Reviews Of The Week
Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Susan Reagan Primary Calkins/Astra 32 pp. 9/25 9781662680298 $18.99 In early 1900s Oklahoma, young Woody Rawls’s (1913–1984) education came from the woods, fields, and riverbanks he roamed with his loyal hound dog....
Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups by Annie Barrows; illus. by Sophie Blackall Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 116 pp. 9/25 9781797219714 $15.99 Big sister Stella and little sister Marigold make a welcome return to the page with their own brand of sibling affection. The humor, energy, and poignancy of the first...
Lena the Chicken (but Really a Dinosaur!) by Linda Bailey; illus. by K-Fai Steele Preschool, Primary Tundra 56 pp. 10/25 9781774880135 $18.99 Sure, Lena has buff feathers, a red comb and wattle, and the manic, beady eyes that Steele (illustrator of the Lone Wolf series, rev. 7/25, and others) is...
Pool Party! [Tiny Habitats] by Amy Hevron; illus. by the author Primary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp. 9/25 9781665935043 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665935050 $10.99 Hevron’s (Sunken Ship, rev. 9/24) latest foray takes readers to a South American rainforest, where her focus is the “freshwater pools [that form] among the leaves of...
Reasons to Hate Me by Susan Metallo High School Candlewick 400 pp. 9/25 9781536240351 $18.99 High school senior Jess finds herself a pariah when her best friend Chloe’s boyfriend, Noah, sends a school-wide text claiming that she tried “to have sex with me.” Now Jess and Chloe aren’t speaking, and...
Cat Nap by Brian Lies; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 48 pp. 9/25 9780062671288 $19.99 An unusual game of cat-and-mouse takes place in this visually stunning and highly creative picture book. Kitten snoozes on the back of a couch until “something scritches, waking Kitten. A mouse? A MOUSE!” The...
Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement by Jenny Lacika; illus. by Anna Bron Primary, Intermediate MIT Press/Candlewick 32 pp. 9/25 9781536230123 $18.99 This unusual nonfiction picture book combines math, high jinks, and etymology—a subject amalgamation readers don’t encounter every day. In the mid-twentieth century, a...
Defanged by H.E. Edgmon Middle School Feiwel 240 pp. 9/25 9781250874009 $17.99 Lux Priddy has always considered himself a good vampire who doesn’t make trouble for others, unlike those scary, violent vampires rumored to live in an underground society called Nox Urbus. In theory, he should be fine with being...
If We Were Dogs by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 9/25 9780316581721 $18.99 In Blackall’s earlier picture book If I Was a Horse (rev. 9/23), a child imagines life as a spirited steed; activities include giving little sister a ride to school. In...
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