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Review of My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat by Sandol Stoddard Warburg; designed and illus. by Remy CharlipPreschool, Primary Enchanted Lion 56 pp.7/23 9781592703852 $17.95First published in 1963. A playful, singsongy, almost stream-of-consciousness-like text (“He said / Mmm / He said / Umm / He said / Humm /...
Review of Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King
Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by R. Gregory ChristieIntermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp.9/23 9781662680045 $18.99e-book ed. 9781662680052 $11.99In a sophisticated, poetic picture-book biography, Duncan alternates double-page spreads featuring prose or poems in a variety of forms that highlight Coretta Scott King’s...
Review of Remember Us
Remember Us by Jacqueline WoodsonMiddle School Paulsen/Penguin 192 pp.10/23 9780399545467 $18.99e-book ed. 9780399545481 $10.99Sage Durham, a basketball-obsessed Black twelve-year-old, is looking forward to a summer of pick-up games with the boys (she’s always the only girl on the court) in her close-knit 1970s Brooklyn neighborhood. Instead, it proves to be...
Review of Go-Go Guys
Go-Go Guys by Rowboat Watkins; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Chronicle 48 pp.9/23 9781797205717 $15.99The Go-Go Guys, three egg-shaped youngsters, “NEVER sleep!” and have brains that go “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!” While they’re tucked into bed reflecting on more appealing activities than going to sleep (such as driving cars, bulldozers, and...
Review of Cornrows
Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough; illus. by Carole ByardPrimary, Intermediate Putnam 48 pp.4/23 9780593625071 $17.99Paper ed. 9780698114364 $8.99This is a welcome reissue of a classic of early African American picture books, first published in 1979, for which Byard won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. A lengthy text by today’s standards,...
Review of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; illus. by Brett Helquist Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 288 pp. 9/23 9780593643846 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593643853 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593643860 $11.99 The Mona Lisa wasn’t the world’s most...
Review of Those Pink Mountain Nights
Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen FergusonHigh School Heartdrum/HarperCollins 352 pp.9/23 9780063086210 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063086234 $10.99Kiki, who is Black and Cree, has been gone for five months when the book begins, and the police have stopped looking for her. Her friend and fellow First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Student Association...
Review of A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes; illus. by Jerry Pinkney and Brian PinkneyPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.9/23 9780823449651 $18.99Shortly after his father’s death, a boy opens an envelope his father left him to find a map of the woods with a bright red X marking a destination. Still coping...
Review of Don’t Count Your Chicks
Don’t Count Your Chicks by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire; illus. by the authorsPreschool, Primary University of Minnesota 40 pp.2/23 9781517914462 $17.95Based on a Scandinavian folktale, this lesser-known d’Aulaires’ picture book, first published in 1943, recalls Aesop’s fable “The Milkmaid and Her Pail.” An old woman walks into town to...
Review of Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather the...
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