Book Reviews
Saving Winslowby Sharon CreechIntermediate Cotler/HarperCollins 165 pp.9/18 978-0-06-257070-3 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-06-257072-7 $17.89e-book ed. 978-0-06-257073-4 $9.99Creech interweaves the stories of three fragile babies. Two strands are backstories, and one is front, center, present, and loud. Louie had been a premature baby. Now he’s eleven, but the family story of his infancy...
illustration by Taeeun Yoo from Kitten and the Night WatchmanThe following books will receive starred reviews in the November/December 2018 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah; by Emily Jenkins; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Schwartz & Wade/Random)The Patchwork Bike; by Maxine Beneba Clarke; illustrated by Van Thanh Rudd (Candlewick)Dreamers; written...
We Don’t Eat Our Classmatesby Ryan T. Higgins; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Disney-Hyperion 48 pp.6/18 978-1-368-00355-1 $17.99The first day of school is tough enough; imagine you’re a wee Tyrannosaurus rex and it turns out that your classmates are, of all things, human. Penelope Rex does what any nervous dino...
A Parade of Elephantsby Kevin Henkes; illus. by the authorPreschool Greenwillow 40 pp. g9/18 978-0-06-266827-1 $18.99Library ed. 978-0-06-266828-8 $19.89“Look! Elephants! / One, two, three, four, five. / Five elephants. / Marching. / A parade of elephants!” The sturdy walkers, each rendered in a pastel color with a thick brown outline, stay in the same...
from THE ASSASSINATION OF BRANGWAIN SPURGE; illustration by Eugene YelchinThe following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October 2018 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Imagine!; written and illustrated by Raúl Colón (Wiseman/Simon)A Parade of Elephants; written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)We Don’t Eat Our Classmates; written and illustrated by Ryan T....
from BLUE RIDER, by Geraldo ValérioThe following books will receive starred reviews in the July/August 2018 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:A Big Mooncake for Little Star; written and illustrated by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)They Say Blue; written and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki (Abrams)Blue Rider; written and illustrated by Geraldo Valério (Groundwood)Rebound; by...
illustration from THE FIELD by Jacqueline AlcántaraThe following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Pie Is for Sharing; by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard; illustrated by Jason Chin (Porter/Roaring Brook)Julián Is a Mermaid; written and illustrated by Jessica Love (Candlewick)The Field; by Baptiste Paul; illustrated...
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and
the Battle for the Ballotby Winifred ConklingMiddle School, High School Algonquin 310 pp. g2/18 978-1-61620-734-2 $18.95This is a fascinating account of the bumpy road to women’s suffrage in the U.S., beginning in earnest with the Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 and culminating with the...
Martin Rising: Requiem for a Kingby Andrea Davis Pinkney;
illus. by Brian PinkneyIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 128 pp.1/18 978-0-545-70253-9 $19.99A creative poetic celebration of the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. that also, as a song for the dead, includes a meticulous explanation of how and why he died. Henny...
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