Lynn Brunelle

Jul 25, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Lynn Brunelle |Barb Rosenstock

Jason Chin received the 2022 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations for Andrea Wang’s autobiographical picture book Watercress. As an author-illustrator, his acclaimed nonfiction books include Grand Canyon, Your Place in the Universe, and The Universe in You. In Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle, Chin depicts the decomposition of a blue whale over the course of a century, giving life to new ecosystems.

Jun 18, 2024 | slj.com | Lynn Brunelle |Debbie Tanner |April Pulley

. Jun. 2024. 48p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9780823452286. COPY ISBN Gr 2-4–Little is known about occurrences out in the open waters of the ocean, but this title tackles what happens when a whale dies. Brunelle opens by introducing a blue whale and helping readers understand its size and life span; things take a really compelling turn when the whale dies and the story of the decomposition of the body of the largest mammal on Earth begins.

Apr 1, 2024 | parentguidenews.com | Lynn Brunelle

When we were kids and our parents would say “Go outside and play,” those were words to live by. My brother and I took those words to heart and spent many long hours puttering and playing outdoors. We gathered leaves of every shape and color. We hammered rocks apart just to see what was inside. We looked for animal tracks, watched bugs, gathered seeds and performed experiment after experiment to test things like the heat of the sun and the power of water.

Mar 9, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lynn Brunelle |Sandra Markle |Henry Herz

Infused with wonder, an account of a natural cycle that occurs, mostly, far below the ocean’s surface. Moving “with grace and power, like a dancer,” a blue whale “whirls above and below the currents of the Pacific Ocean” until she dies a natural death.

Mar 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Renee Beauregard Lute |Sidura Ludwig |Lynn Brunelle |Molly Ostertag

Tacoma Jones and her parents run the Brake Fast Truck Stop, a diner in Washington State that only serves breakfast. But the straitlaced 12-year-old yearns to eat something other than “eggs or oatmeal or pancakes,” and has been collecting cookbooks from different states and dreaming of meatloaf.