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Review of The Astrochimps: America’s First Astronauts
The Astrochimps: America’s First Astronauts by Dawn CusickIntermediate, Middle School Chicago Review 216 pp.2/24 9781641608954 $19.99e-book ed. 9781641608978 $12.99Chimpanzees were “America’s first astronauts,” but what did their missions entail, and how did their voyages help NASA send humans into space? Cusick’s well-researched look at the primates’ training and flights provides...
Review of Mid-Air
Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams; illus. by Danica NovgorodoffMiddle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 320 pp.4/24 9781481465830 $17.99e-book ed. 9781481465854 $10.99“Be like water,” Isaiah says. “Always,” Darius replies. These are the final words the boys say to each other before Darius takes off on his bicycle to break the Guinness world record for...
Review of Bunny Should Be Sleeping
Bunny Should Be Sleeping by Amy Hest; illus. by Renata LiwskaPreschool Porter/Holiday 40 pp.3/24 9780823453412 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823457441 $11.99Bunny has been lying awake in bed—when he should be sleeping—waiting for Dad to check on him. The youngster’s expressive body language and his impatience (“Come on, Dad! Check on me, check...
Blowing the Horn: Mazel Tov
Illustration (c) 2024 by Selina Alko. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may...
Blowing the Horn: Postscript
Susan Cooper. Photo: Tsar Fedorsky. I’ve been here before. Long ago, in October 1974, when I was thirty-eight years old, the handsome fiftieth-anniversary issue of The Horn Book Magazine ended with a little two-page tribute from me. It was titled “A Love Letter to the Horn Book.” And it did...
Blowing the Horn: Artist's Dream
Illustration (c) 2024 by Jillian Tamaki. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may...
Blowing the Horn: The Hope Machine
I sat down today to write about hope, but the truth is that we live in a fractured and fragile time, and it can be hard to feel hopeful, even with regard to children’s literature. Here, where I sit in Atlanta, Georgia, the state legislature is poised to curtail and...
Blowing the Horn: The Things That Matter
Illustrations (c) 2024 by Lynne Rae Perkins. Being a fine arts major at a large public university opened my small-town mind to a myriad of ideas, in a myriad of ways. And I loved it. My education there was not particularly strong on how to survive after college. Which I...
Blowing the Horn: Toot and Shout
Happy Anniversary, Horn Book! It’s been pure joy to watch you grow over the years. I read you voraciously as I honed my writing craft. And now I jump for joy to see my books so thoughtfully reviewed by you. I learned so much from you as an aspiring kidlit...
The Writer's Page: Mapping My Path
How did I end up in the picture-book world? It was all because of Nicole Rubel, the brilliant illustrator of the Rotten Ralph books, among many others. I was a creative writing student at Emerson College, and I was still on parole after an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle a ton...
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