Trade Review Roundup: Week of February 18

We are happy to share trade reviews for titles across all of our imprints this week. Click "Read More" below for all of the details.

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Publishers Weekly reviewed The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green by Erica Boyce

Boyce’s debut is a dexterous blend of love, loss, work, and fortitude.

Read the full review online here.

Erica Boyce is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and a corgi named Finn. The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green will be out April 2019. 

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Publishers Weekly reviewed Drowned Under by Wendall Thomas

Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum will cotton to Cyd.

Read the full review online here.

Wendall Thomas teaches in the Graduate Film School at UCLA, lectures internationally on screenwriting, and has worked as an entertainment reporter, script consultant, and film and television writer. Her novel Lost Luggage was nominated for the Lefty and Macavity awards for Best Debut Mystery.

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Publishers Weekly reviewed Thinker by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Ehsan Abdollahi

Greenfield sensitively conveys Jace’s anxiety about being perceived as different, and his realization that being true to one’s self is the best bet—for kids and dog poets, too.

Read the full review online here.

ELOISE GREENFIELD was born on 17 May 1929 in Parmele, North Carolina and grew up in Washington, DC, where she still lives. She has received many awards and honors, including the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and, for the body of her work, the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English.

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Ehsan Abdollahi teaches at Tehran’s top Honar (Art) University and has illustrated a number of children’s books published in English by Tiny Owl, including When I Coloured in the World, by one of Iran’s best-known living poets, Ahmadreza Ahmadi.

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The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books reviewed Lexie’s Little Lie by Emma Sheva

A heartfelt story of a loving Greek family from the perspective of Lexie, an otherwise honest do-gooder who is trying to understand that not all lies are the same.”

Read the full review in the March edition of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Emma Shevah is half-Irish and half-Thai and was born and raised in London but now lives in Brighton, England. She runs the literary club at New York University in London and teaches English at Francis Holland School. Her novel Dream On, Amber received a 2017 Odyssey Honor Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults. Visit Emma at emmashevah.com.

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