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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...
Welcome to The Horn Book Magazine’s Publishers’ Previews, a special advertising supplement that appears in The Horn Book Magazine and allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. The Horn Book has been asking Five Questions of authors...
Fiction WinnerCartwheeling in Thunderstormsby Katherine RundellMiddle School Simon 248 pp.8/14 978-1-4424-9061-1 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-9063-5 $10.99Will (short for Wilhelmina), the only daughter of William Silver, white foreman of the Two Tree Hill Farm in Zimbabwe, leads a “wildcat” life with her Shona best friend Simon, filled with good rich mud, lemons...
Winner: Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 328 pp.8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and...
Winner:The Crossoverby Kwame AlexanderIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 235 pp.3/14 978-0-544-10771-7 $16.99 gJosh and Jordan (JB), identical twin sons of former basketball phenom Chuck “Da Man” Bell, are ball legends themselves, and they aren’t yet thirteen; Josh is the only middle schooler around who can dunk, JB has a mean three-point...
Winner:The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp.4/14 978-0-316-19998-8 $17.00Imaginary friend Beekle waits and waits for a child to think him into existence. When it doesn't happen, Beekle sails off to the real world — a city full of boring...
Winner: The Right Word:Roget and His Thesaurusby Jen Bryant; illus. by Melissa SweetPrimary Eerdmans 48 pp.9/14 978-0-8028-5385-1 $17.50Apt language and ingenious imagery combine to tell the life story of Peter Mark Roget, creator of the thesaurus. A solitary, though not unhappy, child, Roget spends his time keeping...
Winner:Mikis and the Donkeyby Bibi Dumon Tak; illus. by Philip Hopman; trans. from the Dutch by Laura WatkinsonPrimary, Intermediate Eerdmans 93 pp.10/14 978-0-8028-5430-8 $13.00Setting the stage on the island of Corfu, Hopman’s atmospheric opening illustrations pan in from aerial view to village to Mikis’s grandpa under a sycamore tree with...
Winner:Viva Fridaby Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author with photos by Tim O’MearaPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.9/14 978-1-59643-603-9 $17.99 gThere have been several books for young readers about Frida Kahlo, but none has come close to the emotional aesthetic Morales brings to her subject, as a Mexican artist herself...
Brown Girl Dreamingby Jacqueline WoodsonIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin328 pp. 8/14 978-0-399-25251-8 $16.99 gHere is a memoir-in-verse so immediate that readers will feel they are experiencing the author’s childhood right along with her. It starts out somewhat slowly, with Woodson relying on others’ memories to relate her (1963) birth and infancy...