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Blowing the Horn: A Necessary Vessel
The author's childhood copy. Photo: Minh Lê. One of my favorite childhood picture books was A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams. In it, a community rallies to help a family following a devastating fire. Then, looking to move forward from the wreckage, the family starts collecting coins...
Watercress
Watercress is a powerful story about how memory flows between generations through the stories we tell and the experiences we share. Andrea Wang’s artfully restrained text serves the story well, evoking both the suppressed memories of the parents’ generation and the complex emotions roiling within their daughter. This gives illustrator Jason...
Five questions for Jessica Love
In Jessica Love's picture book Julián Is a Mermaid (Candlewick, 4–7 years), the little-boy protagonist daydreams about becoming a mermaid. Left to his own devices, he fashions a mermaid costume from household items and applies a coat of lipstick…but what will Abuela think?1. This is the best type of "message...
Review of Julián Is a Mermaid
Julián Is a Mermaidby Jessica Love; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp. g5/18 978-0-7636-9045-8 $16.99The story begins on the front endpapers with a group of older women in a pool and a boy swimming underwater. The next spread (on the copyright and title pages) shows the child, Julián,...
Review of A Most Unusual Day
A Most Unusual Dayby Sydra Mallery;
illus. by E. B. GoodalePrimary Greenwillow 32 pp. g4/18 978-0-06-236430-2 $17.99Morning arrives, and Caroline, who is “usually” up with the birds, can’t get herself out of bed. There is something coming later in the day, and the anticipation is obviously affecting her: “Caroline was...
Review of The Antlered Ship
The Antlered Shipby Dashka Slater; illus. by the Fan BrothersPrimary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp.9/17 978-1-4814-5160-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-5161-1 $10.99A young fox’s inquisitiveness sets him apart from the other foxes. Marco’s questions and observations are playful and wide-ranging, from “Why don’t trees ever talk?” to “How deep does the sun go...
Review of Lines
Linesby Suzy Lee; illus. by the authorPreschool Chronicle 32 pp.9/17 978-1-4521-5665-1 $17.99The front endpapers show a pencil and eraser on a blank page. The main story begins with a solitary figure skater tracing a crisp line across the ice. What follows are wordless pages of elegant choreography as the skater...
Review of A Different Pond
A Different Pondby Bao Phi; illus. by Thi BuiPrimary, Intermediate Capstone 32 pp. g8/17 978-1-62370-803-0 $15.95e-book ed. 978-1-62370-804-7 $9.95Hours before sunrise, a father and son go fishing for that night’s meal. So begins this powerfully understated picture book, which shifts the focus of the refugee narrative from the harrowing journey...
Review of The Boy and the Whale
The Boy and the Whaleby Mordicai GersteinPrimary Roaring Brook 40 pp. g11/17 978-1-62672-505-8 $17.99When a whale gets caught in their only fishing net, a boy and his father have drastically different reactions. The father leaves the ensnared animal in search of a replacement net, while the boy is focused on...
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