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November/December Cover Madness, Round 2!

Summer Edward | Blogs, Jul 29, 2024

The votes are in for the first round of November/December 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....

March Madness: Pick Your Favorite November/December Horn Book Magazine Cover!

Summer Edward | Blogs, Jul 22, 2024

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...

Publishers’ Previews

Apr 01, 2020

Welcome to The Horn Book Magazine’s Publishers’ Previews, a special advertising supplement that appears in The Horn Book Magazine and allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. The Horn Book has been asking Five Questions of authors...

Two picture-book, read-alike suggestions for the new royal parents (it's a boy!)

Elissa Gershowitz and Kitty Flynn | Blogs, May 06, 2019

His Royal Highness, King Baby: A Terrible True Storyby Sally Lloyd-Jones; illus. by David RobertsPrimary Candlewick 48 pp.9/17 978-0-7636-9793-8 $16.99“Once upon a time, there was a Happy Family” consisting of a mother, father, daughter (shown with tights on her head simulating long, blonde, princess-y hair), and pet gerbil. Life was...

Review of His Royal Highness, King Baby: A Terrible True Story

Elissa Gershowitz, May 06, 2019

Reviews of the 2019 CSK Illustrator Award winners

Horn Book, Jan 28, 2019

WinnerThe Stuff of Starsby Marion Dane Bauer; illus. by Ekua HolmesPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.9/18 978-0-7636-7883-8 $17.99From darkness, we experience the Big Bang, the birth of the universe, and the emergence of life on Earth. Holmes, known for her striking collage art (Voice of Freedom, rev. 9/15; Out of Wonder, rev....

Review of Let the Children March

Eboni Njoku, Jan 27, 2019

Let the Children Marchby Monica Clark-Robinson; illus. by Frank MorrisonPrimary Houghton 40 pp. g1/18 978-0-544-70452-7 $16.99For nearly a week in racially charged 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, hundreds of young people under the age of eighteen joined the Children’s Crusade and were harassed, beaten, and thrown in jail for their nonviolent protests...

Reviews of 2018 Mind the Gap Award winners

Horn Book | Blogs, Jul 26, 2018

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 2018 winners. Windowsby Julia Denos; illus. by E. B. GoodalePreschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g10/17 978-0-7636-9035-9 $15.99“At the end of the day,...

Reviews of the 2018 Sibert Award Winners

Horn Book, Feb 12, 2018

WinnerTwelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961by Larry Dane BrimnerMiddle School Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills 110 pp. g11/17 978-1-62979-586-7 $18.95e-book ed. 978-1-62979-917-9 $9.99Brimner (We Are One; Birmingham Sunday; Black & White) revisits the civil rights movement in this book about the 1961 Freedom Ride. Opening with a litany of landmark court...

Reviews of the 2018 CSK Illustrator Award winners

Horn Book, Feb 12, 2018

Winner Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poetsby Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth; illus. by Ekua HolmesIntermediate, Middle School, High School Candlewick 50 pp.3/17 978-0-7636-8094-7 $16.99The title of this innovative poetry collection comes from Lucille Clifton, who wrote, “Poems come out of wonder, not...

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November/December Cover Madness, Round 2!