it home. From this point on, life in her...
Review of The Ramble Shamble Children
The Ramble Shamble Children by Christina Soontornvat; illus. by Lauren Castillo Preschool, Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g 3/21 978-0-399-17632-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-399-54582-5 $10.99 “Down the mountain, across the creek, past the last curve in the road, five children lived together in a ramble shamble house.” From this first welcoming...
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...
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