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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...
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 the Killer of Enemies trilogy
Killer of Enemiesby Joseph BruchacMiddle School, High School Tu/Lee & Low 358 pp.10/13 978-1-62014-143-4 $19.95 gA deadly assassin with extrasensory powers that help her locate her adversaries, Lozen works as a monster-killer, taking out genetically modified superbeasts — giant bloodthirsty eagles, the vampiric Bloodless, a colossal anaconda —...
Reviews of the 2016 Sibert Award winners
Winner: Funny Bones: Posada and His Day
of the Dead Calaverasby Duncan Tonatiuh;
illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Abrams 40 pp.8/15 978-1-4197-1647-8 $18.95Artist José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1915) didn’t invent calaveras, the iconic skeletons associated with Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration, but they attained their greatest popularity during the twenty-four...
Reviews of the 2016 Batchelder Award winners
Winner:The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishyby Beatrice Alemagna; illus. by the author; trans. from the French by Claudia Zoe BedrickPrimary Enchanted Lion 44 pp.9/15 978-1-59270-180-3 $18.95After Eddie overhears her sister say "birthday — Mommy — fuzzy — little — squishy," she frets, "She's going to give Mom the most amazing present!"...
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,...
Review of Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Game
Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Gameby John Coy; illus. by Randy DuBurkePrimary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 32 pp.10/15 978-1-4677-2604-7 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4677-8810-6 $17.99Based closely on a 1996 New York Times article by Scott Ellsworth, this picture book tells the dramatic story of an illegal college basketball game planned and played...
Review of City of Halves
City of Halvesby Lucy InglisMiddle School, High School Chicken House/Scholastic 361 pp.11/15 978-0-545-82958-8 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-545-83054-6 $17.99While on reconnaissance for her lawyer father in the City of London, sixteen-year-old Lily is viciously attacked by a two-headed dog and discovers the existence of the other half of the City she...
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