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Review of When I Move
When I Move by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Alea MarleyPreschool, Primary Union Square 40 pp.4/25 9781454945543 $18.99This is a picture book tailor-made for storytime: Weatherford’s succinct first-person text makes great use of repetition, as well as end rhymes that beg for children’s voices to complete. Well-paced page-turns at the...
Review of Toto
Toto by Hyewon Yum; illus. by the author Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 1/25 9780823453894 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823462322 $11.99 “Toto” isn’t the young protagonist’s name but rather what she calls the large birthmark on her forehead. Opening lines read, “Sometimes I wonder how I would look without Toto.” Despite loving...
Review of Meena's Saturday
Meena’s Saturday by Kusum Mepani; illus. by Yasmeen Ismail Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 10/24 9780593110317 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593110324 $10.99 This captivating ode to weekly gatherings of friends and extended family brims with affection for foods, activities, and traditions shared by a loving, large group crowded together in the narrator’s...
Noodles on a Bicycle
A tall portrait layout might have been the natural choice for Noodles on a Bicycle, with its depictions of bicycling demae (deliverymen) who balance gravity-defying towers of trays and bowls of soba noodles as they move through the streets of Tokyo. Instead, Zhang opted for a square trim, which infuses her illustrations...
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Review of Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right
Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right by Mo Willems; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary Union Square 40 pp.12/24 9781454951483 $18.99With each spread decorated as a simple stage, photo collages of two goggle-eyed, bespectacled hands-as-puppets enter on verso and recto. The one on the left is clad with a cuff...
Touch the Sky
When I first saw Chris Park’s jacket art for Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s Touch the Sky, I was struck by its bold colors, display type that would fit right into street art near a city playground, and by painterly, energetic brushstrokes evoking the soaring movement of the child on a...
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Review of L Is for Love
L Is for Love by Atinuke; illus. by Angela BrooksbankPreschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp.9/24 9781536235555 $17.99There’s lots to love about this companion to B Is for Baby (rev. 5/19), which strings together lists of words starting with L for a day-in-the-life depiction of a multigenerational Nigerian family. The title-page illustration...
Review of Too Small Tola Makes It Count
Too Small Tola Makes It Count by Atinuke; illus. by Onyinye Iwu Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 96 pp. 9/24 9781536238150 $16.99 e-book ed. 9781536240030 $16.99 Atinuke returns for a fourth time (Too Small Tola, rev. 3/21, and sequels) to her diminutive, high-spirited, mathematically gifted protagonist’s “run-down block of apartments in the...
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Review of Shake It Off!
Shake It Off! by Vanessa Brantley-Newton; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp.6/24 9780525517115 $18.99e-book ed. 9780525517122 $10.99“This is a story that will have a happy ending, so don’t worry too much!” With that reassuring front-matter spoiler, Brantley-Newton launches into her tale about a little singing goat. Conflict is...
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