Selina Alko. Holt/Ottaviano, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9213-4
Alko (My Subway Ride), among the most visually eloquent promoters of junior-sized urbanism, turns her talents to the multicultural New York City borough of Brooklyn. It’s a love letter through and through—there isn’t even a scintilla of Portlandia-st
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Selina Alko. Knopf, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-86093-5
“I am a mix of two traditions,” begins Sadie’s story of her family’s way of blending religious traditions. Like the image of the dining table surrounded by a hodge-podge of mismatched chairs, each picture underscores the theme of blending elements...
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Selina Alko, illus. by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-47853-3
In their first picture book together, the husband-and-wife team of Alko (B Is for Brooklyn) and Qualls (Freedom Song) skillfully chronicle a vital moment in the civil rights movement, telling the story of Richard and Mildred Loving. Because...
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Selina Alko. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-57063-3
Alko’s detail-rich biographical poems and charismatic acrylic and collage illustrations result in an exuberant homage to Judy Blume. A titular piece, “Judy the Great,” begins by celebrating the subject’s birth, and proceeding free verse progresses...
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Selina Alko. HarperCollins, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-267129-5
This loose biography of the legendary singer-songwriter centers on Mitchell’s feelings while tying popular songs (“Chelsea Morning,” “Woodstock”) to biographical moments. This emphasis, rendered in affirmational language—“hearing all these natural...
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Selina Alko. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-16381-3
Alko brings her signature mixed-media collage art into a classroom setting through this counting tale with a timely and timeless seminal message. Each spread displays items for readers to count as an inclusive cast of students listen to “four...
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Selina Alko. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-250-23786-6
Author-illustrator Alko, a Canadian emigrant to the U.S., presents an abecedarian companion to her B Is for Brooklyn that celebrates multicultural elements found within the U.S., including food (bubble tea, falafel, guacamole), instruments (drums,...
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