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Review of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline High School Tundra 280 pp. 4/23 9780735265639 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780735265646 $10.99 First-person narrator Winifred, a Canadian teen of Métis and European descent, lives in present-day Toronto with her father, who is a crematory operator, on the grounds of the cemetery, between...
Review of Little Land
Little Land by Diana Sudyka; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 48 pp.4/23 9780316301763 $18.99This impassioned picture-book call to action for environmental stewardship opens with the image of a contemporary child tending “a little bit of land.” After a spread that lays out what the land might have looked...
Review of Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series
Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series by Traci Sorell; illus. by Arigon Starr Primary Kokila/Penguin 48 pp. 4/23 9780593496472 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593406489 $11.99 Baseball’s 1911 World Series was the first to feature a match-up between two Native players. Future Hall-of-Fame pitcher Charles Bender (Ojibwe) would pitch in three...
Review of Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards
Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards by Susan TanIntermediate, Middle School Roaring Brook 256 pp.4/23 9781250797001 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250797018 $10.99Monica “Mo” Lin, a sixth-grade Chinese American girl, has moved with her mother and half-sister to the (fictional) small town of New Warren, Massachusetts, to live with her “aging Chinese hippie” great-uncle,...
Review of Night in the City
Night in the City by Julie Downing; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.3/23 9780823452064 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455188 $11.99While a child gets ready for bed, a father gets ready for work—as do other night-shift workers in the city. Readers follow the dad (a nurse) and eight others: a taxi...
Review of Akim Aliu: Dreamer
Akim Aliu: Dreamer by Akim Aliu with Greg Anderson Elysée; illus. by Karen De la Vega and Marcus Williams Middle School, High School Graphix/Scholastic 128 pp. 2/23 9781338787610 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781338787603 $14.99 Former NHL player Aliu made headlines in 2020 when he shared stories of the racism and hazing...
Review of Who Will Win?
Who Will Win? [I Like to Read]by Arihhonni David; illus. by the authorPrimary Holiday 32 pp.4/23 9780823449484 $15.99e-book ed. 9780823455126 $9.99“Bear has fast legs. Turtle has a fast mind. Who will win the race?” An elder, Tota, tells a trickster story in a beginning reader that succeeds both as a...
Review of The Tree and the River
The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 32 pp.3/23 9781536223293 $18.99Becker explores many big ideas—including war, humanity’s impact on the environment, and the resilience of nature over time—through a science-fiction lens. The wordless narrative focuses on an idyllic forested valley split by a river....
Review of The Sky Is Not the Limit
The Sky Is Not the Limit by Jérémie Decalf; illus. and trans. from French by the authorPrimary Eerdmans 64 pp.3/23 9780802856029 $18.99This lyrical picture book is a paean to the vastness of space and the human drive to explore. The Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and still traveling through...
Review of Henry, like Always
Henry, like Always by Jenn Bailey; illus. by Mika SongPrimary Chronicle 48 pp.3/23 9781797213897 $14.99Henry, a boy on the autism spectrum (first introduced in the 2019 picture book A Friend for Henry, rev. 5/19), likes everything about school. Life in Classroom Ten is entirely predictable. Mrs. Tanaka posts the schedule...
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