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Review of A Face Is a Poem
A Face Is a Poem by Julie Morstad; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Tundra 48 pp.9/24 9780735267565 $18.99e-book ed. 9780735267572 $10.99“A face is a poem / with all the parts put together, / adding up to someone / you love.” An observant, imaginative speaker offers musings about faces, from the...
Review of The Puppets of Spelhorst
The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Julie MorstadIntermediate Candlewick 160 pp.10/23 9781536216752 $17.99An aged sea captain dies, leaving a chest containing five puppets. After some trials and adventures, the puppets—boy, girl, king, owl, and wolf—end up in the grand home of a pair of sisters and fulfill...
Review of Girl on a Motorcycle
Girl on a Motorcycle by Amy Novesky; illus. by Julie Morstad Primary, Intermediate Viking 48 pp. g 9/20 978-0-593-11629-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-11630-2 $10.99 This picture-book biography of the first woman to complete a solo motorcycle trip around the world begins in 1973 Paris. Wishing to see and write about...
It Began with a Page: Author Kyo Maclear's 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
A few years ago, Julie Morstad and I met with the family of Gyo Fujikawa in Los Angeles. I had an uncanny sense, as we sat with them over lunch, that Gyo was there among us, threading her way into our conversation. Why did we want to tell her...
It Began with a Page: Illustrator Julie Morstad's 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
Gyo Fujikawa has long meant much to me as an artist and bookmaker, but this project allowed me to learn so much more about not only the vital role she played in bringing diversity to children’s books but also many details of her little-known life story, including her personal journey...
BGHB 2020: It Began with a Page
Nonfiction week continues in our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Leo Landry introduces the 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Book It Began with a Page: The 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Nonfiction is presented to author Kyo Maclear and illustrator Julie Morstad...
Review of It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Julie Morstad Primary Harper/HarperCollins 48 pp. 10/19 978-0-06-244762-3 $17.99 "In early 1960s America, a country with laws that separated people by skin color," Japanese American artist Gyo Fujikawa (1908–1998) helped break the color barrier...
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