This week’s crushes:
- Sweet, Sweet Baby! by Javaka Steptoe (Cartwheel Books, January 2022)
- The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice by Carole Boston Weatherford and Laura Freeman (Random House Studio, January 2022)
- Ear Worm! by Jo Knowles and Galia Bernstein (Candlewick Press, January 2022)
- Little Bee’s Flower by Jacob Souva (West Margin Press, October 2021)
- And… by Philippe Jalbert (Berbay Publishing, October 2021)
- Love Is for Roaring by Mike Kerr and Renata Liwska (Bloomsbury Publishing, PLC, January 2022)
- The Animal Show by Marcos Farina (Little Gestalten, January 2022)
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January 22, 2022 at 11:33AM noreply@blogger.com (Mel Schuit)