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Holiday High Notes 2024
We wish you a loaded bookshelf with snowflake, with dreidel, with elf for gift-giving, or your own self. Some ideas are right here. Here’s our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! Uri and the King...
L'Heure Joyeuse: The First Children's Library in France Turns 100
Above and left: 1927 posters created for the library by illustrator Pierre Belvès when he was sixteen. Images courtesy of Fonds patrimonial L'Heure Joyeuse, Médiathèque Françoise Sagan. L’Heure Joyeuse was the first library in France devoted especially to children. It opened in the Latin Quarter of Paris in 1924, after...
Review of Meena's Saturday
Meena’s Saturday by Kusum Mepani; illus. by Yasmeen Ismail Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 10/24 9780593110317 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593110324 $10.99 This captivating ode to weekly gatherings of friends and extended family brims with affection for foods, activities, and traditions shared by a loving, large group crowded together in the narrator’s...
Finding Hope in the Abyss — The Zena Sutherland Lecture
Meg Medina holds office hours as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Photo courtesy of Meg Medina. I have been dedicated to writing for children since about 2006, when I began drafting my first middle-grade novel, Milagros: Girl from Away, which was ultimately published by Henry Holt Books for...
Editorial: All Is Calm (November/December 2024)
Exactly when is it “all calm,” amidst a soon-to-be bustling fall and winter holiday season and a fraught and consequential national election? For me, for a moment, there’s great calm in looking at this issue’s peaceful cover art, by Kerilynn Wilson, from One Foggy Christmas Eve. During this time of...
Table of Contents: November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from One Foggy Christmas Eve. Illustration © 2024 by Kerilynn Wilson. Features Finding Hope in the Abyss by Meg Medina An excerpt from the 2024 Zena Sutherland Lecture. L’Heure Joyeuse by Viviane Ezratty and Hélène Valotteau The first children’s library in France turns 100. YA Finds Its Way...
Review of Being Home
Being Home by Traci Sorell; illus. by Michaela Goade Primary Kokila/Penguin 32 pp. 5/24 9781984816030 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781984816047 $10.99 Caldecott-winning Goade (Tlingit Nation) evokes a unique mood in each book she illustrates. Here she uses gray and dull browns and blues in her mixed-media art to show city scenes,...
Review of Boy 2.0
Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste Intermediate, Middle School Algonquin 304 pp. 10/24 9781643753812 $16.99 e-book ed. 9781523529896 $9.99 Win “Coal” Keegan is moving to another foster home; the McKay family seems nice enough, and Coal is relieved that he’s remaining at the same school with his best friend, nicknamed Door....
Preview November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art by Kerilynn Wilson from One Foggy Christmas Eve. Final issue of our centennial year! (But the celebration continues: stay tuned!) The Zena Sutherland Lecture: An excerpt from Meg Medina’s “Finding Hope in the Abyss.” Viviane Ezratty and Hélène Valotteau on the centennial of L’Heure Joyeuse, the first children’s...
November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews
Illustration from Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills by Billy Mills and Donna Janell Bowman; illus. by S. D. Nelson. The following books will receive starred reviews in the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Santa’s First Christmas by Mac Barnett; illus. by Sydney Smith (Viking)...
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