In this issue we review This Woman's Work, edited by Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon, 16 essays by women who see the politics in making music; Irish writer Colin Barrett's second story collection, Homesickness; Bee & Flea and the Compost Caper by Anna Humphrey, illustrated by Mike Deas, celebrating the interdependence of creatures great and small; plus many more!
In The Writer's Life, Emily X.R. Pan--a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Carnegie Medal for her debut, The Astonishing Color of After--talks about her second book, An Arrow to the Moon, with Newbery Honor author Christina Soontornvat, whose fifth book is The Last Mapmaker.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness