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Reviews of 2025 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2025 winners. Tove and the Island with No Address by Lauren Soloy; illus. by the author Primary Tundra 48 pp. 10/24 ...
Reviews of the 2025 CSK Illustrator Award Winners
Winner My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/24 9781419760815 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781647006280 $17.09 A Panamanian American girl and her daddy get up before dawn to ride horses through their town in this atmospheric picture book that celebrates a...
Reviews of the 2025 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 272 pp. 3/24 9780063337312 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063337336 $9.99 It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so...
Review of Hello: How Nüwa Created the World
Hello: How Nüwa Created the World by Viola Wang; illus. by the author Primary Little Bee 40 pp. 2/24 9781499814927 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781499814934 $9.99 This story (inspired by the Chinese myth of Nüwa, who crafted humankind) takes readers and listeners on a journey back to a time “when the...
Review of Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet
Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet by Nicola Davies; illus. by Emily Sutton Primary Candlewick 40 pp. 3/24 9781536231410 $18.99 Davies showcases the important role that plants play on Earth as consumers of carbon, producers of oxygen, and mitigators of the effects of human-induced global warming. The...
Review of Next Stop
Next Stop by Debbie Fong; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School RH Graphic/Random 272 pp.3/24 9780593425206 $21.99Library ed. 9780593425213 $24.99Paper ed. 9780593425183 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593425190 $8.99Fong’s deeply moving graphic novel opens with an intriguing premise: Pia Xing, a reserved and lonely middle schooler, says goodbye to her father and embarks...
Review of The First Day of May
The First Day of May by Henrique Coser Moreira; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Levine Querido 40 pp.3/24 9781646143825 $15.99First published in Portugal, this wordless book celebrates—with abundant style—the blossoming of spring. Most spreads convey the action in a series of four or six small, square panels. In the opening...
Review of Climbing the Volcano: A Journey in Haiku
Climbing the Volcano: A Journey in Haiku by Curtis Manley; illus. by Jennifer K. MannPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.1/24 9780823451661 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823457458 $11.99Manley offers a child’s point of view of a day-long hike up a mountain (identified in the back matter as the South Sister in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range)....
Review of Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers
Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers by Zora Neale Hurston; adapted by Ibram X. Kendi; illus. by Jazzmen Lee-JohnsonIntermediate, Middle School Amistad/HarperCollins 208 pp.1/24 9780063098336 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063098350 $10.99In 1860, more than fifty years after the United States outlawed the slave trade, the ship Clotilda journeyed back to Alabama from West...
Review of Henry and the Something New
Henry and the Something New by Jenn Bailey; illus. by Mika SongPrimary Chronicle 56 pp.3/24 9781797213903 $14.99In his second early-chapter-book outing (Henry, like Always, rev. 3/23), Henry—a sensitive child who presents as being on the autism spectrum—is ambivalent about a field trip to the natural history museum. “Henry was excited....
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