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Review of Mel Fell
Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor; illus. by the author Primary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp. g 2/21 978-0-06-287801-4 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-308952-5 $12.99 This playful and innovatively designed book tells the story of a small bird who is eager to fly. When Mama leaves the tree one day, Mel...
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 Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 368 pp. g 1/21 978-0-374-31415-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-374-31416-3 $10.99 The prolific Paulsen dips into his seemingly inexhaustible well of memories to pen yet another memoir. Employing the same third-person narrative voice he used in...
Review of Amber & Clay
Amber & Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz; illus. by Julia Iredale Middle School, High School Candlewick 544 pp. g 3/21 978-1-5362-0122-2 $22.99 Curation, historical fiction, performance piece — Schlitz (Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, rev. 11/07) brings a bundle of learning, artifice, and intentionality to this highly stylized tale of ancient...
Review of Keeping the City Going
Keeping the City Going by Brian Floca; illus. by the author Primary Dlouhy/Atheneum 40 pp. g 4/21 978-1-5344-9377-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-9378-0 $10.99 Caldecott winner Floca (Locomotive, rev. 9/13) presents a love letter to New York City and its essential workers during COVID-19. “We are here at home now, watching...
A Note from Me (Apr 9, 2021)
Dear friends: Let me confess here at the start that we made it through about forty-five minutes of The Greatest Story Ever Told before Lori and I decided (Richard having already fallen asleep) to switch over to Last Tango in Halifax, “you slapper” having become my favorite term of insult/endearment after just the first season. The Greatest Story it...
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...
Review of Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education
Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education by Lawrence Goldstone Middle School, High School Focus/Scholastic 288 pp. g 1/21 978-1-338-59283-2 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-59285-6 $11.99 Goldstone (Unpunished Murder, rev. 9/18) takes a long view of the historic 1954 civil rights case Brown v. Board of...
The Writer's Page: Hello Again
Writing sequels or companion books to my novels has never been tempting to me, probably because I like to think each book accomplished all I’d intended to say. After completing When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (1999), I felt satisfied that I’d finished the story of Toby, Cal, and Zachary....
Review of The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas
The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas by Kimberly Willis Holt Intermediate, Middle School Ottaviano/Holt 320 pp. g 1/21 978-1-250-23410-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-23411-7 $9.99 The narrator of this sequel to National Book Award winner When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (rev. 11/99) is Rylee Wilson, daughter of the first book’s protagonist,...