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Review of Why We Took the Car
Why We Took the Carby Wolfgang Herrndorf; trans. from the German by Tim MohrMiddle School, High School Levine/Scholastic 250 pp.1/14 978-0-545-48180-9 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-545-58636-8 $17.99Two teens abandon their lackluster lives and hit the Autobahn in this audacious tragicomedy. Mike Klingenberg, boring and unpopular, lives a life of quiet desperation...
Review of Lord and Lady Bunny — Almost Royalty!: By Mr. & Mrs. Bunny
Lord and Lady Bunny — Almost Royalty!: By Mr. & Mrs. Bunnyby Polly Horvath; illus. by Sophie BlackallIntermediate Schwartz & Wade/Random 293 pp.2/14 978-0-307-98065-6 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-307-98066-3 $19.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-307-98067-0 $10.99In this funny, meticulously crafted sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire! (rev. 1/12), young Madeline desperately...
Review of Gobble You Up!
Gobble You Up!by Gita Wolf; illus. by SunitaPreschool, Primary Tara 40 pp.10/13 978-81-923171-4-4 $34.95The outline is familiar: after gulping down animal after animal, a greedy creature bursts. Here it’s a jackal who devours the dozen fish his best friend the crane has caught for him, then the crane herself, and...
Review of How I Discovered Poetry
How I Discovered Poetryby Marilyn Nelson;
illus. by Hadley HooperMiddle School Dial 103 pp.1/14 978-0-8037-3304-6 $16.99 gIn fifty poems (some previously published) Nelson chronicles her formative years during the 1950s, from age four to thirteen, against the backdrop of the cold war and stirrings of the civil rights movement and...
Review of Hello, Mr. Hulot
Hello, Mr. Hulotby David Merveille;
illus. by the authorPrimary NorthSouth 56 pp.9/13 978-0-7358-4135-2 $17.95Monsieur Hulot, a character invented and played by French filmmaker Jacques Tati in such movies as Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot’s Holiday), is one part schlemiel, one part everyman, one part existentialist, and all parts...
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan on The Mad Potter
In the January/February 2014 Horn Book Magazine, editor Martha Parravano asked Mad Potter authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan about choosing their unusual subject. Read the review here.Martha V. Parravano: How did you discover this fairly unknown subject?Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan: During the New Orleans ALA we headed over...
Review of The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Geniusby Jan Greenberg and Sandra JordanIntermediate, Middle School Porter/Roaring Brook 56 pp.10/13 978-1-59643-810-1 $17.99“Eccentric” is an apt word for Ohr, a Mississippi blacksmith’s son (1857–1918) who reinvented himself as a potter: though he began his distinctive works on a potter’s wheel, he then...
Review of Binny for Short
Binny for Shortby Hilary McKay; illus. by Micah PlayerIntermediate McElderry 291 pp.7/13 978-1-4424-8275-3 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-8277-7 $10.99After Dad’s death, Binny (short for Belinda) Cornwallis, her sister, her brother, and their mum had no choice but to move to a smaller place. Three years later, eleven-year-old Binny has adjusted seemingly well...
Review of The Midnight Dress
The Midnight Dressby Karen FoxleeHigh School Knopf 281 pp.10/13 978-0-375-85645-7 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-375-95645-4 $19.99e-book ed. 978-0-449-81821-3 $9.99Self-contained, morose fifteen-year-old Rose and her alcoholic father arrive in Australian beach town Leonora, and it seems like they may actually stay put for a spell, for once. Rose enrolls in school and is...
From The Guide: Picture Book Builders
Judges and winners of the 2013 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards came together in early October for “The Horn Book at Simmons: Building Character,” a day-long event designed to give participants an opportunity to discuss how characters are constructed, and how they reach out from the page, building bridges to young...
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