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Review of Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends
Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends by Joyce Sidman; illus. by Melissa Sweet Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 40 pp. 9/25 9780358334767 $19.99 In eight pairs of poems, Sidman creates dialogues between two subjects, some in nature (cloud and droplets), some human-made elements (button and coat). For example, in the first...
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Review of How to Sing a Song
How to Sing a Song by Kwame Alexander and Randy Preston; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary Quill Tree/HarperCollins 32 pp.10/24 9780063060937 $19.99In their third How to… book, Alexander and Sweet (How to Read a Book; How to Write a Poem, rev. 5/23) collaborate with singer-songwriter Preston to guide readers in tuning...
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Review of Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent
Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent by Mara Rockliff; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary Abrams 40 pp.4/24 9781419752216 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647009496 $17.99The words revolutionary, art, and sister in the book’s subtitle offer a fitting description of the legacy of Sister Corita Kent, the “Pop Art Nun” (1918–1986)....
Review of How to Write a Poem
How to Write a Poem by Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido; illus. by Melissa Sweet Primary Quill Tree/HarperCollins 32 pp. 4/23 9780063060906 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063309937 $10.99 Alexander and Nikaido offer a single poem as this lyrical picture book’s text, inviting young readers (and listeners) to “dive deep into the...
Review of Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden
Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden by Phyllis Root and Gary D. Schmidt; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 40 pp. g5/22 978-1-5362-0429-2 $18.99Largely forgotten today, American writer Celia Laighton Thaxter enjoyed a significant literary career in the latter half of the nineteenth...
Review of Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott
Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott with Brie Spangler and Melissa Sweet; illus. by Melissa Sweet Primary, Intermediate Knopf 48 pp. g 6/21 978-0-525-64811-6 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-525-64812-3 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-64813-0 $10.99 This poignant picture-book biography opens on an illustration of Joyce Scott and...
Some Writer!: Melissa Sweet's 2017 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
It is an honor to be here with my friends and colleagues whose work inspires me. I feel, as E. B. White wrote in Charlotte’s Web, “It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.”When the idea for this book came to me, I...
To Inform and Delight: The Elements of Story — The Zena Sutherland Lecture
Salutations! I am honored to be here with all of you. I never met Zena Sutherland, but she’s been described as “short and feisty,” and I like short and feisty women, especially, as in Zena’s case, ones with passion and panache. When Zena was offered the job to become editor...
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...
Some Writer!
Each year there is a book I see early in the season that sticks with me. This year it was Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet. Yes, that Melissa Sweet. The one who wrote or illustrated Balloons Over Broadway, The Right Word, A River of...
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