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Review of Fish and Sun and Tiny Tales: Shell Quest
Fish and Sun [I Can Read!: Comics] by Sergio Ruzzier; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary HarperAlley/HarperCollins 48 pp. g 6/21 978-0-06-307664-8 $16.99 Paper ed. 978-0-06-307663-1 $4.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-307665-5 $4.99 Tiny Tales: Shell Quest [I Can Read!: Comics] by Steph Waldo; illus. by the author Primary HarperAlley/HarperCollins 32 pp. ...
Review of Hurricane
Hurricane by John Rocco; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 48 pp. g 9/21 978-0-7595-5493-1 $17.99 Life is good for our young narrator. He loves to fish, crab, swim, and just watch the river passing by, and claims a little-used and neglected neighborhood dock as his own. One summer...
Review of Dear Treefrog
Dear Treefrog by Joyce Sidman; illus. by Diana Sudyka Primary Houghton 40 pp. g 5/21 978-0-358-06476-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-06671-2 $12.99 In what is in essence a nonfiction early-chapter-book in verse, a young girl moves to a new home. She’s lonely, but when she explores the garden, she observes a...
Review of Ice!: Poems About Polar Life
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...
Review of The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas
The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas by Kimberly Willis Holt Intermediate, Middle School Ottaviano/Holt 320 pp. g 1/21 978-1-250-23410-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-23411-7 $9.99 The narrator of this sequel to National Book Award winner When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (rev. 11/99) is Rylee Wilson, daughter of the first book’s protagonist,...
Review of Kate's Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse
Kate’s Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse by Elizabeth Spires; illus. by Emily Arnold McCully Primary, Intermediate Ferguson/Holiday 40 pp. g 1/21 978-0-8234-4348-2 $18.99 This thorough and visually evocative picture-book biography tells the story of Kate Walker (1848–1931), who became one of the first women to serve as an...
Review of The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe
The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe by Sandra Nickel; illus. by Aimée Sicuro Primary, Intermediate Abrams 48 pp. g 3/21 978-1-4197-3626-1 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-321-0 $15.54 Like many astronomers (think Edwin Hubble, for example), Vera Rubin (1928–2016) showed a youthful passion for this...
Review of The Big One: The Cascadia Earthquakes and the Science of Saving Lives
The Big One: The Cascadia Earthquakes and the Science of Saving Lives [Scientists in the Field] by Elizabeth Rusch Intermediate, Middle School Houghton 80 pp. g 8/20 978-0-544-88904-0 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-33579-5 $9.99 Off the Pacific Northwest coast, running about six hundred miles from British Columbia to Northern California, lies...
Review of I Heard a Sound
I Heard a Sound by David J. Ward; illus. by Eric Comstock Primary Holiday 40 pp. g 7/20 978-0-8234-3704-7 $18.99 Bright, eye-catching digital illustrations provide the first signs of a stimulating adventure. Ward delivers on this promise but also offers a solid and informative introduction to one of the five...
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