The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]
Looking for an immigration story? Try Laurence Yep. More recently known for the charming A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans, co-written with his wife, Joanne Ryder, Laurence […]
A Walk on Broken Glass: Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (Revised Edition) by Gloria M. Allan Granville Island Publishing Ltd., Co. source: the author (via Nafiza – I haven’t met Gloria […]
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that […]
Hardcover, 182 pages Published March 19th 2013 by HMH Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher “I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which […]
Last week’s book of wonder was a picturebook about the poet Pablo Neruda. This week’s book of wonder is a picturebook biography of another real person: this time, scientist and […]
I realize that my title above is a little simplistic; ballads are rather more than fairy tales set to music. I could have said that ballads are the fairy tales […]
Hardcover, 52 pages Expected publication: August 18th 2015 by Chronicle Books Source: Publisher This book, you guys, is so very beautiful. If picturebooks are usually not your thing, I insist […]
I was going to write about Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust, the book that introduced me to verse novels (I hadn’t known you could tell a story in poems! The […]
Hardcover, 121 pages Published March 1st 2014 by Albert Whitman & Company Source: Library Dust of Eden focalizes on Mina Tagawa who, along with her family and other Japanese Americans, is […]
