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Home in a Lunchbox
The Caldecott criteria states that the award should honor a work that provides “a visual experience” for the young reader and “respects a child’s ‘understandings, abilities, and appreciations.’” Cherry Mo’s visually enthralling and nearly wordless debut, Home in a Lunchbox, does just that, using colorful digital illustrations and cinematic flourishes to...
Review of Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos
Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso; illus. by Rudy Gutierrez Primary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 40 pp. 8/24 9781635928112 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781635928129 $11.99 In engaging, economical, and colloquial prose, Alonso chronicles the ascent and career highs of legendary right fielder Clemente (1934–1972), who endured...
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Review of Hiro: Winter and Marshmallows
Hiro: Winter and Marshmallows by Marine Schneider; illus. by the author; trans. from French by Vineet LalPrimary, Intermediate Eerdmans 40 pp.9/24 9780802856326 $18.99e-book ed. 9781467468435 $18.99A curious bear and a human boy strike up an unexpected friendship in this philosophical Belgian import. In wintertime, Hiro is restless in her family’s...
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Review of The Boy Who Said Wow
The Boy Who Said Wow by Todd Boss; illus. by Rashin KheiriyehPreschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 40 pp.4/24 9781534499713 $18.99e-book ed. 9781534499720 $10.99This fictional account relates the joyful moment when, in 2019, a nonverbal (“which means he usually doesn’t speak much” per an appended note) nine-year-old named Ronan Mattin declared “wow!”...
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Review of Walking Trees
Walking Trees by Marie-Louise Gay; illus. by the authorPrimary Groundwood 40 pp.3/24 9781773069760 $19.99e-book ed. 9781773069777 $16.99Gay found inspiration for this winning story from reading about the residents of a Dutch city who transformed their streets into a “walking forest” by wheeling trees about in wooden containers. In this fictionalized...
Review of All That Grows
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...
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Review of Copydog
Copydog by Zachariah OHora; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Abrams 40 pp.11/23 9781419765018 $18.99e-book ed. 9781647008420 $15.54OHora (Sonny Says “Mine!”, rev. 9/21; Fuzzy, Inside & Out) employs his signature bold outlines and vibrant acrylic colors in this rollicking story of shaggy gray dog-child Elise and the adoring little sister, Rosemont,...
Once upon a Book
For the past several years, I have run a mock Caldecott program for first to eighth graders at my public library. For each contending book, I lead the children through an “art walk” during which we talk about the images and how they tell the story. This leads to some...
Emile and the Field
[Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.] Emile and the Field by Kevin Young; illus. by Chioma Ebinama Preschool Make Me a World/Random 40 pp. g 3/22 978-1-9848-5042-3 $17.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-5043-0 $20.99 e-book...
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