Garth Williams

Jul 19, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Ellen Oh |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Raina Telgemeier

We Need Diverse Books co-founder Oh follows up Flying Lessons & Other Stories (2017) with a collection of 12 interwoven, slice-of-life tales from acclaimed middle-grade authors. In an unnamed American city stands a (potentially haunted) yellow apartment building called the Entrada, where aromas of food and loud sounds set the tone for a summer of communal living. Desirée, apparently of West Indian descent, helps Ro perform a lion dance for her Chinese school.

Apr 16, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Joanna Ho |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Raina Telgemeier

Striking and defiant: an unabashed declaration of hope. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners (2021) author Ho reflects on Asian American history. “We who dream / mark time by the moon, / a heavenly body containing multitudes, whose many faces mirror our own.” Writing in verse, Ho notes the diversity of the Asian American community. She alludes to the many reasons that people took the risk of immigrating to America: the wounds of colonization, unfair labor practices, and dreams of opportunities.

Feb 27, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lee Reed |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Raina Telgemeier

A sharp middle schooler with sky-high aspirations solves a mystery while navigating new friendships, sisterhood, and chronic migraines in Reed’s middle-grade novel. For 12-year-old budding astrophotographer Quinn Knight, a family move from Ohio to Texas isn’t totally awful. Sure, the weather is a trigger for her migraines, and her older sister, Vivica, has already claimed her throne as eighth grade class president and star of the school musical.

Feb 25, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Rory MacLean |Lloyd Jones |Margaret Brown |Garth Williams

2 Biografi: A Traveler's Tale The parts I love most in Biografi are those that tell the story of Petar Shapallo, a dentist forced to be a body double for the long-time Communist leader and dictator of Albania, Enver Hoxha.

Aug 29, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | W. Bruce Cameron |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Katherine Applegate

The three way chats, in which they are joined by other animals, about web spinning, themselves, other humans—are as often... A successful juvenile by the beloved New Yorker writer portrays a farm episode with an imaginative twist that makes a poignant, humorous story of a pig, a spider and a little girl. Young Fern Arable pleads for the life of runt piglet Wilbur and gets her father to sell him to a neighbor, Mr. Zuckerman.