Book Reviews
Nice Try, Charlie! by Matt James; illus. by the author Primary Groundwood 48 pp. g 9/20 978-1-77306-180-1 $18.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77306-181-8 $16.95 Sporting a full beard, shaggy hair, and a wide-brimmed hat, Charlie roams his neighborhood finding things: an old television, a pair of mismatched oven mitts (and Aunt Myrtle’s...
Everything Naomi Loved by Katie Yamasaki and Ian Lendler; illus. by Katie Yamasaki Primary Norton 48 pp. g 9/20 978-1-324-00491-2 $18.95 e-book ed. 978-1-324-00492-9 $17.48 Naomi lives on busy, bustling 11th Street — “It wasn’t pretty but it was alive!” — where she and her best friend Ada love to...
Off to See the Sea by Nikki Grimes; illus. by Elizabeth Zunon Preschool Sourcebooks 32 pp. g 1/21 978-1-4926-3829-2 $17.99 It’s bath time for the child we first met in Bedtime for Sweet Creatures (rev. 1/20), and once again the youngster’s mother is the narrator. As in many households, here...
The Bear in My Family by Maya Tatsukawa; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Dial 32 pp. g 3/20 978-0-525-55582-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-55583-4 $10.99 A child asserts that there is a bear in his family, and indeed the illustrations show a little boy sharing space with a large gray creature. “Scary, right?” The...
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore; illus. by Loren Long Primary Harper/HarperCollins 40 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-286946-3 $18.99 Long’s inclusive take on Moore’s poem focuses on four different families in four diverse dwellings: a country farmhouse, a city apartment, a trailer home, and a house in the tropics....
Prairie Days by Patricia MacLachlan; illus. by Micha Archer Primary McElderry 40 pp. 5/20 978-1-4424-4191-0 $17.99 In this nostalgic idyll set on the American prairie (judging by clues in the illustrations, in the mid-twentieth-century), a young girl describes summertime farm life as she and the other children ride horses, take...
Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow; illus. by Luisa Uribe Preschool, Primary Innovation 40 pp. g 7/20 978-1-943147-72-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-943147-91-5 $10.99 Roll call can be difficult for a child with an unusual name. A young girl describes how her name “got stuck” in her teacher’s mouth...
Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper; illus. by Kenard Pak Preschool, Primary Kokila/Penguin 32 pp. g 10/20 978-0-399-18633-2 $23.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-11123-9 $11.99 When she wakes to discover that it blizzarded the night before, Lina isn’t deterred from her plans to walk to see her grandmother (in Arabic,...
Can Bears Ski? by Raymond Antrobus; illus. by Polly Dunbar Primary Candlewick 40 pp. g 11/20 978-1-5362-1266-2 $16.99 Bear’s home is loud — full of Dad Bear’s rumbling, shaking, and trembling — and our protagonist enjoys the commotion. Perplexingly, though, Dad and everyone else seems to keep asking, “Can bears...
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