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 Daring Dozen: The Twelve Who Walked on the Moon by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Alan Marks

 Daring Dozen: The Twelve Who Walked on the Moon by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Alan Marks. Charlesbridge, 9781580897730, 2019

Format: Hardcover

Rating:  1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5

 What did you like about the book?  Daring Dozen chronicles the twelve pioneers who explored the moon over the course of three and a half years.  Readers will see how each mission built on the…

Basquiat, the Musical? Coming Soon…

Graffiti artist turned celebrity artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s story will soon be hitting the Great White Way. The show will be produced by Alan D. Marks (Dear, Evan Hansen) and Barbara Marks. The director is John Doyle (Sweeney Todd), and Jon Batiste, the current band leader for CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be the musical director.

The show will follow Basquiat’s rise from…

High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs

High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs, by Lisa Kahn Schnell and Illustrated by Alan Marks

Synopsis: Here come the horseshoe crabs!

Each spring, millions of horseshoe crabs lurch onto the shores of Delaware Bay. In the moist sand they mate and lay their eggs.

Here come the birds!

Drawn by the horseshoe crab eggs, thousands of migrating shore birds descend upon the bay. They are exhausted and very, very…

By Sandra Markle, illustrated by Alan Marks

Synopsis: Based on a true story, WAITING FOR ICE follows an orphaned polar bear cub as she struggles to find food on Wrangel Island, far north in the Arctic Ocean. Left alone at ten months old, the young female finds herself up against other bears who are bigger and stronger than she is—and just as hungry. Due to rising temperatures, the bears are…