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Reviews of 2024 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2023 winners. Let’s Go! [I Like to Read: Comics] by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. 1/23 ...
March Madness: Pick Your Favorite January/February Horn Book Magazine Cover!
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 magazine cover to view a larger-sized version. GROUP A January...
Reviews of the 2024 CSK Illustrator Award Winners
Winner An American Story by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Dare Coulter Primary, Intermediate Little, Brown 56 pp. 1/23 9780316473125 $18.99 Alexander and Coulter have created a powerful counternarrative in their efforts to answer the question, “How do you tell a story about slavery?” Starting before Africans were forcibly brought to...
Reviews of the 2024 Caldecott Medal Winners
Winner Big by Vashti Harrison; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 64 pp. 5/23 9780316353229 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780316566223 $12.99 As Harrison writes in her author’s note, “In childhood, big is good. Big is impressive, aspirational. But somewhere along the way, the world begins to tell us something different:...
Reviews of 2023 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2023 winners. Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Matthew Cordell Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 6/22 ...
Reviews of the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction and Poetry Winner Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 400 pp. 5/23 9781250766588 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250766595 $11.99 Boulley returns to Sugar Island, Michigan, in 2014, ten years after the events of the multi-award-winning Firekeeper’s Daughter (rev. 5/21). This novel’s protagonist is Daunis’s sixteen-year-old niece, Perry...
Review of The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon Klassen Preschool, Primary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. 10/22 9781338673845 $18.99 Frequent collaborators Barnett and Klassen serve up a delectable rendition of the oft-retold folktale. The bare-bones narrative “clip clops” along with abundant humor and plenty of verbal delights, repetition,...
Review of Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport by Caren Stelson; illus. by Selina Alko Primary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 40 pp. 2/23 9781541598683 $19.99 In this quiet but immediate nonfiction picture book, Stelson (A Bowl Full of Peace, rev. 7/20) tells the story of the 669 children evacuated...
Review of Let’s Go!
Let’s Go! [I Like to Read: Comics]by Michael Emberley; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp.1/23 9780823446520 $14.99e-book ed. 9780823455096 $8.99Emberley’s crew of critters (I Did It!, rev. 9/22) returns for another exciting early-reader comic. This fast-paced story begins before its title page with a caped reptile launching a...
Review of Nell Plants a Tree
Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter; illus. by Daniel MiyaresPreschool, Primary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp.1/23 9780062865779 $17.99Wynter (Everybody in the Red Brick Building, rev. 11/21) presents a loving brown-skinned family through the generations in a story that explores, by providing glimpses into the past, how long it takes...
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