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Picture Books That Show the World Through a Child’s Eyes
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Children’s Books MY BEST FRIENDWritten by Julie Fogliano Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki Two small girls spend a perfect day together in the park, making chalk dr...
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New in Paperback: ‘On Desperate Ground’ and ‘The Paper Wasp’
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ON DESPERATE GROUND: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir — the Greatest Battle of the Korean War, by Hampton Sides. (Anchor, 402 pp., $17.) This account of the 1...
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New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’
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WOMEN TALKING, by Miriam Toews. (Bloomsbury, 216 pp., $16.) In Toews’s sixth novel, the women of a fictional Mennonite colony, all of whom have been raped by me...
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New in Paperback: ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘What You Have Heard Is True’
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WOMEN’S WORK: A Personal Reckoning With Labor, Motherhood, and Privilege, by Megan K. Stack. (Anchor, 336 pp., $16.95.) Stack, a former international correspond...
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Graphic Novels Your Kid (Probably) Hasn’t Read Yet
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Story Times: Ages 7-12 If your grade-schooler has devoured all the Dog Man and Wimpy Kid books, everything by Raina Telgemeier and Jeff Smith’s “Bone,” hand the...
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7 Great Historical Y.A. Novels
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story times: ages 13-18 Teenagers love to lose themselves in the stories of other teenagers who lived long ago. Are you looking for a novel that a picky teenage...
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Graphic Nonfiction Books for Fact-Loving Visual Kids
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Story Times: Ages 7-12 In addition to excellent graphic fiction, publishers have also been providing young readers with quality graphic nonfiction books. When J...
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New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’
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SPIES OF NO COUNTRY: Israel’s Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad, by Matti Friedman. (Algonquin, 249 pp., $16.95.) Friedman tells the story of four young ...