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A Ball for Daisy Written and Illustrated by Chris Raschka Published by Schwartz and Wade in 2011 ISBN. 978-0-375-85861-1 All Ages Review Joy and despair. Something lost and something regained…. these universal themes receive fresh attention in Chris Raschka’s deceptively simple wordless book, A Ball for Daisy. Readers will instantly fall in love with Daisy, […]
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Written and Illustrated by Kadir Nelson Balzar and Bray, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-173074-0 Review This extraordinary work of art tells the story of America through the lens of African American history. It is at once familiar and yet unfamiliar to all too many. Even author-illustrator Kadir […]
Tales for Very Picky Eaters Written and Illustrated by Josh Schneider Published by Clarion Books, 2011 ISBN # 978-0547149561 Grades K – 3 Book Review James is as picky an eater as they come, but his father is more than ready for the challenge. In his second book for beginning readers, Schneider presents a parent’s […]
Congratulations to all of the ALA Youth Media Award winners announced this morning in Dallas. Over the next few weeks, we will cover many of these titles on the blog. Meanwhile, we invite you to explore our previously written blog entries for the winners and honor books announced today. Additionally, please be sure to scroll […]
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. […]
Grandma’s GiftWritten and Illustrated by Eric Velasquez Published by Walker Books a division of Bloomsbury ISBN 978-0-8027-2082-5 ReviewIt’s winter break and Eric and his grandmother have two special tasks to complete. Grandma is making her famous pasteles, a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas dish that she shares with friends and neighbors. Eric has a school assignment […]
2011 ALA Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award: Dave the Potter
Awards, Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave Written by Laban Carrick Hill; Illustrated by Bryan Collier Little Brown, and Company, New York 2010 ISBN 978-0-316-10731-0 Book Review Dave the Potter, sometimes known as David Drake, was taught to read in South Carolina in the early 19th century, when it was against the law for an enslaved […]
Moon Over Manifest Winner of the 2011 Newbery MedalWritten by Clare VanderpoolPublished by Delacorte Press, 2010ISBN # 978-0385738835Grades 4 and up Book ReviewIn this debut novel by Clare Vanderpool, twelve-year old Abilene Tucker has been sent by her father to the seemingly sleepy town of Manifest, Kansas, to live with Pastor Shady Howard while her father […]
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot Written by Sy Montgomerywith Photographs by Nic BishopHoughton Mifflin’s Scientists in the Field Series, ISBN # 978-061894170 Book Review Imagine an eight-pound flightless parrot with an owl-like face and yellow, green, and brown honey-scented feathers nesting in the undergrowth of a fairy-tale forest, hidden among lush ferns, mosses […]
One Crazy Summer By Rita Williams-Garcia Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Award Published by Amistad, an Imprint of Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-076088-5 Grades 5 and Up Book Review In 1968, the nation was in tumult; Martin Luther King was shot in April, Bobby Kennedy in early June. Right in the middle of this year […]
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