Reviews of the Week
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...
Up Verses Down: Poems, Paintings, and Serious Nonsense by Calef Brown; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Ottaviano/Holt 80 pp. 6/19 978-0-8050-9929-4 $19.99 Brown (Soup for Breakfast, rev. 3/09; Hypnotize a Tiger, rev. 3/15) presents poems categorized by subject (“People Are People”; “Foodstuffs”; “Sleepy Time”), and bracketed by poetry about...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
River by Elisha Cooper; illus. by the author Primary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. g 10/19 978-1-338-31226-3 $18.99 A woman says goodbye to her family and begins a three-hundred-mile canoe journey down a river. "In her canoe: tent, sleeping bag, guidebook, map, life jacket, first-aid kit, waterproof duffle with food, clothes, water...
Liberty Arrives!: How America’s Grandest Statue Found Her Home by Robert Byrd; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Dial 40 pp. g 6/19 978-0-7352-3082-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-5255-5451-6 $10.99 Byrd (Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award winner for Electric Ben, rev. 11/12) approaches his topic as systematically and artistically as did...
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