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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...
Stand with the Banned: Banned Books Week 2023
It’s Banned Books Week again, and the censorship of books is more dire than ever. From The American Library Association’s website (it's long, but important): Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The...
Review of Migrants
Migrants by Issa Watanabe; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Gecko 40 pp. g 10/20 978-1-776573-13-4 $15.99 A group of despondent anthropomorphic animals, carrying little in the way of possessions, treks across land and sea in this wordless story from Peruvian author-illustrator Watanabe. Following the party is a skeletal creature,...
Reviews of 2021 Mind the Gap Award winners
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 2021 winners. The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Preschool, Primary Norton 40 pp. 1/20 ...
Review of When I Draw a Panda
When I Draw a Panda by Amy June Bates; illus. by the author Primary Wiseman/Simon 40 pp. g 9/20 978-1-4814-5148-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-5149-9 $10.99 In this celebration of imagination, creativity, and friendship, a girl’s chalk-drawn panda leaps off her wall, and together they doodle their way through various adventures. Before...
Review of Alice's Farm: A Rabbit's Tale
Alice’s Farm: A Rabbit’s Tale by Maryrose Wood; illus. by Christopher Denise Intermediate Feiwel 368 pp. g 9/20 978-1-250-22455-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-22456-9 $9.99 A folksy omniscient narrator tells the tale of two families, rabbit and human, that share a territory. Young cottontail Alice and her brother Thistle are enjoying their...
Review of The Hungry Place
The Hungry Place by Jessie Haas Intermediate, Middle School Boyds Mills/Boyds Mills & Kane 190 pp. g 10/20 978-1-68437-794-7 $17.99 Princess, born a champion Connemara pony at Highover Farm, has all the best care from her doting, elderly owner Roland. In a separate but linked narrative, Rae, a scrappy eight-year-old with the love...
Reviews of the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner and Honor Books
Picture Book Winner I Talk like a River by Jordan Scott; illus. by Sydney Smith Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 9/20 978-0-8234-4559-2 $18.99 In this lyrical and empowering picture book, Canadian poet Scott tells a story based on his own experiences as a boy who stuttered. In simple, evocative language, he...
Review of Julieta and the Diamond Enigma
Julieta and the Diamond Enigma by Luisana Duarte Armendáriz Intermediate Tu/Lee and Low 225 pp. g 6/20 978-1-64379-046-6 $18.95 e-book ed. 978-1-64379-047-3 $9.99 Narrator Julieta Leal — smart, curious, and prone to causing unintentional trouble — is thrilled to be accompanying her dad, an art handler at Boston’s Museum of...
Enriching the "image libraries"
In his 2013 Horn Book article "Young Dreamers," Christopher Myers wrote: "Images matter. They linger in our hearts, vast 'image libraries' that color our actions and ideas, even if we don’t recognize them on a conscious level. The plethora of threatening images of young black people has real-life effects. But if...
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