Newly Published, From Borscht to David Foster Wallace

I HATE BORSCH! by Yevgenia Nayberg. (Eerdmans, $17.99, ages 4 to eight.) A lady who detests the nationwide dish of Ukraine whereas rising up in Kyiv (she’s “Robinson Crusoe, caught on a abandoned island of bitter cream in a crimson sea”) craves it when she strikes to America, in Nayberg’s daring, expressionistic fairy-tale homage to her place of origin. A recipe is included.

WE ARE WOLVES, by Katrina Nannestad. Illustrated by Martina Heiduczek. (Caitlyn Dlouhy/Atheneum, $17.99, ages 10 to 14.) This historic novel concerning the orphaned German youngsters who sheltered on their very own in forests on the finish of World Battle II reminds younger readers that there are victims on either side of struggle.

BIG AND SMALL AND IN-BETWEEN, by Carter Higgins. Illustrated by Daniel Miyares. (Chronicle, $18.99, ages 3 to five.) Dimension is all about perspective on this profoundly transferring, charmingly crafted image guide. And it modifications: Because the witty paper constructions that begin every part open out and fold again in, so do our minds and hearts.

CHESTER VAN CHIME WHO FORGOT HOW TO RHYME, by Avery Monsen. Illustrated by Abby Hanlon. (Little, Brown, $17.99, ages 4 to eight.) “Chester liked rhyming, in poem or tune. / It at all times felt proper, however as we speak it felt … not proper.” Hilarity crescendos as wordplay plummets, till Chester realizes all of us have dangerous days.

LIFE ON THE ROCKS: Constructing a Future for Coral Reefs, by Juli Berwald. (Riverhead, $28.) An ocean scientist chronicles how coral reefs have been “assaulted by a bunch of environmental stresses” and describes the trials of parenting a toddler fighting psychological well being on this hopeful mix of science writing and memoir.

SOMETHING TO DO WITH PAYING ATTENTION, by David Foster Wallace. (McNally Editions, $18.) A younger man — a self-described “wastoid” — roams the Seventies Midwest till a brush with superior tax regulation modifications his life. Discovered within the notes that grew to become “The Pale King,” this novella is a whole instance of David Foster Wallace’s late model.

LEARNING AMERICA: One Lady’s Combat for Academic Justice for Refugee Kids, by Luma Mufleh. (Mariner, $27.) The founding father of a nonprofit dedicated to educating refugees tells her story of serving to youngsters navigate methods that had “no thought what to do with them,” starting at a Georgian refugee settlement group in 2004.

THE GO-BETWEEN: A Portrait of Rising Up Between Totally different Worlds, by Osman Yousefzada. (Canongate, $25.) The British artist and designer chronicles his life rising up in a religious Pashtun group within the red-light district of Eighties and Nineties Birmingham.