Wildlife Of The Artic For Kids by Wayne Lynch - AVISABLE

Wildlife Of The Arctic For Kids by Wayne Lynch. 128 pages. NON-FICTION. Fitzhenry Whiteside, 2024. $20. 9781554556298

Content: PG (animals eating other animals, animal death)

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: SEVERAL

Wildlife of the Arctic for Kids takes the reader on an interesting and informative trip through the Arctic. Many Arctic mammals are discussed including bears, wolves, foxes, caribou, weasels, hares, and others.  Arctic birds such as loons, cranes, puffins, snowy owls and more are also featured with Interesting facts.

Lynch is very thorough with beautiful pictures and easy to understand facts.  His love of the Arctic is evident.  Although it is not a quick read, it is well worth the time.

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Your Letter by Hyeon A Cho - ADVISABLE

Your Letter by Hyeon A Cho, 270 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL. Ize Press (Yen Press), 2024. $15.

Language: PG (3 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG

BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ADVISABLE

APPEALS TO: SEVERAL

Changing middle schools is difficult for Sori, not only because it’s mid-term but because she expects the students around her to be as mean as the students she left behind. Then Sori finds letter number one taped to the bottom of her desk—leading to more letters around the school and an unseen friend.

Kindness doesn’t have positive results for Sori at first, but she persists in doing the best she can with the circumstances she is in. The negative results affect her life, but Sori does not let them change who she is at heart. Beautifully illustrated, Sori’s story is an uplifting one about kindness being unexpectedly passed along and eventually returned.

The characters are Korean. The mature content rating is for illegal activity and partial nudity. The violence rating is for assault.

Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen