Book Reviews
We've just put up a list of recommended mythology-related books, published and reviewed in the Magazine in the last few years. Enjoy!...
The books recommended below were published within the last several years. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion. PICTURE BOOKSSuggested grade level listed with each entry.Young Zeus by G. Brian Karas (Scholastic)Simple, colloquial language renders myth into farce, with cartoonlike characters ranging from the appealing boy...
10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Conceptsby Anita Lobel; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Knopf 24 pp.2/12 978-0-375-86864-1 $9.99Library ed. 978-0-375-96864-8 $12.99 gWhen Mama Rabbit announces her plans to make vegetable soup for dinner, her ten children — each one wearing a different color — gather ten matching colorful ingredients:...
If you’ve read any of Mo Willems’s books (or his Sutherland lecture “Why Books”), it will come as no surprise that his app Don't Let the Pigeon Run This App! (Disney, October 2011) is kid-centric and slyly subversive.The friendly bus driver from Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! introduces...
Every time critics and writers declare rock-and-roll dead, it rises again; re-tuned, rebranded, and repackaged for a new generation. Signs of life abound: Green Day’s Gen Y suburban angst, captured in their mini rock opera American Idiot, has sold 14 million copies internationally and became a smash adaptation for the...
January's Notes from the Horn Book is on its way to our newsletter subscribers. This month's goodies?- five questions for Jane Yolen on Snow in Summer- more great YA fantasy- wintry picture books- books for Presidents’ Day- Black History Month reading- an ALA awards reminder from RogerNot subscribed yet? Don't...
Five questions for Jane YolenSnow in Summer by Jane Yolen, Philomel, 12 years and up.More fantastic books for older readersDrink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst, McElderry, 14 years and up.Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Feiwel, 12 years and up.Diabolical by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Candlewick, 14 years and up.The Space Between...
The Fault in Our Starsby John GreenHigh School Dutton 321 pp.1/12 978-0-525-47881-2 $17.99 gI suppose this is a cancer book, but as its inimitable heroine Hazel would say, “It’s not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.” Evoking yet transcending such teen-illness classics as Paige Dixon’s May I Cross Your...
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