Reviews of the Week
Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 160 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-297042-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-297044-2 $8.99 Kelly (Newbery medalist for Hello, Universe, rev. 3/17, and honoree for We Dream of Space, rev. 5/20) reaches out to a younger audience in an...
Early One Morning by Mem Fox; illus. by Christine Davenier Preschool Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp. g 2/21 978-1-4814-0139-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-0140-1 $10.99 Fox (Where Is the Green Sheep?, rev. 5/04; Ducks Away!, rev. 1/18) delivers another impeccably paced book, hitting every beat and every page-turn perfectly. A little boy...
Beyond: Discoveries from the Outer Reaches of Space by Miranda Paul; illus. by Sija Hong Primary, Intermediate Millbrook 32 pp. g 4/21 978-1-5415-7756-5 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-7284-1898-8 $30.65 Paul’s (Nine Months, rev. 5/19) resonant verse examines phenomena in the far reaches of the universe: “Stretching the limits / of what...
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 480 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-236729-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-236732-7 $10.99 Williams-Garcia, whose YA titles include the 1995 classic Like Sisters on the Homefront and Jumped (rev. 3/09), offers an unusual angle on the subject of slavery with this...
The Night Walk by Marie Dorléans; illus. by the author; trans. from French by Polly Lawson Primary Floris 32 pp. g 4/21 978-1-78250-639-3 $17.95 Awakened by their mother’s voice and a sliver of light through their bedroom door, two children sleepily dress so they can “get there on time.” Where...
What Are Little Girls Made Of? by Jeanne Willis; illus. by Isabelle Follath Primary Nosy Crow/Candlewick 32 pp. g 2/21 978-1-5362-1733-9 $14.99 What are little girls made of? More than “sugar and spice and everything nice” in Willis’s narrative-flipping revision of the classic rhyme. Her update? “Sun and rain and...
Just Being Dalí: The Story of Artist Salvador Dalí by Amy Guglielmo; illus. by Brett Helquist Primary, Intermediate Putnam 40 pp. g 2/21 978-1-9848-1658-0 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-1659-7 $10.99 This picture-book biography paints the Spanish surrealist artist as an imaginative, quirky person right from the start. As a child, he...
Tag Team [El Toro & Friends] by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine Bay Primary Versify/Houghton 56 pp. g 5/21 978-0-358-38039-9 $9.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-39372-6 $6.99 Training Day [El Toro & Friends] by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine Bay Primary Versify/Houghton ...
We All Play by Julie Flett; illus. by the author Preschool Greystone Kids 40 pp. g 5/21 978-1-77164-607-9 $17.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77164-608-6 $17.99 In Flett’s lively and beautifully illustrated story, animals engage in all sorts of playful behaviors, on land and in the water. Each spread depicts one or two...
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