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Review of Too Bright to See
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff Middle School Dial 192 pp. g 4/21 978-0-593-11115-4 $16.99 Bug has always believed his family’s old Vermont farmhouse is haunted — partly because of shadows and creaks, and partly because he often “catch[es] a glimpse of something in the mirror that isn’t me.”...
Review of The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau
The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau by Jon Agee; illus. by the author Primary Dial 40 pp. g 2/21 978-0-593-11265-6 $17.99 In Agee’s 1988 picture book, a Horn Book Fanfare title, everyone at the Grand Contest of Art hates the title character’s painting — a simply drawn duck in a...
Review of El Deafo: Superpowered Edition!
El Deafo: Superpowered Edition! by Cece Bell; illus. by the author; color by David Lasky Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 288 pp. g 10/20 978-1-4197-4831-8 $19.99 Bell’s 2014 graphic memoir is here re-issued with a wealth of “superpowered extras.” Childhood photos with friendly hand-lettered captions, often showing key items referenced in...
Review of The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice
The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice by A. F. Harrold; illus. by Mini Grey Intermediate Bloomsbury 160 pp. g 3/21 978-1-5476-0677-1 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5476-0678-8 $13.99 Harrold (The Song from Somewhere Else, rev. 5/17) presents poems (a few repurposed from previous collections) full of practical and not-so-practical insights on...
Review of Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems
Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky; illus. by Ruth Chan Intermediate Greenwillow 144 pp. g 1/21 978-0-06-301913-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-301915-7 $9.99 Prelutsky fans specifically, and fans of humorous poetry generally, should find just what they’re looking for here: nonsense confidently delivered in lines that...
Pop! Goes the E-book
Photo: wjenningsphotography/Getty Images. All montaged elements: Getty Images (various artists). Since we began working remotely, e-books have become a major part of our lives. They’re convenient in some ways, and necessary to our current situation, but there’s nothing like the “real” thing, especially when a book has tactile elements like...
Review of Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi by Sigal Samuel; illus. by Vali Mintzi Primary, Intermediate Levine Querido 40 pp. g 2/21 978-1-64614-037-4 $17.99 Osnat Barzani (1590–1670) convinced her father, a rabbi, to teach her to read Hebrew, unusual as that was for a...
Review of The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as Told to His Brother)
The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as Told to His Brother) by David Levithan Intermediate, Middle School Knopf 224 pp. g 2/21 978-1-9848-4859-8 $16.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-4860-4 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-4861-1 $9.99 Lucas’s brother Aidan goes missing, which leads to the worried, sympathetic response one would expect from his community....
Review of Letters from Cuba
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar Intermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 272 pp. g 8/20 978-0-525-51647-7 $17.99 In 1938, eleven-year-old Jewish girl Esther is the first of her siblings to emigrate from Poland to Cuba, joining her father, who went three years earlier. Her letters to her sister, kept in a...
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