*book group selection | bolded means favorite
Picture Books
*The Littlest Drop by Sascha Alper, Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
*Sundust by Zeke Peña
*The History of We by Nikkolas Smith
*A Place for Us by James Ransome
*This Year, a Witch! by Zoey Abbott
*Don’t Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson and Dan Santat
*Dancing With Water by Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel
*The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio
*In the World of Whales by Michelle Cusolito and Jessica Lanan
Middle Grade
*A Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation by Pablo Cartaya
*The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz
Grownup Fiction
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand
One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
Turns out that Yoon doesn’t only write great YA fiction, she also writes incredibly readable thrillers.
Young Nonfiction
*The Black Mambas: The World’s First All-Woman Anti-Poaching Unit by Kelly Crull
Grownup Nonfiction
[Turns out that this book was so nice, I reviewed it twice. There’s an August review, too.]
SEW . . . The Garment-Making Book of Knowledge: Real-Life Lessons from a Serial Sewist by Barbara Emodi
I’ve read or paged through a lot of sewing books this year. They are mostly all the same. This one is different. It gives an overview of how to make garments and it also includes practical tips about various things you didn’t know you need to know.
I was hoping this book was one sewing book of many by Emodi, but she seems to have switched over to writing fiction. Too bad.