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Pick Your Favorite May/June Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the March/April covers. Next up are the May/June 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...
International Primate Day
For International Primate Day, here are a few books to get you in the swing of things.One Gorilla: A Counting Bookby Anthony Browne; illus. by the authorPreschool Candlewick 32 pp.2/13 978-0-7636-6352-0 $16.99For Anthony Browne, a gorilla is never just a gorilla. In this seemingly simple counting book from one to...
2014 BGHB Nonfiction Day
September Nonfiction Notes comes out today, and in this issue we're highlighting our 2014 BGHB Nonfiction Award winner and honor books. You can read it online or sign up if you're not already subscribed. Read reviews of all of the 2014 nonfiction winners here; see below for a lot more...
Review of On a Beam of Light
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einsteinby Jennifer Berne;
illus. by Vladimir RadunskyPrimary Chronicle 56 pp.5/13 978-0-8118-7235-5 $17.99The title of this book refers to the mental picture young Albert Einstein conjured one day while biking through the countryside; he looked at the sunbeams “speeding from the sun...
Review of Crankee Doodle
Crankee Doodleby Tom Angleberger;
illus. by Cece BellPrimary Clarion 32 pp.6/13 978-0-547-81854-2 $16.99 gAs concepts for picture books go, it’s hard to think of one cleverer than this absurdist deconstruction of the familiar song. Depicted in spindly lined cartoons, Yankee Doodle and his pony debate their plans for the afternoon....
Kirkpatrick Hill on Bo at Ballard Creek
In the May/June 2013 Horn Book Magazine, Roger Sutton asked Kirkpatrick Hill about her protagonist's two papas in Bo at Ballard Creek. Read the starred review here.Roger Sutton: So, are they or aren’t they?Kirkpatrick Hill: Such partnerships were so ubiquitous when I was a kid that nothing could have been...
Review of Bo at Ballard Creek
Bo at Ballard Creekby Kirkpatrick Hill; illus. by LeUyen PhamPrimary, Intermediate Holt 279 pp.6/13 978-0-8050-9351-3 $15.99 gThe disarmingly forthright tone is set right at the start of this chapter book when we meet Bo, a little girl who lives with her papas (yes, that’s plural) in a small, almost-worked-out gold-rush...
Review of Openly Straight
Openly Straightby Bill KonigsbergHigh School Levine/Scholastic 328 pp.6/13 978-0-545-50989-3 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-545-50990-9 $17.99Rafe is sick of being the poster child for all things gay at his uber-liberal Colorado high school: no matter how accepting everyone is, it feels like they only...
Review of Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikasby Jim Ottaviani; illus. by Maris WicksMiddle School, High School First Second/Roaring Brook 140 pp.6/13 978-1-59643-865-1 $19.99A graphic format admirably propels this lightly fictionalized group biography of “Leakey’s Angels”: Jane Goodall (chimps in Rwanda), and Biruté Galdikas...
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