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Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, introduction by Craig Thompson
Daytripper is a gift of unexpected brilliance. That’s all you really need to know. And just as I soooooo appreciated knowing almost nothing about this title before I opened its enticing pages, I will...
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From Another World by Ana Maria Machado, translated by Luisa Baeta, with...
If the writing is a bit stilted and uneven in this middle grade novel, Ana Maria Machado – one of Brazil’s preeminent writers for children – has a plausible excuse. Her fictional writer/narrator here...
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Me in the Middle by Ana Maria Machado, translated by David Unger, with...
Here’s another intriguing premise from Ana Maria Machado – one of Brazil’s preeminent writers for children, and winner of the highly prestigious 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing … this...
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Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match | Marisol McDonald no combina by Monica Brown,...
With prolonged bleak skies across the East Coast thanks to Katia, Lee, and incoming Nate (not to mention recovery from Irene), Marisol McDonald is one brilliant, rambunctious, delightful diversion. “My...
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Señora Honeycomb by Fanny Buitrago, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Little orphan Teodora promises her dying godmother to look after her worthless bed-hopping son. Raised Cinderella-style in a small village in Colombia, Teodora willingly enslaves herself to ensure...
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The Island of the Dead by Lya Luft, translated by Carmen Chaves McClendon and...
An 18-year-old boy, Camilo, is dead, his youthful body prepared and confined forever in a coffin that now sits in a living room, attended by his estranged parents on either side. Through the course of...
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The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís
“On a continent of many songs, in a country shaped like the arm of a guitarrista, the rain drummed down on the town of Temuco [Chile],” the invitingly dreamy Dreamer begins. Neftalí Reyes, the...
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River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Being always a dozen or so titles behind, a confluence of certain events seem to need to happen for some posts to finally get from my brain to the … uh … the virtual world. First things first: River of...
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Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral
The words “A Novel” adorn the top of the cover of Chopsticks – but that’s definitely a debatable label. No such limits necessary here! A hybrid creation by novelist/short story writer Jessica Anthony...
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What a Party! by Ana Maria Machado, illustrated by Hélène Moreau, translated...
In the same delightful, sequential fun of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – if you do x, then y happens – Brazilian überauthor of more than a hundred books, Ana Maria Machado, puts on a party of epic...
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Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon
After surviving the Korean War, Yohan spends another year in a prisoner-of-war camp south of the new border that splits the country in two. Rather than return north, where no one awaits him, Yohan...
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Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende, translated by Anne McLean
I’ve never seen, but have read about (no surprise) the international popularity of telenovelas, but I imagine that if this, Isabel Allende‘s latest novel, was transferred to the little screen, it would...
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Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash | Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual...
In case you need an introduction to the “unique, different, and one of a kind” Marisol McDonald, check out her 2011 debut here: Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match. Now that she’s starring in her second...
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Numeralia by Jorge Luján, illustrated by Isol, translated by Susan Ouriou
Alphabet and counting books are understandably so predictable as to often be interchangeable in their sameness. ABCs and 123s are really immutable … or are they? To stand out in such a saturated genre...
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Ripper by Isabel Allende, translated by Ollie Brock and Frank Wynne
Just as her latest book was hitting shelves, the near-deified Isabel Allende opened mouth, inserted foot during an interview on NPR and set off a firestorm of negative reaction. On mysteries, she...
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