Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. Unabridged, read by Gladwell. 8 hours 42 minutes. Hachette Audio. 9781549150333. It was this conversation between Gladwell and It’s Been A Minute (podcast) host Sam Sanders that got me to try this book, even […]
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Author: Gene Ambaum
Book Review: ASTRONUTS: Mission One: The Plant Planet! by John Scieszka and Steven Weinberg
ASTRONUTS: Mission One: The Plant Planet! by John Scieszka and Steven Weinberg. Chronicle, 2019. 9781452171197. 220pp. The AstroNuts are four experimental animal astronauts with superpowers: AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug. They blast off from their top-secret headquarters in Mount Rushmore, […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Nadya by Debasmita Dasgupta
Nadya by Debasmita Dasgupta. Scholastic India, 2019. 9789352759286. 64pp. Life seems like a fairytale for Nadya until, one day, her father leaves. Nadya feels alienated from her mother and runs away into the woods. The cover has a lot of […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir & Sarah Anderson
Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir & Sarah Anderson. Ten Speed Press, 2019. 9780399582073. 117pp. Weir (The Martian) and Anderson (Sarah’s Scribbles) make a fun graphic novel about Dorothy (Oz), Alice (Wonderland), and Wendy (Neverland) based on a webcomic Weir created […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman. Lerner / Graphic Universe, 2019. 9781541572843. 104pp. Gillman’s follow-up to As The Crow Flies is a beautifully drawn (with colored pencils again!) historical western featuring queer characters, set in New Mexico Territory in 1861. (Confederate […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Superman by Brian Michael Bendis
The Man of Steel by Brian Michael Bendis, with a host of famous and amazing artists. DC Comics, 2018. 9781401283483. Collects The Man of Steel 1 – 6. Superman: Action Comics Volume 1: Invisible Mafia by Brian Michael Bendis, illustrated […]
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Custom Library Tarot winner!
Congratulations to Theresa from NJ (center) and her colleagues who won the custom Library Tarot cards. Thanks again to Macmillan Library Marketing for sponsoring the contest, and to Willow Payne for doing an amazing job on the art.
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Graphic Novel Review: Smell My Foot! by Cece Bell.
Smell My Foot! (Chick and Brain) by Cece Bell. Candlewick, 2019. 9780763679361. 70pp. Brain isn’t very smart. Chick likes to tell Brain and Spot the dog what they should have said, especially about what to say to be polite. Spot […]
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Guest Graphic Novel Review: White Bird by R.J. Palacio
White Bird by R.J. Palacio. Random House, 2019. 9780525645535. 220 pp Wonder is a multiple award-winning children’s book, the story of August “Auggie” Pullman, a young guy with facial deformities who has to deal with bullies in his junior high after he […]
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Graphic Novel Review: BTTM FDRS by Ezra Clayton Daniels and Ben Passmore
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Clayton Daniels and Ben Passmore. Fantagraphics, 2019. 9781683962069. 300pp. Fashion designer Darla moves into a big apartment in an old building in the Chicago neighborhood where she grew up, the Bottomyards. Weird shit starts to happen. […]
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