Reviews Of The Week
Outside In and the Inside Out: A Story About Arnold Lobel by Emmy Kastner; illus. by the author Primary Viking 40 pp. 9/25 9780593692509 $18.99 This picture-book biography of Arnold Lobel (1933–1987), which somewhat mimics the look of Lobel’s Frog and Toad series, explores his life through the lens of...
The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats Middle School Atheneum 272 pp. 9/25 9781665968614 $17.99 In 1910 small-town Colorado, Stanislava’s plan for getting out of her Slovene immigrant community—going by the “American name” of Sylvia, concealing her heritage to avoid discrimination, and one day going to college—comes...
Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse by Darcy Whitecrow and Heather M. O’Connor; illus. by Natasha Donovan Primary Candlewick 32 pp. 9/25 9781536229455 $18.99 Whitecrow (Ojibwe/Dakota; Seine River First Nation Band), with coauthor O’Connor, tells of the rescue of the last four remaining Lac La Croix Indigenous...
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas Imamura Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 304 pp. 9/25 9780593643877 $19.99 On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such...
Your Turn Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 160 pp. 8/25 9780063337213 $18.99 On the last day of spring vacation, Marisol and her best friend, Jada, decide that they will adopt “new and improved” personalities. To satisfy their plan, Marisol, usually quiet and...
Field Trip to Dinosaur Valley by John Hare; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Ferguson/Holiday 40 pp. 9/25 9780823459575 $18.99 This fourth installment of the wordless picture book series (Field Trip to the Moon, rev. 9/19, and sequels) raises stakes even higher than previous excursions by delving into time travel—and...
Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends by Joyce Sidman; illus. by Melissa Sweet Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 40 pp. 9/25 9780358334767 $19.99 In eight pairs of poems, Sidman creates dialogues between two subjects, some in nature (cloud and droplets), some human-made elements (button and coat). For example, in the first...
Trapped in the Tar Pit: How Paleontologists Unearthed a City’s Prehistoric Past by Jessica Stremer; illus. by Alexander Vidal Primary Beach Lane/Simon 40 pp. 8/25 9781665953177 $19.99e-book ed. 9781665953184 $10.99 The fascinating story of the La Brea Tar Pits gets a wonderful introduction in Stremer’s (Plight of the Pelican, rev....
The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 400 pp. 9/25 9781536236088 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536247589 $18.99 Tiph is a child who is pulled in many directions. She loves her younger half siblings but is fed up with the chaos of a house with babies....
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