Book Reviews
Colman, Penny Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the WorldMiddle school, high school 256 pp. Holt/Ottaviano"Yes, our work is one, we are one in aim and sympathy," Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote in an 1865 letter to Susan B. Anthony. Colman's biography, rich in quotes from the...
Picture book biographies broke out of their formulaic cradle-to-grave structure in the late 1990s and began telling authentic stories with new verve. Fictionalized dialogue and made-up scenes gave way to well-researched, fact-based narratives, often focusing on a particular aspect of the subject’s life. Today’s picture book biographies also include, as...
Cute kid Sloan Graham, the bear-suit-clad main character of Forest Giant’s nonfiction app I Love Mountains (2012), has a passionate interest in the titular landforms. She shares fun geological facts about mountains through nineteen interactive pages, beginning by describing the three different types of mountains and the plate tectonics that...
Robert Byrd took home the 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award for his picture book biography Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Dial, 2012). As the author/illustrator of Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer (Dutton, 2003) and illustrator of Kathleen Krull's Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything (Viking, 2010)...
In her 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor book Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building (Lee & Low, 2012), Christy Hale juxtaposes concrete poems and illustrations of children at building play with photographs of innovative architecture around the world. We asked her about the tipping point for this ingenious idea,...
It didn’t exactly have to happen.In 1936, Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, treasured for their radiant portrayals of child life in Ingri’s native Norway, took up George Washington, and with the wide eyes of new Americans and the same sensitivity to their child audience, struck a chord. Other d’Aulaire picture...
Like any good discovery museum exhibit, the San Francisco Exploratorium's Color Uncovered interactive e-book (2011) invites users to experiment for themselves as they learn about color. The relationship between color and light waves, humans' and animals' perception of color, color blending, and complementary colors are just a few of the...
Locomotiveby Brian Floca; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Jackson/Atheneum 64 pp.9/13 978-1-4169-9415-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-8522-8 $12.99Talk about a youth librarian’s dream come true: a big new book about those ever-popular trains from a bona fide picture-book-nonfiction all-star. Striking cinematic endpapers lay the groundwork, describing the creation of the Transcontinental...
Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voicesedited by Mitali PerkinsMiddle School, High School Candlewick 127 pp.9/13 978-0-7636-5866-3 $15.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-7636-6719-1 $15.99In her preface to this nicely compact collection, Perkins suggests that humor can help smooth the way in discussions about race —...
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