Reviews Of The Week
King Alfred and the Ice Coffin by Kevin Crossley-Holland; illus. by Chris Riddell Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick Studio 88 pp. 11/24 9781536238808 $18.99 Quick, lyrical prose, an ear for the music of words, and an affection for Britain’s medieval past characterize much of Crossley-Holland’s work. He brings it all into...
Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti by Mavasta Honyouti; illus. by the author; trans. into Hopi by Marilyn Parra Primary, Intermediate Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 11/24 9781646144570 $18.99 Honyouti (Hopi, Iswungwa/Coyote clan) is an award-winning carver. His low-relief carved and painted...
Noodle & Bao by Shaina Lu; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 224 pp. 10/24 9780063283411 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780063283404 $15.99 e-book ed. 9780063283428 $11.99 Momo has spent her entire life in her beloved Town 99, a fictional setting resembling real-world Chinatowns but where humans and anthropomorphic...
To See an Owl by Matthew Cordell; illus. by the author Primary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 1/25 9780593649893 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593649909 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593649916 $8.99 This picture book’s front matter offers an immediate hook: “When will I find you?” Narrator Janie, a young birder with a particular...
The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets selected by Irene Latham and Charles Waters; illus. by Mercè López Primary Carolrhoda 40 pp. 10/24 9781728492100 $18.99 This collection features twenty poems about real-life mistakes each of the poets made in childhood. The contributors include Linda Sue Park, Matt Forrest...
Cicely Tyson by Renée Watson; illus. by Sherry Shine Primary Amistad/HarperCollins 48 pp. 11/24 9780063219991 $19.99 In this picture-book biography told in poems, Watson (Maya’s Song, rev. 11/22) pays homage to legendary actor Cicely Tyson (1924–2021). The book opens with a poem called “1920s” (“Black is Harlem. / Black is...
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp. 10/24 9781665961271 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665961295 $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he was...
How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way by Rachel Michelle Wilson; illus. by the author Primary Feiwel 32 pp. 10/24 9781250910172 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781250405449 $11.99 In this nonjudgmental, laid-back, and very funny picture book, a bespectacled young penguin demonstrates how to cope with a potty accident at school:...
Unlocking the Universe: The Cosmic Discoveries of the Webb Space Telescope by Suzanne Slade Primary, Intermediate Charlesbridge 48 pp. 10/24 9781623544591 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781632894083 $9.99 The James Webb Space Telescope is the latest “great observatory” collecting data on distant galaxies and stars from a position orbiting Earth. Slade skillfully...
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