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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite September/October Horn Book Magazine Cover!
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...
Marching for their lives
Art by Friend of The Horn Book Innosanto Nagara. With the horror of having to update this booklist yet again: The topics of guns, gun safety, and especially school shootings can be difficult to broach. Here are a selection of books that could help get these vital conversations going. Reviews...
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...
Week in Review, February 5th-9th
This week on hbook.com…2018 Calling Caldecott mock vote winner announced!From the January/February 2018 Horn Book Magazine: BGHB at 50: "Amber and Essie and Vera and Me" by Julie Roach From The Guide: "Family Matters"Black History Month 2018 at The Horn Book: "Young Dreamers" by Christopher Myers Javaka Steptoe's 2017 Caldecott...
Review of Grace for Gus
Grace for Gusby Harry Bliss; illus. by the authorPrimary Tegen/HarperCollins 40 pp. g2/18 978-0-06-264410-7 $17.99Bliss’s nearly wordless book, told mainly through panel illustrations (and “with thanks to colorist Frank Young”), is a love letter to NYC, to creative bespectacled schoolchildren, and to guinea pigs; per the dedication page, it’s based...
Horn Book Magazine starred reviews January/February 2018
art by Isabel Greenberg from A HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION STARSThe following books will receive starred reviews in the January/February issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Grace for Gus; written and illustrated by Harry Bliss (Tegen/HarperCollins)Ducks Away!; by Mem Fox; illustrated by Judy Horacek (Scholastic)Little i; written and illustrated by Michael Hall (Greenwillow)It’s Shoe...
Updated not-so-new New Yorkers
We just HAD to update this post to include this beautiful Kadir Nelson cover: By Kadir NelsonRead 2011's Kadir Nelson Talks with Roger about Nelson's book Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans and publisher Donna Bray's 2012 profile of Nelson. By Bob Staake (Click to see...
Joshua Khan 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 byWhen I emailed Joshua Khan to set up this interview, he wrote back that he had read the Frances Hardinge Talks with Roger and that he, too, had...
We got your Brooklyn booklist right here.
A quick and handy search on the Horn Book Guide Online (keyword search: "Brooklyn") brings up 167 reviews of books published since 1989 that are about, in, or around Brooklyn. (Plus, we've heard a tree grows there.) Here's a selection of favorites to consider while enjoying Stephen Savage's article about...
Shoo, fly
It seems that the insect-of-the-moment is... the fly (and I don't know why; maybe butterflies were too pretty). Here are five recent books starring those pests, plus reviews of a few more favorites below. Could that Old Lady who swallowed one have been on to something? Super Fly: The World's...
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