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Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story

By Marc Tyler Nobleman, illustrated by Melissa Iwai. Clarion Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 6–9.

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Where Are You Hiding, God?

By Elisabeth Zartl. Westminster John Knox Press, 2017. 24 pages. $12/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–8. Since the original title of…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us

By Mark Yaconelli. Broadleaf Books, 2022. 206 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $22.99/eBook. For my last Friends Journal book review, of Within Our…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems about Sleeping Animals

By Kate Hosford, illustrated by Jennifer M. Potter. Running Press Kids, 2019. 40 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8.…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Hand Over Hand

By Alma Fullerton, illustrated by Renné Benoit. Second Story Press, 2017. 24 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–8. A summer…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Watch Out for Flying Kids! How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community

By Cynthia Levinson. Peachtree Publishers, 2015. 216 pages. $22.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 10 and up. Messages in Quaker meetings are…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

A Year of Borrowed Men

By Michelle Barker, illustrated by Renne Benoit. Pajama Press, 2015. 40 pages. $18.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 6–9. As a child…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

The Geese March in Step

By Jean-François Dumont. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2014. 32 pages. $16/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–8. I thoroughly enjoyed this…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton