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Sometimes, though-the best times-it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.Ahead of today’s release (November 9), we caught up with Becker via email, where we talked about working as both the writer and artist, her love of YA audiences, learning Japanese, and much, much more.ĪIPT: What’s your elevator pitch for this book/project? Do you think it’s all like “X meets X”? Out before us stretches a new century, and its story is still unwritten.” ―Hope Jahren, The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults): How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here Our history books contain so much-extravagance and deprivation, catastrophe and industry, triumph and defeat-but they don’t yet include us. We are troubled, we are imperfect, but we are many, and we are doomed only if we believe ourselves to be. "What can seven billion people do that three billion people could not? is the question of my life so far. It is delicate and slightly bitter, like Mom’s memories of home.” –Andrea Wang, Watercress I take a bite of the watercress and it bites me back with its spicy, peppery taste. “I look from my uncle’s hollow face to the watercress on the table and I am ashamed of being ashamed of my family.

Kimberly Olson Fakih, Senior Editor, Picture Books Humberto Ak’abal, Aquí era el paraíso/Here Was Paradise: Selección de poemas de Humberto Ak’abal/Selected Poems of Humberto Ak’abal "What makes something real? Is it only real if you can touch it? Is it only real if someone else agrees that it is? Is it only real if it lasts forever? Maybe it doesn't matter.however short.whether we remember in ten years, or in twenty.whether anyone acknowledges that it happened or not.it was real to me.and isn't that enough?" -Harmony Becker, Himawari HouseĪl amanecer guardamos la noche en ollas viejas debajo de piedras y en los tapancos.Īt dawn we put away the night in old pots under stones and in lofts. Mahnaz Dar, Senior Editor, Reference/Professional Reading

Here’s to more happy reading in the new year! Here are some of these unforgettable quotations from this year’s Best Books. In the infinite amount of words we’ve read this year, sometimes there are lines that stick out and linger, burrowing themselves in our memories. We can’t believe 2021 is almost behind us! As we look forward to 2022, the SLJ reviews editors have compiled a series of “favorites” roundups.