Book Reviews
We Carry the Sun by Tae Keller; illus. by Rachel Wada Primary, Intermediate Norton 48 pp. 6/25 9781324031123 $18.99 Thousands of years ago, humans gathered under the sun’s rays for immediate heat. Then they began constructing homes that faced south to take advantage of that warmth. But could they carry...
At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 208 pp. 5/25 9780063218901 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063218925 $9.99 When Josefina Veluya Guerrero (1917–1996), known as Joey, was a little girl in the town of Lucban in the Philippine...
A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet by Martha Brockenbrough; illus. by Juana Martinez-Neal Primary, Intermediate Knopf 40 pp. 5/25 9780593428429 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593428436 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593428443 $11.99 “When a sunbeam slips through a window in a certain slant of light, you can see a...
The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle by Sy Montgomery; illus. by Matt PattersonPrimary Clarion/HarperCollins 40 pp.9/25 9780063325166 $19.99In a previous collaboration (The Book of Turtles, rev. 7/23), Montgomery and Patterson briefly featured a large snapping turtle, a.k.a. Fire Chief. Now Fire Chief gets a starring role in his...
Before She Was My Grandmother by Giselle Potter; illus. by the authorPrimary Enchanted Lion 52 pp.8/25 9781592704316 $19.99A young girl is always glad to visit her grandmother, Alice: “She makes me feel important when she looks into my eyes and listens carefully to everything I have to say.” Her favorite...
Crossing the Finish Line by Thushanthi Ponweera; illus. by Maithili JoshiPrimary Union Square 40 pp.6/25 9781454950189 $18.99Ranatunge Karunananda (1936–1974), known as Karu, was the only runner among the six athletes representing Sri Lanka in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In “the biggest stadium he [had] ever seen,” he lined...
Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery by Colleen Paeff; illus. by Ji-Hyuk KimPrimary McElderry 40 pp.6/25 9781665931847 $19.99e-book ed. 9781665931854 $10.99Tucked into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is Elkmont, Tennessee, where remarkable fireflies “Blink! Shine! Twinkle! Pop! Flash! Spark!” for six seconds and then...
The Fig Tree: A Story About Building Friendship and Peace in Cyprus by Costantia Manoli; illus. by Leah GilesPrimary Roaring Brook 40 pp.6/25 9781250763136 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250435095 $10.99In 1974, a Greek military coup in Cyprus prompted a Turkish invasion and occupation, and the small eastern Mediterranean island was divided into...
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Review of The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear, Who Invented Nonsense
The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear, Who Invented Nonsense by Wolverton Hill; illus. by Laura CarlinPrimary, Intermediate Enchanted Lion 84 pp.7/25 9781592704132 $22.99For the most part, this is a straightforward picture-book biography of poet, natural history artist, and landscape painter Edward Lear (1812–1888), focusing...
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