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The Next Scientist: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World’s Great Scientists by Kate Messner; illus. by Julia Kuo Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 64 pp. 8/24 9781452176963 $19.99 This attractive, informative, and ambitious collective biography begins with a challenge: “Quick! Name the world’s greatest scientist.” Messner (The Next President,...
We wish you a loaded bookshelf with snowflake, with dreidel, with elf for gift-giving, or your own self. Some ideas are right here. Here’s our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! Uri and the King...
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...
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...
Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Gracey Zhang Preschool, Primary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 8/24 9780593706084 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593706091 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593706107 $10.99 The creators of The Big Bath House (rev. 11/21) take readers back to Japan, this time for a wild bicycle ride...
Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso; illus. by Rudy Gutierrez Primary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 40 pp. 8/24 9781635928112 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781635928129 $11.99 In engaging, economical, and colloquial prose, Alonso chronicles the ascent and career highs of legendary right fielder Clemente (1934–1972), who endured...
Mama’s Chicken and Dumplings by Dionna L. Mann Intermediate Ferguson/Holiday 208 pp. 8/24 9780823455553 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780823459261 $10.99 Mann sets this amiable story in 1930s Vinegar Hill, “a thriving African American business and residential community” outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Allie Lewis wants the best for her mama and thinks she...
Over and Under the Wetland by Kate Messner; illus. by Christopher Silas Neal Primary Chronicle 56 pp. 8/24 9781797210872 $18.99 Messner and Neal’s seventh contribution to their long-running series (most recently Over and Under the Canyon, rev. 11/21) follows a child and nature-savvy grandmother into a cypress swamp. The boardwalk...
Go, Wilma, Go!: Wilma Rudolph, from Athlete to Activist by Amira Rose Davis and Michael G. Long; illus. by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow Primary Bloomsbury 40 pp. 7/24 9781547612093 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781547612109 $13.29 This inspiring biography of Rudolph (1940–1994), the three-time Olympic gold medalist in track, centers on her work...
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