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Review of Field Trip to Dinosaur Valley

Field Trip to Dinosaur Valley by John Hare; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary    Ferguson/Holiday    40 pp.9/25    9780823459575    $18.99This fourth installment of the wordless picture book series (Field Trip to the Moon, rev. 9/19, and sequels) raises stakes even higher than previous excursions by delving into time travel—and dinosaurs. The story...
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Review of The Search for Our Cosmic Neighbors

The Search for Our Cosmic Neighbors by Chloe Savage; illus. by the authorPrimary    Candlewick    40 pp.9/25    9781536247497    $18.99e-book ed.  9781536248753    $18.99Savage’s exquisitely illustrated speculative sci-fi picture book shifts focus from the Arctic Ocean in her previous work (The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish, rev. 5/23) to deep space, depicting...
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Review of The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle

The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle by Maddalena Bearzi; illus. by Alex BoersmaPrimary    Roaring Brook    48 pp.5/25    9781250901675    $19.99e-book ed.  9781250430571    $11.99In a narrative beginning and ending at the Ría Lagartos nature reserve on the Yucatán Peninsula, readers follow the perilous and often enigmatic life of a single green...
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Review of Soul Machine

Soul Machine by Jordana Globerman; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School    Annick    228 pp.6/25    9781773219585    $24.99Paper ed.  9781773219592    $17.99This story of fifteen-year-old Chloe, an aspiring soul weaver in a dystopian world run by the megacorporation MCorp, makes for a maximalist graphic novel: dense yet ambiguous, grounded in both fantasy...

Review of Run Away with Me

Run Away with Me by Brian Selznick; illus. by the author High School    Scholastic    320 pp. 4/25    9781339035529    $24.99 e-book ed.  9781546110224    $24.99 Selznick’s first young adult work is imbued with romance and mystery, bookended with long, cinematic passages of textural, wordless, black-and-white illustrations in his signature style. A sixteen-year-old...
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Review of The Bear Out There

The Bear Out There by Jess Hannigan; illus. by the authorPrimary    Quill Tree/HarperCollins    48 pp.4/25    9780063289482    $19.99Hannigan’s (Spider in the Well, rev. 3/24) alternative take on “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” presents the outlandish actions and delusional interpretations of a child narrator as they attempt to justify their baseless fear...

Review of Night Light

Night Light [I Like to Read: Comics]by Michael Emberley; illus. by the authorPrimary    Holiday    40 pp.4/25    9780823458165    $14.99Emberley’s familiar pink-and-green-pajama-wearing creature (see Let’s Go!, rev. 1/23, and others) returns for another imaginative early-reader-comic mini-adventure, this time with a parent in tow. It’s bedtime, and after selecting a story (one that...

Review of Song of a Blackbird

Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School    First Second    256 pp.1/25    9781250869814    $25.99Paper ed.  9781250869821    $17.99e-book ed.  9781250412119    $11.99This deeply personal and poetic graphic novel illustrates the heroic actions of everyday Dutch people as they resisted the Nazi regime, as well as...
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Review of A Home for Unusual Monsters

A Home for Unusual Monsters [Kairos Files]by Shaun David HutchinsonIntermediate, Middle School    Labyrinth Road/Random    288 pp.2/25    9780593646335    $17.99e-book ed.  9780593646359    $10.99This sequel to The School for Invisible Boys (rev. 1/24) shifts its focus to twelve-year-old Samantha Osbourne, budding agent for the clandestine paranormal research group Kairos, as she navigates adolescence,...
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