Kids Book Index
Lulu Delacre, illustrated by Lulu Delacre
After Mami loses her job during COVID, she plays Veo, Veo, or I Spy, with her children. Together they look for essential workers throughout their diverse community. The dialogue moves between Spanish and English as the family’s game turns attention toward the people working around them, including Mami, a cook at Rosita’s Cafe.
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Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an EpidemicDr. Shan Woo Liu, Kaili Liu GormleyThis biography introduces Dr. Wu Lien-teh and his efforts to stop an epidemic. Written by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician, it highlights the use of masks and isolation in addressing disease outbreaks. It also connects Wu’s invention during the Manchurian plague with its use by his descendant during a pandemic roughly a century later, placing his life and work in a longer history of public health.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Animals in Surprising Shades: Poems about Earth’s Colorful CreaturesSusan Johnston TaylorAnimals in Surprising Shades is a collection of poems about colorful creatures from around the world. Its subjects include birds, bugs, snails, and slugs, whose feathers, fur, skin, or scales show many colors. The book also considers why a blue-footed booby dances and how a Picasso bug uses a chemical defense against predators. The poems pair animal color with behavior and survival.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Virginia Wouldn’t Slow Down: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving InventionCarrie A. PearsonThis portrait follows Dr. Virginia Apgar from a childhood in which she resisted limits placed on girls and women to her work in anesthesiology. During the Great Depression, she set aside her plan to become a surgeon because anesthesiology offered better employment prospects. While attending births and monitoring mothers’ health, she recognized a need to assess newborns’ condition. In 1949, she created a five-point scale that later became known as APGAR and was widely adopted in the United States and elsewhere.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details