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The World’s Best Class Plant by Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick; illus. by Lynnor BontigaoPrimary Putnam 40 pp.5/23 9780525516354 $18.99e-book ed. 9780525516361 $10.99Arlo is unimpressed by his class’s “mostly green, hardly growing, never moving plant,” especially because various other rooms in his school have a cockatiel, a chinchilla, and...
All-Star: How Larry Doby Smashed the Color Barrier in Baseball by Audrey Vernick; illus. by Cannaday ChapmanPrimary Clarion/HarperCollins 40 pp. g1/22 978-1-328-48297-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-358-46820-2 $12.99In 1947, eleven and a half weeks after Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball, Larry Doby became the second, and...
Audrey Vernick and Liz Garton Scanlon. Photo: Sam Bond Photography.In new picture book Dear Substitute (Disney-Hyperion, 4–7 years), a little girl arrives at school to find her regular teacher out sick (“Dear Substitute, / Wow. This is a surprise. / What are you doing here?”). She works through the disorientation...
In our January/February 2016 issue, reviewer Dean Schneider talked with author Audrey Vernick about her clear love of America's favorite pastime. Read the full review of The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton here.Dean Schneider: You’ve written a few books about baseball. Have you...