Search Results
18 Results for: hbmsep11
Last 30 days
Last 6 months
Last 12 months
Last 24 months
Specific Dates
From:
To:
March Madness: Pick Your Favorite September/October Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the July/August covers. Next up are the September/October 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 on any...
Review of Every Thing on It
Every Thing on Itby Shel Silverstein; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Harper/HarperCollins 202 pp.9/11 978-0-06-199816-4 $19.99Library ed. 978-0-06-199817-1 $20.89Posthumously published works are sometimes weak, but this collection of 140-plus poems is every bit as good as Silverstein’s earlier poetry collections, beginning with the now-classic Where the Sidewalk Ends (rev. 4/75)....
Review of The Name of the Star
The Name of the Star [Shades of London]by Maureen JohnsonMiddle School, High School Putnam 370 pp.9/11 978-0-399-25660-8 $16.99 gUpon arriving in London from Louisiana for the school year, high-school senior Rory is told that someone “pulled a Jack the Ripper” the night before. She...
Review of Grin and Bear It
Grin and Bear Itby Leo Landry; illus. by the authorPrimary Charlesbridge 48 pp.7/11 978-1-57091-745-5 $12.95e-book ed. 978-1-60734-303-5 $9.99"Bear had a dream. His dream was to make his friends laugh." But poor Bear has stage fright, and his debut appearance on the Woodland Stage flops. Despondent, Bear goes to the local...
Books in the Home: Thank Heavens for Hugo, or When Size Matters
Not long ago I was having a conversation with a friend while our children were in the school playground. She was worried because her daughter hates reading. The girl is aware that she does not read as well as her classmates, and this upsets her because she enjoys school and...
Review of Wonderstruck
Wonderstruckby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 640 pp.9/11 978-0-545-02789-2 $29.99 gWith Wonderstruck’s opening wordless sequence of an approaching wolf, readers might think they’ve embarked upon a Gary Paulsen novel, but this is a story not of wilderness adventure but of two young people running — to...
Project Child's Play
Fashion and children’s literature icon Heidi struts onto the runway, leading one of her goats on a chic, to-die-for leash.HEIDI: Hello, everyvon and velcome to da runvay! I am your host, Heidi. This is Ziegfried. Your challenge vas to design a fresh new look for some of children’s literature’s biggest...
It's My Party: An Interview with Maurice Sendak
In the first picture book he has both written and illustrated since Outside Over There (1981), Maurice Sendak conjures up yet another rambunctious young mischief-maker, this one in the form of a gawky, quarrelsome pig.At nine, Bumble-Ardy is older by far than either Mickey or Max, and he bursts on...
Review of Bumble-Ardy
Bumble-Ardyby Maurice Sendak; illus. by the authorPrimary di Capua/HarperCollins 40 pp.9/11 978-0-06-205198-1 $17.95 gBumble-Ardy made its first appearance back in 1971 as an animated short on Sesame Street featuring a boy who invited pigs to his ninth birthday party. Forty years later, the story makes its picture book debut, and...
From The Guide: Batchelder Award Winners
The following reviews of recent Batchelder Award winners and honor books are from The Horn Book Guide and The Horn Book Guide Online. For information about subscribing to the Guide and the Guide Online, please visit hbook.staging.wpengine.com/subscriber-info.Bondoux, Anne-Laure A Time of Miracles181 pp. Delacorte 2010. ISBN 978-0-385-73922-1Library binding ISBN 978-0-385-90777-4YA...
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
Thank you for visiting.
We’ve noticed you are using a private browser. To continue, please log in or create an account.
