Book Reviews
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jason Griffin Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 384 pp. g 1/22 978-1-5344-3946-7 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-3947-4 $10.99 Reynolds’s introspective narrative poem, with a young man at home during quarantine as its speaker, shares the stage with Griffin’s emotive collagelike illustrations done in...
Poems from When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne; illus. by Rosemary Wells Preschool Norton 80 pp. g 10/21 978-1-324-01653-3 $19.95 e-book ed. 978-1-324-01654-0 $17.48 Wells says in an opening note that she chose her favorite twelve poems from Milne’s beloved classic to present in “picture-book format.” She...
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life by Marilyn Nelson Middle School, High School Ottaviano/Little, Brown 160 pp. g 1/22 978-0-316-29802-5 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-29822-3 $9.99 Despite her prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, sculptor Augusta Savage (1892–1962) remains largely unknown to younger generations. Through her accomplished verse, Nelson (My...
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson; illus. by Nikkolas Smith Primary, Intermediate Kokila/Penguin 48 pp. g 11/21 978-0-593-30735-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-30737-3 $11.99 The book begins with a premise many African American families know well: a child gets an assignment at school that...
Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet by Joyce Sidman; illus. by Miren Asiain Lora Primary, Intermediate Eerdmans 72 pp. g 2/21 978-0-8028-5528-2 $18.99 Sidman’s collection of short poems considers a variety of earth science concepts. On gorgeously illustrated pages that portray the planet in terms of space and time, weather...
What Are Little Girls Made Of? by Jeanne Willis; illus. by Isabelle Follath Primary Nosy Crow/Candlewick 32 pp. g 2/21 978-1-5362-1733-9 $14.99 What are little girls made of? More than “sugar and spice and everything nice” in Willis’s narrative-flipping revision of the classic rhyme. Her update? “Sun and rain and...
Niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile by María José Ferrada; illus. by María Elena Valdez; trans. from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel Intermediate, Middle School Eerdmans 80 pp. g 3/21 978-0-8028-5567-1 $18.99 During General Pinochet’s dictatorship, thousands of Chilean citizens were “disappeared,” including thirty-four children. Ferrada’s (Mexique: A Refugee...
Ice!: Poems About Polar Life by Douglas Florian; illus. by the author Primary Holiday 48 pp. g 12/20 978-0-8234-4101-3 $17.99 Twenty-one humorous poems, each with an accompanying whimsical illustration (an emperor penguin sitting on a throne, wistfully looking at birds in flight, for example), introduce readers to Florian’s (Friends and...
The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice by A. F. Harrold; illus. by Mini Grey Intermediate Bloomsbury 160 pp. g 3/21 978-1-5476-0677-1 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5476-0678-8 $13.99 Harrold (The Song from Somewhere Else, rev. 5/17) presents poems (a few repurposed from previous collections) full of practical and not-so-practical insights on...
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