My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson Middle School, High School Namelos 88 pp. 11/15 978-1-60898-196-0 $21.95 Paper ed. 978-1-60898-197-7 $11.95 e-book ed. 978-1-60898-198-4 $9.95 Seneca Village in Manhattan was founded in 1825 by free African Americans; by 1857 it had been razed to make way for the construction of Central Park. In forty-one poems Nelson […]
About Nina Lindsay
Nina Lindsay is supervising librarian for children’s services at the Oakland Library in Oakland, California.
Review of The Marvels
September 27, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Marvels by Brian Selznick; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 671 pp. 9/15 978-0-545-44868-0 $32.99 Selznick defined his own format with The Invention of Hugo Cabret (rev. 3/07) and Wonderstruck (rev. 9/11), and this book looks the same, on the outside. But Selznick has created something wholly different here, by introducing one […]
Review of Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
October 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate; illus. by G. Brian Karas Primary, Intermediate Clarion 40 pp. 10/14 978-0-544-25230-1 $17.99 g Applegate introduces young readers to the true story that inspired her Newbery Medal–winning novel The One and Only Ivan (rev. 1/12). “In leafy calm, / in gentle arms, […]
Review of Egg & Spoon
September 2, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire Middle School Candlewick 479 pp. 9/14 978-0-7636-7220-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-7636-7582-0 $17.99 An imprisoned man tells his story, Scheherazade-like, in letters to the tsar. He begins with Elena, a young girl in the impoverished Russian countryside who is nursing her dying mother and who has witnessed her brother […]
Newbery 2012: The Year in Words
July 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Newbery speculation is alive and healthy, with even the mock awards receiving national news coverage (and with the USA Today reporter who interviewed me also confiding that his fifth-grade son was participating in one). Happily, the growing din of the buzz doesn’t seem to affect the pleasure of the surprise at the award press conference. […]
