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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 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 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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