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Booklist Review of the Day |
Free to Learn: How Alfredo Lopez Fought for the Right to Go to School
by Cynthia Levinson, illustrated by Mirelle Ortega
Alfredo doesn’t understand why he can’t go back to second grade at his elementary school. Every morning he watches all the other neighborhood kids pass by while he stares out the window and frets about being left behind. Then one morning his parents wake Alfredo, and they go to a big building downtown.
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Reviews in This Issue |
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Current Features |
Top 10 Picture Books about Family
by Sarah Hunter
Family is a perennial topic in picture books, but these titles, reviewed in Booklist between March 15, 2023, and March 1, 2024, do an exceptional job of portraying everything from the simple joys of a day at the pool to the lovably exasperating attention of a little sibling to quiet, meaningful bonds with grandparents.
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10 Questions for Helly Acton
By John Charles
Helly Acton is a copywriter from London with past lives in Zimbabwe, the Middle East, and Australia. She studied Law at King’s College London before following a more creative path into advertising. At 26, she took a career break to travel in Africa and Asia, before landing in Sydney. Six years and one life-affirming breakup later, she returned home and threw herself into online dating in the city.
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10 Questions for Cara Hunter
By John Charles
Cara Hunter is the author of instant New York Times best-selling thriller Murder in the Family as well as the Sunday Times best-selling crime novels featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team.
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10 Questions for Mary Liza Harton
By John Charles
Mary Liza Hartong lives and writes in her hometown of Nashville. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She also holds a master’s from Dartmouth in Creative Writing and a master’s from the University College Cork in British and American Literature via Fulbright grant.
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Booklist Backlist: Boring Books (or Are They?)
by Sarah Hunter
Wait! Don’t walk away! I promise these books, despite their seemingly mind-numbing topics, are actually fascinating, enlightening, and sure to help young readers see even the most ordinary parts of their lives in vivid new ways.
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