Book Reviews
Cast Away: Poems for Our Time by Naomi Shihab Nye Middle School, High School Greenwillow 159 pp. 2/20 978-0-06-290769-1 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-290771-4 $10.99 Current Young People’s Poet Laureate Nye finds inspiration in those things we throw away — as well as in the act of throwing things away and...
Just like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Knopf 40 pp. g 1/20 978-0-525-58209-0 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-525-58210-6 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-58211-3 $10.99 Each poem in this collection is narrated by a different young girl about some aspect of her identity that she celebrates (“I am...
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins; illus. by various artists Intermediate Lee & Low 60 pp. g 9/19 978-1-62014-311-7 $19.95 Fourteen writers contribute poems that speak to their ethnic heritage. A full-page illustration by a different artist accompanies each piece, with much variety to...
Up Verses Down: Poems, Paintings, and Serious Nonsense by Calef Brown; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Ottaviano/Holt 80 pp. 6/19 978-0-8050-9929-4 $19.99 Brown (Soup for Breakfast, rev. 3/09; Hypnotize a Tiger, rev. 3/15) presents poems categorized by subject (“People Are People”; “Foodstuffs”; “Sleepy Time”), and bracketed by poetry about...
Predator and Prey: A Conversation in Verse by Susannah Buhrman-Deever; illus. by Bert Kitchen Primary, Intermediate Candlewick Studio 32 pp. g 4/19 978-0-7636-9533-0 $18.99 Buhrman-Deever imagines the relationships between predators and prey as poetic standoffs. Animal antagonists express their behaviors and needs in a variety of creative poetic formats, sometimes...
Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me by Eloise Greenfield; illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi Primary Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 40 pp. g 4/19 978-1-4926-7724-6 $15.99 Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award recipient Greenfield (Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems; Nathaniel Talking, rev. 9/90; The Great Migration, rev. 1/11) here presents a series of...
Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasonsby Laura Purdie Salas; illus. by Mercè LópezPrimary Millbrook 32 pp.4/19 978-1-5124-9809-7 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5415-4383-6 $19.99Salas presents a volume of “riddle-ku” poems, a form that is a cross between riddles, haiku, and “mask poems” (poems narrated by “something nonhuman”). The book is divided...
Poetreeby Shauna LaVoy Reynolds; illus. by Shahrzad MaydaniPrimary Dial 32 pp. g3/19 978-0-399-53912-1 $17.99To celebrate the end of winter, young poetry lover Sylvia writes a poem about spring and ties it to a birch tree in the park. The next day her poem is gone; in its place is another...
The Undefeatedby Kwame Alexander; illus. by Kadir NelsonPrimary, Intermediate, Middle School Versify/Houghton 40 pp. g4/19 978-1-328-78096-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-358-05761-1 $12.99Alexander and Nelson honor the achievements, courage, and perseverance of ordinary black people as well as prominent black artists, athletes, and activists. The free-verse poem begins: “This is for the unforgettable. /...
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