Book Reviews
Who says little kids are the only ones who like being read to? The expertly performed audio versions of these books for older readers capture the stories’ affecting dramas and strongly felt emotions.In Patrick Ness’s haunting tale of pain and redemption, A Monster Calls, thirteen-year-old Conor O’Malley faces the death...
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Booksellerby Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; illus. by R. Gregory ChristieMiddle School, High School Carolrhoda Lab 188 pp.2/12 978-0-7613-6169-5 $17.95e-book ed. 978-0-7613-8727-5 $12.95Inspired by Marcus Garvey and the drive to make a difference, Lewis Michaux opened the...
Dan Yaccarino has an aficionado’s old-fashioned regard for picture-book artistry and a techno-geek’s new-fangled fascination with screen-based storytelling. He has illustrated more than thirty children’s books and is the creator of the Nick Jr. television series Oswald and the Emmy Award–winning Willa’s Wild Life, which currently airs on NBC and...
Circumstance as well as preference dictated that I read the 2012 Newbery Medal– and Scott O’Dell Award–winning Dead End in Norvelt in four flavors: advance reading copy, finished book, iBook, and as an audio download from Audible.com. I read the ARC and bound book in editing the Horn Book Magazine...
Z Is for Mooseby Kelly Bingham; illus. by Paul O. ZelinskyPrimary Greenwillow 32 pp.3/12 978-0-06-079984-7 $16.99If you think you’ve seen every possible idea for an alphabet book played out, think again. Even before the title page of this very funny and inventive ABC, cast members Apple, Ball, Cat, Duck, Elephant,...
Early in the summer of 2009—many digital generations ago—HarperCollins set out to experiment with several iPhone/iPod Touch apps. We decided to create two apps based on easily searchable and popular topics (example: ABC), and one app based on a classic and best-selling picture book. The staff at Greenwillow Books was...
With the digital literary world ever-expanding and evolving, picture book apps are multiplying like Wanda Gág’s cats. In this rapidly changing climate, what gives a book-based app staying power? A successful picture book app...Is interactive — but not too interactiveWhat distinguishes a picture book app from a traditional picture book...
Big Nate: Comix by U! (based on the books by Lincoln Peirce; HarperCollins and Night & Day Studios, December 2011) is a kind of Colorforms set for new media starring Nate Wright, a sixth-grade antihero who makes Greg Heffley look like a wimpy kid. In this app, Nate's fans and...
We Marchby Shane W. Evans;
illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.1/12 978-1-59643-539-1 $16.99Many young children know there was a march on Washington a long time ago and that Martin Luther King Jr. gave a famous speech that day. Some know why the march took place; fewer still...
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