Book Reviews
Outside In and the Inside Out: A Story About Arnold Lobel by Emmy Kastner; illus. by the authorPrimary Viking 40 pp.9/25 9780593692509 $18.99This picture-book biography of Arnold Lobel (1933–1987), which somewhat mimics the look of Lobel’s Frog and Toad series, explores his life through the lens of things that inspired...
The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe by Uri Shulevitz; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 160 pp. 8/25 9780374392468 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780374392475 $11.99 The late Shulevitz, author of the acclaimed memoir Chance: Escape from the Holocaust (rev. 11/20), recounts the story...
I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This by Eugene Yelchin; illus. by the author High School Candlewick 432 pp. 9/25 9781536215533 $22.99 e-book ed. 9781536227321 $22.99 This graphic memoir, a sequel to The Genius Under the Table (rev. 9/21) but for a teen audience, picks up in 1980...
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum High School Roaring Brook 368 pp. 8/25 9781250816573 $24.99 e-book ed. 9781250816580 $12.99 “For more than a century and a half, a tsunami of Confederate commemoration has washed over the United States of America....
It’s Corn Picking Time! by Jill Esbaum; illus. by Melissa Crowton Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 7/25 9780823455614 $18.99 “This is the farmer, her cap, and her gloves. This is the farm, land that she loves.” Before the sun rises, a farmer gets the combine from the shed, gathers tools for...
A Rock Is Born: An Epic Journey Through Time by Richard Ho; illus. by Lily Williams Primary Roaring Brook 40 pp. 7/25 9781250749925 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250438744 $11.99 The drama begins on the cover of this “epic” geological picture book, with the lead-in above the title: “Over one hundred million years...
In the World of Whales by Michelle Cusolito; illus. by Jessica Lanan Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 6/25 9780823453429 $18.99 Free divers, or those who dive in the ocean without any breathing equipment, claim that being unencumbered lets them immerse themselves in the underwater world, which allows for a strong...
Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis by Daria Peoples; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 56 pp. 6/25 9780063206786 $19.99 This picture-book biography of the educator and “passionate activist for equality and justice for all” emphasizes how the events of Davis’s (b. 1944) early life growing up in...
The History of We by Nikkolas Smith; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 5/25 9780593619681 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593619698 $11.99 About a quarter of a million years ago, “we”—modern humans—first appeared in Africa. Combining vibrant, painterly illustrations and short, lyrical, explanatory paragraphs, Smith outlines major contributions of...
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