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40 pp.
| Dial
| April, 2019
|
TradeISBN 978-0-7352-2880-1$17.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Katy Wu.
When Luna outgrows her stroller, she passes it along to the family that lives downstairs. The boy, upon outgrowing it, gives it to another family, and so on across the miles and years; sunny digital art captures each family's particular composition, heritage, and interests. While the storytelling in this celebration of sharing is a bit treacly, the book's premise is grand.
48 pp.
| Sterling
| February, 2019
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4549-2691-7$16.95
(2)
K-3
Illustrated by
Katy Wu.
WWII-era film star Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) was also an inventor whose "brain overflowed with idea after idea." Though Lamarr's technology is widely used in today's electronics, it took decades for her work to be acknowledged. Well-chosen quotes reveal Lamarr's frustration with people's assumptions about her intelligence based on her "pretty face." Approachable digital illustrations ably portray Lamarr in glitz-and-glam-Hollywood mode and at her inventing table. Reading list, timeline. Bib.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2019
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Katy Wu.
The famous Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company narrates its own story and stresses the value of books in text unevenly rhymed but with offbeat appeal. The free-spirited American store proprietor, Sylvia Beach, stocks the building with "...books, from ceiling to floor!" Soon, early-twentieth-century literary luminaries (of whom brief biographies are appended) come for tea, readings, and lively conversation. Colorful digital illustrations capture the bookstore's bohemian spirit.
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Katy Wu.
Clickard's enthusiastic rhyming verse and Wu's inviting digital illustrations introduce Chinese American chef Joyce Chen, who helped popularize Northern Chinese cooking in the U.S. Beginning with her early life in China and 1949 emigration to Massachusetts, the book then describes how Chen's first restaurant led her to other successful enterprises, including a cookbook and TV show. A dumpling recipe is appended. Timeline. Bib., glos.
48 pp.
| Sterling
| May, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4549-2000-7$16.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Katy Wu.
Grace Hopper was mechanically, scientifically, and mathematically minded since childhood, as this biography playfully explains via several anecdotes. Then, while serving almost fifty years in the Navy, she broke barriers for women--and for computer science. A biographical poem graces the front endpapers; the back endpapers mention Hopper's honors. Kid-appealing digital cartoons are reminiscent of Hopper's own propensity for doodling. Reading list, timeline. Bib.