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Review of Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest
Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest by Phoebe Wahl; illus. by the author Primary Tundra 96 pp. g 9/21 978-0-7352-6489-2 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-7352-6490-8 $10.99 In four stories, one for each season, we follow the adventures of Little Witch Hazel, a sturdy, rosy-cheeked forest dweller with a bevy...
Review of Paper Heart
Paper Heart by Cat Patrick Intermediate, Middle School Putnam 304 pp. g 5/21 978-1-9848-1534-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-1535-4 $10.99 Tessa, thirteen, is spending the summer in a small town in Wyoming, staying with her aunt, uncle, and cousins and going to art camp. Right from the get-go she is thrown...
Review of The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 8/21 978-0-8234-4698-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5067-1 $11.99 Familiar fairy-tale tropes are re-envisioned through Gauld’s (a cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist) particular deadpan lens for this original fairy tale....
Review of Popcorn Bob
Popcorn Bob by Maranke Rinck; illus. by Martijn van der Linden; trans. from Dutch by Nancy Forest-Flier Primary, Intermediate Levine Querido 152 pp. g 4/21 978-1-64614-040-4 $14.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64614-067-1 $9.99 Bob, an egg-sized, anthropomorphic, unpopped kernel of popcorn wearing a Stetson, makes his way from the American Midwest to...
Review of Dreyer's English: Good Advice for Good Writing (Adapted for Young Readers)
Dreyer’s English: Good Advice for Good Writing (Adapted for Young Readers) by Benjamin Dreyer Intermediate, Middle School, High School Delacorte 288 pp. g 2/21 978-0-593-17680-1 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-17681-8 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-17682-5 $10.99 This adaptation of Dreyer’s adult style guide of the same name is as useful and amusing...
Review of Alice's Farm: A Rabbit's Tale
Alice’s Farm: A Rabbit’s Tale by Maryrose Wood; illus. by Christopher Denise Intermediate Feiwel 368 pp. g 9/20 978-1-250-22455-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-22456-9 $9.99 A folksy omniscient narrator tells the tale of two families, rabbit and human, that share a territory. Young cottontail Alice and her brother Thistle are enjoying their...
Review of Little Bird
Little Bird by Cynthia Voigt; illus. by Lynne Rae Perkins Intermediate Greenwillow 336 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-299689-3 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-299691-6 $8.99 In her latest animal fantasy, Voigt returns to the Old Davis Farm, a territory she has explored in three previous books (most recently Toaff’s Way, rev. 9/18). Little Bird is a curious...
Review of A Whale of the Wild
A Whale of the Wild by Rosanne Parry; illus. by Lindsay Moore Intermediate Greenwillow 336 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-299592-6 $17.99 The whale of the title could apply to either of two narrators. Vega, a late-adolescent orca whale, is just coming into her own as a wayfinder. The alternating voice is that of her...
Review of Saucy
Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata; illus. by Marianna Raskin Intermediate Dlouhy/Atheneum 304 pp. g 9/20 978-1-4424-1278-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4424-1280-4 $10.99 Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Becca, one of a set of quadruplets, discovers an ailing baby pig by the side of the road and brings it home. From this point on, life in her...
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