Stacy McAnulty

Nov 12, 2023 | staradvertiser.com | Doug Salati |Stacy McAnulty |Matthew Cordell |Gordon Korman

Books recommended for young readers by the Hawaii State Library:“Hot Dog”By Doug SalatiThis playful picture book, which won the 2023 Caldecott Award, features a pup who has had it with the heat and noise of the city. Join him and his owner as they escape to find some calm with sand, sea and fresh air at the beach. Ages 3-8“Pluto!: Not a Planet? Not a Problem!”By Stacy McAnultyMeet Pluto, the dwarf planet.

Oct 21, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Stacy McAnulty

Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.

Jul 25, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Jacqueline Woodson |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Stacy McAnulty

An exquisitely wrought story of self and community. An African American tween’s world is turned upside down by mysterious fires in her neighborhood and by self-doubt as she comes of age. Sage’s mother wants them to move to a safer area, but Sage is reluctant to leave their community, where her father, a fireman killed in the line of duty, grew up.

May 5, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Stacy McAnulty |Stevie Lewis |Shelley Rotner

NOT A PLANET? NOT A PROBLEM! From the Our Universe series , Vol. 7 by Stacy McAnulty ; illustrated by Stevie Lewis ‧ Meet Pluto, a “proud, playful, and popular non-planet.” Today’s young readers likely grew up learning that there are only eight planets in our solar system, a fact that sets them apart from generations past. Pluto may well have been stricken from the planetary record, but in “his” own words, “Not a planet?