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Review of Toto
Toto by Hyewon Yum; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.1/25 9780823453894 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462322 $11.99“Toto” isn’t the young protagonist’s name but rather what she calls the large birthmark on her forehead. Opening lines read, “Sometimes I wonder how I would look without Toto.” Despite loving support from family who...
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Review of Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right
Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right by Mo Willems; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary Union Square 40 pp.12/24 9781454951483 $18.99With each spread decorated as a simple stage, photo collages of two goggle-eyed, bespectacled hands-as-puppets enter on verso and recto. The one on the left is clad with a cuff...
Week in Review, December 9th-13th
This week on hbook.com... December Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Fanfare Edition, featuring annotations of all fifty-three books on 2024's list Rosanne Parry Talks with Roger about A Wolf Called Fire From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Tomorrow by Nikki Giovanni Calling Caldecott: Golden Gate...
Touch the Sky
When I first saw Chris Park’s jacket art for Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s Touch the Sky, I was struck by its bold colors, display type that would fit right into street art near a city playground, and by painterly, energetic brushstrokes evoking the soaring movement of the child on a...
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Review of L Is for Love
L Is for Love by Atinuke; illus. by Angela BrooksbankPreschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp.9/24 9781536235555 $17.99There’s lots to love about this companion to B Is for Baby (rev. 5/19), which strings together lists of words starting with L for a day-in-the-life depiction of a multigenerational Nigerian family. The title-page illustration...
Review of Too Small Tola Makes It Count
Too Small Tola Makes It Count by Atinuke; illus. by Onyinye Iwu Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 96 pp. 9/24 9781536238150 $16.99 e-book ed. 9781536240030 $16.99 Atinuke returns for a fourth time (Too Small Tola, rev. 3/21, and sequels) to her diminutive, high-spirited, mathematically gifted protagonist’s “run-down block of apartments in the...
Review of Meena's Saturday
Meena’s Saturday by Kusum Mepani; illus. by Yasmeen Ismail Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 10/24 9780593110317 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593110324 $10.99 This captivating ode to weekly gatherings of friends and extended family brims with affection for foods, activities, and traditions shared by a loving, large group crowded together in the narrator’s...
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Review of Shake It Off!
Shake It Off! by Vanessa Brantley-Newton; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp.6/24 9780525517115 $18.99e-book ed. 9780525517122 $10.99“This is a story that will have a happy ending, so don’t worry too much!” With that reassuring front-matter spoiler, Brantley-Newton launches into her tale about a little singing goat. Conflict is...
Review of Sometimes I Feel like an Oak
Sometimes I Feel like an Oak by Danielle Daniel; illus. by Jackie TraversePrimary Groundwood 32 pp.4/24 9781773066981 $19.99e-book ed. 9781773066998 $16.99Daniel’s (Sometimes I Feel like a Fox; Sometimes I Feel like a River) latest offering invites readers to commune with trees. Short first-person verses assign attributes to twelve different trees...
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Review of When You Have to Wait
When You Have to Wait by Melanie Conklin; illus. by Leah HongPreschool Roaring Brook 40 pp.1/24 9781250816542 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250365309 $11.99The passage of time can seem painfully slow to young children who haven’t yet mastered how to measure hours, days, weeks, months, or years. This is especially true when a...
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