Robert Burleigh, , illus. by Stephen T. Johnson. . Harcourt/Voyager, $6 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-15-216380-8
In a starred review PW
said, "Anyone who has played basketball on a hot city playground or followed it courtside will respond to the sensuous, tactile tone of this poetic description of the game. Marvelous pastel drawings of teenagers on the court paired with the book's design turn up the heat." Ages 5-8. (Oct.)
From the maker of My Little Red Toolbox
, this dynamic book lets readers handle the care and maintenance of a fire truck. An unseen narrator takes 30 minutes Continue reading »
The letter B sculpted from the rigid angles of a fire escape, an R in a jagged street crack, an E in the side view of a street light-the heart of this stunning, wordless ABC book lies in the artist's Continue reading »
Inspired by Look's memories of her Chinese immigrant grandmother, this nostalgic book is liberally sprinkled with Taishanese, and the feelings conveyed are just as authentic as the language. When Continue reading »
With this carefully balanced adaptation, the author and illustrator of The Samurai's Daughter turn their attentions once again to ancient Japanese legend. As he braves a dangerous blizzard, Continue reading »
Anyone who has played basketball on a hot city playground or followed it courtside will respond to the sensuous, tactile tone of this poetic description of the game. Burleigh (Flight) announces the Continue reading »
More Where That Came From Fans of Robert Burleigh's ode to basketball, Hoops, will be drawn into the soccer action from the opening page of Goal. ""Score tied. Muscles tense. Ball drops. After Continue reading »
Illustrations of shimmering delicacy highlight this imagistic retelling of a Japanese legend. Tokoyo is the teenage daughter of a samurai in medieval Japan. When her beloved father is banished to a Continue reading »
Johnson's (The Snow Wife) expressive watercolor and pastel illustrations light up this otherwise labored tale. Sparked by a snippet of Jewish folklore that claims King Solomon's ring enabled him to Continue reading »
Johnson follows A Is for Art and his Caldecott Honor?winning Alphabet City with a series of letters found in a traditional brick school. Instead of the meticulous photorealistic Continue reading »
Words and art harmonize in this creatively imagined account of the first meeting between a teenage Miles Davis and celebrated saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker. Los makes a sparkling Continue reading »
This meta-book proclaims that pages offer not just stories, but literal spaces to investigate. Its animal characters peer out of a die-cut hole in the dust jacket, as if standing inside a room Continue reading »
This superbly illustrated and tersely relayed retelling of the Greek myth from the team behind Hercules
emphasizes Pandora's compulsion to know, rather than Continue reading »
This child's-eye view of the legendary escape artist finds young Sam and his uncle joining a crowd at the end of a pier, eager to watch Houdini work his magic. Handcuffed, chained and locked Continue reading »
"In a series of poetic, present-tense images, readers see Babe at play, while a congruent series of baseball cards provides aficionados with detailed information about the man, his statistics Continue reading »
Startling 3-D tableaux steal the show in this historical parade, which reenacts 18 moments in this country's past, from the first Thanksgiving in 1621 to a candlelight vigil at Ground Zero in Continue reading »
Burleigh (Into the Woods
) imagines "the moment when Langston Hughes came to believe in himself as a writer," according to his author's note. Continue reading »
Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay: The Boy Whose Dream Was Everest
Robert Burleigh
This extraordinary book tells a long-neglected story about a Himalayan sherpa who fulfills his childhood dreams of climbing to "the top of the world." Although Sir Edmund Hillary is given Continue reading »
In this engaging, multilayered collaboration, the creators of Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth
pay well-deserved tribute to another baseball legend. Burleigh Continue reading »
A story about the death of a dog can't be anything but heartrending, and Burleigh (One Giant Leap
) looks at grief without blinking. “Owen's best Continue reading »
Those with a sweet tooth will savor Chocolate: Riches from the Rainforest by Robert Burleigh. The volume traces the history of the confection from its origins in the rainforest to its role as an Continue reading »
Stunning color photographs by Philip Plisson capture the beauty, danger and mystery of the deep in the oversize volume The Sea: Exploring Life on an Ocean Planet, adapted by Robert Burleigh, text Continue reading »
Black Whitness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic
Robert Burleigh
Burleigh (Flight) turns his attention from Charles A. Lindbergh to Admiral Richard Byrd in this picture book charting of the explorer's solo Antarctic sojourn. Burleigh's account follows Byrd to the Continue reading »
Anyone who has played basketball on a hot city playground or followed it courtside will respond to the sensuous, tactile tone of this poetic description of the game. Burleigh (Flight) announces the Continue reading »
Burleigh and Wimmer, the creative team behind Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh, give a bravura encore performance, this time turning their attention to another 20th-century legend, Babe Ruth. Continue reading »
A boy draws a train one night right before bedtime, then climbs aboard for a ""magical ride."" In his imagination he crosses mountains and rivers, through cities and towns, until he arrives at his Continue reading »
Burleigh (Flight: The Story of Charles Lindbergh) hits the road with this lively look at a busy day in the life of a big-city bicycle messenger. Just after sunup, Calvin Curbhopper leaves his studio Continue reading »
More Where That Came From Fans of Robert Burleigh's ode to basketball, Hoops, will be drawn into the soccer action from the opening page of Goal. ""Score tied. Muscles tense. Ball drops. After Continue reading »
Into the Woods: John James Audubon Lives His Dream
Robert Burleigh
Having previously written about Thoreau, Lindbergh and Babe Ruth, Burleigh continues his series of biographies of famous men in this poetic picture book about John James Audubon (1785-1851), Continue reading »
Stunning color photographs by Philip Plisson capture the beauty, danger and mystery of the deep in the oversize volume The Sea: Exploring Life on an Ocean Planet, adapted by Robert Burleigh, text Continue reading »
A gripping narrative and dynamic art immediately pull readers into the story of Earhart's historic 1932 solo transatlantic flight. Urgent yet lyrical, Burleigh's (One Giant Leap) account opens with Continue reading »
This playful biography of Mark Twain?narrated by his most famous of characters, Huckleberry Finn?begs to be read aloud with a backwoods twang. "Him bein' an author, you might 'spect he went to one of Continue reading »
Upbeat prose, photographs, and reproductions of George Bellows?s paintings provide an insightful homage to the urban artist and athlete who found inspiration in unlikely places. Burleigh places Continue reading »
MacDonald (Grumpy Grandpa) draws a ramblin? man?well, a ramblin? rabbit?who crosses the country from New York City to the Golden Gate, hitching rides, sleeping in haylofts, and lingering in diners. Continue reading »
Burleigh and GrandPr� blend the ancient and the contemporary in this bittersweet portrait of the former king of the dragons, who now hides alone in the sewers of a city: ?Weak, alone,/ He wades in Continue reading »
Burleigh puts a contemporary boy in jeans and a T-shirt at Thoreau?s door one morning as the sun comes up; readers stand at the boy?s shoulder as he finds Thoreau already at work. ?You would... see Continue reading »
Burleigh (George Bellows: Painter with a Punch!) investigates a woman astronomer who made a significant discovery in the 1900s when most women in her field ?were human ?computers.? Their job was to Continue reading »
?Wake up, city!? booms Burleigh in this companion to 2009?s Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! In an imaginary metropolis (where coffee is still just five cents a cup), all the vehicles?from bikes to Continue reading »
Burleigh and Minor (Abraham Lincoln Comes Home) pair up for another terrific profile of a famous American, this time artist Edward Hopper. Minor?s gouache watercolors (stunning works of art Continue reading »
Frequent collaborators Burleigh and Minor present a tense story of an attempt to free a humpback whale entangled in crab traps, based on a real-life event off the California coast in 2006. Burleigh Continue reading »
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
Robert Burleigh
Burleigh and Col�n follow 2013?s Look Up! with the story of another female scientist, Marie Tharp. Raised by a mapmaker, Tharp developed an early interest in exploring uncharted land; her Continue reading »
In chalky grayscale art with occasional splashes of color, a steam train from the 1930s and ?40s (identified by Minor as a Dreyfuss Hudson locomotive) rolls along through the night while a boy with a Continue reading »
A “The House That Jack Built” narrative structure gives a night of stargazing galactic dimensions in this expansive picture book. As the sun sets, a child cuddles on a blanket Continue reading »
Mushrooms provide an unconventional and earthy through line for this cozy bedtime book. Rhyming lines open with a simple introduction to different types of fungi (“This is a Continue reading »
Ogle pays clear-eyed tribute to his maternal abuela while covering heavy topics such as child abuse, financial precarity, and racism in this searing verse memoir, a standalone Continue reading »
Ireland (Dread Nation) delivers a knockout punch in this fantastical steampunk take on the Great Depression, in which the U.S. rebuilds after a magical blight throws the country Continue reading »