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Review of Skater Baby
Skater Baby by Jack Noel; illus. by the authorPreschool Razorbill/Penguin 40 pp. g3/22 978-0-593-32454-7 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-32719-7 $10.99Though signs on the opening page foreshadow drama, the narrator’s description of events stays obliviously deadpan: “This is Mom. This is Mom’s precious little baby. They are in the park together for some...
Review of Cress Watercress
Cress Watercress by Gregory Maguire; illus. by David LitchfieldPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 224 pp. g3/22 978-1-5362-1100-9 $19.99In this richly imagined woodland adventure, a grieving rabbit family—Mama, Cress, and baby Kip (with stuffed carrot “Rotty” always in tow)—must leave their comfortable warren to start over without their lost Papa. Their new life...
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Review of Between the Lighthouse and You
Between the Lighthouse and You by Michelle LeeIntermediate Farrar 192 pp. g1/22 978-0-374-31450-7 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-374-31451-4 $9.99Six years ago, Alice’s mother, a cultural anthropologist, disappeared in a boating accident near Aviles Island off the coast of Florida. Now twelve, Alice pores over her mom’s books and notes, looking for clues...
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Review of Skater Baby
Skater Baby by Jack Noel; illus. by the authorPreschool Razorbill/Penguin 40 pp. g3/22 978-0-593-32454-7 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-32719-7 $10.99Though signs on the opening page foreshadow drama, the narrator’s description of events stays obliviously deadpan: “This is Mom. This is Mom’s precious little baby. They are in the park together for some...
Review of Cress Watercress
Cress Watercress by Gregory Maguire; illus. by David LitchfieldPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 224 pp. g3/22 978-1-5362-1100-9 $19.99In this richly imagined woodland adventure, a grieving rabbit family—Mama, Cress, and baby Kip (with stuffed carrot “Rotty” always in tow)—must leave their comfortable warren to start over without their lost Papa. Their new life...
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Review of Between the Lighthouse and You
Between the Lighthouse and You by Michelle LeeIntermediate Farrar 192 pp. g1/22 978-0-374-31450-7 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-374-31451-4 $9.99Six years ago, Alice’s mother, a cultural anthropologist, disappeared in a boating accident near Aviles Island off the coast of Florida. Now twelve, Alice pores over her mom’s books and notes, looking for clues...
Review of Sweeping Up the Heart
Sweeping Up the Heartby Kevin HenkesIntermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 184 pp. g3/19 978-0-06-285254-0 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-06-285255-7 $17.89e-book ed. 978-0-06-285257-1 $9.99The elegiac spirit of Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Bustle in a House” (from which this book’s title is taken) reverberates throughout Henkes’s story of people struggling to cope with love, loss,...
Board Book Roundup: Treasure Hunting in the Public Library
The parents, caregivers, and babies who visit the main branch of my public library love board books. They eat them up — sometimes literally. We keep the books jumbled in a long wooden bin that sits low to the floor on a cozy rug. Pre-walkers use the bin’s edge to...
Review of Friends and Foes: Poems About Us All
Friends and Foes: Poems About Us Allby Douglas Florian; illus. by the authorPrimary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp.7/18 978-1-4424-8795-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-8796-3 $10.99This collection of twenty-five poems teases out many of friendship’s fundamentals, as well as its more nuanced complexities. Along with jealousy, bullies, and new and imaginary friends, the punchy...
