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Review of Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909by Michelle Markel; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 32 pp.2/13 978-0-06-180442-7 $17.9The plight of early-twentieth-century female garment workers is brought to life in this biography of labor leader Clara Lemlich. To escape persecution in their native Ukraine, the Jewish...
Review of Audiobooks for Youth
Librarian, columnist, and blogger (Audiobooker) Mary Burkey knows her audiobooks, and in Audiobooks for Youth: A Practical Guide to Sound Literature (ALA) she proves it with this thorough, cogent, well-organized, and insightful publication. She covers the history of children’s audiobooks, gives us definitions, brings us inside the production of an...
Review of Ask the Passengers
Ask the Passengersby A. S. KingHigh School Little, Brown 295 pp.10/12 978-0-316-19468-6 $17.99Astrid would be the quintessential Q-for-Questioning girl in her high school’s LGBTQ support group if her small-town, small-minded school had such a thing — and the gay question is only one of many weighing her down. When her...
Review of Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems
Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poemsby Marilyn Singer;
illus. by Josée MassePrimary Dial 32 pp.2/13 978-0-8037-3769-3 $16.99 g“It’s not easy,” warns Singer in a note about the “reverso,” a verse form she created and first used in Mirror Mirror (rev. 3/10); and the first poem (“Fairy Tales”) in this...
Review of My Brother's Book
My Brother’s Bookby Maurice Sendak;
illus. by the authordi Capua/HarperCollins 32 pp.2/13 978-0-06-223489-6 $18.95 gIf, as Wordsworth wrote, “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity,” Sendak’s vision of a Dante-esque search for his beloved brother Jack (1924–1995) is poetry in...
Review of Courage Has No Color, the True Story of the Triple Nickles
Courage Has No Color, the True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopersby Tanya Lee StoneMiddle School, High School Candlewick 148 pp.1/13 978-0-7636-5117-6 $24.99e-book ed. 978-0-7636-6405-3 $24.99“How does one survive and outlast the racism that was our daily fare at that time?” asks artist Ashley Bryan in the...
Review of Etched in Clay
Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poetby Andrea Cheng; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Lee & Low 143 pp.1/13 978-1-60060-451-5 $17.95 gReaders familiar with Laban Carrick Hill and Bryan Collier’s 2011 Caldecott Honor–winning picture book Dave the Potter will appreciate Cheng’s interpretation of the man’s...
Review of Days of Blood & Starlight
Days of Blood & Starlightby Laini TaylorHigh School Little, Brown 517 pp.11/12 978-0-316-13397-5 $18.99Star-crossed lovers Karou and Akiva, torn apart by unforgivable betrayal at the end of Daughter of Smoke & Bone (rev. 11/11), are now engaged in the renewed war between the chimaera and the seraphim. Both are repulsed...
Andrea Davis Pinkney on Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
In the January/February 2013 Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Jonathan Hunt asks Andrea Davis Pinkney about selecting subjects for Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. Read the review of Hand in Hand here.Jonathan Hunt: How did you approach the difficult task of narrowing your list? Can you tell...
Review of Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed Americaby Andrea Davis Pinkney;
illus. by Brian PinkneyIntermediate, Middle School Disney-Jump at the Sun 243 pp.10/12 978-1-4231-4257-7 $19.99Presenting ten biographical vignettes in chronological order — Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Malcolm...
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