Book Reviews
All That Grows by Jack Wong; illus. by the authorPrimary Groundwood 32 pp.3/24 9781773068121 $19.99e-book ed. 9781773068138 $16.99Nature walks and gardening result in an introspective child thinking small (and big) thoughts about the natural world in this quiet, poetic account, effectively told in the first person. The narrator’s sister, experienced...
The First Day of May by Henrique Coser Moreira; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Levine Querido 40 pp.3/24 9781646143825 $15.99First published in Portugal, this wordless book celebrates—with abundant style—the blossoming of spring. Most spreads convey the action in a series of four or six small, square panels. In the opening...
Just like Millie by Lauren Castillo; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp.4/24 9781536224818 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536237122 $17.99In this comforting story, a young girl and her mother move to a cozy apartment in a new city where she happily plays by herself whenever her mom has to work in...
The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang; illus. by Hanna Cha Primary Dial 40 pp. 3/24 9780593530153 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593530160 $10.99 In this picture book set in 1950, Kyung lives with her family in a seaside house in the southeastern Korean coastal city of Busan....
The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 40 pp.3/24 9781536227680 $18.99Becker’s (The Tree and the River, rev. 3/23) latest wordless fantasy takes readers to a post-apocalyptic future. Animals in a flooded zoo huddle on exposed bits of dry land; they are tended by an enormous...
What’s New, Daniel? by Micha Archer; illus. by the authorPreschool Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp.2/24 9780593461303 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593461310 $10.99Daniel (Daniel Finds a Poem; Daniel’s Good Day, rev. 7/19) is back in another open-hearted, child-friendly picture book. It’s spring, and Daniel is meeting his grandfather in the park. When Grandpa asks him...
Are You Big? by Mo Willems; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Union Square 32 pp.2/24 9781454948186 $17.99Big, bigger, or downright astronomical—it’s all relative in Willems’s latest concept book. On the first page, a round-headed, stick-limbed child smiles at the reader; text opposite asks, “Are you big?” Sitting in the middle...
Today by Gabi Snyder; illus. by Stephanie GraeginPreschool, Primary Wiseman/Simon 40 pp.1/24 9781665924856 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665924863 $10.99A lesson in mindfulness is couched in a cozy story about a much-anticipated visit with extended family. At first, the child protagonist struggles with a seemingly interminable “today”: “Today stretches long…when you’re counting weeks...
Laolao’s Dumplings by Dane Liu; illus. by ShinYeon MoonPrimary Godwin/Holt 48 pp.12/23 9781250778192 $18.99Millie visits her laolao (grandmother) in spring, and together they make Millie’s favorite dish—homemade dumplings. To get the right ingredients, the pair heads to Chinatown to visit several lively neighborhood markets, buying vegetables and shrimp as well...
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