Sara O'Leary

Oct 17, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Sara O'Leary |Briony Smith |Peter Mercurio |Leo Espinosa

Splendidly affirming for young readers, writers, and artists. As children, the Brontës create their own tiny books and boundless world. The text begins “Many years before you were born,” urging readers to “look through the window” at the rapt, rosy faces of Charlotte and Anne, two small girls. Charlotte is making an illustrated book that’s the size of a child’s palm, imagining the fortunate life of a girl named Anne.

Sep 14, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Marc Favreau |Leslie Booth |Sara O'Leary |Ahn Jaesun

Marc Favreau. Little, Brown, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-3165-9207-9 In this important work, Favreau (Unequal) employs multiple perspectives to render a jaw-dropping account of Pearl Harbor, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) called “a date that will live in infamy.” Through immediate and urgent firsthand accounts from American, Japanese, and Native Hawaiian citizens and military leaders, the author revisits the “interesting, tragic, and heroic” actions that occurred on Dec. 7, 1941.

Sep 1, 2023 | booklistonline.com | Sara O'Leary

Illus. by Briony May Smith. Oct. 2023. 40p. Tundra, $18.99 (9780735263697). Grades 1-3. 813.54. REVIEW. First published September 1, 2023 ().

Aug 24, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Leslie Booth |Sara O'Leary |Ahn Jaesun |Timothy Musso

Autumn Krause. Peachtree Teen, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-68263-647-3In 1836 Wisconsin, Mexican American 17-year-old Catalina lives with her father and younger brother, Jose Luis. Following the appearance of three mysterious apples on their isolated wilderness doorstep, her father suddenly grows ill and dies. Soon after, the Man of Sap—a monstrous figure, made of bark and leaves, from the fairy tales her father spun for her—kidnaps Jose Luis.