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Review of The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace FlemingMiddle School, High School Focus/Scholastic 384 pp.3/24 9781338749571 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338749588 $19.99Bletchley Park, a World War II cryptology center, operated in the English countryside where an extensive and complicated code-breaking operation allowed...
Mine!
When I did my initial just-read-the-pictures look through Mine! (see Step 5 of Robin Smith’s advice), I found myself looking at this picture book as if it were a graphic novel. You know those occasional dramatic moments when the multi-panel structure gives way to an illustration that takes up the...
Review of Mine!
Mine! by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric RohmannPreschool Schwartz/Random 40 pp.8/23 9780593181669 $18.99Library ed. 9780593181676 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593181683 $10.99“In a tall, tall tree, / at the tip-tippy top, / hung a single red apple, / just about to drop.” Crisp, bright illustrations with smooth black outlines, created on stained paper...
Review of Penny & Pip
Penny & Pip by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric RohmannPreschool Dlouhy/Atheneum 40 pp.6/23 9781665913317 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665913324 $10.99Rohmann returns to the natural history museum setting of his debut, Time Flies, but this outing is far cozier than that 1995 Caldecott Honor Book. It’s just as fanciful, though. Penny, a brown-skinned...
Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann Talk with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Random House Children’s Books It’s a simple enough tale: one apple hanging temptingly from a tree, five hungry animals waiting for the drop. Life- and artistic partners,...
Review of Polar Bear
Polar Bear by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric Rohmann Primary Porter/Holiday 32 pp. g 11/22 978-0-8234-4916-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5435-8 $11.99 Showcasing another fascinating animal (Giant Squid, rev. 9/16; Honeybee, rev. 3/20), and with their usual dynamism and immediacy, Fleming and Rohmann turn their attention to polar...
Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell
Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell by Candace Fleming Intermediate, Middle School Focus/Scholastic 288 pp. g 10/22 978-1-338-82946-4 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-82948-8 $12.99 Fleming deftly explores the enigmatic history of UFOs, extraterrestrials, and conspiracy theories related to the infamous events during the...
Review of Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace FlemingHigh School Schwartz/Random 368 pp. g3/22 978-0-593-17742-6 $19.99Library ed. 978-0-593-17743-3 $22.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-17744-0 $11.99“Nineteen-year-old Nathan Leopold would kill a child today.” The kidnapping, ransom, and murder plot had been in the works for months, but...
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Review of The Tide Pool Waits
The Tide Pool Waits by Candace Fleming; illus. by Amy HevronPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g4/22 978-0-8234-4915-6 $18.99This informative and appealing nonfiction picture book gives young readers a detailed look at the tide-pool ecology of the Pacific Coast, the “astonishing world” of creatures that wait in seawater collected among rocks on...
Review of What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum
What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum by Candace Fleming; illus. by Matthew Cordell Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4263-8 $18.99 Just across the street from the Horn Book office sits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, whose story is at least as interesting as its idiosyncratic...
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