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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...
Poetry & Folklore
In our Book Reviews section, between Fiction and Nonfiction, you can often find reviews of Folklore and/or Poetry. This is an “and/or” because we don’t always have both, and sometimes we have neither. Our coverage tends to ebb and flow, as do the trends in books being published. In our...
Horn Book reviews of ImPress's inspirations
New small publisher ImPress adapts children’s books for grown-ups (without any of that embarrassing kid stuff). Here’s how The Horn Book Magazine reviewed the original titles. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 48 pp.9/13 978-0-316-20063-9 $18.00Mr. Tiger walks upright and...
Review of The Screaming Staircase
The Screaming Staircase [Lockwood & Co.]by Jonathan StroudIntermediate, Middle School Disney-Hyperion 374 pp.9/13 978-1-4231-6491-3 $16.99 gWith a morbidly cheery tone and sure-footed establishment of characters and setting, Stroud (the Bartimaeus trilogy; Heroes of the Valley, rev. 1/09) kicks off a new series that is part procedural and part ghost story,...
Review of Boxers & Saints
Boxers & SaintsBoxed set 978-1-59643-924-5 $34.99Boxers by Gene Luen Yang; illus. by the author; color by Lark PienMiddle School, High School First Second/Roaring Brook 328 pp.10/13 978-1-59643-359-5 $18.99Saintsby Gene Luen Yang; illus. by the author; color by Lark PienMiddle School, High School First Second/Roaring Brook 172 pp.10/13 978-1-59643-689-3 $15.99Yang’s latest...
Chris Raschka on When Lions Roar
Photo by Catherine Wink.In the September/October 2013 Horn Book Magazine, reviewer K. T. Horning asked Chris Raschka about illustrating scary emotional situations in When Lions Roar. Read the review here.K. T. Horning: For many young children, a roaring parent is even scarier than a roaring lion. How did you approach...
Review of When Lions Roar
When Lions Roar by Robie H. Harris; illus. by Chris RaschkaPreschool Orchard/Scholastic 32 pp.10/13 978-0-545-11283-3 $16.99 gA young child (of indeterminate gender) is frightened by loud noises on a trip to the zoo — from screeching monkeys and booming thunder to yelling parents and blaring sirens, each one simply described...
Horn BOO! 2013
Trick or treat! Enjoy our inaugural selection of new books for Halloween, with reviews written by the Horn Book staff. For more spooky books for middle graders, see “Slightly Spooky Middle-Grade Tales.”Vampire Babyby Kelly Bennett; illus. by Paul MeiselPrimary Candlewick 32 pp.7/13 978-0-7636-4691-2 $15.99A boy describes...
From The Guide: Slightly Spooky Middle-Grade Tales
It’s time for trick-or-treating, costuming-wearing, and embracing all things eerie. In “Horn BOO!” the Horn Book staff recommends spooky (or kooky) offerings, mostly picture books, for celebrating Halloween. The following books about ghosts, hauntings, monsters, and more will all appear in the forthcoming fall 2013 Horn Book Guide. These novels...
Review of The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Naziby Neal BascombMiddle School, High School Levine/Scholastic 240 pp.9/13 978-0-545-43099-9 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-545-56239-3 $16.99Dismissing Hannah Arendt via footnote, Bascomb concisely establishes Adolf Eichmann as an enthusiastic and painstaking enforcer of Hitler’s Final...
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