Book Reviews
Trapped in the Tar Pit: How Paleontologists Unearthed a City’s Prehistoric Past by Jessica Stremer; illus. by Alexander Vidal Primary Beach Lane/Simon 40 pp. 8/25 9781665953177 $19.99e-book ed. 9781665953184 $10.99 The fascinating story of the La Brea Tar Pits gets a wonderful introduction in Stremer’s (Plight of the Pelican, rev....
Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary, Intermediate Viking 40 pp. 8/25 9781984835185 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781984835208 $10.99 Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born into a large, loving family in the Pacific Northwest at the tail end of the nineteenth century. As...
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman High School Farrar 336 pp. 9/25 9781250823076 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781250823083 $11.99 Heiligman’s newest work of nonfiction touches on a long list of hot-button contemporary issues: due process, free speech, gender equity, economic inequality, pacifism, prison reform, reproductive freedom,...
The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest by Lynn Street; illus. by Anne Hunter Primary Quinlin/Peachtree 48 pp. 8/25 9781682636046 $18.99 Most everyone knows that “mighty oaks from little acorns grow,” as the old saw goes, but how many people know that blue jays are integral to their propagation? Street’s...
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Review of Life (as We Know It)
Life (as We Know It) by Ziggy Hanaor; illus. by Cristóbal SchmalPrimary, Intermediate Cicada 64 pp.10/25 9781800660564 $21.99Introducing the evolution of life on Earth in sixty-four pages is like eating a metaphorical elephant: one takes it one bite at a time. Hanaor’s bites start before the Big Bang and conclude...
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Review of Pool Party!
Pool Party! [Tiny Habitats]by Amy Hevron; illus. by the authorPrimary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp.9/25 9781665935043 $19.99e-book ed. 9781665935050 $10.99Hevron’s (Sunken Ship, rev. 9/24) latest foray takes readers to a South American rainforest, where her focus is the “freshwater pools [that form] among the leaves of a bromeliad” (a flowering plant)—specifically,...
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Review of Our Air
Our Air by G. Brian Karas; illus. by the authorPrimary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp.10/25 9780593625514 $18.99With the opening sentence, “I am the Air,” Karas (On Earth, rev. 9/05) establishes personified air as the narrator, reassuring readers that even though, scientifically speaking, they cannot see or smell or hear it (“what you...
I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive by Leslie Barnard Booth; illus. by Alexandra FinkeldeyPrimary Chronicle 40 pp.9/25 9781797226156 $18.99“I follow him, / and he follows she, / and they follow me, / and me turns to we—” In rhythmic text, Booth explores the many ways in which...
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Megan Clendenan; illus. by Brittany CicchesePrimary Charlesbridge 32 pp.10/25 9781623544805 $17.99Deep in the earth, protected by multiple sensors and systems, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on an icy Arctic island ensures that the “priceless treasure” of more than...
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