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    Review of the Day: Choosing Brave by Angela Joy, ill. Janelle Washington

    Betsy Bird, October 14, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    Choosing Brave is the book for kids we will turn to on the topic of Emmett Till for decades and decades and decades to come.

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    Review of the Day: The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz

    Betsy Bird, October 7, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    Today I’m talking about a book with gangsters, Monopoly, a misunderstood hero, young love, boardwalks, and creaming someone in the face with a pack of coins.

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    Newbery/Caldecott 2023: Fall Prediction Edition

    Betsy Bird, September 28, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Newbery / Caldecott Predictions, Uncategorized

    What will win? What will lose? Stay tuned for a new installment in that popular prediction series: What's Gonna Win a Major Award?

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    Review of the Day: Pina by Elif Yemenici, translated by Sydney Wade

    Betsy Bird, September 23, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    Pina is a balm and a comfort. A gentle reminder that no matter how bad things may seem, there is room in this world for both the snugness of home, and the beauty of the wider world.

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    Review of the Day: The Real Dada Mother Goose by Jon Scieszka, ill. Julia Rothman

    Betsy Bird, September 16, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    As smart as it is funny, this is the Mother Goose book we didn’t know we’d been waiting for all this time.

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    Review of the Day: Undercover Latina by Aya de León

    Betsy Bird, September 1, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    Ms. de León takes a learning opportunity for kids and couches it in enough chase sequences and fistfights to almost make you forget how much information is crammed into this little package. Prepare for exciting nuance!!

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    Review of the Day: NO! Said Custard the Squirrel by Sergio Ruzzier

    Betsy Bird, August 26, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    Sergio Ruzzier returns with a story about an adamant squirrel and the rodent just cannot leave anything alone.

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    Review of the Day: Seen and Unseen by Elizabeth Partridge, ill. Lauren Tamaki

    Betsy Bird, August 17, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    By taking three photographers that shot the incarceration camps of WWII in three different ways, in today's book we get a well-rounded portrait of a government desperate to sell a bad idea to the American public under the guise of openness.

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    Review of the Day: The Kaya Girl by Mamle Wolo

    Betsy Bird, August 5, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    From the food to the clothing, the weather to the history, this is a book worth discovering and adoring. Go on. Read it. You’ll feel lucky that you had.

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    Review of the Day: The World Belonged to Us by Jacqueline Woodson, ill. Leo Espinosa

    Betsy Bird, July 29, 2022 | Best Books, Best Books of 2022, Reviews, Reviews 2022

    Take a trip in a little time machine mixed with a heavy dose of the best kind of nostalgia. An explosion on the page. Sublime.

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