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Review of Stella & Marigold
Stella & Marigold by Annie Barrows; illus. by Sophie BlackallPrimary, Intermediate Chronicle 108 pp.10/24 9781797219707 $15.99Stella and Marigold, ages seven and four, are a force to be reckoned with. In eight tightly constructed, linked short stories, we follow the sisters through a domestic plumbing disaster, a visit to the zoo,...
Review of Ahoy!
Ahoy! by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 4/24 9780593429396 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593429402 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593429419 $10.99 Picture books about imaginary play can be belabored or overly precious. Not so Blackall’s brilliantly constructed latest. The opening setting is a living room (just a...
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Review of Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson by Ann E. Burg; illus. by Sophie BlackallIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 304 pp.3/24 9781338883381 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338883404 $19.99In this first-person novel in verse, Burg (Serafina’s Promise, rev. 9/13) imagines the life of the groundbreaking environmentalist from age eleven through adulthood. Rachel possesses...
Sophie Blackall 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 I sternly cautioned my old friend Sophie Blackall that there would be no talking-like-pirates in our conversation about Ahoy!, the two-time Caldecott Medalist’s new picture book about an afternoon...
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Review of If I Was a Horse
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 32 pp.10/23 9780316510981 $18.99A horse-obsessed child imagines all the things they could do if they were a horse. “I could go anywhere I want, and I’d come home when I was hungry.” The earnest text...
Farmhouse
[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.] Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 48 pp. g 9/22 978-0-316-52894-8 $18.99 Blackall brings herself and her artistic process into this...
Review of Farmhouse
Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 48 pp. g 9/22 978-0-316-52894-8 $18.99 Blackall brings herself and her artistic process into this (imagined) story of twelve siblings who grow up in a real-life farmhouse that was situated on a property Blackall owns. The text is one...
Review of The Beatryce Prophecy
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Sophie Blackall Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 256 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5362-1361-4 $19.99 As this rich and absorbing novel opens, Brother Edik finds a sick girl in the barn of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, curled up with the “demon goat”...
Review of Ivy + Bean Get to Work
Ivy + Bean Get to Work [Ivy + Bean] by Annie Barrows; illus. by Sophie Blackall Primary Chronicle 128 pp. g 4/21 978-1-7972-0510-6 $14.99 The twelfth (and final) book about Ivy and Bean finds these best friends still in second grade but hurtling toward their futures by way of career...
If You Come to Earth
How do you fit the whole world between the covers of a picture book? How do you describe our whole world to an alien? Well, narrator Quinn gives it a good shot in If You Come to Earth. (Sophie Blackall avoids gendering Quinn for this book.) Quinn writes, “Dear Visitor...
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