(3) K-3 Illustrated by Esmé Shapiro. In an imagined letter to her unborn great-granddaughter, Eliza recounts her life in parallel to her husband's role in the development of the U.S., while highlighting her own accomplishments as one of America's first female activists and philanthropists. Folk art–style mixed-media paintings capture the eighteenth-century era. Extensive endnotes fill in historical details and biographical facts excluded from the first-person, epistolary narrative. Timeline, websites. Bib.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Esmé Shapiro. Yak and Dove, very unlike each other, are nonetheless best friends. Three episodes, told entirely in dialogue, explore their friendship as they argue, reconcile, and plant an unusual garden. The art is beautiful but lacks dynamism, as both the palette and narrative content changes little from page to page; the stories themselves are engaging but quite long, and the dialogue-only format soon wears thin.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano