Together We Ride by Valerie Bolling; illus. by Kaylani JuanitaPreschool Chronicle 32 pp. g4/22 978-1-7972-1248-7 $16.99A little girl learns to ride a bike in her suburban Bay Area neighborhood, her father by her side until off she goes on her own. Soon enough comes the inevitable wobbliness and first fall...
Luli and the Language of Tea by Andrea Wang; illus. by Hyewon YumPreschool Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g5/22 978-0-8234-4614-8 $18.99While adults attend an ESL class, their children go to a playroom next door. The room is full but quiet; no one speaks the same language, and all the kids play separately....
Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! by Laurel Snyder; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary, Intermediate Chronicle 88 pp. g4/22 978-1-4521-4482-5 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-7972-0121-4 $11.99Though oversize, this eighty-eight-page picture book is not for story hour; it’s perhaps best suited for just one or two listeners. And get...
Ollie’s Hug by Olivier Dunrea; illus. by the authorPreschool Clarion/HarperCollins 16 pp. g3/22 978-0-358-66393-5 $7.99Gosling Ollie (Ollie the Stomper) is feeling out of sorts, and “Nothing feels right!” One by one, his friends kindly offer help. Does he want to wear Gertie’s boots or play with Peedie’s ball or go...
Snow Angel, Sand Angel by Lois-Ann Yamanaka; illus. by Ashley LukashevskyPrimary Make Me a World/Random 40 pp. g1/22 978-0-593-12737-7 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-593-12738-4 $20.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-12739-1 $10.99Claire, who lives with her family in Hawai’i, yearns to experience snow. Her family visits Mauna Kea, but the snow there isn’t the kind she’s...
Big Dog, Little Dog by Sally Rippin; illus. by Lucinda GiffordPreschool, Primary Kane Miller 32 pp. g3/22 978-1-68464-383-7 $12.99Big Dog is perfectly happy before Little Dog comes along. It’s just him and his human friend—yelling “Walkies!” while hanging onto the leash as Big Dog hurtles along; “Come!” as off-leash Big...
Dream, Annie, Dream by Waka T. BrownIntermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 352 pp. g1/22 978-0-06-301716-0 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-301718-4 $8.99Japanese American Aoi Inoue takes to heart her sixth-grade teacher’s advice (“You can be anything you want to be”) and decides she wants to be called Annie, after years of answering to...
Himawari House by Harmony Becker; illus. by the author High School First Second 384 pp. g 11/21 978-1-250-23556-5 $24.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-23557-2 $17.99 In this expertly crafted graphic novel, recent high school grad Nao, born in Japan and raised in the American Midwest, spends a gap year in Tokyo. “Only...
The Big Bath House by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Gracey Zhang Primary Random 40 pp. g 11/21 978-0-593-18195-9 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-18196-6 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-18197-3 $10.99 A young girl visiting her grandmother in Japan narrates this not-so-traditional bath-time book about a very traditional and ancient Japanese custom. The narrator...