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Dec 3, 2021 · NICKY & VERA. A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued. Written and illustrated by Peter Sís. (Norton, $19.95) This child’s-eye tribute explores the fates that led Nicholas ...
- Room For Everyone
- The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection
- Listified! Britannica’s 300 Lists That Will Blow Your Mind
- Change Sings
- Making A Great Exhibition
- Circle Under Berry
- Milo Imagines The World
- Try It! How Frieda Caplan Changed The Way We Eat
- It Fell from The Sky
- Inside In: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World
When Naaz Khan was working for a refugee resettlement agency in Africa, she took a trip to Zanzibar, Tanzania, to celebrate Eid, marking the end of Ramadan. It was on this trip that she found herself on a raucous, jam-packed, hour-and-a-half-long bus ride to Nungwi Beach. “I literally remember wiggling, giggling and thinking to myself—gosh, someone...
In the first few pages, Chuck Whipplethorp, the elementary school-aged protagonist in Ben Brashares’ latest picture book The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection, gives off an “Alexander” attitude. (Alexander of Judith Vorst’s classic, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, of course.) Bored, and convinced nothing interesting hap...
I am a list person, but I don’t think it’s my bias talking here—this encyclopedia of facts is first-rate. I will be giving this to my 7-year-old at Christmas, who will, no doubt, devour it with the same speed and intensity as she does a bowl of ooey, gooey macaroni and cheese. The 300 lists contained in Andrew Pettie’s Listified! are wide-ranging, ...
When Amanda Gorman recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, she transfixed her audiences at the Capitol and at home. The then-22-year-old poet had herself been inaugurated four years prior as the first National Youth Poet Laureate, yet many were hearing her “tightrope-taut verse” delivered with “im...
At Smithsonianmagazine, we have a front row seat to the making of exhibitions. From conception and planning to construction and staging, bringing an exhibit to life is a monumental effort, involving artists, curators, lighting designers, catalog editors, and many, many more. In Making a Great Exhibition, author Doro Globus (daughter of a curator) a...
Carter Higgins’ board book Circle Under Berry is a delightful study in color, shape and position for toddlers. The author-illustrator uses simple shapes and figures made from hand-painted paper, much like Eric Carle did in his beloved books, and arranges them in lines and columns. With staccato phrases like “berry over square” and “yellow over diam...
In January 2018, Time magazine published a powerful essayby author Matt de la Peña titled “Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children From Darkness.” In it, de la Peña writes, “We are currently in a golden age of pictures books, with a tremendous range to choose from. Some of the best are funny. Or silly. Or informative. Or socially aware. Or just plain reas...
Frieda Caplan isn’t a household name, and yet for all the produce that might be in your house thanks to her—kiwi, spaghetti squash, baby carrots, sugar snap peas—it should be! The food innovator who worked at L.A.’s Seventh Street Produce Market in the 1950s before launching her own business in the ’60s is the subject of Mara Rockliff’s latest pict...
What readers will immediately identify as a marble is instead a mystery to the critters that come across it in Terry and Eric Fan’s latest book, It Fell From the Sky. Frog licks it, thinking it’s a gumdrop. Grasshopper assumes it is something catapulted from the cosmos, and Luna Moth speculates it is a chrysalis not yet hatched. But Spider sees it ...
When Dutch children’s book author Jan Paul Schutten saw Arie van ‘t Riet’s photography, he knew he had stumbled upon something, and someone, special. In the introduction to the pair’s collaboration, Inside In, Schutten puts it this way: “He’s one of the very few people who are delighted to receive a dead animal as a gift.” That’s right. A former me...
Dec 30, 2021 · Winners of the 2021 Caldecott Honor. The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham and Karim Shami-Basha and Yuko Shimizu. This is the true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel who provides safety to the abandoned cats of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War. In the words of the author, the story is also about “war and people.
May 4, 2024 · by Christina Soontornvat. ***2021 Newbery Honor Book***. ***2021 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book***. Ages 10+, likely to appeal especially to 12-16 year olds, but interesting for adults too. Read more about this book in our selection of best books of 2021 for teens. Read expert recommendations. Buy now Listen now.
- The 2021 ALA Book Award Winners. The American Library Association (ALA) hands out the biggest awards in children’s publishing every year, but they also partner with more niche groups, like the American Indian Library Association, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, and the Association of Jewish Libraries to recognize important books in those categories too.
- The 2021 National Book Award. The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature is a highly respected award, given to a literary book generally suited to the reading levels of our older teens.
- The New York Times Best Children’s Books of 2021. Among the New York Times list of best children’s books each year, we tend to find thoughtful books with stunning artwork.
- Publisher’s Weekly Best Children’s Books of 2021. Publisher’s Weekly is an industry magazine, with the primary purpose of providing reviews of new books to bookstores each year.
Nov 18, 2021 · Abby McGanney Nolan. and. Mary Quattlebaum. November 18, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. EST. As a teen, drawing-obsessed Raúl González hoped that long bus rides to San Diego Comic-Con from his home in El ...
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Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one’s control. It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one’s selfhood. [Enchanted Lion Books] This book was included in the New York Times 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021. Author: Ana Cristina Herreros.
