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May/June Cover Madness, Round 2!
The votes are in for the first round of May/June Cover Madness, and we move on to round 2! Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your choices in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here....
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...
Banned Books Week 2021
It’s Banned Books Week! From The American Library Association’s website: “ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that...
Review of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You adapted by Jason Reynolds from a book by Ibram X. Kendi Middle School, High School Little, Brown 300 pp. 3/20 978-0-316-45369-1 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-45370-7 $9.99 Reynolds insists from the first paragraph that “this is not a history book,” and he’s right; what instead he...
Reviews of 2021 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 2021 winners. The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Preschool, Primary Norton 40 pp. 1/20 ...
Review of Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani; illus. by Maris Wicks Middle School First Second/Roaring Brook 168 pp. 2/20 978-1-62672-877-6 $19.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-76003-6 $12.99 At the attention-grabbing start of Ottaviani and Wicks’s second graphic collaboration (Primates, rev. 5/13), a series of panels shows a “famous astronaut” (gender...
Review of The Bear in My Family
The Bear in My Family by Maya Tatsukawa; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Dial 32 pp. g 3/20 978-0-525-55582-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-55583-4 $10.99 A child asserts that there is a bear in his family, and indeed the illustrations show a little boy sharing space with a large gray creature. “Scary, right?” The...
Review of A Wish in the Dark
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 375 pp. g 3/20 978-1-5362-0494-0 $17.99 Soontornvat balances inner change and political action with insight and stylistic flair in this fantastical Les Misérables retelling. In Chattana City, the Governor wields a power that is almost...
Reviews of the 2021 Printz Award Winners
Winner Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri Middle School Levine Querido 368 pp. g 8/20 978-1-64614-000-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64614-002-2 $9.99 Framed loosely as his twelve-year-old self’s responses to a series of school assignments, Nayeri’s fictionalized memoir swirls through his own memories as well as stories from his family...
Reviews of the 2021 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller Intermediate, Middle School Random House 298 pp. g 1/20 978-1-5247-1570-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1572-4 $9.99 Korean American middle schooler Lily thinks she has to take on a magical tiger in order to save her beloved Halmoni (grandmother), but...
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