20 Top Titles, Including a Picture Book from Renée Watson | Web Starred Reviews, July 2024

by SLJ Reviews
Jul 31, 2024 | Filed in News & Features

Nonfiction books account for many of this month's stars, along with several middle grade and YA novels, and one holiday book.

Summer Is Here (Watson) ©2024 by Bea Jackson
Summer Is Here (Watson) ©2024 by Bea Jackson

 

Holidays

MATULA, Christina & Erica Lyons. Mixed-Up Mooncakes. illus. By Tracy Subisak. HarperCollins/Quill Tree. 

 

Picture Books 

CRESPO, Ana. Saudade: Our Longing for Brazil. illus. by André Ceolin. Holiday House/Neal Porter.

DYCKMAN, Ame. The Cozy Home: Three-and-a-Half Stories. illus. by Mark Teague. S. & S./Beach Lane. 

FRASER, Lu. Mavis the Bravest. illus. by Sarah Warburton. Macmillan/Godwin. 

GARBUTT, Loretta. Wake Up, Little Pin!: The Story of a Sleepy Sapling. illus. by Marianne Ferrer. Owlkids. 

GREENFIELD, Max. Good Night Thoughts. illus. by James Serafino. Putnam. 

RODRIGUEZ, Edel. The Mango Tree/La mata de mango. illus. by author. Abrams. BL

TAHMASEB, Ryan Bani. Rostam’s Picture-Day Pusteen. illus. by Fateme Mokhles.  Charlesbridge. 

WATSON, Renée. Summer Is Here. illus. by Bea Jackson. Bloomsbury. 

WELLS, Allen R. Danté Plays His Blues. illus. by Shamar Knight-Justice. HarperCollins.

Middle Grade

TERESE, Ali. Free Period. Scholastic.

 

YA 

PATEL, Sajni. A Drop of Venom. Disney/Rick Riordan Presents.

TURK, Mariko. I’ll Be Waiting for You. Little, Brown. 

ZENTNER, Jeff & Brittany Cavallaro. Sunrise Nights. HarperCollins/Quill Tree. 

 

Nonfiction Elementary

ABBAS, Marzieh. Henna Is... illus. by Anu Chouhan. Feiwel & Friends. 

COMPESTINE, Ying Chang. Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution. illus. by Xinmei Liu. Penguin/Rocky Pond. 

DOLAN, Elys. How to Make a Picture Book. illus. by author. Candlewick. 

HUEY, Emily Inouye. Wat Kept Playing: The Inspiring Story of Wataru Misaka and His Rise to the NBA. illus. by Kaye Kang. Shadow Mountain. 

MESSNER, Kate. The Next Scientist: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World’s Great Scientists. illus. by Julia Kuo. Chronicle. 

 

Nonfiction Middle to High School

FLORIO, John & Ouisie Shapiro. Marked Man: Frank Serpico’s Inside Battle Against Police Corruption. Roaring Brook. 

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