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The Skeleton and the Cat
The Skeleton and the Cat An odd-couple fable in the cozy-macabre vein, this droll picture book from Scott (A Cure for the Hiccups) unfolds in five short chapters of deepening dialogue. Skeleton is a classic Grim Reaper figure, black-hooded with wide eye sockets, but she’s no graveyard ghoul; she tends to her garden, reads books, and drinks tea, manufacturing a life that’s “simple and quiet.
Sometimes Rain Book Review
age 4+ Poetic, relatable look at the different seasons of the year. Parents need to know that Meg Fleming's Sometimes Rain, illustrated by Diana Sudyka, is a lyrical journey through the seasons of the year. With spare rhyming couplets, evocative, exuberant watercolors, and two pairs of siblings and a dog romping together in nature, it conveys the wonder and magic of each season, from the arrival of winter on through till the next winter.
Little Freddie Two Pants (The Dog with Too Many Pants)
Little Freddie Two Pants (The Dog with Too Many Pants) Any kid who’s experienced a case of the sillies when it’s time to get dressed will find a kindred spirit in Freddie, a white dog with brown ears and a pink tongue that hangs waggishly from his mouth.
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The Q by Amy Tintera
Amy Tintera. Crown, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-48617-7 Two teenagers living on opposite sides of a quarantine zone struggle to survive in this thrilling dystopian adventure by Tintera (the All These Monsters series), set in Austin, Tex. When a mysterious virus emerged 20 years ago, the U.S. government built the Q, a walled, city-size quarantine zone for the infected. Now, the Q is divided into two constantly feuding factions stationed in the north and south.
The Greatest in the World! (Tater Tales #1)
Ben Clanton. Simon & Schuster, $12.99 (88p) ISBN 978-1-5344-9318-6 Having already appeared in two picture books, mutant spud Rot Poe Tater now stars in a graphic novel, this chapter book series starter in five sections. Waking “on the right side of the garden bed,” one morning, Rot feels like “the GREATEST in the world,” a designation that leads to a shouty five a.m. song. Brother Snot, meanwhile, “did not feel great. Snot felt sleepy.
My Fade Is Fresh
Shauntay Grant, illus. by Kitt Thomas. Penguin Workshop, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-38708-5 A Black child narrator in search of a new look for “my bushy, brownish, biggish hair” only wants one thing at the neighborhood barbershop: “THE FRESHEST FADE UP ON THE BLOCK!” But everyone at the bustling establishment has opinions about a fetching new hairstyle: one by one, they suggest an Afro, cornrows, “a tangly tousled top,” and “waves....
Friends Like These
Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Delacorte, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-5933-0967-4 After a heartless joke goes wrong, a California teenager disappears in this complexly plotted mystery by Alvarez (Lies Like Wildfire). Though Jessica Sanchez, 17, and Tegan Sheffield, 18, constantly butt heads over Jessica’s boyfriend Jake Healey, 17, with whom Tegan is in love, Jessica attends Tegan’s end-of-summer house party at Jake’s urging.
Controlled Burn by Erin Soderberg Downing
Erin Soderburg Downing. Scholastic Press, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-338-77606-5 After a fire destroys 12-year-old Maia’s home and severely burns her sister, Amelia, Maia is sent to stay for the summer with her grandparents in rural Minnesota. While she’s there, her parents will focus on Amelia’s recovery and rebuilding their home. In addition to the slew of fears Maia carries, including of heights and swimming, she harbors a secret: she believes she started the fire.
Rock That Vote by Meg Fleming
Meg Fleming, illus. by Lucy Ruth Cummins. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-10835-2 The runaway rhythm and bouncing energy of an elementary school classroom’s vote for class pet foregrounds communal involvement—and genuine excitement—around the voting process. Fleming’s rhymes focus on characteristics instead of specific candidates—“Who wants FINS? Who wants PAWS?.../ Who wants WINGS? Who wants CLAWS?”—adroitly covering a range of species.
What’s Your Name?
Bethanie Deeney Murguia. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1856-5 “Everyone has one.../ or maybe a few.// So what’s in a name?/ What does it do?” Deeney Murguia explores the utility of names in this picture book of appellative connection. Energetic, consistently metered and rhymed lines (“A name is a meeting,/ a greeting,/ a call.// A name looks for comfort/ after a fall”) alternate with group images of beings using their names.
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Angela Joy, illus. by Janelle Washington. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-250-22095-0 In an extraordinary volume, Joy’s cadenced prose and Washington’s dimensional cut-paper artwork portray Mamie Till-Mobley’s (1921–2003) life and efforts seeking justice for the brutal murder of her son Emmett Till (1941–1955). After introducing Till’s death, lines flash back to Till-Mobley’s childhood in small-town Illinois.
Too Early by Nora Ericson
Nora Ericson, illus. by Elly MacKay. Abrams, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4207-1 In short, conversational verse lines, Ericson (the Dill & Bizzy series) and MacKay (In the Clouds) chronicle a morning in the house of a young early riser. Standing in their parents’ bedroom doorway holding a stuffie, a child portrayed with light brown skin, curly hair, and starred pajamas rouses the adults.
Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm’s Fight for Change
Tameka Fryer Brown, illus. by Nina Crews. Millbrook, $20.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-728-42008-0 Fryer Brown and Crews spotlight trailblazer Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) in a picture book biography that identifies the first Black Congresswoman as the political forbear of Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, and other contemporary leaders.
Never Ever Getting Back Together
Sophie Gonzales. Wednesday, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1250-81916-1 Two years after Maya dumped her cheating ex-boyfriend Jordy, he’s suddenly being touted across the news as Europe’s most eligible bachelor, following his sister’s marriage to a minor European royal.
The Wind Rises (Alma #1)
Timothée de Fombelle, trans. from the French by Holly James, illus. by François Place. Europa Editions, $18.99 (410p) ISBN 978-1-60945-787-7 Two vividly wrought parallel stories, set in the 18th century, intertwine in this gripping historical adventure, a series opener by de Fombelle (Vango). Thirteen-year-old Alma lives in Isaya, a fictional secluded West African valley, with her brothers, Lam and Soum; their mother, Nao; and their father, Mosi.
North Carolina small businesses urge Congress to quickly pass covid funding
They say the economy won’t bounce back until we control the virus WASHINGTON -- A group of small businesses and chambers of commerce urged North Carolina’s congressional delegation in a letter emailed (SEE BELOW AT BOTTOM) Friday to quickly pass funding for tools that will help curb the spread of COVID-19.
Two Children’s Classics!
Some stories truly do stand the test of time, delighting and inspiring generation after generation of young readers. So I am thrilled to be able to introduce you to two reillustrated classics packed full of bonus features from Alma Classics. ‘Five Children and It,’ by E. Nesbit, illustrated by Ella Okstad. I have fond memories of this story following the watching of a now rather ancient tv adaptation.
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts
reads from Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, the novelist's most intimate and powerful work to date: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. "Reading this book was like skating across a perfect piece of ice and then slowly noticing the cracks. Dark, cold water shows through. We can't see the depths.
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts
reads from Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, the novelist's most intimate and powerful work to date: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. "Reading this book was like skating across a perfect piece of ice and then slowly noticing the cracks. Dark, cold water shows through. We can't see the depths.
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