Review

Fan, Terry and Eric Fan. Night Gardener, The. Picture Book. Simon & Schuster, 2016. [44]pp. $17.99. 978-1-4814- 3978-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-2. Grimloch Lane is a sad gray place where downhearted people trudge home past the [continue reading]

Grady, Cynthia. Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song. Michele Wood, Illus. Nonfiction. Millbrook, 09/2016. 40pp. PLB $19.99. 978-1-4677-8550-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-6. The book opens with a brief introduction to the origins [continue reading]

Brown, Peter. Wild Robot, The. Peter Brown, Illus. Fiction. Little, 04/2016. 279pp. $16.99. 978-0-316-38199-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-6. A newly manufactured robot named Roz washes up on the shore of an unpeopled island. Roz learns to [continue reading]

Frost, Helen. Applesauce Weather. Amy June Bates, Illus. Fiction. Candlewick, 08/2016. 104pp. $14.99. 978-0-7636-7576-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 2-7. When the first apple falls from the tree, Faith knows Uncle Arthur will be visiting soon. But will [continue reading]

Collins, Ross. There’s a Bear on My Chair. Ross Collins, Illus. Picture Book. Nosy Crow, 2015. [28]pp. $16.99. 978-0-7636-8942-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-K. Mouse finds his favorite chair occupied by Bear. The chair is not large [continue reading]

Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage. Fiction. Scholastic, 01/2016. 236pp. $16.99. 978-0-545-66577-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. In Washington State in 1890, 12-year-old Joseph Johnson—no stranger to loss after his mother and sister die by disease, and [continue reading]

O’Connell, Caitlin. Bridge to the Wild: Behind the Scenes at the Zoo. Timothy Rodwell, Photographer. Non-fiction. Houghton, 08/2016. 202pp. $18.99. 978-0-544-27739-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-8. Experience the zoo like never before with O’Connell’s Bridge to the [continue reading]