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We wish you a loaded bookshelf with snowflake, with dreidel, with elf for gift-giving, or your own self. Some ideas are right here. Here’s our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! Uri and the King...
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the July/August covers. Next up are the September/October 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...
What do wombats, narwhals, and mac and cheese have in common? They appear alongside zombies, vampires, werewolves, and more in this year's roundup of eighteen recommended new preschool and primary books for the season. For more spooktacular reads, visit hbook.com/HalloweenBooks. Happy Halloween from the Horn Booooook! Witch & Wombat by...
It’s Fall! by Renée Kurilla; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 32 pp.8/23 9780316363990 $18.99“Scarecrows, mums, / and wagon rides. / A corn maze we get lost inside!” Get into a fall mood with Kurilla’s upbeat rhyming text and exuberant digitally rendered illustrations in a rich palette appropriately dominated...
Cover art by Renée Kurilla from It's Fall! The Writer’s Page: Marisabina Russo’s journey from picture books to a graphic memoir. Field Notes: Amanda Lawrence on hosting a middle-grade graphic novel book club. A poem by Lynne Rae Perkins. Horn BOO!: a roundup of Halloween and seasonal books....
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...
ImmigrationFreedman, Russell Angel Island: Gateway to Gold MountainChinese poems translated by Evans Chan.Gr. 4–6 81 pp. Clarion 2014Trade ISBN 978-0-547-90378-1Harrison, Geoffrey C. and Scott, Thomas F. New AmericansGr. 4–6 48 pp. Norwood 2013Library binding ISBN 978-1-59953-591-3Nazario, Sonia Enrique's Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His...
Bullard, Lisa My Clothes, Your ClothesIllustrated by Renée KurillaGr. K–3 24 pp. MillbrookBullard, Lisa My Home, Your HomeIllustrated by Paula BeckerGr. K–3 24 pp. MillbrookCloverleaf Books: Alike and Different series. Young Jayden is thinking about "the right home for my family." He considers apartments, single-family houses, mobile homes, and more....
Having grown up in the Free to Be generation, I’ve tried as a parent to steer clear of limiting gender norms in raising, and reading to, my son. We’ve read about boys and girls of all types, and (just as Hilary Rappaport describes in her May/June 2012 Horn Book article “On...