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Books in the Home: Reading with Sophie: Finding Books for a Teen with Special Needs
How do you choose a book for a child who doesn’t have the capacity to choose one for herself? As the mother of a nonverbal teenager with autism and developmental delays, it is a question I ask myself all the time. When Sophie was first diagnosed in preschool, we were...
Review of Vroom!
Vroom! by Barbara McClintock; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Farrar 32 pp. 7/19 978-1-62672-217-0 $17.99 Annie, the daredevil young protagonist of this spirited story, has a big imagination—and a plan. She dons her striped racing helmet and gloves and then jumps into her sleek racing car. By the second...
Borderlands: Reading as Theater
In the introduction to Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children (1990), William Zinsser wrote, “This gift — to get good language into the ear of children at a very early age — is what children’s literature has in its power to bestow…to write well it...
Review of Queen of the Sea
Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis; illus. by the author Middle School Walker U.S./Candlewick 396 pp. 5/19 978-1-5362-0498-8 $24.99 In a graphic novel loosely inspired by sixteenth-century British history “during the reigns of King Henry VIII and his daughters, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I,” young Margaret has...
Review of A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein; illus. by Jerry Pinkney Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. g 8/19 978-0-8234-4331-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4374-1 $11.99 This superbly executed picture book takes readers behind the scenes of the writing of Dr....
Review of A Place to Belong
A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata; illus. by Julia Kuo Intermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 405 pp. 5/19 978-1-4814-4664-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-4666-2 $10.99 They had been such proud Americans—working hard at their San Francisco restaurant and hopeful for the future. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Hanako, her little brother,...
Review of A Stone Sat Still
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Chronicle 56 pp. 8/19 978-1-4521-7318-4 $17.99 This multilayered companion to Wenzel’s Caldecott Honor Book They All Saw a Cat (rev. 11/16) starts and ends with similar images of the same large stone. “A stone sat still with...
Review of The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa’s Last Great Herds by Sy Montgomery; photos by Roger Wood and Logan Wood Intermediate, Middle School Houghton 162 pp. 6/19 978-0-544-76113-1 $24.99 Montgomery takes readers on safari, joining a group led by eminent scientist Dr. Richard Despard Estes to follow wildebeest migrations through...
Review of The Fountains of Silence
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys High School Philomel 498 pp. g 10/19 978-0-399-16031-8 $18.99 Sepetys’s riveting historical epic examines the enduring effects of the Spanish Civil War through the perspectives of four young people living under the shadow of Franco’s fascist dictatorship in 1957 Madrid. Ana and Rafael...
Happy Anniversary: It's Perfectly Normal
It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley, was published by Candlewick in 1994. It celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2019. Intended for readers ages ten and up, Harris and Emberley’s It’s Perfectly Normal was groundbreaking when it appeared on the scene...