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Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
Instead of spending time talking about why I love Nina: A Story of Nina Simone, written by Traci N. Todd and illustrated by Christian Robinson, this Calling Caldecott blog post is my attempt to take readers into the mind of a committee member — the strategizing, the planning, and how one...
Review of The Message: The Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Text Message
The Message: The Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Text Message by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Dlouhy/Atheneum 48 pp. g 10/21 978-1-5344-5290-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-5291-6 $10.99 What is going on in our brains, on our phones, and in the world when we send or receive a...
Review of Run: Book One
Run: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illus. by L. Fury with Nate Powell Middle School, High School Good Trouble Productions/ComicArts/Abrams 160 pp. g 8/21 978-1-4197-3069-6 $24.99 e-book ed. 978-1-68335-382-9 $18.65 The story begun in the March graphic memoirs (rev. 1/14, 5/15, and 9/16) — events of the...
Review of All Hands on Deck!: A Deadly Hurricane, a Daring Rescue, and the Origin of the Cajun Navy
All Hands on Deck!: A Deadly Hurricane, a Daring Rescue, and the Origin of the Cajun Navy by Robert Neubecker; illus. by the author Primary Knopf 40 pp. g 6/21 978-0-593-17689-4 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-17690-0 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-17691-7 $10.99 “The little boats come from all over the coast, one...
Review of A Shot in the Arm!
A Shot in the Arm! [Big Ideas That Changed the World] by Don Brown; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 144 pp. g 3/21 978-1-4197-5001-4 $13.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-090-5 $12.59 In this third installment of his Big Ideas That Changed the World comic-format series, Brown lays out the...
Review of The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field
The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field by Scott Riley; illus. by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien Primary, Intermediate Millbrook 40 pp. g 3/21 978-1-5415-7915-6 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-7284-1900-8 $9.99 Young Prasit Hemmin and his friends loved soccer. But because their small island...
Review of Meltdown: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima
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....
Review of Mammoth Science: The Big Ideas That Explain Our World
Mammoth Science: The Big Ideas That Explain Our World by David Macaulay; illus. by the author Intermediate DK 160 pp. g 8/20 978-1-4654-9146-6 $19.99 A unique and amusing encyclopedia of general scientific topics from master draftsman Macaulay, geared to a slightly younger audience than the author’s The Way Things Work...
Review of Your Place in the Universe
Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/20 978-0-8234-4623-0 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4878-4 $11.99 The relative sizes of objects can be endlessly fascinating to curious young minds. How many books tall is an eight-year-old? How many eight-year-olds standing on...
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