Book Reviews
Crossing On Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships,
and a Journey to the New World by David Macaulay; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Roaring Brook 128 pp. 5/19 978-1-59643-477-6 $24.99 Macaulay chronicles his own mid-twentieth-century immigration story in full color and a wide trim size—along with plenty of diagrams...
Double Bass Blues by Andrea J. Loney; illus. by Rudy Gutierrez Primary Knopf 32 pp. g 10/19 978-1-5247-1852-7 $17.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-1853-4 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1854-1 $10.99 Told entirely through dialogue and sound effects, the story follows double-bass player Nic as he performs an “epic solo” at band practice at...
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes High School Wordsong/Boyds Mills 325 pp. 10/19 978-1-62979-881-3 $19.99 As poetically written as Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming (rev. 9/14) with a story as hard-hitting as Sapphire’s Push. In her author’s note, poet Grimes (winner of the 2017 Children’s Literature Legacy Award) says that...
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell; illus. by Faith Erin Hicks;
color by Sarah Stern High School First Second/Roaring Brook 222 pp. 8/19 978-1-250-31285-3 $24.99 Paper ed. 978-1-62672-162-3 $17.99 Graduating high-school seniors Josiah and Deja have worked together at DeKnock’s World Famous Pumpkin Patch & Autumn Jamboree every fall for the past...
Saturday by Oge Mora; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. g 10/19 978-0-316-43127-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-43126-2 $9.99 Mora (Thank You, Omu!, rev. 11/18) follows up her Caldecott Honor winner with another story built around family and community connection. On Saturdays, Ava and her mother (who...
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship” by Deborah Heiligman Intermediate, Middle School Godwin/Holt 291 pp. g 10/19 978-1-62779-554-8 $19.99 Nonfiction maestro Heiligman (Charles and Emma, rev. 1/09; Vincent and Theo, rev. 3/17) here tells a riveting wartime survival story. As World War...
The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller Middle School, High School Schwartz & Wade/Random 309 pp. 8/19 978-1-5247-1381-2 $17.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-1382-9 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1383-6 $10.99 The “miracle” referred to in the title was of course the birth of the five identical Dionne sisters...
The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined by Stephanie Hemphill High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 495 pp. 6/19 978-0-06-249011-7 $17.99 In this engrossing first-person, present-tense verse novel, Hemphill (Your Own, Sylvia, rev. 3/07; Hideous Love, rev. 9/13) reimagines the fifteenth-century life of French martyr Joan of Arc. Readers follow...
illustration from Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai. The following books will receive starred reviews in the July/August 2019 Horn Book Magazine. Each year our July/August issue celebrates the ALA Youth Media Awards; this time around you can look forward to original cover art by (second-time!) Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall,...
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