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The author's childhood copy. Photo: Minh Lê. One of my favorite childhood picture books was A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams. In it, a community rallies to help a family following a devastating fire. Then, looking to move forward from the wreckage, the family starts collecting coins...
Built to Last by Minh Lê; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary Knopf 40 pp.4/24 9780593569177 $18.99Library ed. 9780593569184 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593569191 $10.99In this entertaining picture book, the duo behind Drawn Together (rev. 7/18) explores friendship and resilience through imaginative play. The two main characters first meet as toddlers after bumping into...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Mihn Lê (left) and Dan Santat Minh Lê photo by Daniel Corey Dan Santat photo by Dan Santat In Built to Last, their fourth collaboration, author Minh Lê and illustrator Dan Santat explore the...
Enlighten Me by Minh Lê; illus. by Chan ChauIntermediate, Middle School LB Ink/Little, Brown 144 pp.9/23 9780759555471 $24.99Paper ed. 9780759555488 $12.99e-book ed. 9780316395526 $9.99Middle-schooler Binh isn’t happy about his Vietnamese American family’s trip to a silent Buddhist meditation retreat. His beloved Game Boy is taken away, and, worse, Binh has...
In case you missed it, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards were announced yesterday; yes, we secretly knew, when we asked Scholastic if we could do a Five Questions interview with Jack Wong for this issue of Notes, that he had won the Picture Book Award for When You Can Swim,...
Real to Me by Minh Lê; illus. by Raissa FigueroaPreschool Knopf 40 pp.5/23 9780593377499 $18.99Library ed. 9780593377505 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593377512 $10.99“When you have a great friend, the rest of the world can seem to disappear.” But if that friend suddenly disappears, can you trust that they were real? Lê (Lift,...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s...The Blur? For their third collaboration, writer Minh Lê and illustrator Dan Santat provide an origin story for everykid. Roger Sutton: You guys...
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books, 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 Minh Lê and...