Review By JESSICA ALMY Pairing rhythmic, sometimes-rhyming prose with expressive illustration, the forthcoming book Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art tells the uplifting story of the Detroit native who saved his neighborhood by creating art out of trash. Beginning by recounting that Guyton made toys for himself and his siblings out of trash [...]
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Magic Trash
August 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books
Tags:Art·Biography·Community·Detriot·Detroit Riot·Heidelberg Street·J.H. Shapiro·Painting·Poverty·Social Justice·Trash·Tyree Guyton·Vanessa Brantley-Newton
No Place for a Pig
April 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL This is the cutest story about a woman named Ms. Taffy who calls in to a radio station with the correct answer and wins the pig prize. She mistakenly thinks she won a pig trinket to fit on her shelf with the rest of her collection and is shocked when she [...]
Tags:Cities·Community·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·Pigs·Preschoolers·Suzanne Bloom·Urban Living
Calvin Can’t Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie
April 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Calvin is a young starling who is different from his three brothers, four sisters and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and thirty-two cousins (as this humorous book points out, starlings have big families). When it comes time for the young starlings to discover the world around them, Calvin’s family members stick strictly [...]
Tags:Birds·Books·Community·Early Elementary·Jennifer Berne·Jennifer Gannett·Keith Bendis·Library·Preschoolers·Reading·Starlings·Wildlife
Puppy School
January 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Ivy League vs. Community College. White Collar vs. Blue. India’s Caste System. No matter where we look, in virtually every culture, there’s a discrimination of some sort, either based on skin color, heritage or economic status. While we tout that we’re all equal (under the eyes of God or within [...]
Tags:Adventure·Carolyn M. Mullin·Community·Companion Animals·David Dayan Fisher·Dogs·Equality·Older Elementary
Little Owl Lost
December 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Little Owl Lost is a sweet book about the tale of an baby owlet lost in the forest. With the help of other forest creatures, he is eventually reunited with his mom. The book’s uniquely colored and stylized illustrations and font are striking and visually pleasing. Little Owl Lost borrows on [...]
Tags:Chris Haughton·Community·Fear·Forest·Good for Toddlers·Jennifer Gannett·Overcoming Fear·Owls·Preschoolers·Squirrel·Wildlife
Hurt Go Happy
September 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN It’s hard to sum up and analyze a novel in just a few short paragraphs, much less a work that is so perfectly complex and layered in its character development, plot, and thematic elements. Award-winning Hurt Go Happy is written for the middle school-aged crowd, but personally I think every [...]
Tags:Abuse·Animals in Research·Bush Meat·Carolyn M. Mullin·Chimpanzees·Communication·Community·Female Protagonist·Ginny Rorby·Older Elementary·Primates·Sign Language·Vivisection
Deep in the Jungle
July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR What happens when you take an arrogant jungle lion and put him in a circus? He finds that he much preferred life in the jungle, and he returns with a new, more refined attitude toward his animal neighbors. In Deep in the Jungle, author Dan Yaccarino takes a look at circuses through [...]
Tags:Animal Liberation·Circus·Community·Dan Yaccarino·Early Elementary·Jacqueline Bodnar·Lions·Preschoolers·Respect for Nature
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