Review of Penguins Don’t Wear Sweaters!
Penguins Don’t Wear Sweaters! by Marikka Tamura; illus. by Daniel Rieley Preschool Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g 1/18 978-1-101-99696-6 $16.99 The book begins with a snapshot of penguin...
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Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown; illus. by John Parra Primary NorthSouth 40 pp. 9/17 978-0-7358-4269-4 $17.95 Spanish ed. 978-0-7358-4292-2 $17.95 Mexican painter,...
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The Party and Other Stories [Fox + Chick] by Sergio Ruzzier; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Chronicle 46 pp. 4/18 978-1-4521-5288-2 $14.99 In a volume with a picture book’s trim...
View ArticleReview of Waylon!: Even More Awesome audiobook
Waylon!: Even More Awesome by Sara Pennypacker; read by Christopher Gebauer Intermediate Recorded Books Rev. 11/17 3 CDs 2.5 hrs. 978-1-5019-8150-0 $10.45 Fourth grader Waylon and his...
View ArticleReview of Betty Before X audiobook
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Renée Watson; read by Ilyasah Shabazz Intermediate, Middle School Macmillan Young Listeners Rev. 3/18 4 CDs 4.5 hrs. 978-1-4272-9368-8 $29.99 Long...
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We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Disney-Hyperion 48 pp. 6/18 978-1-368-00355-1 $17.99 The first day of school is tough enough;...
View ArticleReview of Between the Lines audiobook
Between the Lines by Nikki Grimes; read by Cherise Boothe, Lori Gardner, Almarie Guerra, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Edward Lopez, Ruffin Prentiss, and James Shippy Middle School, High School Recorded Books...
View ArticleReview of The Book of Mistakes
Luyken, Corinna The Book of Mistakes 56 pp. Dial 2017. ISBN 978-0-7352-2792-7 (3) K–3 “It started / with one mistake”: a drawing of a girl’s head has mismatched eyes. “But the glasses — they were a...
View ArticleReview of A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman; illus. by Isabel Greenberg Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. 9/17 978-0-06-245578-9 $17.99 “This entire world is filled with crazy numbers, built...
View ArticleReview of Islandborn
Islandborn by Junot Díaz; illus. by Leo Espinosa Primary Dial 48 pp. 3/18 978-0-7352-2986-0 $17.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-525-55281-9 $17.99 Lola’s school, in an unnamed U.S. city, is full of immigrants...
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