Ruby Shamir

Jun 15, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin |Ruby Shamir |Saundra Mitchell |Sarah- SoonLing Blackburn

by Doris Kearns Goodwin ; adapted by Ruby Shamir ; illustrated by Amy June Bates ‧A solid exploration of the path from childhood to presidency. A young readers’ version of Goodwin’s Leadership (2018), adapted by Shamir, that also incorporates material from no fewer than six of Goodwin’s previous works. This volume looks at the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson and tries to explain how they grew up to become president.

Mar 21, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |Raina Telgemeier |Ruby Shamir |Matt Faulkner

With young readers diagnosed with anxiety in ever increasing numbers, this book offers a necessary mirror to many. Young Raina is 9 when she throws up for the first time that she remembers, due to a stomach bug. Even a year later, when she is in fifth grade, she fears getting sick. Raina begins having regular stomachaches that keep her home from school. She worries about sharing food with her friends and eating certain kinds of foods, afraid of getting sick or food poisoning.

Sep 21, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Ruby Shamir |Matt Faulkner |Cassandra Jules Corrigan

Nonbinary genders shine in all their splendor. A window into an array of genders that exist outside the Western binary. “When you look at me, which gender do you see?” asks Alawa, the narrator of Corrigan’s latest book on gender.