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Reviews of 2025 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2025 winners. Tove and the Island with No Address by Lauren Soloy; illus. by the author Primary Tundra 48 pp. 10/24 ...
Reviews of the 2025 Printz Award Winners
Winner Brownstone by Samuel Teer; illus. by Mar Julia; color by Ashanti Fortson Middle School, High School Versify/HarperCollins 320 pp. 6/24 9780358394754 $26.99 Paper ed. 9780358394747 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780358393764 $12.99 In this empathetic coming-of-age graphic novel, nearly-fifteen-year-old Almudena reluctantly spends the summer of 1995 with Xavier, her Guatemalan father...
Reviews of the 2025 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners
Winner Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 368 pp. 1/24 9780063287860 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063287884 $10.99 It’s senior year, and while Belén’s classmates are focused on college applications, she’s flunking school and struggling to cope with a shattered home life. Since her pa walked...
Reviews of the 2025 Sibert Award Winners
Winner Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason Chin Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 6/24 9780823452286 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823459254 $11.99 As a ninety-year-old blue whale dies, one story ends and another begins. Her body provides food for other creatures before...
Reviews of the 2025 CSK Author Award Winners
Winner Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp. 10/24 9781665961271 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665961295 $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he...
Reviews of the 2025 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 272 pp. 3/24 9780063337312 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063337336 $9.99 It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so...
Review of Home
Home by Isabelle Simler; illus. by the author; trans. from French by Vineet Lal Primary, Intermediate Eerdmans 64 pp. 3/24 9780802856203 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781467467544 $18.99 Simler takes on the perspectives of twenty-seven creatures who share the intricacies of their homes in this eye-catching French import. Each entry features a...
Review of Nothing: John Cage and 4’33”
Nothing: John Cage and 4’33” by Nicholas Day; illus. by Chris Raschka Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 4/24 9780823454099 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823457601 $11.99 The very definition of music is explored in this thoughtful look at Cage’s (1912–1992) controversial musical composition, 4'33", a work that debuted with a pianist “performing” four...
Review of The Queen of Thieves
The Queen of Thieves [Moonwind Mysteries] by Johan Rundberg; trans. from Swedish by A. A. Prime Intermediate, Middle School Amazon Crossing Kids 207 pp. 3/24 9781662509629 $17.99 Paper ed. 9781662509612 $9.99 In this sequel to The Night Raven (rev. 9/23), young detective Mika has reason to suspect that some of...
Review of Under the Table
Under the Table by Allan Ahlberg; illus. by Bruce Ingman Preschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp. 6/24 9781536231519 $18.99 In this tale of humorously escalating adventure and silliness, Elsie discovers a series of animals under the family dining table, an extravagant catalog that includes an elephant, kangaroo, and penguin. What to...
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