We Are Big Time by Hena Khan; illustrated by Safiya Zerrougui Knopf/Penguin Random House A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST KIDS’ BOOK AWARD WINNERAliya is new to Wisconsin, and everything feels different than Florida. The Islamic school is bigger, the city is colder, and her new basketball team is…well, they stink. Aliya’s still excited to have teammates (although the […]
Tacko Fall: To New Heights by Tacko Fall and Justin Haynes, illustrated by Reggie Brown Candlewick Tacko Fall was always tall, even as a child, but he wasn’t always a slam-dunk star. On his first official day of training as a boy in Senegal, running up and down the basketball court was exhausting. The first […]
Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974 by Jean-David Morvan Illustrated By Rafael Ortiz Photographed By Abbas Penguin Random House/Titan Comics Award-winning writer JD Morvan and renowned photographer Abbas’ stunning graphic novel masterpiece which uses iconic photos to uniquely illustrate the historical ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. On the 30th October […]