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Review of The World’s Best Class Plant

The World’s Best Class Plant by Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick; illus. by Lynnor BontigaoPrimary    Putnam    40 pp.5/23    9780525516354    $18.99e-book ed.  9780525516361    $10.99Arlo is unimpressed by his class’s “mostly green, hardly growing, never moving plant,” especially because various other rooms in his school have a cockatiel, a chinchilla, and...
      
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Review of All-Star: How Larry Doby Smashed the Color Barrier in Baseball

All-Star: How Larry Doby Smashed the Color Barrier in Baseball by Audrey Vernick; illus. by Cannaday ChapmanPrimary    Clarion/HarperCollins    40 pp.    g1/22    978-1-328-48297-6    $17.99e-book ed.  978-0-358-46820-2    $12.99In 1947, eleven and a half weeks after Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball, Larry Doby became the second, and...
      

Five questions for Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick

Audrey Vernick and Liz Garton Scanlon. Photo: Sam Bond Photography.In new picture book Dear Substitute (Disney-Hyperion, 4–7 years), a little girl arrives at school to find her regular teacher out sick (“Dear Substitute, / Wow. This is a surprise. / What are you doing here?”). She works through the disorientation...
      

Audrey Vernick on The Kid from Diamond Street

In our January/February 2016 issue, reviewer Dean Schneider talked with author Audrey Vernick about her clear love of America's favorite pastime. Read the full review of The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton here.Dean Schneider: You’ve written a few books about baseball. Have you...
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