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Review of There Was a Party for Langston

There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett PumphreyPrimary    Dlouhy/Atheneum    56 pp.10/23    9781534439443    $18.99e-book ed  9781534439450    $10.99An intriguing photograph of writers Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka dancing at a party at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...
      

There Was a Party for Langston

Readers are beholden to the many writers and illustrators who continue to play catch-up with United States history, filling in huge gaps with books such as That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith, or Olaudah Equiano's story of his life as a slave, as told in Nearer My Freedom by Monica...
      

Review of Stuntboy, In-Between Time

Stuntboy, In-Between Time by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Raúl the Third Intermediate, Middle School    Dlouhy/Atheneum    272 pp. 8/23    9781534418226    $14.99 e-book ed.  9781534418240    $9.99 Set one week after its predecessor (Stuntboy, in the Meantime, rev. 1/22), this illustrated novel follows Portico Reeves through one very eventful day as the self-appointed...
      

Publishers' Preview: Fall 2023: Five Questions for Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey, and Jarrett Pumphrey

This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2023 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2023, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by When the Schomburg Center for...
      
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Review of Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel

Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Zeke PeñaMiddle School, High School    Dlouhy/Atheneum    320 pp.5/23    9781665918466    $19.99e-book ed.  9781665918480    $10.99In the previous installment (Miles Morales, rev. 9/17), sixteen-year-old Miles (“Boricua and Black and Brooklyn as hell”) was bitten by a radioactive spider, became the latest Spider-Man,...
      

Ain't Burned All the Bright: Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin's 2022 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech

Jason Reynolds. (Photo courtesy of Jason Reynolds.) REYNOLDS: First, I just want to take a moment to thank the Horn Book, not only as the bestower of this award but also as a relentless and consistent space exploring and celebrating children’s literature. I’m not sure that enough light is given...
      

Some (former) Real Committee Members Talk Books!

A quick note before we jump in: as I'm always saying, one of the aims of Calling Caldecott is to model book discussion about picture books — the kind of specific, granular, almost microscopic discussion that would occur on an actual Caldecott committee. So I'm very excited about today's post: a conversation among...
      

Preview January/February 2023 Horn Book Magazine

Original cover art by Jason Griffin. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2022. Coverage of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards virtual celebration: judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. New for New Readers: a roundup of beginning-reader comics by Adrienne L. Pettinelli. Single copies of this special issue...
      

Ain't Burned All the Bright

[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.]   Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jason Griffin Middle School    Dlouhy/Atheneum    384 pp.    g 1/22    978-1-5344-3946-7    $19.99 e-book ed.  978-1-5344-3947-4    $10.99 Reynolds’s...
      

BGHB 2022: Ain't Burned All the Bright

We've reached the culmination of Picture Book week in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.   Today, judge Maura O'Toole introduces the 2022 BGHB Picture Book Winner Ain't Burned All the Bright:   The 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book is presented to author Jason Reynolds...
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