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Review of Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott
Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott with Brie Spangler and Melissa Sweet; illus. by Melissa Sweet Primary, Intermediate Knopf 48 pp. g 6/21 978-0-525-64811-6 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-525-64812-3 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-64813-0 $10.99 This poignant picture-book biography opens on an illustration of Joyce Scott and...
Review of Fearless World Traveler: Adventures of Marianne North, Botanical Artist
Fearless World Traveler: Adventures of Marianne North, Botanical Artist by Laurie Lawlor; illus. by Becca Stadtlander Primary, Intermediate Holiday 48 pp. g 5/21 978-0-8234-3959-1 $18.99 As a teenager, Marianne North (1830–1890) acquired a love of music, art, and especially botany (all things that her wealthy Victorian parents disapproved of), teaching...
Review of The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer
The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer by Mara Rockliff; illus. by Daniel Duncan Primary Candlewick 48 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5362-1252-5 $17.99 Text and pictures work together to capture the life and spirit of a remarkable woman. As a child in England, Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990)...
Review of Sister Corita's Words and Shapes
Sister Corita’s Words and Shapes by Jeanette Winter; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5344-9601-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-9602-6 $10.99 Corita Kent’s “Rainbow Swash” is a long-familiar sight to Boston commuters, splashed across an enormous natural gas tank alongside Interstate 93, but her bold,...
Review of Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom
Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom by Whit Taylor; illus. by Kazimir Lee Middle School, High School Little, Brown 112 pp. g 6/21 978-0-7595-5550-1 $19.99 Paper ed. 978-0-7595-5551-8 $12.99 e-book ed. 978-0-7595-5766-6 $9.99 This Center for Cartoon Studies Presents entry (most recently, Glynnis Fawkes’s Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre, rev. 11/19) spotlights...
Review of It Fell from the Sky
It Fell from the Sky by Terry Fan and Eric Fan; illus. by the authors Preschool, Primary Simon 56 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5344-5762-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-5763-8 $10.99 This contemporary fable begins on its title page with a cat’s-eye marble falling to earth from the sky. The mysterious object is...
Review of Dream Street
Dream Street by Tricia Elam Walker; illus. by Ekua Holmes Primary, Intermediate, Middle School Schwartz/Random 32 pp. g 11/21 978-0-525-58110-9 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-525-58111-6 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-58112-3 $10.99 Dream Street: a microcosm of the African Diaspora where relationships matter and dreams thrive. It’s “the best street in the world,”...
Review of Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon Middle School, High School Candlewick 390 pp. g 11/21 978-1-5362-1418-5 $24.99 In October 1966, in Oakland, California, Black college students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale began to organize in reaction to rising police brutality in...
Review of Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem
Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem by Lauren Soloy; illus. by the author Primary Tundra 48 pp. g 5/21 978-0-7352-6608-7 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-7352-6609-4 $10.99 Fairies, butterflies, foxes; belief, observation, evidence — there’s plenty to ponder and discuss with your father when he happens to be Charles Darwin, “one...
Review of All Our Hidden Gifts
All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue High School Walker US/Candlewick 384 pp. g 6/21 978-1-5362-1394-2 $19.99 When Maeve finds a tarot deck in the basement of her Kilbeg, Ireland, school, she immediately feels a connection to the cards and begins telling fortunes for the girls in her class. Lily,...
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