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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 the 2018 Caldecott Award winners
Winner: Wolf in the Snowby Matthew Cordell; illus. by the authorPrimary Feiwel 48 pp.1/17 978-1-250-07636-6 $17.99 gA series of illustrations before the title page sets the scene: a prairie landscape in winter, home to both humans and wolves. Setting off alone toward home from school as a blizzard descends, a...
Review of The Memory of Things
The Memory of Thingsby Gae PolisnerHigh School St. Martin’s Griffin 275 pp.9/16 978-1-250-09552-7 $18.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-250-09553-4 $9.99It’s the morning of September 11, 2001, in Manhattan, and the first tower has just fallen. Sixteen-year-old Brooklynite Kyle, fleeing toward home, stumbles upon a teenage girl wearing a pair of costume wings...
Reviews of 2017 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner and Honor Books
Picture Book Winner Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Lifeby Ashley Bryan; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 56 pp.9/16 978-1-4814-5690-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-5691-3 $10.99A historical document dated July 5, 1828, lists the property to be sold from the Fairchilds’ estate. Hogs. Cattle....
Reviews of select titles by Patricia C. McKissack
Flossie & the Foxby Patricia C. McKissack; illus. by Rachel IsadoraPrimary Dial 32 pp.10/86 0-8037-0251-5 $10.95Library ed. 0-8037-0521-5 $10.89Based on a story remembered from the author's childhood, this tale of wit triumphant from the black tradition of the rural South — with its lilting cadence and colorful, carefully phrased dialect...
Review of Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs & Stories from an African American Childhood
Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs & Stories from an African American Childhoodby Patricia C. McKissack; illus. by Brian PinkneyPreschool, Primary, Intermediate Schwartz & Wade/Random 171 pp.1/17 978-0-375-87088-0 $24.99Library ed. 978-0-375-97088-7 $27.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-307-97495-2 $12.99Children’s book royalty and storyteller supreme, Patricia...
Reviews of the 2017 Printz 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...
Review of Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Brailleby Jen Bryant; illus. by Boris KulikovPrimary Knopf 40 pp.9/16 978-0-449-81337-9 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-449-81338-6 $20.99e-book ed. 978-0-449-81339-3 $10.99Bryant and Kulikov present the childhood of Louis Braille, from his 1809 birth to his invention, at fifteen, of his ingenious six-cell raised-dot system of reading...
Reviews of the 2017 Belpré Author Award winners
Winner: Juana & Lucasby Juana Medina; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 90 pp.9/16 978-0-7636-7208-9 $14.99This brisk, episodic (in the best way) chapter book introduces Juana, a young girl living in Bogotá, Colombia, who loves many things: her city, her family, reading, Brussels sprouts, and her dog, Lucas. She does...
Reviews of the 2017 Belpré Illustrator Award winners
Winner:Lowriders to the Center of the Earth [Lowriders]by Cathy Camper; illus. by Raúl the ThirdIntermediate Chronicle 128 pp.7/16 978-1-4521-2343-1 $22.99To win a competition, animal friends Lupe Impala, Elirio Malaria, and Flapjack Octopus build a rocket-powered lowrider out of space materials collected as they drive through the galaxy. The unique ballpoint-pen...
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