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Jan 14, 2025 | 
bookpage.com | Deborah Hopkinson
For civil rights attorney and legal scholar Michelle Adams, the story of the fight to desegregate schools in metropolitan Detroit in the 1960s and early 1970s is personal. Born and raised in the city, she was introduced to the law early: Her father was one of only two Black graduates from the Detroit College of Law in 1957. She is now the Henry M.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
slj.com | Deborah Hopkinson |Bob Hassett
. Oct. 2024. 224p. Tr $25.99. ISBN 9781338882346. COPY ISBN Gr 3-7–The famous gray Lipizzaner stallions were bred for the Hapsburg monarchy in the 16th century and have long been associated with the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Lesser known is the army mission to save them from near-certain destruction in the final days of the World War II.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Deborah Hopkinson |Kari Lavelle |Monica Brown |John Parra
A page-turning medical mystery that makes a compelling case for following the facts. Dr. John Snow, “the father of modern epidemiology,” discovers the cause of cholera. Behind every great scientist is evidence. When cholera broke out in London in 1854, most people blamed the “bad, smelly air” for the rapid spread of the disease.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
bookpage.com | Deborah Hopkinson
While the National Archives may be the nation’s official library, the New York Public Library is often first in the hearts of book lovers. Christopher Lincoln’s engaging, gorgeously illustrated graphic novel The Night Librarian is a shining addition to books that celebrate this iconic library. “Magic builds in books,” declares the prologue, and we’re told the longer a book has been around, the more likely the characters get so bottled up “living the same scene over and over” that they must escape.
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May 15, 2024 | 
bookpage.com | Deborah Hopkinson
Adventure, anyone? While Ikumi Nakamura is best known as a Japanese video game artist and developer with an interest in horror and mystery, she has another fascinating side. As Project UrbEx: Adventures in Ghost Towns, Wastelands and Other Forgotten Worlds reveals, she’s also a fearless, adventurous photographer who has long traveled the world to explore and capture unusual and hidden locations.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | X Fang |María Dolores Águila |Deborah Hopkinson |Jennifer J. Yu
X. Fang. Tundra, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-7748-8202-3When their flying saucer crash-lands near Mr. and Mrs. Li’s rural home at midnight, a trio of aliens tries their darndest to convince the couple that “we are DEFINITELY human.” The three clearly resemble blue chess pieces with ovoid heads and huge eyes, but instead of challenging their story or sending them elsewhere, Mr. Li “did what kind humans do.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Deborah Diesen |María Dolores Águila |Deborah Hopkinson |Jennifer J. Yu
María Dolores Águila, illus. by Magdalena Mora. Dial, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5934-6207-2In this activist picture book, a child living in San Diego’s Barrio Logan vividly narrates, in English and Spanish, a story of individual and collective strength. In their Chicane neighborhood, which now sits adjacent to a freeway and a junkyard, Elena and Mami encounter jacaranda blossoms, close-knit neighbors, and a tiendita, as well as vehicle fumes and noise.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
bookpage.com | Deborah Hopkinson
If Marie Kondo inspired you to change the way you fold T-shirts, then artist Megumi Lorna Inouye’s guide to creating beautiful gift-wrapping is for you. Inouye traces her passion for this art to memories of watching her mother care for the lovingly wrapped garments in her kimono chest. In Japan, Inouye tells us, wrapping is considered part of the gift itself, a way to show respect, gratitude and love. And if your skills are confined to sticking presents into a bag, never fear.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
emissourian.com | Jeanette Winter |Maira Kalman |Deborah Hopkinson
Yeah, Buzzers and Buzzettes! Fabulous reviews flooded the hive this month. Newsbee wishes he could feature more here. He’d like to encourage you to keep “Paging On,” and perhaps you’ll see your review in print next month. Thanks, teachers and parents, for encouraging your young readers. “Henri’s Scissors,”By Jeanette Winter. Reviewed by Mrs. Kluesner’s first-grade class, Central Elementary School. “The boy saw his mom paint, and he really wanted to paint also. So he drew in his schoolbooks.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
bookpage.com | Deborah Hopkinson
Horticultural expert Marta McDowell has explored the links between writers and gardens in previous books about Beatrix Potter, Frances Hodgson Burnett and U.S. presidents. It’s only natural that she’s turned her attention to the ways in which gardens have played a role in mysteries. After all, she says, “In gardens, the struggle between life and death is laid bare.”McDowell’s Gardening Can Be Murder is as full of delights as an English cottage garden in summer.
