Reviews of the Week
El Deafo: Superpowered Edition! by Cece Bell; illus. by the author; color by David Lasky Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 288 pp. g 10/20 978-1-4197-4831-8 $19.99 Bell’s 2014 graphic memoir is here re-issued with a wealth of “superpowered extras.” Childhood photos with friendly hand-lettered captions, often showing key items referenced in...
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo High School Norton 384 pp. g 4/21 978-1-324-00287-1 $19.95 e-book ed. 978-1-324-00288-8 $17.48 Who was Vincent Chin? The brutal 1982 killing of the young Chinese American...
Starfish by Lisa Fipps Intermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 256 pp. g 3/21 978-1-9848-1450-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-1451-7 $10.99 Since she was five, Ellie (now eleven) has lived by a list of Fat Girl Rules: “Make yourself small”; “Move slowly so / your fat doesn’t jiggle”; “When you hear laughter, /...
Yes & No by Elisha Cooper; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Roaring Brook 40 pp. g 4/21 978-1-250-25733-8 $18.99 Cooper brings readers the sweet tale of a cat and a dog, different as can be, illustrated in the same unfussy, minimalistic style as his Caldecott Honor–winning Big Cat, Little...
The Shrinking of Treehorn: 50th Anniversary Edition by Florence Parry Heide; illus. by Edward Gorey Primary, Intermediate Holiday 80 pp. g 10/20 978-0-8234-4703-9 $16.99 “Something very strange was happening to Treehorn.” And with that, we’re off, to follow young Treehorn’s tribulations as he wakes up one day to discover that...
Meltdown: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima by Deirdre Langeland Middle School, High School Roaring Brook 208 pp. g 2/21 978-1-62672-700-7 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-62672-699-4 $10.99 In time for the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster (March 2011), Langeland chronicles the largest nuclear disaster of the twenty-first century....
Billy Miller Makes a Wish by Kevin Henkes Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 192 pp. g 4/21 978-0-06-304279-7 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-304281-0 $8.99 When Billy Miller fell on his head at the beginning of The Year of Billy Miller (rev. 9/13), he worried about forgetting things and whether he was smart enough...
The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer; illus. by Mariachiara Di Giorgio Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 2/21 978-1-5362-1115-3 $16.99 Forest creatures emerge from the shadows to have their own nighttime fun at the county fairgrounds in this wordless and wondrous picture book. Once the humans head home for the evening,...
Ice!: Poems About Polar Life by Douglas Florian; illus. by the author Primary Holiday 48 pp. g 12/20 978-0-8234-4101-3 $17.99 Twenty-one humorous poems, each with an accompanying whimsical illustration (an emperor penguin sitting on a throne, wistfully looking at birds in flight, for example), introduce readers to Florian’s (Friends and...
1,803 articles