Reviews Of The Week
Max in the Land of Lies [Operation Kinderspion] by Adam Gidwitz Middle School Dutton 352 pp. 2/25 9780593112113 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593112120 $10.99 This sequel picks up where Max in the House of Spies (rev. 3/24) ended, with just-turning-thirteen Max parachuting into Nazi Germany on a mission for the British...
Downpour: Splish! Splash! Ker-splash! by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata; illus. by the authors; trans. from Japanese by Emily Balistrieri Preschool Red Comet 40 pp. 3/25 9781636551142 $18.99 Vivid illustrations and enthusiastic prose evoke the surprise and awe of a summer rainstorm in this Japanese import. A child narrator peers...
How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects by Mary Ann Hoberman; illus. by Marla Frazee Primary Tingley/Little, Brown 88 pp. 3/25 9780316417129 $20.99 e-book ed. 9780316584968 $12.99 As an introduction by the late Hoberman explains, for this collection she selected favorite poems of hers “about animals and insects”...
Revolutionary Mary: The True Story of One Woman, the Declaration of Independence, and America’s Fight for Freedom by Karen Blumenthal and Jen McCartney; illus. by Elizabeth Baddeley Primary Roaring Brook 40 pp. 2/25 9781626723115 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781626723122 $11.99 A little-known fact is that the Declaration of Independence, or the...
Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 416 pp. 4/25 9781416968269 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781439157541 $10.99 Thirteen-year-old Elsbeth Culpepper, maid to a judge, lives through the Siege of Boston only to find herself in a precarious situation when British troops depart the city, her Loyalist employer leaves with...
Fairy Walk by Gaia Cornwall; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp. 4/25 9781536230710 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781536242591 $17.99 Three children and one pup head off to the woods to search for fairies. It’s a misty day, and the casually diverse trio’s colorful rain gear, purple umbrella, and...
A Banquet for Cecilia: How Cecilia Chiang Revolutionized Chinese Food in America by Julie Leung; illus. by Melissa IwaiPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp.4/25 9780759557413 $18.99Take a compelling story of an indomitable chef, add heaps of immersive sensory details, stir in a warm palette, then devour this tasty introduction to Cecilia...
Night Light [I Like to Read: Comics]by Michael Emberley; illus. by the authorPrimary Holiday 40 pp.4/25 9780823458165 $14.99Emberley’s familiar pink-and-green-pajama-wearing creature (see Let’s Go!, rev. 1/23, and others) returns for another imaginative early-reader-comic mini-adventure, this time with a parent in tow. It’s bedtime, and after selecting a story (one that...
Anything by Rebecca Stead; illus. by Gracey ZhangPrimary Chronicle 48 pp.4/25 9781797215150 $17.99In this first picture book written by middle-grade powerhouse Stead (Newbery Medalist for When You Reach Me, rev. 7/09), the unnamed narrator’s father serves up chocolate cake to celebrate their first day in apartment 3B. “But something was...
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