Beth Anderson, Author . THE HABITABLE WORLD Instance $10 (80p) ISBN 978-0-9679854-1-1
These debuts are mostly off the beaten path of traditional prize or university-based first book publication, yet are vital, accessible and engaging. All will be released by this month.Beth Anderson. THE HABITABLE WORLDInstance (SPD, dist.), $10...
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Beth Anderson, Author . Burning Deck $10 (78p) ISBN 978-1-886224-69-8
"I would prefer to avoid crescendo in these cacophonous times/ inundated with mess," states the speaker of "The Scale of Largesse," one of the many meticulously built and brilliantly absorbing poems in Anderson's second...
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Beth Anderson, illus. by Elizabeth Baddeley. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-0555-4
Anderson’s debut picture book details the origins of Noah Webster’s first American English dictionary and the struggles of Webster and Benjamin Franklin to help unify the new country through language in the 1780s. After laboring alone to streamline...
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Beth Anderson, illus. by Caroline Hamel. Kids Can, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5253-0325-8
Franz Gsellmann (1910–1981) grew up on a farm in Austria, and even as his mother called him to chores, “a tiny whisper called him to imagine, discover, create.” Inspired by a world’s fair exhibition, Franz, portrayed with pale skin and blue hair,...
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Beth Anderson, illus. by E.B. Lewis. Calkins Creek, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62979-939-1
On July 16, 1854, “Lizzie Jennings was in a hurry. A big hurry. The kind of hurry she couldn’t hold back.” When a New York streetcar conductor tries to stop her from entering a car reserved for whites, she protests. “Despite being born a ‘free black’
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Beth Anderson, illus. by Jenn Harney. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-68437-399-4
This picture book biography highlights a little-known figure: James “Smelly” Kelly, an Irish immigrant whose excellent sense of smell helped ensure the safety of the New York City subway system in the mid-20th century. In compelling prose, Anderson...
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