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Written by Barbara Kerley, Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham Published by Scholastic Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-545-35088-4 Grades 3-8 Book Review Ralph Waldo Emerson himself ushers the reader through the front door and into his home on the title page of Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham’s latest collaboration. The title page also introduces the palette of orange, […]
Each Kindness Written by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Young Readers Group, 2012 ISBN 978-0-399-24652-4 Grades 2 and Up Book Review “I watched the water ripple/as the sun set through the maples/and the chance of a kindness with Maya/becoming more and more/forever gone.” Despite the changes in picture books […]
The Mighty Miss Malone By Christopher Paul Curtis Published by Wendy Lamb Books, Random House Children’s Books ISBN: 978-0-385-73491-2 Grades 4-8 Book Review Prompted by fans discouraged by a lack of female protagonists in his body of work, Christopher Paul Curtis created Deza Malone, an irrepressible twelve-year old surviving the Great Depression with savvy, strength, […]
Dead End in Norvelt Written by Jack Gantos Farrar Straus Giroux, New York ISBN: 978-0-374-37993-3 Grades 5 and Up Book Review Few authors can do what Jack Gantos manages to do in Dead End in Norvelt. As you turn the pages, you laugh out loud, clutching your sides. Next, you ponder the lessons of history. […]
The Honeybee Man Written by Lela Nargi, Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker Schwartz & Wade Books, New York ISBN: 978-0-375-84980-0 Book Review Many may not consider Brooklyn, where Fred the Honeybee Man lives, or their own metropolitan area, as a hub for urban agriculture. But Fred’s Brooklyn neighborhood is teaming with food: maple trees, peas, sage, […]
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