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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite November/December Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the September/October covers. Next up are the November/December 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...
Reviews of select books written and/or illustrated by Melissa Sweet
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 lists and ordering...
Picture Book Reviews of 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winner and Honor Books
Picture Book Winner The Farmer and the Clownby Marla Frazee; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp.10/14 978-1-4424-9744-3 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-9745-0 $10.99Appearances can be deceiving in this superb wordless book from two-time Caldecott Honor recipient Frazee. At sunset, a grim-faced, pitchfork-wielding farmer comes to the rescue when a...
Fiction Reviews of 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction WinnerCartwheeling in Thunderstormsby Katherine RundellMiddle School Simon 248 pp.8/14 978-1-4424-9061-1 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-9063-5 $10.99Will (short for Wilhelmina), the only daughter of William Silver, white foreman of the Two Tree Hill Farm in Zimbabwe, leads a “wildcat” life with her Shona best friend Simon, filled with good rich mud, lemons...
Review of Shh! We Have a Plan
Shh! We Have a Planby Chris Haughton; illus. by the authorPreschool Candlewick 40 pp.9/14 978-0-7636-7293-5 $15.99With cover art recalling Ungerer’s The Three Robbers (rev. 6/62) and the wry sensibility of Klassen’s Hat books, this is a natural choice for any storytime. A spare, humorous text pairs with blocky digital illustrations...
Horn Book reviews of ImPress's inspirations
New small publisher ImPress adapts children’s books for grown-ups (without any of that embarrassing kid stuff). Here’s how The Horn Book Magazine reviewed the original titles. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 48 pp.9/13 978-0-316-20063-9 $18.00Mr. Tiger walks upright and...
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 Caldecott Award winners
Winner:The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp.4/14 978-0-316-19998-8 $17.00Imaginary friend Beekle waits and waits for a child to think him into existence. When it doesn't happen, Beekle sails off to the real world — a city full of boring...
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...
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