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Review of All Ears, All Eyes
All Ears, All Eyesby Richard Jackson;
illus. by Katherine TillotsonPreschool, Primary Dlouhy/Atheneum 40 pp.3/17 978-1-4814-1571-2 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4814-1572-9 $10.99“An owl hoots in our dim-dimming woods. / Who-who.” As the sun sets
in a forest, viewers must keep their senses alert to catch all the activity in
Tillotson’s atmospheric pictures,...
Review of 5 Little Ducks
5 Little Ducksby Denise Fleming;
illus. by the authorPreschool Beach Lane/Simon 40 pp.11/16 978-1-4814-2422-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-2423-3 $10.99Listeners familiar with the traditional nursery rhyme and song know the general plotline: every day ducks go out; every day the returning group shrinks by one. But the particulars — highlighted in glorious...
Review of Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kanekopoems by Misuzu Kaneko; narrative by David Jacobson; illus. by Toshikado Hajiri; trans. from the Japanese by Sally Ito and Michiko TsuboiPrimary, Intermediate, Middle School Chin Music Press 64 pp.9/16 978-1-634905-962-6 $19.50Part biography, part poetry collection, this book introduces Japanese children’s...
A Second Look: The Egypt Game
I was in second grade the first time I went to Egypt.Every Friday, I took a bus to another elementary school across town in order to attend a Gifted and Talented Education program. Once a week, I lived a separate school life, at a different campus with a different teacher...
Review of One Minute till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to Send You Off to Sleep
One Minute till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to
Send You Off to Sleepselected by Kenn Nesbitt;
illus. by Christoph NiemannPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 168 pp.11/16 978-0-316-34121-9 $19.99A former Children’s Poet Laureate has compiled over 120 short and engaging poems by an impressive number of today’s children’s writers. Here you won’t find...
Kenn Nesbitt on One Minute till Bedtime
In our January/February 2017 issue, our editors asked poet and selector Kenn Nesbitt about the wide (and somewhat surprising) range of contributors to his new anthology One Minute till Bedtime. Read the full review.Horn Book editors: Not everyone in the collection is someone you’d necessarily think of as a poet....
Review of Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmerby Diane Stanley;
illus. by Jessie HartlandPrimary Wiseman/Simon 40 pp.10/16 978-1-4814-5249-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-5250-2 $10.99Stanley emphasizes Ada Lovelace’s right- and left-brain pedigree (her father, whom she never knew, was the poet Lord Byron; her mother, a scientist and mathematician) beginning with the...
Review of Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer
Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmerby Fiona Robinson;
illus. by the authorPrimary Abrams 40 pp.8/16 978-1-4197-1872-4 $17.95e-book ed. 978-1-61312-913-5 $15.54Whisked away as a newborn by Anne Milbanke, her strait-laced mathematician mother, Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) never knew her father, the impetuous Romantic poet Lord Byron....
Review of The House of Months and Years
The House of Months and Yearsby Emma TrevayneIntermediate, Middle School Simon 274 pp.2/17 978-1-4814-6255-6 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4814-6257-0 $10.99After the tragic deaths of her aunt and uncle, Amelia and her parents move out of their own home and in with Amelia’s orphaned cousins. Nudiustertian House (nudiustertian meaning “relating to the...
Review of You DON’T Want a Unicorn
You DON’T Want a Unicornby Ame Dyckman; illus. by Liz ClimoPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp.2/17 978-0-316-34347-3 $16.99 gDyckman and Climo’s tongue-in-cheek exposé reveals the “reality” of life with a unicorn. And the truth is a lot less wonderful than pro-unicorn propaganda (magic! rainbows! glitter!) would have you believe. The story...
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