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Indigenous Peoples' Day 2023

It’s Indigenous Peoples' Day! We urge all readers — today and all year — to seek out and share books respectfully and accurately representing diverse Indigenous peoples and cultures throughout North America. See the American Indian Library Association's American Indian Youth Literature Award, announced every other year during the American Library Association's Youth Media...
      

Reviews of the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner and Honor Books

Picture Book Winner When You Can Swim by Jack Wong; illus. by the author Primary    Orchard/Scholastic    48 pp. 5/23    9781338830965    $18.99 e-book ed.  9781338830989    $18.99 With poetic text and gorgeous, inclusive illustrations, Wong invites readers to learn how to swim — to conquer fear of the water, and also to...
      

Review of Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World: The Story of Two Groundbreaking Environmental Artists

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World: The Story of Two Groundbreaking Environmental Artists by G. Neri; illus. by Elizabeth HaidlePrimary    Candlewick    48 pp.4/23    9781536216615    $18.99In his author’s note, Neri (When Paul Met Artie, rev. 3/18) mentions that he met Christo and Jeanne-Claude briefly in the early 2000s and was able...
      

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...
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