Ouisie Shapiro

Jul 19, 2024 | slj.com | Kate Messner |Tracy Cronce |Ouisie Shapiro |Chelsea Clinton

PreS-Gr 4–Fascinating and captivating, Messner’s latest nonfiction book encourages elementary readers to keep digging, crafting, deconstructing, building, reading, and moving to find out more about themselves and the world around them. The book opens with a request to name the “world’s greatest scientist.” Readers then discover that there is not one greatest scientist, but many, many who have contributed to the betterment of the world.

Jul 19, 2024 | slj.com | Carole Weatherford |Kirsten Caldwell |Ouisie Shapiro |Chelsea Clinton

. Nov. 2024. 32p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781728477930. COPY ISBN K-Gr 4–Readers learn about the historical Doll Test from the point of view of the dolls; Weatherford first introduces 1939, when “separate but equal” was the law, leading to whites-only bathrooms, restaurants, and even schools. The dolls narrate how two psychologists, Dr. Kenneth Clark and Dr. Mamie Clark, designed a study called the Doll Test to find out how school segregation affected children.

Dec 16, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | John Florio |Ouisie Shapiro

1971. Brooklyn, New York. Undercover cop Frank Serpico is knocking on a drug dealer’s door. His partners are there to back him up, but when the door opens, he’s staring down the barrel of a gun—and his partners are nowhere to be found. For more than a century, the New York Police Department had been plagued by corruption, with cops openly taking bribes from gamblers and drug dealers. Not Serpico. He refused to take dirty money and fought to shed light on the dark underbelly of the NYPD.

Dec 16, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | John Florio |Ouisie Shapiro |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa

Gritty and inspiring, if light on specific details. A profile of the maverick undercover officer who exposed widespread corruption in the New York City Police Department. In this concise work, readers get an overview of the colorful lifestyle of Italian American Frank Serpico, who was played by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie Serpico.