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I HATE BORSCH! Yevgenia Nayberg’s photo. (Eerdmans, $17.99, ages 4-8) Growing up in Kiev, a girl who hates Ukraine’s national dish (“Robinson Crusoe” stranded on a deserted sour cream island in the Red Sea) gets annoyed when she moves. A brave, expressionist fairy tale homage to America, the homeland of Nayberg. A recipe is included.
WE ARE WOLDS, Katrina Nannestad’s photo. Illustrated by Martina Heiduczek. (Caitlyn Dlouhy/Atheneum, $17.99, ages 10-14.) II. This historical novel about orphaned German children sheltering on their own in the forests at the end of World War II reminds young readers that there are victims on both sides of the war.
LARGE AND SMALL AND BETWEEN, by Carter Higgins. Drawn by Daniel Miyares. (Chronic, $18.99, ages 3 to 5) Size is all about perspective in this highly moving, captivating picture book. And it’s changing: As the witty paperwork that starts each chapter is unfolded and folded back, so do our minds and hearts.
CHESTER VAN CILI, FORGOTTING HOW IT WAS DONE, By Avery Monsen. Drawn by Abby Hanlon. (Little, Brown, $17.99, ages 4-8) “Chester loved to rhyme in poetry or song. / It always felt right, but today… it just isn’t right.” Joy reaches heights as the wordplay turns upside down until Chester realizes that we all have bad days.
LIFE IN ROCKS: Building a Future for Coral Reefs, by Juli Berwald. (Riverhead, $28.) An oceanographer describes coral reefs being “attacked by a range of environmental stressors” and describes her attempts to parent a child struggling with mental health in this promising mix of science writings and memories.
ONE THING TO ATTENTION, David Foster Wallace’s photo. (McNally Editions, $18.) A young man—who describes himself as a “wastoid”—travels through the 1970s Midwest until a brush with advanced tax laws changes his life. Found in the notes that became “The Pale King,” this novel is the epitome of David Foster Wallace’s late style.
LEARNING AMERICA: A Woman’s Struggle for Educational Justice for Refugee Children, Luma Mufleh’s photo. (Mariner, $27.) The founder of a nonprofit dedicated to educating refugees tells the story of starting out in a Georgian refugee settlement community in 2004, helping children navigate systems that “have no idea what to do with them.”
THE GO-BETWEEN: A Portrait of Growing Between Different Worlds, Osman Yusufzada. (Canongate, $25.) The British artist and designer chronicles his life growing up in a devout Pashtun community in Birmingham’s red-light district of the 1980s and 1990s.
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