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Review of The Great Antonio
The Great Antonioby Elise Gravel; illus. by the author; trans. from the French by Richard KutnerPrimary TOON 64 pp.10/16 978-1-943145-08-9 $12.95TOON Books continues to reinvent the easy reader with this biography of eccentric strongman Antonio Barichievich, a Croatian-born showman who became a Montreal legend. Fact, speculation, and tall tale mingle...
Anne Nesbet on Cloud and Wallfish
In our November/December 2016 issue, reviewer Monica Edinger asked author Anne Nesbet about the narrative structure of her new novel Cloud and Wallfish. Read the full starred review.Monica Edinger: I’m really curious about the Secret Files. Were they part of the design of the book from the start?Anne Nesbet: The...
Review of Cloud and Wallfish
Cloud and Wallfishby Anne NesbetIntermediate Candlewick 390 pp.10/16 978-0-7636-8803-5 $16.99Noah Keller’s life in 1989 small-town Virginia is uneventful — until the day his parents pick him up after school and whisk him off to East Berlin, where, he is told, his PhD candidate mother will be researching children’s speech challenges...
Foreign Correspondence: An Interview with Deborah Ahenkorah: Torchbearer for African Children's Publishing
Deborah Ahenkorah I first became aware of Deborah Ahenkorah a few years ago when I was prospecting the internet for groups working to address diversity issues in children’s publishing. Ahenkorah is the cofounder and executive director of Golden Baobab, the groundbreaking pan-African social enterprise behind the Golden Baobab Prizes for...
Review of Wonderfall
Wonderfallby Michael Hall; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Greenwillow 40 pp.9/16 978-0-06-238298-6 $17.99After his earlier inventive picture books introducing shapes (Perfect Square, rev. 3/11) and colors (Red: A Crayon’s Story, rev. 1/15), Hall turns now to a season: autumn. Replacing the suffix -ful with his own created suffix -fall, he...
Books in the Home: "Mommy, Do I Have White Skin?": Skin Color, Family, and Picture Books
When my son was five, he was watching TV when a commercial came on that showed a woman slathering her peach-colored arms with lotion. He glanced down at his own brown arm. After poking it with a finger, he asked: “Mommy, do I have white skin?”It was a moment that...
Review of Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestineby Ibtisam BarakatMiddle School, High School Ferguson/Farrar 223 pp.10/16 978-0-374-30251-1 $17.99 gIn this follow-up to her first memoir (Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood), and beginning where that book left off, Barakat leads readers through her adolescent years in the West Bank...
Review of The Sun Is Also a Star
The Sun Is Also a Starby Nicola YoonHigh School Delacorte 349 pp.11/16 978-0-553-49668-0 $18.99Library ed. 978-0-553-49669-7 $21.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-553-49670-3 $10.99New York City high school senior Natasha believes in science and rationality. An undocumented immigrant from Jamaica, she and her family are facing immediate deportation thanks to her father’s DUI...
Tom Sullivan on I Used to Be a Fish
In our November/December 2016 issue, reviewer Danielle J. Ford asked author/illustrator Tom Sullivan about the origins of his new picture book I Used to Be a Fish. Read the full starred review (and don't miss this silliness).Danielle J. Ford: This is your first picture book. Of all the topics out...
Review of I Used to Be a Fish
I Used to Be a Fishby Tom Sullivan; illus. by the authorPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 48 pp.10/16 978-0-06-245198-9 $17.99A simple, cartoonlike fish prompts musings on the history of human evolution. The text fancifully traces a fish in the water who “got tired of swimming” all the way up in its...
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