Reviews Of The Week
The Tinkerers by Caroline Carlson Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 480 pp. 10/25 9781536230505 $18.99 Twelve-year-old Peter Huckaby-Green’s life changes when the Tinkerers arrive in his close-knit town of Stargazers Valley. Peter directs the two astromancers to his parents’ inn and agrees to help with their research into starstuff, a magical...
The Snowball Fight by Beth Ferry; illus. by Tom Lichtenheld Preschool, Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 48 pp. 11/25 9780063327078 $19.99 “Flurries hurry, floating down, / dusting, coating frozen ground. // Drifting flakes fall faster, faster, / turning things to alabaster.” These impressionistic opening lines accompany stark illustrations of two facing houses and...
This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color by Rachel Poliquin; illus. by Julie Morstad Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 48 pp. 10/25 9781536230529 $18.99 “We must begin with the orange.” Poliquin’s “field trip through color” kicks off with the “deliciously round and sweet” citrus fruit associated with the shade of the...
Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr High School Amulet/Abrams 480 pp. 9/25 9781419776830 $21.99 e-book ed. 9798887074016 $19.79 This verse novel’s protagonist, high school senior Truth Bangura, does not make the grades her moralizing best friend does, but she still has goals beyond what her overbearing mother and her guidance...
Pippo’s Perfectly Peculiar Days by Lenny Wen; illus. by the author Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 48 pp. 10/25 9780063288959 $19.98 Meet Pippo: a tiny rodent wearing a quilted cardigan and a neckerchief who spends his time clickety-clacking on a typewriter in his cozily appointed hollow tree. His days are orderly, his routines...
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Megan Clendenan; illus. by Brittany Cicchese Primary Charlesbridge 32 pp. 10/25 9781623544805 $17.99 Deep in the earth, protected by multiple sensors and systems, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on an icy Arctic island ensures that the “priceless treasure”...
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares; illus. by the author Middle School Schwartz/Random 240 pp. 9/25 9780593568293 $21.99 Paper ed. 9780593568309 $13.99 Library ed. 9780593568316 $24.99 In this fictional graphic novel based on Miyares’s father’s childhood, Carlos is growing up in the Cuban countryside in 1956. He...
Tea Is Love by Adib Khorram; illus. by Hanna Cha Primary Dial 40 pp. 10/25 9780593618530 $18.99 Tea begins as a plant, plucked from misty hillsides. It is transported to a teahouse, purchased, and then steeped and shared. From there, it appears in many forms: poured at a wedding, brewed...
What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice by Richard Michelson; illus. by Stacy Innerst Primary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp. 10/25 9781662680632 $18.99 This picture-book biography follows Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) from his secular Jewish childhood in Kentucky with immigrant parents from Prague...
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