Five Questions for Michelle Cusolito and Jessica Lanan
In the World of Whales by Michelle Cusolito, illus. by Jessica Lanan; Porter/Holiday.

In and around the sea
The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle by Maddalena Bearzi, illus. by Alex Boersma; Roaring Brook.
Whales in the City by Nancy F. Castaldo, illus. by Chuck Groenink; Farrar.
Jellyfish Scientist: Maude Delap and Her Mesmerizing Medusas by Michelle Cusolito, illus. by Ellen Rooney; Charlesbridge.
Sun Bird: The Amazing Journey of the Arctic Tern by Lindsay Moore; Greenwillow.
Sea Without a Shore: Life in the Sargasso by Barb Rosenstock, illus. by Katherine Roy; Norton.
Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species by Jessica Stremer, illus. by Gordy Wright; Holiday.

All summer long
The House of Found Objects by Jo Beckett-King; Simon.
Miss Camper by Kat Fajardo, color by Jose Garibaldi; Graphix/Scholastic.
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson; Scholastic.
Link + Hud: Sharks & Minnows by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; Norton.
Peachaloo in Bloom by Chris Raschka; Porter/Holiday. 
The Best Worst Summer of Esme Sun by Wendy Wan-Long Shang; Scholastic.

Page-turning "paperweights"
This Ends in Embers by Kamilah Cole; Little, Brown.
The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow; Delacorte.  
Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman; Random.
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson; Dial.
All Better Now by Neal Shusterman; Simon. 
This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat; Dutton.
Junius Leak and the Spiraling Vortex of Doom by Allan Wolf; Candlewick. 

From the August 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.