Book Reviews
Our Air by G. Brian Karas; illus. by the author Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. 10/25 9780593625514 $18.99 With 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...
Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Susan Reagan Primary Calkins/Astra 32 pp. 9/25 9781662680298 $18.99 In early 1900s Oklahoma, young Woody Rawls’s (1913–1984) education came from the woods, fields, and riverbanks he roamed with his loyal hound dog....
Pool Party! [Tiny Habitats] by Amy Hevron; illus. by the author Primary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp. 9/25 9781665935043 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665935050 $10.99 Hevron’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...
Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement by Jenny Lacika; illus. by Anna Bron Primary, Intermediate MIT Press/Candlewick 32 pp. 9/25 9781536230123 $18.99 This unusual nonfiction picture book combines math, high jinks, and etymology—a subject amalgamation readers don’t encounter every day. In the mid-twentieth century, a...
Outside In and the Inside Out: A Story About Arnold Lobel by Emmy Kastner; illus. by the author Primary Viking 40 pp. 9/25 9780593692509 $18.99 This 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...
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas Imamura Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 304 pp. 9/25 9780593643877 $19.99 On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such...
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,...
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