Merri Lindgren, librarian at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center in the School of Education at UW-Madison, compiled a list of book recommendations for our show on October 28th. The selections include new books in 2021 as well as books that share themes with the book Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
Books for children and teens sharing themes with Transcendent Kingdom:
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
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By Deborah Heiligman
Henry Holt, 2009
(Age 14 and older)
The Place Between Breaths
By An Na
Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster, 2018
(Age 13 and older)
What Stars Are Made Of
By Sarah Allen
Farrar Straus Giroux / Macmillan, 2020
(Ages 9-12)
Recent books for middle grades about women in the sciences:
Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math
By Jeannine Atkins
Atheneum / Simon & Schuster, 2020
(Age 10 and older)
Eclipse Chaser: Science in the Moon’s Shadow
(Scientists in the Field)
Ilima Loomis
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019
(Ages 10-14)
New picture book biographies of women scientists:
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
By Traci Sorell
Millbrook Press, 2021
The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe
By Sandra Nickel
Abrams, 2021
Recent picture book stories highlighting girls and science:
Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet
By Curtis Manley
Roaring Brook, 2019
Bird Count
By Susan Edwards Richmond
Peachtree, 2019
Astro Girl
By Ken Wilson-Max
Candlewick, 2019
General — Great new books in 2021:
Rosa Loves Cars
Rosa Plays Ball
By Jessica Spanyol
Child’s Place, 2021
Dual language texts: English / Spanish
I Am Not a Penguin: A Pangolin’s Lament
By Liz Wong
Knopf, 2021
The Cot in the Living Room
By Hilda Eunice Burgos
Kokila, 2021
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
By Eugene Yelchin
Candlewick, 2021
Too Bright to See
By Kyle Lukoff
Dial, 2021
DaVinci’s Cat
By Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Greenwillow, 2021
Firekeeper’s Daughter
By Angeline Boulley
Henry Holt, 2021
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