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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...
Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book
Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book was a quarterly supplement to our monthly e-newsletter Notes from the Horn Book. Nonfiction Notes provided recommendations of recently published nonfiction books, by topic, across grade levels, ability levels, and all areas of interest. All reviews are from The Horn Book Guide. The Common Core State Standards Initiative...
Molly Idle on Flora and the Flamingo
Here's where Roger Talks with Molly Idle.In the July/August 2013 Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Elissa Gershowitz asked Flora and the Flamingo author/illustrator Molly Idle where Flora gets her groove. Read the starred review here.Elissa Gershowitz: Is there music in your head to accompany the story? (I hear the Sugar Plum...
Review of Flora and the Flamingo
Flora and the Flamingoby Molly Idle; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Chronicle 40 pp.3/13 978-1-4521-1006-6 $16.99A little girl, a pink flamingo, some decorative cherry blossoms, and singular lift-the-flaps contribute to a unique wordless picture book. On the title-page spread, a flamingo gracefully touches down en pointe. The next spread shows...
Review of Romeo Blue
Romeo Blueby Phoebe StoneIntermediate Levine/Scholastic 350 pp.6/13 978-0-545-44360-9 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-545-52070-6 $16.99Romeo Blue is the best sort of sequel: one you didn’t know you wanted but are ever so grateful to have. Its predecessor, The Romeo and Juliet Code (rev. 3/11), ended with British ex-pat Flissy content in sleepy Bottlebay,...
Review of Niño Wrestles the World
Niño Wrestles the Worldby Yuyi Morales; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.6/13 978-1-59643-604-6 $16.99 gPint-sized Niño, fearless luchador, Popsicle enthusiast, and reluctantly attentive big brother, dons his red mask (he’s already wearing his orange and yellow sneakers and blue-waistbanded tighty-whities), ready...
Review of Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron
Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyronby Mary Losure; illus. by Timothy Basil EringIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 170 pp.3/13 978-0-7636-5669-0 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-7636-6369-8 $16.99The early-nineteenth-century feral child who inspired Truffaut’s L’Enfant Sauvage as well as Mordicai Gerstein’s YA novel Victor and picture book...
Review of Far Far Away
Far Far Awayby Tom McNealMiddle School, High School Knopf 373 pp.6/13 978-0-375-84972-5 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-375-94972-2 $20.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-375-89698-9 $10.99Sprightly, assured, and original, this story blends a small-town, middle-American, twentieth-century setting with the learned realms of the Brothers Grimm and their nineteenth-century...
From The Guide: Historical Fiction for Teens
Good historical fiction engages readers with different times, places, people, and cultures while still resonating today. In young adult books, this means raising issues that are universal for teens of any generation: overcoming social expectations, coming of age amidst struggle, and understanding one’s identity and place in the world. Here...
2013 ALA Round-Up
Caldecott cookie.Suffering from ALA withdrawal? (Or maybe envy?) The Horn Book is here to help — we've got plenty of coverage of this year's events. For even more, check out the July/August 2013 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.Profile of Caldecott Award winner Jon Klassen by his friend and collaborator...
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