Kids Book Index
Riccardo Bozzi
This visual book uses a passage through a forest to represent the course of a life, from early innocence to its end. Painterly images, tactile material effects, die-cuts, embossed pages, cutouts, and two foldout spreads shape the journey. Its sensory presentation emphasizes the textures of the physical world and treats the forest voyage as a life-cycle metaphor as it moves forward.
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The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th CenturyNeal BascombDuring World War I, twenty-nine British prisoners of war risk their lives by tunneling beneath a German prisoner-of-war camp. The book recounts their escape from a camp holding troublesome Allied prisoners, including many skilled at escape. A group of pilots carries out the plan and makes it out of enemy territory during a difficult period of the war. Archival photographs, diagrams, and back matter accompany this account.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Swallow’s DanceWendy OrrOn an Aegean island in the Bronze Age, Leira is preparing to begin training as a priestess when a volcano erupts. The disaster overturns her life, destroys her family’s wealth, and leaves her mother injured. With her home and family shattered, Leira takes responsibility for her mother’s care. Set within a culture shaped by myth, the story follows her as she confronts the aftermath of the eruption and the uncertain future facing her family.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed ScienceJoyce SidmanThis visual biography follows Maria Merian, a seventeenth-century German naturalist, entomologist, and artist. It explores her life, her work observing living insects, and her scientific discoveries about metamorphosis. Merian pursued knowledge and insects despite conventions that limited women, documenting what she learned in her art. The book incorporates photographs, maps, archival material, and reproductions of her drawings, including many of her original paintings. Together, these materials connect her artwork with her investigations of insect life.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details