Book Reviews
Copycat: Nature-Inspired Design Around the World by Christy Hale; illus. by the author Primary Lee & Low 40 pp. g 9/22 978-1-64379-230-9 $20.95 e-book ed. 978-1-64379-474-7 $20.95 Hale (Water Land, rev. 7/18) introduces readers to biomimicry through fifteen examples found in everyday life as well as...
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Frank Morrison Primary, Intermediate Crown 32 pp. g 9/22 978-0-593-30634-5 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-30635-2 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-30636-9 $10.99 This is a moving walk through African American...
Wait—and See by Helen Frost; photos by Rick Lieder Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 5/22 978-1-5362-1631-8 $17.99 As in their earlier collaborations (e.g., Among a Thousand Fireflies, rev. 3/16), poet Frost and photographer Lieder celebrate the wonders revealed through close observation of the natural world—here, the praying mantis. The text...
Book of Questions / Libro de las preguntas: Selections / Selecciones by Pablo Neruda; illus. by Paloma Valdivia; trans. from Spanish by Sara Lissa PaulsonPrimary, Intermediate Enchanted Lion 80 pp. g4/22 978-1-59270-322-7 $22.95This lavish volume includes excerpts from Neruda’s Libro de las preguntas in the original Spanish alongside new English...
Out of This World: Star-Studded Haiku by Sally M. Walker; illus. by Matthew TruemanPrimary Candlewick 48 pp. g4/22 978-1-5362-0356-1 $18.99The huge expanse of space and its mind-blowing wonders are crystalized by Walker (Earth Verse, rev. 1/18) into seventeen precise syllables making up each of thirty-two haiku. She begins with the...
Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek; illus. by Richard Jones Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 72 pp. g 3/22 978-1-5362-0303-5 $19.99 In free-verse poems in sections named for the four elements, former U.S. Poet Laureate Kooser and fellow poet Wanek use...
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jason Griffin Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 384 pp. g 1/22 978-1-5344-3946-7 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-3947-4 $10.99 Reynolds’s introspective narrative poem, with a young man at home during quarantine as its speaker, shares the stage with Griffin’s emotive collagelike illustrations done in...
Poems from When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne; illus. by Rosemary Wells Preschool Norton 80 pp. g 10/21 978-1-324-01653-3 $19.95 e-book ed. 978-1-324-01654-0 $17.48 Wells says in an opening note that she chose her favorite twelve poems from Milne’s beloved classic to present in “picture-book format.” She...
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life by Marilyn Nelson Middle School, High School Ottaviano/Little, Brown 160 pp. g 1/22 978-0-316-29802-5 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-29822-3 $9.99 Despite her prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, sculptor Augusta Savage (1892–1962) remains largely unknown to younger generations. Through her accomplished verse, Nelson (My...
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