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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...
Review of The Crossover
The Crossoverby Kwame AlexanderIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 235 pp.3/14 978-0-544-10771-7 $16.99 gJosh and Jordan (JB), identical twin sons of former basketball phenom Chuck “Da Man” Bell, are ball legends themselves, and they aren’t yet thirteen; Josh is the only middle schooler around who can dunk, JB has a mean three-point...
Mother: Treat Her Right 2016
What's better than hearing Mr. T extol the virtues of mothers? (that would be: nothing)You know who else loved their mothers? Abraham Lincoln ("All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother") and John Quincy Adams ("All that I am, my mother made me"), among...
Reviews of the 2015 CSK Author Award winners
Winner: Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 328 pp.8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and...
Reviews of the 2015 Newbery Award winners
Winner:The Crossoverby Kwame AlexanderIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 235 pp.3/14 978-0-544-10771-7 $16.99 gJosh and Jordan (JB), identical twin sons of former basketball phenom Chuck “Da Man” Bell, are ball legends themselves, and they aren’t yet thirteen; Josh is the only middle schooler around who can dunk, JB has a mean three-point...
Reviews of the 2015 Sibert Award winners
Winner: The Right Word:Roget and His Thesaurusby Jen Bryant; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary Eerdmans 48 pp.9/14 978-0-8028-5385-1 $17.50Apt language and ingenious imagery combine to tell the life story of Peter Mark Roget, creator of the thesaurus. A solitary, though not unhappy, child, Roget spends his time keeping...
Reviews of the CSK Illustrator Award winners 2015
Illustrator Award Winner: Christopher Myers for FirebirdFirebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland
Shows a Young Girl How to
Dance like the Firebirdby Misty Copeland;
illus. by Christopher MyersPrimary Putnam 40 pp.9/14 978-0-399-16615-0 $17.99 gThink you can simply write off celebrity books? Think again. American Ballet Theatre soloist Copeland is just as graceful...
Review of Jake at Gymnastics
Jake at Gymnasticsby Rachel Isadora; illus. by the authorPreschool Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp.6/14 978-0-399-16048-6 $14.99 gAs she did with Bea at Ballet (rev. 7/12), Isadora shows a group of roly-poly toddlers enjoying a beginning class, this time in gymnastics, with an Asian American boy as the focus. Teachers Dave and Toshi...
Review of The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlighteningby Chris Raschka; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.5/14 978-0-7636-5806-9 $15.99 gJazz pioneer and self-proclaimed space case Sun Ra (born Herman P. Blount) gets a portrait as bemusing and sparkly as the man himself in this fantastical tribute. Raschka...
Review of Fiendish
Fiendishby Brenna YovanoffHigh School Razorbill/Penguin 341 pp.6/14 978-1-59514-638-0 $17.99 gYovanoff (The Space Between, rev. 1/12; Paper Valentine, rev. 3/13) here weaves a haunting tale of old magic in a changing world. When Clementine was a child, a torch-bearing mob burned out her family; Clementine escaped by virtue of a magical...
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