(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sarah Jacoby. Barnett is openly admiring of Brown's legacy in this picture-book biography. In forty-two pages (because Brown lived forty-two years), he weaves facts about her life with information on how her books were received, in particular by notable librarian Anne Carroll Moore. Barnett conveys the sense that Brown's stories felt as strange and wondrous as life itself can be. Jacoby's mixed-media illustrations are appropriately impressionistic and playful. Bib.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sarah Jacoby. In rhymed text that sometimes misses the mark, parent-child animal pairs flee dangers to go home. Hardship is emphasized in the refrain: "This road is hard, this road is long, / this road that leads us home." Watercolor and digital-media illustrations of barbed wire, prowling wolves, and dark shadows contribute to the feeling of fear, slightly mitigated by softly colored final pictures of safety.

Reviewer: Grace Worcester Greene