Avi, illus. by Brian Floca. S&S/Atheneum/Jackson, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4424-9921-8
Part survival story and part coming-of-age tale, Avi's (Catch You Later, Traitor) novel is told from the alternating points of view of two hunters: Nashoba, an aging wolf, and Casey, a 13-year-old country boy. Despite a leg injury and growing...
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Brian Floca, Author . Atheneum/Jackson $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-85091-2
Floca (Five Trucks
) brings a whole new meaning to the term "accelerated learning" with this journey through the alphabet, framed as a history of the race car. Although his alliterative text doesn't always possess the purr of a high...
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Brian Floca, Author . Atheneum/Jackson $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5046-2
Several publishers are issuing children's books this season in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11
moon landing. Here are some that shine.
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
Brian Floca
. Atheneum/Jackson
, $17.99 (48p) ISBN...
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Brian Floca, Author, Brian Floca, Illustrator . Atheneum/Jackson $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2436-4
With straightforward, compelling prose and crisply detailed narrative ink drawings, Floca (The Racecar Alphabet
) creates an engrossing portrayal of a now-vanished nautical practice (according to a closing author's note). "Here is a ship...
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Brian Floca. S&S/Atheneum/Jackson, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9415-2
In 1869, not long after the golden spike is driven into the rails at Promontory Summit, a mother and her two children climb aboard the Transcontinental Railroad, leaving behind their old life in Omaha for a new one in California, where Papa awaits....
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Brian Floca. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-9377-3
With his signature affection for architecture and keen sense of urban space, Caldecott Medalist Floca pays tribute to the frontline workers helping to make New York City run during the pandemic. The book opens on deserted city streets bathed in soft
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Brian Floca, illus. by Sydney Smith. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5647-5
The wind blows hard, and two children—one taller, one smaller—pull on their boots. “Now take my hand,” one says, “and we’ll go see/ the sea before the storm.” Caldecott Medalist Floca, here taking the role of author, employs atmospheric verse to...
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