Book Review
Come Along
Embedded with references to children’s classics, including the works of Lewis Carroll and A. A. Milne, this jaunty, irresistible picture book follows a singsong adventure through the funky-animal-populated wilds. Children will be...
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Oracles
Stricken with grief and fed up with “ink-laced pleasantries,” a bereft daughter takes to the trail, her ultimate destination uncertain, in Olivia Sullivan’s moving graphic novel "Oracles". Having lost her mother and flailed at her...
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An Impossibility of Crows
Part maternal and filial lament, part horror story, Kirsten Kaschock’s eerie, enrapturing novel follows a biological experiment gone wrong. In a Pennsylvania barn, grief-driven Agnes tinkers with crow DNA, hoping to nurture a specimen...
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Lucie and the Wind
In this exhilarating picture book about environmental appreciation, a girl goes out exploring each day. She jars the treasures she finds on her walks, bringing them home for her own nature-based cabinet of curiosities. An encounter with...
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The Sea We Call Home
Two adorable gnomes head off for a seaside adventure in this joyous picture book that models appreciation and care for nature. Little Gnouf is so excited to see the ocean that he spends days reading about it before he and Mirabelle...
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Armaveni
Nadine Takvorian’s devastating and important graphic memoir "Armaveni" unpacks the generational traumas left by the Armenian genocide. A teenager in 2001, Nadine is desperate to learn about her family’s time in the Ottoman Empire....
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Event Horizon
A marginalized woman is sent into a black hole for the good of her community in Balsam Karam’s extraordinary speculative novel "Event Horizon". Milde was eight years old when her tropical nation declared innumerable women and children...
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Honeysuckle
Bar Fridman-Tell’s aching and alarming novel "Honeysuckle" is part star-crossed love story, part allegory about human attempts to effect dominion over nature. Eight-year-old Rory is distraught when his older sister, Wynne, outgrows...
