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Review of The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish by Shawn Harris; illus. by the authorPrimary Knopf 40 pp.3/25 9780593571910 $18.99Library ed. 9780593571927 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593571934 $8.99The teeny-weeny unicorn is back, just as small, just as smudgy, and just as pink as he was in his original appearance in The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn (rev....
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Review of Candle Island
Candle Island by Lauren WolkIntermediate, Middle School Dutton 352 pp.4/25 9780593698549 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593698556 $10.99After the accidental death of Lucretia’s father, she and her mother move to an island off the coast of Maine, where they buy a small farm. Their first summer there is full of drama—tensions between locals...
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Review of A Wolf Called Fire
A Wolf Called Fire [Voice of the Wilderness]by Rosanne Parry; illus. by Mónica ArmiñoIntermediate Greenwillow 256 pp.2/25 9780063415133 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063415164 $9.99This companion volume to A Wolf Called Wander gives Warm, the beloved wolf brother of Swift, his own voice and tale. Warm is small and gentle, a watcher by...
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Review of Scattergood
Scattergood by H. M. BouwmanIntermediate, Middle School Porter/Holiday 320 pp.1/25 9780823457755 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462308 $11.99It’s June 1941 in West Branch, Iowa, and twelve-year-old Peggy’s summer becomes marked by two secrets. The first is that she’s fallen for Gunther, who is handsome, older (sixteen), and, most importantly, from away. A German...
Review of The Boy and the Elephant
The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood; illus. by the author Primary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 8/24 9780593707661 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593707678 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593707685 $10.99 In this wordless picture book, we follow a young boy who seems ignored at home and lonely at school as he...
Review of Puppet
Puppet by David Almond; illus. by Lizzy Stewart Intermediate Candlewick 240 pp. 9/24 9781536239171 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536239966 $18.99 In this fable/fantasy, Almond (Brand New Boy, rev. 5/22) revisits his signature theme of what it means to be human. Silvester, an elderly puppet-maker and performer, retires, giving his puppets to...
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Review of Boy Here, Boy There
Boy Here, Boy There by Chuck Groenink; illus. by the authorPrimary Tundra 56 pp.10/24 9781774881064 $18.99e-book ed. 9781774881071 $10.99In luminous paintings and a spare, telegraphic text, Groenink tells the story of a brief encounter between a Neanderthal boy and a child of a different human species, perhaps Homo sapiens. Snub-nosed...
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Review of An Adventure for Lia and Lion
An Adventure for Lia and Lion by Al Rodin; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Knopf 32 pp.10/24 9780593903322 $18.99“Just beyond the back fence, in a corner of the meadow…” Such is the classic territory that Lia, a diminutive, pointy-nosed preschooler equipped with a butterfly net, explores in her search for...
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Review of The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C. S. Lewis & J. R. R. Tolkien
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C. S. Lewis & J. R. R. Tolkien by John Hendrix; illus. by the authorHigh School Abrams Fanfare 224 pp.9/24 9781419746345 $24.99e-book ed. 9781683359630 $22.49In this ambitious tandem biography of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, we are presented with two approaches...
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