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Review of Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen and Brave Jane Austen
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girlby Deborah Hopkinson; illus. by Qin LengPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp. g1/18 978-0-06-237330-4 $17.99Brave Jane Austen: Reader, Writer, Author, Rebelby Lisa Pliscou; illus. by Jen CoracePrimary Ottaviano/Holt 48 pp. g1/18 978-1-62779-643-9 $17.992017...
Review of The Secret of Nightingale Wood
The Secret of Nightingale Woodby Lucy StrangeIntermediate, Middle School Chicken House/Scholastic 288 pp.10/17 978-1-338-15747-5 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-338-15749-9 $10.99It’s 1919; the Great War is over; and twelve-year-old Hen and her family — Mama, Father, baby “Piglet,” and Nanny Jane — have just moved to an English country house where they hope...
Review of Penguins Don’t Wear Sweaters!
Penguins Don’t Wear Sweaters!by Marikka Tamura; illus. by Daniel RieleyPreschool Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g1/18 978-1-101-99696-6 $16.99The book begins with a snapshot of penguin paradise: “Penguins on ice. / Penguins in the sea. Penguins love the sea!” But wait: “WHAT is this?” A ship has spilled its oil in the ocean. The...
Review of Bird Builds a Nest
Bird Builds a Nest [A First Science Storybook]by Martin Jenkins; illus. by Richard JonesPreschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g2/18 978-0-7636-9346-6 $16.99Striking mixed-media illustrations, collage-like and muted with earth tones, depict a burnt-orange sun rising in the east and a bird perched on a tree branch, perfectly representing the opening sentence...
Review of Truly Devious
Truly Deviousby Maureen JohnsonHigh School Tegen/HarperCollins 418 pp. g1/18 978-0-06-233805-1 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-233807-5 $9.99Aspiring sleuth Stevie Bell has just started her junior year at Ellingham Academy — an artsy Vermont enclave for offbeat students founded in the 1930s by eccentric philanthropist Albert Ellingham — when disaster strikes. One of her...
Review of Buster and the Baby
Buster and the Babyby Amy Hest; illus. by Polly DunbarPreschool Candlewick 32 pp. g12/17 978-0-7636-8787-8 $15.99In a rhythmic text and lively art, a classic friendship story plays out through an extended game of hide-and-seek between a baby and a small white dog named Buster. Buster carefully determines the best hiding...
Review of A Sky Full of Stars
A Sky Full of Starsby Linda Williams JacksonMiddle School Houghton 307 pp. g1/18 978-0-544-80065-6 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-328-82907-8 $16.99In this sequel to Midnight Without a Moon (rev. 1/17), thirteen-year-old Rosa Lee Carter, part of a struggling sharecropper family in segregated mid-1950s Mississippi, continues her search for self. In the first book,...
Kate, Who Tamed the Wind
Kate, Who Tamed the Windby Liz Garton Scanlon; illus. by Lee WhitePrimary Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp. g2/18 978-1-101-93479-1 $17.99Library ed. 978-1-101-93480-7 $20.99This ecologically friendly picture book opens quietly, but it soon pivots from its lulling beginning (“The man lived all alone in the creaky house on the tip-top of...
Review of A Skinful of Shadows
A Skinful of Shadowsby Frances HardingeMiddle School, High School Amulet/Abrams 415 pp.10/17 978-1-4197-2572-2 $19.99Hardinge’s (The Lie Tree, rev. 5/16) latest tour de force is set during the reign of King Charles I against the backdrop of the 1600s English Civil War and is, as unlikely as it sounds, something of...
From The Guide: Family Matters
Julie Roach’s “BGHB at 50” column, “Amber and Essie and Vera and Me" (January/February 2018 Magazine) looks back at Vera B. Williams’s classic Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart, about “two sisters who take care of each other while missing their incarcerated father and overworked mother.” Williams offers readers an...
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