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Review of So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story
So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story by Anne Wynter; illus. by Jerome PumphreyPreschool, Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 32 pp.5/25 9780063081147 $19.99This look at Juneteenth celebrations through the years opens in 1872, seven years after the first Juneteenth on June 19, 1865, when a major general in the Union army told enslaved people...
Review of There Was a Party for Langston
There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett PumphreyPrimary Dlouhy/Atheneum 56 pp.10/23 9781534439443 $18.99e-book ed 9781534439450 $10.99An intriguing photograph of writers Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka dancing at a party at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...
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Review of The Last Stand
The Last Stand by Antwan Eady; illus. by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome PumphreyPreschool, Primary Knopf 40 pp.1/24 9780593480571 $18.99Library ed. 9780593480588 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593480595 $10.99The plight of Black farmers takes center stage in this affecting picture book. A boy and his grandfather faithfully take their produce to a farmers’ market...
There Was a Party for Langston
Readers are beholden to the many writers and illustrators who continue to play catch-up with United States history, filling in huge gaps with books such as That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith, or Olaudah Equiano's story of his life as a slave, as told in Nearer My Freedom by Monica...
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2023: Five Questions for Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey, and Jarrett Pumphrey
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2023 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2023, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by When the Schomburg Center for...
Review of Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair
Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Intermediate Norton 240 pp. 3/23 9781324016090 $16.95 With underwear on their heads and kitchen implements held high (for example), brothers Lincoln and Hudson imagine themselves into various superheroic scenarios, wreaking havoc around their...
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Review of Elbert in the Air
Elbert in the Air by Monica Wesolowska; illus. by Jerome PumphreyPrimary Dial 40 pp.2/23 9780593325209 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593325216 $10.99One day, baby Elbert floats happily up and out of his crib. His mother takes this surprising ability in stride, disregarding unsolicited advice (involving a butterfly net, glue, and other traps) and...
Review of It’s a Sign!
It’s a Sign! [Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!] by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors; with additional illustrations by Mo Willems Primary Hyperion 64 pp. g 5/22 978-1-368-07584-8 $10.99 Fox-like animal friends One and Two, art supplies in hand, are working together to create “a sign...
Review of Somewhere in the Bayou
Somewhere in the Bayou by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authorsPreschool, Primary Norton 56 pp. g3/22 978-1-324-01593-2 $17.95The Pumphrey brothers employ understated storytelling, wry humor, and skillful cartooning throughout this entertaining original fable. The premise is simple. Four bayou critters (an opossum, a squirrel, a rabbit, and...
Review of The Old Boat
The Old Boat by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Primary Norton 56 pp. g 3/21 978-1-324-00517-9 $17.95 e-book ed. 978-1-324-00518-6 $17.48 As they did in The Old Truck (rev. 3/20), the brothers Pumphrey find themes of persistence, family, and renewal in the life cycle of a...
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