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In Memoriam: Lee Kingman Natti (1919–2020)
Editor, author, artist, and designer Lee Kingman Natti’s association with The Horn Book, Inc., spanned eighty years — surely a record. Bertha Mahony, founder of The Horn Book Magazine and owner of The Bookshop for Boys and Girls, gave the nine-year-old Lee advice on choosing ten free books from the...
Review of Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan; illus. by the author Middle School, High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 107 pp. 10/19 978-1-5344-0490-8 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0491-5 $10.99 Ashley Bryan was a nineteen-year-old art student when he was drafted into a segregated army unit of...
Review of River
River by Elisha Cooper; illus. by the author Primary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. g 10/19 978-1-338-31226-3 $18.99 A woman says goodbye to her family and begins a three-hundred-mile canoe journey down a river. "In her canoe: tent, sleeping bag, guidebook, map, life jacket, first-aid kit, waterproof duffle with food, clothes, water...
Happy 100th Birthday, Lee Kingman!
On Sunday, October 6, longtime Horn Book colleague Lee Kingman will celebrate her one hundredth birthday! After a visit with Lee, I feel especially fortunate to work in children's books with people who are as funny, smart, and discerning as she is. Lee's first book reviews were published in the...
The Official 2019 Caldecott Winners
The day has come! The 2019 Caldecott Medal Selection Committee has made its choices.The winner is:Hello Lighthouse, written and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. (This is her second Caldecott Medal — Finding Winnie won in 2016).The honor books are:Alma and How She Got Her Name, written and illustrated by Juana Martinez-NealThe Rough...
And the winner of the 2019 Calling Caldecott mock vote is…
…Yuyi Morales's DreamersCongratulations to Yuyi Morales for winning the mock vote here at Calling Caldecott!It's been a bit of a wild ride, though. If you look at the full results of our vote, you'll see that this was almost too close to call:1st choice(4 points)2nd choice(3 points)3rd choice(2 points)Total pointsA...
Calling Caldecott 2019 ballot #2 now open
We are almost finished! Our second ballot starts now and will be open until 9 a.m. EST tomorrow (Thursday, January 24), and we will announce the winner of our mock vote in the afternoon.In less than a week! — Monday, January 28! — we will find out which books will receive recognition from the Real Caldecott...
Calling Caldecott 2019 ballot #1 results
The first round of voting is complete! Thanks to everyone who weighed in.As regular Calling Caldecott readers know — but it bears repeating for new folks — the real Caldecott Committee is required to vote for three books on each ballot, specifying 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. When the votes...
Review of The Stuff of Stars
The Stuff of Starsby Marion Dane Bauer; illus. by Ekua HolmesPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.9/18 978-0-7636-7883-8 $17.99From darkness, we experience the Big Bang, the birth of the universe, and the emergence of life on Earth. Holmes, known for her striking collage art (Voice of Freedom, rev. 9/15; Out of Wonder, rev....
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