David Michael Slater. Library Tales, $17.99 trade paper (226p) ISBN 978-0-615-77415-2
Jon is a normal teenager about to start college, but in Slater’s novel he finds that he can’t move forward in life until he comes to terms with his family’s past. While his grandmother is a Holocaust survivor, his father vehemently avoids religion....
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David Michael Slater, illus. by Doug Keith. Simply Read (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (36p) ISBN 978-1-897476-19-2
Slater (Cheese Louise!) wordless picture book has a message—but what is it? In a series of gray penciled spreads, a grandfather distracts a pair of fractious grandchildren by showing them the secret door to his attic. There they discover a stack of...
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David Michael Slater, illus. by Bob Kolar. Charlesbridge, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58089-562-0
Slater’s (The Bored Book) wordless story seems headed toward a lesson about mistreating library books, but the lesson turns out to be one of surprising compassion. The book abuser is a young library visitor with a mop of black hair who grabs a blue...
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