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Emile and the Field by Kevin Young; illus. by Chioma EbinamaPreschool Make Me a World/Random 40 pp. g3/22 978-1-9848-5042-3 $17.99Library ed. 978-1-9848-5043-0 $20.99e-book ed. 978-1-9848-5044-7 $10.99Young Emile, his dog at his side, frequents a field that is “wide and blue” and filled with flowers, bumblebees, and his favorite maple tree....
Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year by Kathy Z. Price; illus. by Carl Joe WilliamsPrimary Atheneum 48 pp. g2/22 978-1-5344-4425-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-4426-3 $10.99This moving picture book transports readers to New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina lands in August 2005. “Days before the storm / there was a burning-up sun.”...
Here We Come! by Janna Matthies; illus. by Christine DavenierPreschool Beach Lane/Simon 40 pp. g3/22 978-1-5344-1787-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-1788-5 $10.99Here is a book that begs to be read aloud at storytime—read aloud, and shouted, and paraded. The rhyming cumulative text begins with a child heading outside at night with a...
I’m Not Small by Nina Crews; illus. by the authorPreschool Greenwillow 32 pp. g3/22 978-0-06-305826-2 $17.99A child greets the day with excitement, eager to go play outside. Mom and Dad, sipping coffee, encourage the child’s exploratory instincts: “Go ahead…you’re a big kid now.” Exclamation points follow (“I am big! I...
John’s Turn by Mac Barnett; illus. by Kate BerubePrimary Candlewick 32 pp. g3/22 978-1-5362-0395-0 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5362-2676-8 $17.99Barnett and Berube offer a sensitive story about a boy grappling with stage fright and insecurity. The main character, John, walks into the narrative on the front endpaper carrying a duffle bag, his...
Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem; trans. from Dutch by Kristen GehrmanMiddle School, High School Em Querido/Levine Querido 368 pp. g2/22 978-1-61614-048-0 $18.99In this smoothly translated historical-fiction romp set in 1808, lively, propulsive storytelling whirls us through the countryside of what is now Belgium, France, and...
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...
Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada KellyMiddle School Greenwillow 336 pp. g3/22 978-0-06-297035-0 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-297037-4 $10.99Fawn Creek, Louisiana, is such a small town that there are only twelve students in seventh grade. Even with such a limited pool, however, the kids manage to create discrete cohorts. The...
Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos; illus. by the authorMiddle School Atheneum 192 pp. g3/22 978-1-5344-6924-2 $21.99Paper ed. 978-1-5344-6923-5 $12.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-6925-9 $9.99In this mostly wordless historical-fiction graphic novel, Marisol lives with her parents in Habana (according to captions using the Spanish spelling), Cuba. Marisol, who loves her island’s culture...
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