Reviews Of The Week
Greenby Laura Vaccaro Seeger; illus. by the authorPreschool Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.3/12 978-1-59643-397-7 $16.99Lemons Are Not Red (rev. 1/05) was a concept book about color, so you might think this offering on various shades of a single color would be simpler. But Seeger once again sets up a challenge for...
If you were like me, you applauded Press Here, the ingenious book by Hervé Tullet, for its anti-app bravado. If the news that there is now an app version (Chronicle, April) of the book disgusts you, please don't be too quick to judge.The first thing to realize is that Press...
The Mighty Miss Maloneby Christopher Paul CurtisIntermediate, Middle School Lamb/Random 309 pp.1/12 978-0-385-73491-2 $15.99Library ed. 978-0-385-90487-2 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-375-89736-8 $10.99To her father, twelve-year-old Deza Malone is “my Darling Daughter Deza,” “that sassy, smart, beautiful, charming little girl…my Mighty Miss Malone.” But it’s 1936, and the Depression has hit Gary, Indiana,...
The Hero of Little Streetby Gregory Rogers; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.3/12 978-0-59643-729-6 $17.99 gThe same bulb-headed boy who was chased through Elizabethan London in The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (rev. 11/04) is time-traveling again, this time to seventeenth-century Delft, an important center of...
Titanic: Voices from the Disasterby Deborah HopkinsonIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 290 pp.3/12 978-0-545-11674-9 $17.99Hopkinson knows precisely what’s she doing in her coverage of the Titanic disaster: providing young readers with a basic introduction to the event without overdramatizing, drawing unwarranted conclusions, or prolonging the ordeal. She begins her account as...
We've just put up a brief list of recommended apps for kids and YA.What apps and ebooks are you sharing with your children, students, or young library patrons?...
The apps recommended below were developed within the last two years. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.PRESCHOOLA Present for Milo by Mike Austin (Ruckus Mobile Media)Kitten Milo chases a mouse until they reach—surprise!—a birthday party. Clever interactive elements and crisp sound effects accentuate the...
Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegyby Jacqueline WoodsonHigh School Paulsen/Penguin 182 pp.2/12 978-0-399-25250-1 $16.99Woodson takes us on the dark journey of addiction, mimicking the slow, hazy spell of drug use with the lull of her poetic prose. Laurel’s happy childhood on the Gulf shore ends abruptly when Hurricane Katrina destroys...
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?by Mo Willems; illus. by the authorPreschool Hyperion 40 pp.4/12 978-1-4231-5128-9 $15.99In this seventh Pigeon book — the first in four years (The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! rev. 7/08) — the Duckling asks politely for a cookie and gets one: “Thanks! That was very nice of...
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