Patricia Ann Morris

Dec 20, 2024 | slj.com | Tracy Cronce |Amanda MacGregor |Patricia Ann Morris

. (Sandra Markle’s Science Discoveries). Mar. 2024. 40p. Tr $33.32. ISBN 9781728467962. COPY ISBN Gr 3-7–Markle’s latest offers fascinating insight into conservation efforts made to save the red wolf. Found only in North America, red wolves once roamed nearly half of the country, but by the 1960s their numbers were quickly dwindling. In 1973, the red wolf was declared endangered and added to the Endangered Species Act.

Dec 20, 2024 | slj.com | Elizabeth Rusch |Alicia Abdul |Amanda MacGregor |Patricia Ann Morris

. Jul. 2024. 336p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780063220904. COPY ISBN Gr 10 Up–The topic of equality in sports between women and men, especially on pay, is the focus of Rusch’s nonfiction book.

Dec 20, 2024 | slj.com | Kimberly Olson Fakih |Amanda MacGregor |Patricia Ann Morris

by (text) & illus. by Jenna Piechota . Mar. 2024. 32p. Tr $18.95. ISBN 9781771474931. COPY ISBN Gr 1-4–The cartoonish illustrations and the expressively goofy animal characters belie the serious nature of this fact book. The title question is just the opening, and the answer is “no.” “No” also answers other questions about how animals care for their bodies. For children wondering if whales get a good night’s sleep, they do not; they take power naps all day long. Do pheasants take baths?

Dec 20, 2024 | slj.com | Petra Bartíková |Kimberly Olson Fakih |Amanda MacGregor |Patricia Ann Morris

. (My First Books of Nature). Oct. 2024. 28p. Tr $15.95. ISBN 9788000072821. COPY ISBN Gr 1-3–In spread after spread, Barikova’s facts about animals and Macurova’s illustrations treat knowledge like gossip, using magazine-style layouts and clipped, expressive language. Speech bubbles from the animals in the scenes add humor, but under the introduction, “How Do Animals Sleep?” is serious information—a bat hangs upside down, a giraffe curls up like the letter C.

Dec 20, 2024 | slj.com | George Johnson |Alicia Abdul |Amanda MacGregor |Patricia Ann Morris

. Sept. 2024. 144p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9780374391249. COPY ISBN Gr 9 Up–Johnson’s voice fills a void in teen literature, and his newest collection of essays about Black and queer folks from the 1920s unequivocally belongs on shelves across the country. A complement of art from Palmer and Johnson’s text profiling these individuals speaks to erasure of their sexuality or their race in the culturally rich time of the Harlem Renaissance.