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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...
Reviews of 2017 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 2017 winners. The Airport Bookby Lisa Brown; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.5/16 978-1-62672-091-6 $17.99As an (interracial) family of four...
Reviews of the 2017 Sibert Award Winners
Winner: March: Book Threeby John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illus. by Nate PowellMiddle School, High School Top Shelf Productions 254 pp.8/16 978-1-60309-402-3 $19.99 gThis final volume (March: Book One, rev. 1/14; March: Book Two, rev. 5/15) includes the expected and necessary set pieces from the civil rights...
Reviews of the 2017 CSK Illustrator Award winners
Winner Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiatby Javaka Steptoe; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp.10/16 978-0-316-21388-2 $17.99Picture books about artists are tricky. Should the illustrator mimic the subject’s style, or instead attempt to capture his or her essence? Steptoe does a little of both in...
Reviews of the 2017 Caldecott Award winners
Winner: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiatby Javaka Steptoe; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp.10/16 978-0-316-21388-2 $17.99Picture books about artists are tricky. Should the illustrator mimic the subject’s style, or instead attempt to capture his or her essence? Steptoe does a little of both in...
Review of Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsuneby Pamela S. Turner;
illus. by Gareth HindsIntermediate, Middle School Charlesbridge 236 pp.2/16 978-1-58089-584-2 $16.95Turner (The Frog Scientist, rev. 9/09) is best known for her science books for children; here she delivers an excellent biography of Japan’s legendary samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune. Because he...
Foreign Correspondence: Translator: Trafficking Between Cultures
Translation has often been compared to the building of a bridge. The text originates from within one culture and has to arrive safely in another. A translator acts as travel guide across that bridge, helping the book to find its audience and success in a new land. Yes, some luggage...
Review of Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrongby Lesa Cline-Ransome;
illus. by James RansomePrimary Holiday 40 pp.4/16 978-0-8234-3428-2 $16.95e-book ed. 978-0-8234-3598-2 $16.95Today’s child may know Louis Armstrong only as the trumpeter of “What a Wonderful World” or as a character in an old movie; the Ransomes’ newest...
Review of Grayling's Song
Grayling’s Songby Karen CushmanIntermediate Clarion 210 pp.6/16 978-0-544-30180-1 $16.99 gCushman’s previous works (The Midwife’s Apprentice, rev. 7/95; Will Sparrow’s Road, rev. 11/12; etc.) fall into the realm of historical fiction; this novel is historically based but a fantasy, set in a culture inspired by, but not wedded to, medieval Europe....
Review of The Moon's Almost Here
The Moon’s Almost Hereby Patricia MacLachlan;
illus. by Tomie dePaolaPrimary McElderry 32 pp.6/16 978-1-4814-2062-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-2063-1 $10.99MacLachlan’s lyrical text combines with ethereal illustrations by dePaola in this simultaneously nostalgic and fresh bedtime book. A generous trim size gives dePaola ample space for the sky under which his characters, the...
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