Book Reviews
A Tour of the Human Body: Amazing Numbers—Fantastic Facts [Number Tours for Curious Kids] by Jennifer Berne; illus. by Dawn DeVries Sokol Primary, Intermediate Kane/Astra 40 pp. 5/24 9781662670152 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781662670169 $11.99 Berne’s counts and measures of the cells and organs of the human body illustrate just how...
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Review of Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars
Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars by Jonathan Roth; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Ottaviano/Little, Brown 40 pp.8/24 9780316525541 $18.99A small scrap of unbleached muslin (typically used for underwear in the early 1900s) traveled to the moon and back with...
Flamingos Are Pretty Funky: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman; illus. by the authorPrimary Greenwillow 40 pp.6/24 9780063234444 $19.99Cushman, with a little help from the chatty green snake introduced in Wombats Are Pretty Weird (rev. 7/23), once again treats young readers to the wonders of the animal world....
Go, Wilma, Go!: Wilma Rudolph, from Athlete to Activist by Amira Rose Davis and Michael G. Long; illus. by Charnelle Pinkney BarlowPrimary Bloomsbury 40 pp.7/24 9781547612093 $18.99e-book ed. 9781547612109 $13.29This inspiring biography of Rudolph (1940–1994), the three-time Olympic gold medalist in track, centers on her work as a civil rights...
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Review of Sunken Ship
Sunken Ship by Amy Hevron; illus. by the authorPrimary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp.9/24 9781665935005 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665935012 $10.99In 1733 a hurricane wrecks a Spanish galleon, which then sinks to the bottom of the Caribbean Sea and begins to serve as an artificial reef. Hevron’s account of the transformation from shipwreck...
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Review of The Soldier’s Friend: Walt Whitman’s Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War
The Soldier’s Friend: Walt Whitman’s Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War by Gary Golio; illus. by E. B. LewisPrimary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 40 pp.9/24 9781635925876 $18.99e-book ed. 9781635925883 $11.99In “Song of Myself,” Whitman defines the essence of his poetry: “I am the poet of the Body and I am the...
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Review of Doña Fela’s Dream
Doña Fela’s Dream by Monica Brown; illus. by Rose IbarraPrimary Little, Brown 48 pp.9/24 9780316178358 $18.99Spanish ed. 9780316581660 $11.99A richly illustrated picture-book biography of Puerto Rico’s first female mayor, Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994), with a lively text. As a tropical storm batters San Juan at the start of the...
Born Naughty: My Childhood in China by Jin Wang and Tony Johnston; illus. by Anisi BaigudePrimary, Intermediate Schwartz/Random 112 pp.5/24 9780593563618 $16.99Library ed. 9780593563625 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593563632 $9.99Wang tells of her early life sharing a tiny mud house in Non Ba Zi, a remote village in Inner Mongolia, with her...
Space: The Final Pooping Frontier by Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White; illus. by Lars KensethPrimary, Intermediate Godwin/Holt 40 pp.7/24 9781250222886 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250386663 $11.99The words “go boldly” are boldly recontextualized in this newest addition to the ever-growing collection of poop-focused nonfiction titles for kids. This truncated history of American space...
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