Book Reviews
The Art of Alice & Martin Provensen by Alice and Martin Provensen with contributions by Leonard S. Marcus, Robert Gottlieb, and Karen Provensen Mitchell Chronicle Chroma 240 pp. g 1/22 978-1-7972-0958-6 $35.00 Marcus provides an enlightening introduction to a lavish collection of illustrations from the long and distinguished career of...
Dear Highlights: What Adults Can Learn from 75 Years of Letters and Conversations with Kids by Christine French Cully Highlights 336 pp. g 8/21 978-1-64472-325-8 $24.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64472-390-6 $15.99 “When a child writes to you, you write back with care and respect,” states Highlights Editor in Chief Cully. The...
Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial edited by Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl Routledge 264 pp. g 7/21 978-0-367-33721-6 $160.00 e-book ed. 978-1-000-41761-6 $48.95 The Newbery Medal was first awarded in 1922; as the award approaches its centennial, this volume looks at...
You Can’t Say That: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell edited by Leonard S. Marcus Candlewick 220 pp. g 7/21 978-0-7636-9036-6 $18.99 Marcus, author of many great interviews for The Horn Book Magazine, here compiles interviews with thirteen authors of...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family by June Cummins with Alexandra Dunietz Yale University Press 383 pp. g 6/21 978-0-300-24355-0 $35.00 This long-awaited — and much anticipated — biography is the first ever of Sydney Taylor (1904–1978), author of the beloved All-of-a-Kind Family books about five Jewish...
A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection edited by Carolyn J. Brown, Ellen Hunter Ruffin, and Eric L. Tribunella University Press of Mississippi 151 pp. g 3/21 978-1-4968-3339-6 $45.00 e-book ed. 978-1-4968-3340-2 $30.00 A handsome introduction to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of...
The Art of Ramona Quimby: Sixty Five Years of Illustrations from Beverly Cleary's Beloved Books by Anna Katz Chronicle 256 pp. g 9/20 978-1-4521-7695-6 $40.00 This homage explores Cleary's beloved character through artwork by her five primary illustrators: Louis Darling, Alan Tiegreen, Joanne Scribner, Tracy Dockray, and Jacqueline Rogers. After...
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