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December 2025

December 2025 Book Reviews

Springtime Storks: A Migration Love Story

By Carol Joy Munro, illustrated by Chelsea O’Byrne. Minerva, 2024. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. “There’s lots…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton with Nicola

December 2025 Book Reviews

Mindful Nature: Connecting with Our Great Green World

By Paige Towler. Magination Press, 2025. 32 pages. $21.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. In this picture book, simple text…

Reviewed by Rebecca Robinson

December 2025 Book Reviews

The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist

By Patricia Daniele, illustrated by Junyi Wu. MIT Kids Press, 2025. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8.…

Reviewed by Laura Barrosse-Antle

December 2025 Book Reviews

Trouble Dog: From Shelter Dog to Conservation Hero

By Carol A. Foote, illustrated by Larry Day. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2025. 48 pages. $18.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages…

Reviewed by Sandy and Tom Farley

December 2025 Book Reviews

Finding Rebecca: The Forgotten Life of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, America’s First Black Female Doctor

By Shani Mahiri King, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell. Tilbury House Publishers, 2024. 64 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $17.48/eBook. Recommended for ages 6–12.…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

December 2025 Book Reviews

If I Could Choose a Best Day: Poems of Possibility

Selected by Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illustrated by Olivia Sua. Candlewick Press, 2025. 64 pages. $19.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended…

Reviewed by David Austin

December 2025 Book Reviews

Answers to Dog

By Pete Hautman. Candlewick Press, 2024. 240 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $9.99/paperback or eBook. Recommended for ages 9–12. Answers to Dog is…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

December 2025 Book Reviews

The Pecan Sheller

By Lupe Ruiz-Flores. Carolrhoda Books, 2025. 256 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10–14. If you know Texas, then you…

Reviewed by Cassie J. Hardee

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The Sweet Benefits of Pruning

When my wife and I purchased our home in Elkins Park, Pa., she was pleased to discover a mature pear… Ralph Lelii

Darita Rose Alden

Alden—Darita Rose Alden, 75, on May 12, 2024, after a long struggle with cancer in Eugene, Ore. She was born… Staff

Grace Chawner Bowles

Bowles—Grace Chawner Bowles, 89, on May 4, 2025, peacefully, in Greensboro, N.C. Grace, who went by the name Gay for… Staff

Martha Allen Murdock

Murdock—Martha Allen Murdock, 97, on December 17, 2024, at a retirement community in Branford, Conn. Born on February 17, 1927,… Staff
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