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Review of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real Worldedited by Kelly JensenMiddle School, High School    Algonquin    228 pp.1/17    Paper ed.  978-1-61620-586-7    $16.95    gThis lively anthology, edited by Book Riot associate editor Jensen, broaches the subject of “feminism for the real world” through forty-four essays, comics, poems,...

Color me confused: more adult(ish?) coloring books

We've talked here before about the adult coloring craze (and its frequent connections to children's literature, from Harry Potter coloring events to a coloring book inspired by The Little Prince. It seems this craze won't be over any time soon, as these "grownup" coloring books just keep coming. In the name of research, I recently spent...

Roald Dahl's Twit or Miss app review

When you open Roald Dahl’s Twit or Miss (Penguin, 2015; iOS and Android), a British-accented voice welcomes you to “the ghastly world of The Twits.” Then you're ushered through an overgrown yard and into the Twits’ dining room, with art inspired by Quentin Blake’s classic illustrations. The app consists of...

A pop-up tour of the White House

For some reason, I've been a little preoccupied by all things presidential lately, so I was intrigued when Robert Sabuda's book The White House: A Pop-Up of Our Nation's Home (Orchard Books, January 2016) arrived in the office. Sabuda is best known for his pop-up versions of children's literature classics...

Hello Atlas app review

The free Hello Atlas app (Wide Eyed Editions, October 2016; iOS and Android), a companion to the book of the same title, offers a simple introduction to over one hundred languages through greetings and introductory phrases. The opening menu is a slightly animated world map (boats and whales float around the...

Hello, hello

It really is a small world after all. We just received two new children's atlases with the exact same focus: how people say "Hello" around the world.The Hello Atlas and Hello World: A Celebration of Languages and Curiosities are both large-format, fully illustrated atlases. Instead of details about capital cities and...
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