Inhaltsverzeichnis für Vol. 119, No. 3, 10/1/22 in Booklist

The Art of the Board: Fun & Fancy Snack Boards, Recipes & Ideas for Entertaining All Year. By Olivia Carney. Oct. 2022. 224p. illus. Gibbs Smith, $27.99 (9781423661368). 641.5. Streamlined. Simple. Two words that characterize today’s new cooking style. Boards of foodstuffs assembled for deluxe grazing might be the appetizer version of the sheet pan meal. As the first to offer an “ultimate” guide to creating these boards, Carney (aka @charcuterie. chick) goes beyond the expected with plans for 40-plus seasonal boards, along with more than 30 recipes for dips, snacks, cocktails, and more: mulled wine, elote dip, an easy-to-develop “cake” made from stacked wheels of cheese. After the upfront how-to’s on accessories and ingredients, the fun begins, with each creation including board size, serving numbers, foodstuffs, any needed step-by-step…

Older Readers Asexual. By Jeremy Quist. 2022. 96p. illus. Mason Crest, lib. ed., $26.95 (9781422246955). Gr. 7–12. 305.8. This volume in the Gender Identities and Sexual Expressions series (7 titles) addresses the A in the acronym LGBTQIA+, defining asex ual as “a sexual orientation in which a person is not sexually attracted to anyone.” It quickly becomes apparent that asexuality is more complex than this and better viewed as an umbrella term that covers many identities, including aromantic, gray romantic, heteromantic, and homoromantic. All of these are defined and discussed in the book’s five chapters, which examine personal identity, living authentically and healthily, and coming out. Each chapter concludes with text-dependent questions and suggestions for research projects. The book is replete with color photographs of young people and icons identifying supplementary…

What exactly constitutes a dumpling is a matter of some debate, but a few things are certain: dumplings require a collective effort to make, and they are delicious. Like Francie Dekker and Sarah Jung’s Our World of Dumplings and Maple Lam’s Dim Sum, Here We Come! (reviews adjacent), the following titles show families and friends eating a wide variety of dumplings and often working together to make them—it always somehow takes more than one set of hands. Whether they’re part of old traditions or new ones, the scrumptious, bite-sized treats at the center of each of these stories will get mouths watering. Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao. By Kat Zhang. Illus. by Charlene Chua. 2019. Aladdin, $17.99 (9781534411333). PreS–Gr. 2. When little Amy tries to make bao, hers are…

Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me. By Sutanya Dacres. Read by Imani Jade Powers. 2022. 8.5hrs. HarperAudio, DD (9781488214691). Dacres, host of the Dinner for One podcast, reveals the origins of her love for French cuisine in this poignant memoir. In a burst of romance, Dacres falls in love with a handsome Frenchman she meets in a Soho bar. Their chance meeting leads to months of increasingly intense emails before Dacres uproots her life in the U.S., moves to Paris, and eventually marries her Frenchman. But after nearly three years the attraction has dimmed and the author finds herself alone and despondent. Life is complicated for a Jamaican-born American alone in Paris with limited French-language skills. So Dacres turns inward to find her passions. In an attempt…

Sondheim & Me “A trove of fascinating insights and unexpected tidbits to delight even the most well-versed Sondheimite.”—BOB MONDELLO, NPR HC: 978-1-61088-592-8 | Ebook: 978-1-61088-594-2 Audio: 978-1-61088-596-6 Must Read Well “Beautifully crafted, suspenseful, and timely.”—GERALDINE BROOKS, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF MARCH, HORSE, AND YEAR OF WONDERS HC: 978-1-61088-542-3 | Ebook: 978-1-61088-544-7 Audio: 978-1-61088-546-1 Daisy “Stunning and beautifully crafted, Daisy is both a love letter to Fitzgerald’s original and a fresh and enriching take on the classic. A MUST READ!”—REEDSY DISCOVERY REVIEWS HC: 978-1-61088-587-4 | Ebook: 978-1-61088-589-8 Audio: 978-1-61088-591-1 Dissection “High stakes, breathless suspense, and real insider authenticity—a terrific debut.”—LEE CHILD, NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR HC: 978-1-61088-557-7 | Ebook: 978-1-61088-559-1 Audio: 978-1-61088-561-4 Young Mad, Muddled “In his debut memoir, essayist, biographer, and nonfiction writer Kanigel recounts his life in the 1960s, when…

Various writers recall the foods that accompanied them in good times and bad in My First Popsicle (review adjacent): a grandmother’s unparalleled kindness and peanut butter cookies; a breakup forever linked with a delicious, unwieldy meatball. These memoirs and anthologies prove again and again food’s amazing tendency to create indelible memories. Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs. By Beth Ricanati. 2018. She Writes, $16.95 (9781631524417). Ricanati’s memoir with recipes reminds us that taking a break from life to create something nourishing is a great way to reconnect with one’s self, spiritually and mentally. The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart. By Emily Nunn. 2017. Atria, $19.99 (9781451674224). In the wake of multiple personal tragedies, Nunn visited friends and family, cooked for…

Howard Reeves, Editor-at-Large at Abrams Children’s Books, says of the format, “Narrative nonfiction can offer a different set of voices and eyes, backed up by interviews and first-person accounts as well as photographs and videos, that other nonfiction can’t do or doesn’t do.” Mary Cronk Farrell’s Close-Up on War: The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam, which Reeves edited, exemplifies this approach, incorporating not only Leroy’s own photojournalism but reproductions of letters and documents from Leroy’s archive. The images and text together offer not only a picture of the war in Vietnam but an account of the war from the perspective of a woman many considered unfit for the task at hand—one that can only bolster our collective understanding of the period. Candacy Taylor’s Overground Railroad: The Green…

One of a Kind Kids who like to absorb as much as they can about each dinosaur may want to start with species-specific books. Several series make it easy, with volumes on individual dinosaurs. Lerner’s Mighty Dinosaurs series, for example, introduces such favorites as T. rex, Stegosaurus, and Pterodactyl to the youngest set, using spreads that feature a simple sentence on one side and a large corresponding illustration on the facing page. The Mighty Brontosaurus (2022) relates basic information about this dinosaur, emphasizing its long neck and how it was used to eat plants, and concludes with a labeled dinosaur illustration. ABDO’s Dinosaurs series, from the Dash! imprint, presents even more individual dinosaur varieties in its early readers, replete with double-page, action-packed illustrations. For elementary students reading more text,…

Gather your spare body parts and settle in for an eerie read. It’s October and Frankenstein season once more, and the enduring classic created by a teenage girl on holiday has its fair share of adaptations, explorations, and inspirations to excite readers of every age. The latest title in the Lady Janie’s series—My Imaginary Mary, which came out this August and is very loosely based on the life of Mary Shelley—is one of the most recent versions. Whether you’re an experienced YA fan or looking for a title for a younger reader, these books will introduce the iconic monster in a variety of fascinating ways. Older Readers Anatomy: A Love Story. By Dana Schwarz. 2021. Wednesday. Gr. 9–12. A young woman who wants to be a surgeon and a resurrection…