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Review of That Swingin’ Sound!: The Musical Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
That Swingin’ Sound!: The Musical Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong by Rekha S. Rajan; illus. by Ken DaleyPrimary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp.10/25 9781665957038 $19.99When Ella Fitzgerald was growing up in New York City, the rhythmic sounds of jazz inspired her to dance everywhere: “at home, on the streets,...
Salmon Run: An Epic Journey to the Ocean and Back by Annie Chen; illus. by the authorPrimary Red Comet 40 pp.11/25 9781636551654 $19.99“On a crisp autumn day, a Pacific salmon is born.” From an embryo inside an egg to the just-hatched alevin stage to a fry, the salmon’s early life...
This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color by Rachel Poliquin; illus. by Julie MorstadPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 48 pp.10/25 9781536230529 $18.99“We must begin with the orange.” Poliquin’s “field trip through color” kicks off with the “deliciously round and sweet” citrus fruit associated with the shade of the same name and...
Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace; illus. by Nancy CarpenterPrimary, Intermediate Wiseman/Simon 48 pp.10/25 9781534493339 $19.99e-book ed. 9781534493346 $10.99Much of what scientists know about the solar system originated in the work of geologist Ursula Marvin (1921–2018), “rock star of the universe” and...
Welcome to Whalebone Mansion: Creatures That Lurk at a Whale Fall by Laken Slate; illus. by Bindy JamesPreschool, Primary Charlesbridge 32 pp.10/25 9781623545789 $17.99e-book ed. 9781632894496 $9.99Two small, inquisitive fish explore a whale fall (a sunken whale carcass that forms its own ecosystem) as if it were a haunted house...
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Review of What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice
What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice by Richard Michelson; illus. by Stacy Innerst Primary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp. 10/25 9781662680632 $18.99 This picture-book biography follows Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) from his secular Jewish childhood in Kentucky with immigrant parents from Prague...
Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Susan Reagan Primary Calkins/Astra 32 pp. 9/25 9781662680298 $18.99 In early 1900s Oklahoma, young Woody Rawls’s (1913–1984) education came from the woods, fields, and riverbanks he roamed with his loyal hound dog....
Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement by Jenny Lacika; illus. by Anna BronPrimary, Intermediate MIT Press/Candlewick 32 pp.9/25 9781536230123 $18.99This unusual nonfiction picture book combines math, hijinks, and etymology—a subject amalgamation readers don’t encounter every day. In the mid-twentieth century, a group of MIT students...
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas ImamuraIntermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 304 pp.9/25 9780593643877 $19.99On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such explosive force that...
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