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Review of Ash’s Cabin

Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School    First Second    320 pp.8/24    9781250754059    $25.99Paper ed.  9781250754066    $17.99Fifteen-year-old self-dubbed Ash is a passionate environmentalist who is contending with their gender identity. The last person Ash felt connected to was Grandpa Edwin, a recluse who spent his final...
      

Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for Jen Wang

This interview originally appeared in the May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by Unhappy at home and grieving their grandfather, Ash...
      

Review of Stargazing

Stargazing by Jen Wang; illus. by the author; color by Lark Pien Intermediate    First Second/Roaring Brook    218 pp. 9/19    978-1-250-18387-3    $21.99 Paper ed.  978-1-250-18388-0    $12.99 In Wang’s (The Prince and the Dressmaker, rev. 3/18) middle-grade graphic novel, Christine follows the rules and tries to live up to her strict Chinese-immigrant...
      

CaldeComics 2020

Another year, another opportunity for graphic novels to make their way into Caldecott discussions. If, as Travis Jonker writes, wordless books are “Caldecott catnip,” then what does that make graphic novels? “Graphic elements” in picture books certainly seem to be an enticing treat (see: Mr. Wuffles!, A Different Pond, Creepy...
      

Fall 2019 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Jen Wang

This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Fall 2019 Publishers’ Previews, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In the graphic...
      

CaldeComics, Part One

Today on Calling Caldecott, Alec Chunn writes about three 2018 graphic novels. He will contribute a second graphic novel round-up post later this year. —J.D.Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer was (controversially) chosen as a 2015 Caldecott Honor book. A graphic novel hasn’t received recognition since, though Thi Bui and...
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