Sonderbooks Book Reviews

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March 9, 2026

Muck and Magic, by Michael Murpurgo, illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill, is a meditative story for kids about the magic found in both horses and sculpting.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund

Nonfiction

Who Is Government?

edited by Michael Lewis
read by the Authors

A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

by Wilda C. Gafney

Children's Nonfiction

Adventures in Math

written by Carleigh Wu
illustrated by Sean Simpson

How to Hatch

by Sara Holly Ackerman
illustrated by Galia Bernstein

Fiction

The Magician of Tiger Castle

by Louis Sachar
read by Edoardo Ballerini

The Enchanted Greenhouse

by Sarah Beth Durst
read by Caitlin Davies

Children's Fiction

Muck and Magic

by Michael Morpurgo
illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill

A Sea of Lemon Trees

by María Dolores Águila

Old Favorites

The Man Who Counted

by Malba Tahan

Teen Fiction

The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal

by Ambika Vohra

The Secret Astronomers

by Jessica Walker

Teen Nonfiction

Trans History

by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett
read by a full cast

The Woman in the Moon

by Richard Maurer

Picture Books

Because of a Shoe

by Julie Fogliano & Marla Frazee

Seven Little Ducklings

by Annette LeBlanc Cate