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Call for first-round nominations
Friends, we’ve looked at a number of extraordinary picture books so far, and much as we might enjoy giving each one a prize, Caldecott is looking for “the most distinguished.” It’s time to make some choices. The real Caldecott committee is beginning their nomination process, which you can learn more...
Review of Show Up and Vote
Show Up and Vote by Ani DiFranco; illus. by Rachelle Baker Preschool, Primary Rise/Penguin Workshop 48 pp. 8/24 9780593383773 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593753798 $10.99 On a rainy November day, a young girl goes with her mother to their neighborhood polling place. Along the way, the girl’s mother explains that voting...
Review of A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me
A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me by Yevgenia Nayberg; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 40 pp.7/24 9780823454105 $18.99When this book’s fictional young narrator experiences a moment of recognition between herself and the self-portrait of American modernist painter Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944), she is compelled to learn more about...
Week in Review, September 23rd-27th
This week on hbook.com... Five Questions for X. Fang about We Are Definitely Human from Tundra Books sponsored edition of Notes from the Horn Book From the September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine: The Writers' Page: The Heroes Inside Us: Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Right to Share...
Nothing
There are many classically trained musicians in my extended family, the most significant being two high school cellists who live with me. They are the reason I purchased a bigger car, with which I transport their two massive instruments in bulky hard cases, to private lessons, chamber groups, and youth...
Week in Review, September 16th-20th
This week on hbook.com... September Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Nathalie Alonso and Rudy Gutierrez about Call Me Roberto! + 7 picture books for National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month 2024, 5 middle-grade and middle-school novels in verse, and 6 YA novels about teens and parents...
Line by line
Novels in verse, such as these five recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, can pack a lot of meaning into relatively short lines. See also the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine, with its centennial mini-theme of Poetry & Folklore, and Dorie Raybuck’s 2015 Field Notes column, “This Is Too Much!”:...
National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month 2024
These seven engaging fiction and nonfiction picture books are recommended in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 through October 15 — and should be shared all year long! See also our Five Questions interview with Nathalie Alonso and Rudy Gutierrez about Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente...
The House Before Falling into the Sea
At the beginning of The House Before Falling into the Sea, we don’t know why large groups of people are fleeing their homes on foot, but they all seem to have one destination: a house at the tip of a rocky peninsula that juts out into a choppy sea. The...
Review of Ursula Upside Down
Ursula Upside Down by Corey R. Tabor; illus. by the authorPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp.5/24 9780063275560 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063393882 $12.99Ursula is a happy pink catfish who enjoys her life eating bugs, only to be asked one day why she swims upside down. What a strange question! Ursula had thought...
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