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Martha Parravano hopes the Real Committee goes on an expedition of its own to explore The Indestructible Tom Crean. It came out very early in the year, and those books sometimes get lost in the rush of books released later; closer to decision time. But this book really deserves consideration. It achieves excellence in all the Caldecotts definitions of

The little-known subject of this enthralling picture-book biography, Tom Crean (1877–1938), first went to Antarctica as a last-minute replacement,...