BOOK REVIEWS

The Street Belongs to Us

By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.)

For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when ... Read More »

May 17, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Astra

By Cedar Bowers

At once a character study and a group portrait, Cedar Bowers’s debut novel takes its name from its heroine, Astra Winter Sorrow Brine, born and raised on Celestial Farm, a British Columbian agricultural commune. With ... Read More »

May 17, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley’s Comet

By James Gladstone and Yaara Eshet (ill.)

For the scientist, the artist, and the stargazer alike, the cosmos abounds with endless wonders. Chief among them is the once-in-a-lifetime event of seeing Halley’s comet. In the STEM picture book Journey Around the Sun: ... Read More »

May 13, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Unconventional Nancy Ruth

By Ramona Lumpkin

Nancy Ruth was 40 when she learned that her maternal grandfather had successfully argued the 1929 Persons Case, affirming that women were “persons” under Canadian law and therefore eligible to serve in its Senate – ... Read More »

May 13, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life

By Ira Wells

Norman Jewison may not be as familiar a name as some, but the films he’s directed are instantly recognizable, among them In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck, and Jesus Christ ... Read More »

May 10, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

On Property

By Rinaldo Walcott

Rinaldo Walcott locates his contribution to the Field Notes series on current issues, On Property, in the present political moment, while using historical references and events to argue for the abolition of police and property. ... Read More »

May 10, 2021 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Dear Black Girls

By Shanice Nicole and Kezna Dalz (ill.)

Dear Black Girls, by Black feminist educator Shanice Nicole and Black artist Kezna Dalz, grabs readers from the first page. Writing in the second person, a mode rarely used in picture books, Nicole addresses her ... Read More »

May 6, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know

By Brittany Luby and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (ill.); Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.)

May 6, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Lucky

By Marissa Stapley

In the 2019 comedy The Hustle, the con team played by Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson muse over why women are better suited to heists than men. “Because no man will ever believe a woman ... Read More »

May 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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