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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite July/August Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the May/June covers. Next up are the July/August 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...
Review of Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten!
Mom, It’s My First Day
of Kindergarten!by Hyewon Yum; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Foster/Farrar 40 pp.7/12 978-0-374-35004-8 $16.99 g“Mom, wake up!” In the art, a young boy looms large, while his mom appears small and kind of blue (as in “sad,” though she’s also pale blue from head to...
Review of A Home for Bird
A Home for Birdby Philip C. Stead; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.6/12 978-1-59643-711-1 $16.99 gStead (author of A Sick Day for Amos McGee, rev. 5/10) returns with another terrific tale of devoted friendship. Starting on the copyright page, we see a little bird thrown from the back...
Phillip Hoose on Moonbird
From the July/August 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:Reviewer Joanna Rudge Long asks Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 author Phillip Hoose about the rufa red knot's current whereabouts. Read the full starred review of Moonbird here.Joanna Rudge Long: Has there been another sighting...
Review of Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with
the Great Survivor B95by Phillip HooseIntermediate, Middle School, High SchoolFarrar
148 pp. 7/12 978-0-374-30468-3 $21.99He’s called “Moonbird” because, over a lifespan of twenty years, he’s flown some 325,000 miles, the distance to the moon and almost halfway back. This robin-sized red knot (subspecies...
Review of Jimmy the Greatest!
Jimmy the Greatest!by Jairo Buitrago; illus. by
Rafael Yockteng; trans. from
the Spanish by Elisa AmadoPrimary Groundwood 48 pp.5/12 978-1-55498-178-6 $18.95e-book ed. 978-1-55498-206-6 $18.95What happens when a boy from a nondescript small town grows up to be a talented boxer? Most would dream of bigger and better places, but not...
Medalist matching game round-up
Illustration by Devon JohnsonFor our July/August 2012 special awards issue, The Horn Book Magazine asked Newbery and Caldecott Medalists to write about their favorite winning books. On Out of the Box we challenged readers to match each author or illustrator to his or her choice. We've collected all the entries...
"My Favorite Caldecott" matching game featuring David Wiesner
David Wiesner has won the Caldecott Medal three times: in 1992 for Tuesday, in 2002 for The Three Pigs, and in 2007 for Flotsam. Which of these books is the illustrator's favorite Caldecott winner?a) A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka (2012)b) The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick...
Review of The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves
The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to
Their Younger Selvesedited by Sarah Moon, with
contributing editor James LecesneMiddle School, High School Levine/Scholastic
282 pp.5/12 978-0-545-39932-6 $17.99Inspired by mentors in her own childhood, editor Sarah Moon asked sixty-four gay, lesbian, and bisexual writers, illustrators, and publishing professionals to write letters to...
“My Favorite Newbery” matching game featuring Laura Amy Schlitz
In 2008 Laura Amy Schlitz won the Newbery Medal for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, which introduces readers to residents of a 1255 English village through twenty-two poetic portraits. Which of these other Newbery-winning books is her favorite?a) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting...
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