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Susan Olasky

Susan is a book reviewer, story coach, feature writer and editor for WORLD. She has authored eight historical novels for children and teaches twice a year at World Journalism Institute. Susan resides with her husband, Marvin, in Austin, Texas. Follow her on Twitter @susanolasky.

Pictures and poetry

Children’s Books | Four recent picture books
by Susan Olasky
Posted 5/24/18, 12:14 pm

The Horse’s Haiku

Michael J. Rosen

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Books about the 1918 flu

Books
by Susan Olasky
Posted 5/10/18, 03:20 pm

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 

Gina Kolata

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Recent nonfiction books

Books
by Susan Olasky
Posted 3/29/18, 03:15 pm

iGen: Why today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing up Less Rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood …

Jean M. Twenge

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Four recent novels

Books

Susan Olasky | 3/15/18, 11:21 am

Every Note Played 

Lisa Genova

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Ages and stages

Children’s Books | Four recent picture books

Susan Olasky | 3/01/18, 04:00 pm

I’m a Duck 

Eve Bunting

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Off the pages, into the heart

Children’s Books of the Year | PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR: WORLD’s 2018 Children’s Books of the Year section begins with a psalm-inspired story of classmate reconciliation

Susan Olasky | 2/01/18, 03:46 pm

We publish in each issue one page of children’s book reviews, and we feature each year a special section spotlighting what our reviewers believe are the previous year’s most attention-worthy kids’ books in the fiction, nonfiction, and picture book categories. Of all the books published in 2017, our WORLD Picture Book of the Year is The Watcher (Eerdmans). Author Nikki Grimes and illustrator Bryan Collier developed it for an audience older—8 and up—than typical picture book users. It begins with the text of Psalm 121 laid out above a collage cityscape.

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Books about women’s lives

Books

Susan Olasky | 2/01/18, 02:19 pm

Eden’s Outcasts: The story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father 

John Matteson

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Recent nonfiction books

Books

Susan Olasky | 1/18/18, 03:20 pm

Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters 

Erica Komisar

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Fantastic tales

Children’s Books | Four middle-grade novels

Susan Olasky | 1/04/18, 12:36 pm

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 

Karina Yan Glaser

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Exploits and escapades

Children’s Books | Four boy-friendly adventures

Emily Whitten & Susan Olasky | 12/14/17, 02:42 pm

Code Name Flood (Edge of Extinction)

Laura Martin

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