Book Reviews
Bodden, Valerie Finding the Rhyme in a PoemIllustrated by Monique FelixGr. K–3 24 pp. Creative EducationBodden, Valerie Picturing Words in a PoemIllustrated by Monique FelixGr. K–3 24 pp. Creative EducationBodden, Valerie Poking Fun in a PoemIllustrated by Etienne DelessertGr. K–3 24 pp. Creative EducationBodden, Valerie Who Is a Poet?Illustrated by...
Oh, I owe some of you fantasy writers an apology. Over on Twitter, I've been pretty hard on your Capital Letters and apostrophes and archaisms and spelling. Mostly spelling, like "magick," or, gilding the lily, "enmagick."And then there's faery. That's a spelling that has been the fingernails on my personal chalkboard...
One Minute till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to
Send You Off to Sleepselected by Kenn Nesbitt;
illus. by Christoph NiemannPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 168 pp.11/16 978-0-316-34121-9 $19.99A former Children’s Poet Laureate has compiled over 120 short and engaging poems by an impressive number of today’s children’s writers. Here you won’t find...
In our January/February 2017 issue, our editors asked poet and selector Kenn Nesbitt about the wide (and somewhat surprising) range of contributors to his new anthology One Minute till Bedtime. Read the full review.Horn Book editors: Not everyone in the collection is someone you’d necessarily think of as a poet....
Somos como las nubes /
We Are like the Cloudsby Jorge Argueta; illus. by
Alfonso Ruano; trans. from the Spanish by Elisa AmadoPrimary, Intermediate Groundwood 32 pp.10/16 978-1-55498-849-5 $18.95e-book ed. 978-1-55498-850-1 $16.95Argueta’s bilingual collection of poems gives voice to the many refugee children who emigrate from Central American countries to...
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Lifeby Ashley Bryan; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 56 pp.9/16 978-1-4814-5690-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-5691-3 $10.99A historical document dated July 5, 1828, lists the property to be sold from the Fairchilds’ estate. Hogs. Cattle. A handmill. Men....
Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Scienceby Jeannine AtkinsIntermediate, Middle School Atheneum 198 pp.9/16 978-1-4814-6565-6 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4814-6567-0 $10.99Atkins (Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C. J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters, rev. 5/10) here tells the stories, again in poetry, of three real-life self-taught female...
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmenby Carole Boston Weatherford;
illus. by Jeffery Boston WeatherfordIntermediate, Middle School Atheneum 82 pp.5/16 978-1-4814-4938-0 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-4940-3 $10.99Thirty-two poems written in the second person bring to life the experiences of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Pilots, bombardiers, instructors, maintenance workers, and navigators...
A companion to Axel Scheffler’s flip book of the same name, Flip Flap Jungle (Nosy Crow, 2015; iOS only) allows you to create seemingly infinite animals by combining the top half of one and the bottom half of another.Want to see what a parakeet might look like with four furry legs?...
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