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Gayle Forman Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by It’s Not Nothing that this book is narrated by a 107-year-old man in a retirement home, and again not nothing that the protagonist is a troubled kid “volunteering” at...
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Review of Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
Is This a House for Hermit Crab? by Megan McDonald; illus. by Katherine TillotsonPreschool Porter/Holiday 40 pp.2/24 9780823452194 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823457595 $11.99First published in 1990 (with illustrations by S. D. Schindler), this story of a hermit crab’s quest for a safe new home appears in a bright reissue with fresh...
Pick Your Favorite May/June Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the March/April covers. Next up are the May/June covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click on any...
Horn Book Magazine Covers
Randolph Caldecott was The Horn Book Magazine‘s first — and for decades only — cover artist. Then in 1985 another picture book master, Maurice Sendak, took over the task for a few issues, leading the way for a whole new crop of talented contributors. Much of their work is on view...
Reviews of select books by Ursula K. Le Guin
EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea [winner of the 1969 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award]205 pp. ParnassusIllustrated by Ruth Robbins. Maps by the artist show the islands and seas that make up Earthsea. Sparrowhawk, the son of a bronze-smith, was born on Gont, famous for wizards who had gone...
Recommended baseball books
Play ball! The books below include both fiction and nonfiction titles for a range of ages. All were recommended by The Horn Book Magazine and Guide at the time of their publication; reviews are reprinted from The Horn Book Guide Online. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is...
Books mentioned in the August 2016 issue of What Makes a Good…?
What Makes a Good School Story?Picture BooksBean, Jonathan This Is My Home, This Is My School48 pp. Farrar 2015 ISBN 978-0-374-38020-5Bell, Cece Chuck and Woodchuck32 pp. Candlewick 2016 ISBN 978-0-7636-7524-0Bottner, Barbara Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I don't)Illustrated by Michael Emberley32 pp. Knopf 2010 ISBN 978-0-375-84682-3Library binding ISBN 978-0-375-94682-0Holub, Joan...
Recommended School Stories: Picture Books
Bean, Jonathan This Is My Home, This Is My School48 pp. Farrar 2015. ISBN 978-0-374-38020-5The boy from Building Our House welcomes readers back into his home — and school. Our narrator — the author/illustrator's stand-in — gives a whirlwind tour of homeschooling life, and the warmhearted, cheerfully cluttered illustrations show...
Memoir
Earl, Esther This Star Won't Go Out: The Life & Words of Esther Grace EarlMiddle school, high school 240 pp. DuttonWith Lori Earl and Wayne Earl. John Green dedicated The Fault in Our Stars to Esther Earl, who, in her own words, "went through a life changing experience known as Thyroid Cancer." This...
What Makes a Good Middle-Grade Memoir?
Memoir is a genre that often gets subsumed under the big banner of biography. While biographies and autobiographies provide a broad overview of a subject’s life, the memoir is a repository of discrete moments and events that have crystallized into long-lasting recollections. Because they are generally told in the first...
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