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Review of Voices of the People
Voices of the People by Joseph Bruchac; illus. by various artistsMiddle School, High School Reycraft 96 pp.12/22 9781478875161 $18.95Paper ed. 9781478875154 $17.95“Those you are about to meet are real people, not stereotypes. They are women and men who truly were, through their words and their deeds, voices of the people.”...
Review of Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code by Rebecca E. F. BaroneIntermediate, Middle School Holt 272 pp.10/22 9781250814203 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250814210 $10.99Barone (Race to the Bottom of the Earth, rev. 5/21) delivers another impressive feat of narrative nonfiction storytelling. In the years following World War I, Germany developed...
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2023: Five Questions for Thanhhà Lại
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2023 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2023, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In Inside Out...
Review of For Lamb
For Lamb by Lesa Cline-RansomeMiddle School, High School Holiday 304 pp.1/23 9780823450152 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455034 $11.99Lamb, shy protagonist and one of several narrators, tells of growing up in 1940s Jackson, Mississippi, with her brother, Simeon, and Marion, their tough-as-nails mother, a talented and outspoken seamstress and closeted lesbian. Lamb keeps...
Review of Afikomen
Afikomen by Tziporah Cohen; illus. by Yaara EshetPreschool, Primary Groundwood 32 pp.3/23 9781773066066 $19.99e-book ed. 9781773066073 $16.99Cohen’s inventive picture book uses graphic-novel conventions and is wordless but for the front and back matter and Hebrew and Aramaic text incorporated into the illustrations. It opens with a definition: the afikomen is...
Field Notes: I Gave My Life to Books: A Journey Through the World of Children's Literature
Maurice Sendak once said, “As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.” That’s how I have always felt as a teacher and parent too. I began my teaching career in Newark, New Jersey,...
On Audiobooks: From Page to Mic: An Interview About Adaptations
What goes into adapting a print book into audio? What special considerations are involved when that book is a graphic novel? Listening Library producer Amber Beard and Senior Executive Producer Linda Korn share their experiences of one example: Just Roll with It (rev. 9/21) by Lee Durfey-Lavoie, illustrated by Veronica...
The Illustrator's Eye: Illustrating in Layers: The Wonder of Preseparation Art
Last summer I had the opportunity to visit the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota, one of the largest archives housing materials related to children’s literature. Amid the sketches, dummies, early manuscripts and correspondences, and many other related paper ephemera and objects, what especially drew my interest was a...
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Review of All About Nothing
All About Nothing by Elizabeth Rusch; illus. by Elizabeth GossPreschool, Primary Charlesbridge 32 pp.4/23 9781623543525 $17.99e-book ed. 9781632893222 $9.99Rusch’s thought-provoking text begins: “Nothing is the space around and between everything.” The presence of nothing, cued by plain white areas in the cut-paper illustrations, appears first as physical space: the gap...
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Review of We Are Human Animals
We Are Human Animals by Rosie Haine; illus. by the authorPrimary Eerdmans 48 pp.3/23 9780802856012 $18.99Readers journey to the Stone Age to meet our human ancestors and the animals that inhabited the Earth with them. Haine’s text is spare and lyrical. Although there is no written history, the archaeological record—including...
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