Book Review
Mila and Her Friends
This board book designed with modern families in mind follows cheerful Mila, who looks forward to her days with Dad: he always takes an interest in her stories from their time apart. Mila’s father is warm and welcoming to her friends,...
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Meet the Family
Evoking the classics with its jaunty, silly rhymes, this story follows a magical, playful menagerie whose members embrace their oddities and unique abilities, and do so with happy results. In addition to its circus-performing members,...
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The Puppeteer's Daughters
An aging, celebrated puppeteer throws his daughters’ lives into chaos in Heather Newton’s gripping new novel. Walter—a talented puppeteer and a reluctant children’s entertainer who achieved global prominence in the latter...
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Since Sinai
Shannon Gonyou announced her desire to convert to Judaism on the way to a Christmas celebration: this is the first appealing revelation of her thoughtful memoir, "Since Sinai". Raised Catholic because of a promise made to her birth...
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The Art of Symeon Shimin
"The Art of Symeon Shimin" introduces and contextualizes the paintings of a great twentieth-century artist. A stunning introduction to the work of a sensitive, accomplished, and underlauded artist, "The Art of Symeon Shimin" includes...
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The Queen's Rain
Those fallible kings who are left standing witness the storied rise of their indomnitable queens in Mindi Meltz’s stunning fantasy novel The Queen’s Rain, the third book of the After Ever After series. King Sol is dead, and Sirenia...
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2 A.M. in Little America
Ken Kalfus’s novel "2 A.M. in Little America" takes a disturbing plunge into a troubled future. Before the US descended into violent chaos, Ron—fresh out of high school, indistinctive, and without a taste for factions or...
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Minu and Her Hair
In this story that encourages self-acceptance, a frustrated girl with untameable type 4 curls goes to her grandfather in despair, asking why she’s the only one with hair like hers. He assures her that she is not, in fact, alone: many...