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Review of It’s My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II

It’s My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II by Susan WiderHigh School    Norton    160 pp.   g8/22    978-1-324-01545-1    $19.95This well-researched biography of German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) constructs many of its episodes around her autobiographical paintings, allowing not only for analysis of her...
      

Review of Surely Surely Marisol Rainey

Surely Surely Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate    Greenwillow    160 pp.   g 8/22    978-0-06-297045-9    $16.99 e-book ed.  978-0-06-297047-3    $10.99 Marisol, the anxious heroine of Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey (rev. 5/21), makes lists of favorite and least favorite things, with gym class—specifically the kickball...
      

Review of H Is for Harlem

H Is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson; illus. by April HarrisonPrimary    Ottaviano/Little, Brown    48 pp.    g7/22    978-0-316-32237-9    $18.99This engaging and beautiful alphabet book features and celebrates not only Harlem’s history, including the Harlem Renaissance, but also contemporary figures and iconic places that bridge ­Harlem’s past and present. From the Apollo...
      

Review of The Longest Journey: An Arctic Tern’s Migration

The Longest Journey: An Arctic Tern’s Migration by Amy Hevron; illus. by the authorPrimary    Porter/Holiday    40 pp.   g7/22    978-0-8234-4700-8    $18.99e-book ed.  978-0-8234-5302-3    $11.99A young Arctic tern’s extraordinary migration route takes her from the North Pole to the South Pole and back—“the longest migration of any living creature on Earth.”...
      

Review of My Own Lightning

My Own Lightning by Lauren WolkIntermediate, Middle School    Dutton    320 pp.   g5/22    978-0-525-55559-9    $17.99e-book ed.  978-0-525-55560-5    $10.99This sequel to Newbery Honor Book Wolf Hollow (rev. 7/16) starts with a bang as ­protagonist Annabelle McBride is hit by lightning during a summer storm. That event leaves her in a state...
      

Review of Don’t Worry, Murray

Don’t Worry, Murray by David Ezra Stein; illus. by the authorPreschool    Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins    32 pp.    g6/22    978-0-06-284524-5    $17.99In a series of humorous vignettes, timid pup Murray is urged to overcome his reluctance to do things by an unseen narrator, his owner. “Why don’t you want to go outside, Murray?”...
      

Review of Diving Deep: Using Machines to Explore the Ocean

Diving Deep: Using Machines to Explore the Ocean by Michelle Cusolito; illus. by Nicole Wong Primary, Intermediate    Charlesbridge    32 pp.   g 6/22    978-1-62354-293-1    $17.99 In a follow-up to the pair’s Flying Deep (rev. 7/18), Cusolito and Wong enumerate the various ways people explore the ocean. Readers learn about the...
      

Review of It’s a Sign!

It’s a Sign! [Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!] by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors; with additional illustrations by Mo Willems Primary    Hyperion    64 pp.   g 5/22    978-1-368-07584-8    $10.99 Fox-like animal friends One and Two, art supplies in hand, are working together to create “a sign...
      

Review of Bee

Bee by Charlotte Voake; illus. by the authorPreschool    Candlewick    40 pp.    g6/22    978-1-5362-2045-2    $18.99A human boy makes the acquaintance of (anthropomorphized) honeybees Beatrice and Bella, who give him a magic pair of striped trousers and a furry jacket that shrink him to the size of a bee and allow him...
      

Review of The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall

The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall by Megan Hoyt; illus. by Katie HickeyPrimary, Intermediate    Quill Tree/HarperCollins    40 pp.   g7/22    978-0-06-304527-9    $18.99This picture-book biography tells the story of virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern, with an emphasis on his commitment to preserving the...
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