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Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin: Ain't Burned All the Bright (Hardcover, 2022, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing) 4 stars

Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to …

something else, something remembered and lived

3 stars

A moving poem about the summer of 2020 and all the pain and loss and breathing that raises up, with iterative raw illustrations, some of which evoke so much in a ragged shadow or stroke when paired with a phrase or lone word. Would have made a stunning museum installation, I'm not entirely sure how well it works as a 15-minute 300 page hardback.