(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sarah Green. This admiring portrait of Elizabeth Warren provides a strong introduction to the events that have shaped her life and political career. Beginning with child Elizabeth's family's financial difficulties, Wood describes the tenacity and burgeoning consciousness of inequities throughout Warren's work as a young mother, teacher, lawyer, and finally a U.S. senator. Green's bright, cheerful art portrays refreshing diversity among the background figures. An author's note is appended. Bib.

Reviewer: Kristy Pasquariello

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh. Growing up in Mexico, Juan Garcia Esquivel got an earful of mariachi but wanted to create his own sound. His strange instrumentals and innovations in stereo sound came to define mid-twentieth-century lounge music. The story of Esquivel's rise is told with pep and a keen awareness of young readers. Tonatiuh's art (again in the tradition of the Mixtec codex) is fittingly offbeat. Reading list, websites.

Reviewer: Nell Beram | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2016