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September/October Cover Madness, Round 3!
The votes are in for the second round of September/October Cover Madness, and we move on to round 3! Pick your favorite of the final two choices — let us know your choice in the comments! Come back next week to see which cover was voted the winning September/October cover from the last twenty-four years! ...
September/October Cover Madness, Round 2!
The votes are in for the first round of September/October 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 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...
Banned Books Week 2020
It’s Banned Books Week! From The American Library Association’s website: “Every year, the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based on information from media stories and...
Banned Books Week 2018
It’s Banned Books Week! From The American Library Association’s website: “Every year, the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based on information from media stories and...
Reviews of Louise Erdrich's Birchbark House series
The Birchbark Houseby Louise Erdrich ; illus. by the authorIntermediate Hyperion 235 pp.5/99 0-7868-0300-2 $14.99 gLibrary edition ISBN 0-7868-2241-4 $15.49With a title and structure that inescapably recall Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family stories, Louise Erdrich here paints a detailed portrait of Ojibwa life in the mid-nineteenth century. Seven-year-old Omakayas...
Review of Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklinby Robert Byrd; illus. by the authorIntermediate Dial 40 pp.9/12 978-0-8037-3749-5 $17.99With a jacket showing Benjamin Franklin as a cross between a mad scientist and a superhero standing amid wild lightning bolts and surrounded by all manner of electrical devices, this...
Review of Trick or Treat
Trick or Treatby Leo Landry; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Houghton 32 pp.8/12 978-0-547-24969-8 $12.99Landry’s cheery watercolor and pencil illustrations and calm palette signal that this Halloween story is more treat than trick; together, the straightforward text and simple compositions build suspense and inject...
Review of The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories
The Curiosities: A Collection of Storiesby Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, and Brenna YovanoffHigh School Carolrhoda Lab 296 pp.10/12 978-0-7613-7527-2 $17.95e-book ed. 978-1-4677-0007-8 $12.95These experimental, unedited short stories showcase the many faces of horror — goth, faerie, ghostly, grotesque, lyrical, vengeful, and nasty-cool. Some clusters of tales are responses to a...
Gary D. Schmidt on What Came from the Stars
Reviewer Deirdre F. Baker asks What Came from the Stars author Gary D. Schmidt about the function of elevated language in the novel. Read the full starred review of What Came from the Stars here.Deirdre F. Baker: For the book’s fantasy elements, you hark back to biblical, Old English, and...
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