Book Reviews
Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Holiday 176 pp.10/23 9780823449781 $22.99Paper ed. 9780823455737 $14.99e-book ed. 9780823457281 $11.99These graphic-format retellings of three Indonesian folktales steer their female protagonists away from traditional “superficial tropes” and render them as empowered, intelligent characters who determine their own...
Hello: How Nüwa Created the World by Viola Wang; illus. by the authorPrimary Little Bee 40 pp.2/24 9781499814927 $18.99e-book ed. 9781499814934 $9.99This story (inspired by the Chinese myth of Nüwa, who crafted humankind) takes readers and listeners on a journey back to a time “when the world was still young,”...
The North Wind & the Sun by Philip Stead; illus. by the authorPreschool Porter/Holiday 48 pp.10/23 9780823455836 $18.99In this retelling of an Aesop’s fable, three elderly sisters don their patched-up coats—yellow, blue, and red—and head out for a walk. The next two spreads are vertically oriented: readers turn the book...
Carina Felina by Carmen Agra Deedy; illus. by Henry ColePrimary Scholastic 48 pp.8/23 9781338749168 $19.99Spanish ed. 9781339013183 $7.99In this folktale retelling, Pepe the parrot doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into when he invites his crush, Carina Felina, over for some homemade Cuban crackers. Carina, a fluffy aqua-colored feline with...
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 112 pp.7/23 9781536223361 $19.99e-book ed. 9781536232158 $19.99“One night…Otilla finally ran away.” After trekking through the snowy forest, she knocks at the door of a large old house. A skull in the window says he’ll let the girl...
Arthur, the Always King by Kevin Crossley-Holland; illus. by Chris RiddellIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick Studio 240 pp.4/23 9781536212655 $29.99Crossley-Holland (the Arthur Trilogy, including The Seeing Stone, rev. 11/01) presents a retelling of several Arthurian stories and parts of Thomas Malory’s sweeping Morte d’Arthur. He has shaped his work “to tell...
The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston; adapted by Ibram X. Kendi; illus. by Kah Yangni Preschool Amistad/HarperCollins 24 pp. 3/23 9780063111585 $9.99 In this board-book adaptation of a pourquoi story chronicled in Hurston’s 1935 anthology Mules and Men, Kendi and Yangni collaborate to introduce young children to the...
Ancient Night by David Álvarez with David Bowles; illus. by David Álvarez Preschool, Primary Em Querido/Levine Querido 40 pp. 3/23 9781646142514 $18.99 Spanish ed. 9781646142545 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781646142859 $18.99 Rabbit keeps the moon shining brightly by trekking across the world to bring back aguamiel, “the precious, glowing nectar that...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon Klassen Preschool, Primary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. 10/22 9781338673845 $18.99 Frequent collaborators Barnett and Klassen serve up a delectable rendition of the oft-retold folktale. The bare-bones narrative “clip clops” along with abundant humor and plenty of verbal delights, repetition,...
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