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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...
Review of Poems in the Attic
Poems in the Atticby Nikki Grimes; illus. by Elizabeth ZunonPrimary, Intermediate Lee & Low 48 pp.5/15 978-1-62014-027-7 $19.95 gOn a visit to her grandmother’s house, a little girl finds her mother’s stash of childhood poems in the attic. The poems written by the mom in this story are tanka poems,...
Review of Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University by Francisco Jiménez Middle School, High School Houghton 200 pp. 4/15 978-0-547-63230-8 $16.99 g In the fourth volume of his memoir series (The Circuit, rev. 11/00; Breaking Through, rev. 11/01; Reaching Out, 2008), Jiménez delivers a moving account of his graduate school...
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...
Reviews of 2016 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here's how we reviewed our 2016 winners. The Bear Ate Your Sandwichby Julia Sarcone-Roach; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Knopf 40 pp.1/15 978-0-375-85860-4 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-307-98242-1 ...
Reviews of the 2016 Belpré Illustrator Award winners
Winner:Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage
Changed Musicby Margarita Engle;
illus. by Rafael LópezPrimary Houghton 40 pp.3/15 978-0-544-10229-3 $16.99A young girl dreams of becoming a drummer. Though she lives “on an island of music / in a city of drumbeats,” hers is an impossible dream: only boys play drums....
Reviews of the 2016 CSK Illustrator Award winners
Winner:Trombone Shortyby Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews; illus. by Bryan CollierPrimary Abrams 40 pp.4/15 978-1-4197-1465-8 $17.95In New Orleans parlance, “Where y’at?” means “hello.” As an opening greeting (repeated three times, creating a jazzy beat), it also signals the beginning of this conversational and personable
autobiography. Andrews, a.k.a. Trombone Shorty, concentrates on...
Reviews of the 2016 CSK Author Award winners
Winner:Gone Crazy in Alabamaby Rita Williams-GarciaIntermediate, Middle School Amistad/HarperCollins 291 pp.4/15 978-0-06-221587-1 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-06-221588-8 $17.89 ge-book ed. 978-0-06-221590-1 $9.99Williams-Garcia says goodbye to the Gaither family (One Crazy Summer, rev. 3/10; P. S. Be Eleven, rev. 5/13) in this involving and emotional concluding installment. It’s been a year since Delphine,...
Reviews of the 2016 Caldecott Award winners
Winner: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the
World’s Most Famous Bearby Lindsay Mattick;
illus. by Sophie BlackallPrimary Little, Brown 56 pp.10/15 978-0-316-32490-8 $18.00 gA little boy named Cole curls in the crook of his mother’s arm and asks for a story; she spins him two. The first one tells...
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