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All Woman Spacewalk
If you were inspired by this morning's history-making all-woman spacewalk -- like we were! -- here are some booklists about: strong women making an impact, picture-book biographies of pioneering women, collective biographies of "brazen" women, and groundbreaking women in STEAM. And don't miss the new picture book Astro Girl, by...
Deborah Heiligman Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by After two biographies about two people each (Charles and Emma [Darwin], Vincent and Theo [van Gogh]), Deborah Heiligman now writes about a cast of one hundred — the precise number...
Review of What Miss Mitchell Saw
What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett; illus. by Diana Sudyka Primary Beach Lane/Simon 40 pp. 9/19 918-1-4814-8759-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-8760-3 $10.99 Born in the early part of the nineteenth century “on the fog-wrapped island of Nantucket,” Maria Mitchell was a learner, expanding her educational horizons from her family...
Exploration
Bergreen, Laurence Magellan: Over the Edge of the World Middle school, high school 211 pp. Roaring Brook This adaptation of the author's adult book chronicles Ferdinand Magellan's historic, globe-circumnavigating search for the Spice Islands. The conflict between Portugal and Spain and suspicion of Magellan's loyalty to the Spanish crown are...
Coding and computer science
Alkire, Jessie Code It!: Programming and Keyboards You Can Create Yourself Gr. 4–6 32 pp. ABDO Checkerboard Library: Cool Makerspace Gadgets & Gizmos series. This short volume introduces makerspaces and coding, providing instructions for six projects that use either Scratch or Makey Makeys. Photographs accompany clear, reproducible instructions, and brightly...
Undocumented immigrant experiences
Arce, Julissa Someone like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream Gr. 4–6, middle school 240 pp. Little, Brown At once heartbreaking and full of hope, this moving memoir is a survival story that recounts the Mexican American author's adolescence spent as an undocumented immigrant in Texas....
Review of The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney
The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice B. McGinty; illus. by Elizabeth Haidle Primary Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp. 5/19 978-1-5247-6831-7 $17.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-6832-4 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-6833-1 $10.99 Making smart use of the liberty that a picture-book biography can choose to take by...
Review of A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon by Suzanne Slade; illus. by Veronica Miller Jamison Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 3/19 978-0-316-43517-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-51131-5 $9.99 Math genius Katherine Johnson (née Coleman) was a star student, twice skipping a grade before her family...
Review of Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond Middle School, High School Triangle Square/Seven Stories 183 pp. 3/19 Paper ed. 978-1-60980-907-2 $15.95 ebook ed. 978-1-60980-908-9 $13.99 Poems as piercing and reflective as the shards of a shattered mirror offer stunning...
Louise Payson Latimer: Pioneer of Library Service to Children in Washington, DC
Portrait of Louise Latimer, 1914, painted by Suzanne Warriner Most children’s book connoisseurs have heard of New York Public Library’s Anne Carroll Moore, if only for her outspoken opinions on what was not good literature (including E. B. White’s Stuart Little). Many know of Boston Public Library’s Alice M. Jordan,...
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