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Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson: Scenes from a Remarkable Marriage
I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three...
Editorial: The Horn Book and... (March/April 2025)
We’ve retired the HB100 horn logo (HB200, here we come!), and I am a fan of designer Denise Maldonado’s digital illustration, above, with its similarly eye-catching graphic appeal. I read the image as: “The Horn Book and…” It is a theme that serendipitously runs throughout this issue of the magazine....
Table of Contents: March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from Head Full of Clouds by Joanne Schwartz. Illustration © 2025 by Afsaneh Sanei. Published by Tundra Books. Features Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson by Betsy Groban Scenes from a remarkable marriage. Generational Ties in Children’s Book Translation by Emma Otheguy An interview with translator Emily Carrero Mustelier....
Review of A Forest Song
A Forest Song by Kirsten Hall; illus. by Evan TurkPrimary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp.2/25 9780593480366 $18.99Library ed. 9780593480373 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593480380 $8.99This cento (a poem composed of passages from other writers) pays reverent tribute to the natural world, weaving together the words of poets such as Emily Dickinson, Mary...
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Review of In the Desert
In the Desert by David Elliott; illus. by Gordy WrightPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.3/25 9781536223385 $18.99In fifteen verses, Elliott celebrates creatures who inhabit the Sahara Desert—and, in one introductory poem, the desert itself. As always in this winning series (see At the Poles, rev. 9/23, and eight other titles), the poems...
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Review of The Poet and the Bees: A Story of the Seasons Sylvia Plath Kept Bees
The Poet and the Bees: A Story of the Seasons Sylvia Plath Kept Bees by Amy Novesky; illus. by Jessica LovePrimary, Intermediate Viking 32 pp.2/25 9780593526392 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593526408 $10.99Novesky provides a snapshot of Plath (1932–1963) inspired by her poems and letters about her brief experience with beekeeping. The text...
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Review of Safe Crossing
Safe Crossing by Kari Percival; illus. by the authorPrimary Chronicle 48 pp.1/25 9781797214566 $18.99Why do amphibians cross a dark, perilous road? To lay their eggs, of course. But sometimes they need help. In the middle of the night, a biracial family dons rain gear over PJs, gathers equipment, and joins...
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Review of Rose Weaves a Garden
Rose Weaves a Garden by Rashin Kheiriyeh; illus. by the authorPrimary Schwartz/Random 40 pp.4/25 9780593705100 $18.99Library ed. 9780593705117 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593705124 $10.99Rose’s grandfather is a rug weaver, working mornings in a factory and weaving in the afternoon for friends and family on his at-home loom. Rose loves watching Baba joon’s...
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Review of Springtime Storks: A Migration Love Story
Springtime Storks: A Migration Love Story by Carol Joy Munro; illus. by Chelsea O’ByrnePrimary Minerva/Astra 40 pp.12/24 9781662651212 $18.99e-book ed. 9781662651229 $11.99This moving tale of two storks begins when one of them, Katerina, who narrates the story, is shot from the sky and falls to the fields below. A farmer...
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Review of Seven: A Most Remarkable Pigeon
Seven: A Most Remarkable Pigeon by Sandra Nickel; illus. by Aimée SicuroPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.4/25 9781536235197 $17.99Typically, two nestlings are born when pigeons mate. But not this time. There’s only one egg in the clutch, producing a single squab. His parents name him Seven, a lucky name, because seven thousand...
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