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Letter to the Editor from Martha Bennett Stiles, May/June 2013
I was struck by Jon Klassen’s comment in discussing his delightful Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Extra Yarn: “In the stories we seem to remember most, we’re given a certain set of ingredients, and then we’re let loose to build on them and let them affect us.”Oh, yes. I remember...
And Then It's Spring: Author Julie Fogliano’s 2012 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
I got my first taste of writing as a sophomore in high school. The assignment was to write a short story. I had never written anything before. But I just started to write…and write. The words came flying out, and the next thing I knew…there it was. A whole story....
Excerpt from The Chocolate Games
Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares“Hi, Mum! Hi, Pop!” Mike squeaks as he hops from the screen onto the table. “Look at me! I’m the first boy sent by television!”Mrs. Teavee shrieks. “You’re an inch tall! Oh, my sweet boy!”“Sweet?” Grandpa Joe whispers to me. “He blew Violet to bits!”True, Mike did chuck...
Review of We March
We Marchby Shane W. Evans;
illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.1/12 978-1-59643-539-1 $16.99Many young children know there was a march on Washington a long time ago and that Martin Luther King Jr. gave a famous speech that day. Some know why the march took place; fewer still...
Review of To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement
To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement [New York Times Books]by Charlayne Hunter-GaultMiddle School, High School Flash Point/Roaring Brook 195 pp.1/12 978-1-59643-605-3 $22.99One of the first two students to successfully desegregate an all-white college in the South looks back at six pivotal years of the U.S. civil...
Review of The Cabinet of Earths
The Cabinet of Earthsby Anne NesbetIntermediate Harper/HarperCollins 260 pp.1/12 978-0-06-196313-1 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-209919-8 $8.99“Well! It is better to read fairy tales than to find yourself caught in them,” Nesbet’s narrator declares, a predictor of what is to be found in the subsequent pages — for Nesbet’s story is a-shimmer with...
Review of And Then It's Spring
And Then It’s Springby Julie Fogliano;
illus. by Erin E. SteadPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.2/12 978-1-59643-624-4 $16.99A small bespectacled boy and his companions, a dog, a rabbit, and a turtle, are on a search for spring. “First you have brown, / all around you have brown / then there are...
Review of The One and Only Ivan
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate;
illus. by Patricia CastelaoIntermediate Harper/HarperCollins 305 pp.1/12 978-0-06-199225-4 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-06-210198-3 $9.99“I am Ivan. I am a gorilla. / It’s not as easy as it looks.” In short chapters (the book has an open layout and frequent illustrations) that have the...
Review of 10 Hungry Rabbits
10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Conceptsby Anita Lobel; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Knopf 24 pp.2/12 978-0-375-86864-1 $9.99Library ed. 978-0-375-96864-8 $12.99 gWhen Mama Rabbit announces her plans to make vegetable soup for dinner, her ten children — each one wearing a different color — gather ten matching colorful ingredients:...
What Makes a Good Rock-and-Roll Book?
Every time critics and writers declare rock-and-roll dead, it rises again; re-tuned, rebranded, and repackaged for a new generation. Signs of life abound: Green Day’s Gen Y suburban angst, captured in their mini rock opera American Idiot, has sold 14 million copies internationally and became a smash adaptation for the...
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