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Review of Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer's Historic Boston Marathon
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon by Kim Chaffee; illus. by Ellen Rooney Primary Page Street 40 pp. 4/19 978-1-62414-654-1 $17.99 This stirring picture-book biography introduces Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with an official race number. “Running was magic” to twelve-year-old Kathrine, but...
Review of Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson Intermediate, Middle School Atheneum 250 pp. 7/19 978-1-5344-4083-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-4085-2 $10.99 To help her older brother with his math work at school, Katherine Johnson hatched a plan. She joined his class for a day...
Review of How Many?: A Different Kind of Counting Book
How Many?: A Different Kind of Counting Book [Talking Math] by Christopher Danielson; photos by Scott Dorrance Preschool, Primary Charlesbridge 40 pp. 9/19 978-1-58089-943-7 $15.99 Paper ed. 978-1-58089-945-1 $7.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63289-813-5 $6.99 Danielson upends the traditional counting book format by letting viewers decide for themselves what to count. Take,...
Review of Skulls!
Skulls! by Blair Thornburgh; illus. by Scott Campbell Primary Atheneum 40 pp. 7/19 978-1-5344-1400-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-1401-3 $10.99 “You probably don’t think much about skulls,” the book begins, as readers meet a round-faced girl with puffball pigtails. A page-turn places the girl, who’s contentedly chomping on an apple, amid...
Review of A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon by Suzanne Slade; illus. by Veronica Miller Jamison Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 3/19 978-0-316-43517-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-51131-5 $9.99 Math genius Katherine Johnson (née Coleman) was a star student, twice skipping a grade before her family...
Review of Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born
Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Bornby Miranda Paul; illus. by Jason ChinPrimary Porter/Holiday 32 pp.4/19 978-0-8234-4161-7 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4213-3 $18.99A pithy quintain describes the moment a fertilized human egg becomes a two-celled zygote: “Small. / Ball. / The point of a pin. / Then it divides… / Our story begins.” It’s the first...
Review of Snowman − Cold = Puddle: Spring Equations
Snowman − Cold = Puddle: Spring Equationsby Laura Purdie Salas; illus. by Micha ArcherPrimary Charlesbridge 32 pp.2/19 978-1-58089-798-3 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-63289-643-8 $9.99This whimsical celebration of spring-time features a playful equation poem on every page. Take the titular “snowman – cold = puddle.” It’s a subtraction sentence — minus the usual...
Review of Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer
Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmerby Fiona Robinson;
illus. by the authorPrimary Abrams 40 pp.8/16 978-1-4197-1872-4 $17.95e-book ed. 978-1-61312-913-5 $15.54Whisked away as a newborn by Anne Milbanke, her strait-laced mathematician mother, Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) never knew her father, the impetuous Romantic poet Lord Byron....
Review of The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily
The Twelve Days of Dash & Lilyby Rachel Cohn and David LevithanHigh School Knopf 217 pp.10/16 978-0-399-55380-6 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-399-55381-3 $20.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-399-55382-0 $10.99It’s been a year since the two teens met and fell in love in New York City (Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, rev. 1/11), thanks...