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{"title":"Subject and Use Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.0263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.0263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136012220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bibi by Jo Weaver (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.0206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.0206","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Bibi by Jo Weaver Kate Quealy-Gainer, Editor Weaver, Jo Bibi; written and illus. by Jo Weaver. Peachtree, 2023 [32p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781682635537 $18.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R 4-8 yrs Bibi the flamingo has been with the flock so long that most of the other birds have been under her care at some point, as she showed them how to preen their feathers, stand on one leg, and build nests for their babies. When the hot sun leaves what was their lake habitat parched and dry, the flock must travel to find water, but the little ones can't fly yet. No worries, Bibi will guide the young flamingos on foot while the others fly ahead, and just as always, Bibi keeps her charges safe, and the flock reunites to spend the summer in cool waters and shade. When the time comes to move on again, however, Bibi is feeling old and tired and worries she won't be able to make this flight. This earnest picture book is a lovely little ode to the valuable wisdom of elders and the reciprocity of love and care across generations, and young viewers will be relieved to see the other birds tend to Bibi until she gets her strength back. As the clear matriarch of the flock, Bibi is warm but firm, and Weaver manages the tricky feat of giving character and social dynamics to the birds without rendering them cutesy or overly precious. That balance comes through in the charcoal and digital illustrations with close-ups of individual interactions focusing on the birds' expressive faces while larger, full-bleed spreads emphasize [End Page 272] their wildness and odd beauty. Subtle hues of pink and salmon (no bubblegum pinks here) are shaded with darker colors to create movement and texture, and in a particularly striking scene, the birds are shown in silhouette as they cross the cracking, dry land. The avian subjects and thematic connection to the handing down of generational wisdom makes this UK import an excellent primer for Guojing's The Flamingo (BCCB 9/22). [End Page 273] Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135671937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subject and Use Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.0154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136179698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subject and Use Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.0106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136153253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Doña Quixote: Rise of the Knight by Rey Terciero (review)","authors":"Meg Cornell","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.a909646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.a909646","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Doña Quixote: Rise of the Knight by Rey Terciero Meg Cornell Terciero, Rey Doña Quixote: Rise of the Knight; illus. by Monica M. Magaña. Holt, 2023 [240p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781250795472 $22.99 Paper ed. ISBN 9781250795526 $14.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781250795489 $9.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 5-8 In this lively modern retelling of Cervantes' epic, middle grader Lucia Castillo has always wanted to be just like her late grandfather, a knight who helps the innocent and protects their Texan town from creatures like El Cucuy and El Chupacabra. Unfortunately, to everyone else, her grandfather was \"Abuelo Loco,\" a man who dressed in a silly helmet and fought imaginary creatures only he could see. Lucia's [End Page 115] mother is ashamed of her grandfather's knightly calling, pressuring Lucia instead towards femininity, reality, and responsibility: \"He was a joke . . . And you are not a joke, hija. You are mi estrellita, mi mariposita, mi futuro . . . \" Rejecting her mother's vision of her and claiming her knighthood, Lucia retreats to the treehouse where she and her \"squire,\" fellow misfit and ballerino Sandro, commiserate over their shared secret lives. It isn't that easy to live up to the \"Knight Code,\" and in mockheroic fashion, whenever Lucia intercedes in a situation with her knightly bravado, comedic trouble ensues. However, when Lucia dons her abuelo's old helmet, it reveals the monsters of the town to her as it did for her abuelo—including the mayor, a shapeshifting creature of Mexican folklore, working to unleash supernatural evil. Seeing through Lucia's helmet, panels shimmer with starry light blue, and Magaña's digital art dynamically brings to life beloved Mesoamerican legends and celebrates the Mexican folk art of alebrijes animals. Sandro and Lucia's mutually supportive friendship, tested by the pressures of gender conformity and the supernatural alike, provides further grounding. Ever a tale for the unique, adventurous child learning where they fit in, Lucia's story offers humor and insight about the trouble of distinguishing one windmill from another in a blustery world. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136372918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nothing Else but Miracles by Kate Albus (review)","authors":"Kara Forde","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.a909594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.a909594","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Nothing Else but Miracles by Kate Albus Kara Forde Albus, Kate Nothing Else but Miracles. Ferguson/Holiday House, 2023 [288p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780823451630 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780823456703 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 4-6 Twelve-year-old Dory Byrne regularly gazes at the Statue of Liberty from the southern tip of Manhattan and confides in the statue, whom she calls \"Libby,\" to process her feelings about her father's naval deployment during WWII. Her mother died of tuberculosis years prior, so Dory and her brothers are essentially parentless, with seventeen-year-old Fish overseeing the family and Dory helping to care for their precocious eight-year-old brother, Pike. They've been helped by families and businesses in their Lower East Side area, but when a mean new landlord takes over their building, the Byrnes become nervous that he will report their status as unattended minors to the city. Fortunately, Dory knows about the vacant building stories above a local restaurant, only accessible by a rope pulley-operated elevator, that could be the perfect place for the siblings to hide (and could contain [End Page 88] life-changing treasure). Albus paints a picture of New York City life during the late stages of the WWII with engaging prose and a rich sense of setting, which the dedication indicates was informed by stories from the author's father's childhood. Direct-address parentheticals about a diamond hidden in an abandoned building break the flow of the third-person narrative, but clever Dory and her endearing family are easy to spend time with. Readers will surely become vested in this story of family and community and ache for Pop's safe return from war. An author's note is appended. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136373410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prince and the Coyote by David Bowles (review)","authors":"Fiona Hartley-Kroeger","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.a909600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.a909600","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Prince and the Coyote by David Bowles Fiona Hartley-Kroeger Bowles, David The Prince and the Coyote; illus. by Amanda Mijangos. Levine Querido, 2023 [336p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781646141777 $19.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781646143368 $15.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 10-12 Acolmiztli, Crown Prince of Tetzcoco, is forced to flee into the wild when a Mexica-led coup destroys his family and sends thousands of the Acolhua people into exile. A poet and singer by nature and a warrior by training, the prince names himself Nezahualcoyotl after the coyote who helps him survive. He then embarks on a peril-filled, politically fraught journey to reclaim his birthright and restore his people to their beloved city-state. There's no doubt he'll succeed; as Bowles explains in an author's note, the real Nezahualcoyotl was an Indigenous polymath and king whose return to power at a young age helped create the Aztec Empire. The novel's pleasures, rather, lie in its interweaving of character and cultural milieu, action and poetry, against a backdrop of epic power struggles among sophisticated city-states. [End Page 91] The pre-Columbian world comes brilliantly alive between descriptive narrative and intensely personal poetic interludes that include translations of poems attributed to the historical Nezahualcoyotl. Meditations on the culture's worldview and the diversity of its peoples encompass working-class architecture and agriculture, weaponry and military tactics, Acolhua concepts of nonbinary gender, and more. While all this information frequently strains Nezahualcoyotl's first-person perspective, it conveys a tremendous amount of knowledge and texture. Striking four-color illustrations by Amanda Mijangos enhance the sense that this is a glimpse into a complex world as it once existed. Two family trees, a map, and a Nahuatl language guide prime readers for a dense novel bursting with historical and linguistic detail. Pair with The Sea-Ringed World (BCCB 01/21), Bowles' translation of Mesoamerican and South American myths, for a deep dive into the gods and mythic history of Nezahualcoyotl's world. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136373680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Skip!: A Graphic Novel by Sarah Burgess (review)","authors":"Meg Cornell","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.a909606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.a909606","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Skip!: A Graphic Novel by Sarah Burgess Meg Cornell Burgess, Sarah Skip!: A Graphic Novel; written and illus. by Sarah Burgess. Andrews McMeel, 2023 [256p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781524884543 $22.99 Paper ed. ISBN 9781524877378 $14.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 4-6 After getting sidelined by the dance team for their truly sad steps, awkward but affable Jay finally finds their place with Double Dutch team Skip, headed by the charismatic Beah. Beah and Jay make for a compelling odd couple; vivacious Beah is passionately focused on her competitive skipping rope dreams with the athletic ability to match, equally a harbor to and a bit overly intense for her friends. Creative Jay, on the other hand, is skilled in poetry and rhyming but dithers anxiously about their lack of direction, both excelling and over-performing in the support of others. Rival teams, a scorned ex-bestie, and an upcoming competitive jump rope competition loop together to provide knots of dramatic tension, but the narrative's highest lifts come from the intense ups and downs in Beah and Jay's developing relationship. As Beah and Jay weave around another with increasing speed, trying to find the right rhythm, the discrete boundaries between self and other inside an intense first best-friendship are hard won and reliably depicted. The stylish art's frenetic linework zigzags across the page like so many jump ropes, animating characters' bodies and facial expressions in a cartoonish and suitably bouncy style. In a series of dynamic panels, for example, Beah silently processes her feelings over a recent argument with Jay while training: she claps her hands, releases her breath to the sky, then flips onto her palms and back again, her expression at first shining with pride and athletic focus—then remembering the fight, her wholebody bows with inner turmoil. Burgess' hand-drawn lettering adds affect to the reader's experience, enthusiastically populating speech bubbles with authentic teen dialogue. This is, appropriately, not one to be skipped. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136373896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds (review)","authors":"Adam McConville","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.a909638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.a909638","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds Adam McConville Reynolds, Jason There Was a Party for Langston; illus. by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey. Dlouhy/Atheneum, 2023 [56p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781534439443 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781534439450 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 3-5 In 1991, the Langston Hughes Auditorium opened at the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library in Harlem. Amid the festivities, poets Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka were photographed letting loose in a celebratory dance. It's that photograph—of \"word makers\" in active movement—which inspires Reynolds to relay this story: of Black people partying in the library to honor Hughes. Quick-stepping verse layers in metaphor, connecting Hughes' life and work to laughter, resistance, and inspiration for generations of Black poets, with Angelou and Baraka receiving spotlight moments. Where the text is light on specific details, it's sure-footed in [End Page 111] style and emotion, expressing the way words come together, built from letters and building phrases, to convey emotion and connect Black artists and readers across time. Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey's hand-made stamp art cleverly brings words to life on the pages: a flock of birds made of words makes a line of verse soar to the clouds, lights from apartment windows spell out \"Harlem\" in the night, and Angelou's and Baraka's dancing forms are literally made of their respective names. Through it all, both verse and visuals return to the library and a dancing crowd of smartly dressed Black folks boogying down in celebration of Hughes' life and work. While some set-up will be needed to provide context for the emotional journey, confident poetry fans will enjoy this ebullient work, and readers less adept at parsing metaphors will still enjoy the playful word-building of the illustrations. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136374125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa (review)","authors":"April Spisak","doi":"10.1353/bcc.2023.a909596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2023.a909596","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa April Spisak Angkasa, Clar Stories of the Islands; written and illus. by Clar Angkasa. Holiday House, 2023 [176p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780823449781 $22.99 Paper ed. ISBN 9780823455737 $14.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780823457281 $11.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 5-7 Three Indonesian folktales each get a chapter in this graphic novel that focuses on and celebrates female characters. In an author's note, Angkasa describes how these stories were familiar parts of her childhood but also expresses her dismay at their representation of girls and women. This collection is her response to that, and readers can compare her reinterpretations with the brief, traditional versions of the stories that are part of the backmatter. While the stories are well-told with a lyrical brevity that is reminiscent of oral retellings of folktales, Angkasa's illustrations are the most memorable element. Though they share a jeweled vibrancy, each story [End Page 89] has a different color palette, and the drawings tell much of the stories through the choices in panel size, positioning of the characters within them, and the facial expressions and posture of the protagonists. In \"Keong Mas\" (Golden Snail), for example, an older princess must face her own choices after her younger sister has her transformed into a snail. The snail is small on the page and unable to speak but still has significant presence: it is surprisingly easy to recognize the princess' haughty sense of privilege in the snail's eye stalks that used to be her raised eyebrow and crossed arms of her human self. This inspiring trio of stories encourages readers to look with a mindful eye at folk or fairy tales that they may have heard for years to see whose story is actually being told and ponder what the tale would look like from an entirely different perspective. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois","PeriodicalId":472942,"journal":{"name":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136372905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}