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The Frindle Files by Andrew Clements; illus. by Brian SelznickIntermediate Random 224 pp.8/24 9780399557637 $17.99Library ed. 9780399557644 $20.99e-book ed. 9780399557651 $10.99The student has become the teacher in this sequel to Frindle (rev. 11/96). Nick Allen is now Mr. N, a Hawaiian shirt–wearing sixth-grade ELA teacher who makes his students bring...
Big Tree by Brian Selznick; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 528 pp. 4/23 9781338180633 $32.99 Selznick elegantly intertwines pictures and words to tell the macro story of the natural world through the micro perspective of two sycamore seeds. Louise and Merwin are siblings who occupy the same...
Baby Monkey, Private Eyeby Brian Selznick and David Serlin; illus. by Brian SelznickPrimary Scholastic 192 pp.2/18 978-1-338-18061-9 $16.99Selznick, who won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for his 534-page picture book/novel hybrid The Invention of Hugo Cabret (rev. 3/07), here presents with coauthor and husband Serlin an almost-two-hundred-page…easy reader/film-noir homage. In five...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored by Brian Selznick. Photo: Slimane Lalami.At only 192 pages, Baby Monkey, Private Eye is modest by Brian Selznick's standards, but probably the biggest beginning-reader book you've ever...
In retrospect, I realize now that I have been extremely lucky. My students have always been highly motivated to read. Obviously, I’ve encountered the spectrum when it comes to low to excellent readers, but nonetheless, my students needed only minimal encouragement to read. When students lost interest, a graphic novel...
The Marvelsby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 671 pp.9/15 978-0-545-44868-0 $32.99Selznick defined his own format with The Invention of Hugo Cabret (rev. 3/07) and Wonderstruck (rev. 9/11), and this book looks the same, on the outside. But Selznick has created something wholly different here, by introducing...
Almost all of my drawings are done with a Staedtler Mars technico lead holder, which is a blue plastic pencil that holds a 2mm lead in place. This type of pencil, which is sort of like a more heavy-duty version of a mechanical pencil (the kind with the very thin...
Dang, it’s hard to get a fresh reading of a new book these days. If Roger Sutton or Heavy Medal isn’t commenting on Wonderstruck before I have received it, Adam Gopnik is waxing about it in the New York Times. In my reviewing life, I normally read books that have not...
Wonderstruckby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 640 pp.9/11 978-0-545-02789-2 $29.99 gWith Wonderstruck’s opening wordless sequence of an approaching wolf, readers might think they’ve embarked upon a Gary Paulsen novel, but this is a story not of wilderness adventure but of two young people running — to...
The Invention of Hugo Cabretby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate Scholastic 534 pp.3/07 ISBN 978-0-439-81378-5 $22.99Here’s a dilemma for the Newbery committee...and the Caldecott: what do you do with an illustrated novel in which neither text nor pictures can tell the story alone? Not to mention the drama to...