from Bow-Wow’s Nightmare Neighbors

The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October issue of the Magazine:

Draw!; written and illustrated by Raúl Colón (Wiseman/Simon)

The Lion and the Bird; written and illustrated by Marianne Dubuc; trans. from the French by Claudia Z. Bedrick (Enchanted Lion)

Viva Frida; by Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author with photos by Tim O’Meara (Porter/Roaring Brook)

Bow-Wow’s Nightmare Neighbors; by Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash (Porter/Roaring Brook)

The Madman of Piney Woods; by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)

Nine Open Arms; by Benny Lindelauf; trans. from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen (Enchanted Lion)

Egg & Spoon; by Gregory Maguire (Candlewick)

Rain Reign; by Ann M. Martin (Feiwel & Friends)

Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty; by Christine Heppermann; photos by various artists (Greenwillow)

Brown Girl Dreaming; by Jacqueline Woodson (Paulsen/Penguin)

Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth; by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm; illus. by Molly Bang (Blue Sky/Scholastic)

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands; written and illustrated by Katherine Roy (David Macaulay Studio/Roaring Brook)