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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...
Horn BOO! 2023
What do wombats, narwhals, and mac and cheese have in common? They appear alongside zombies, vampires, werewolves, and more in this year's roundup of eighteen recommended new preschool and primary books for the season. For more spooktacular reads, visit hbook.com/HalloweenBooks. Happy Halloween from the Horn Booooook! Witch & Wombat by...
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Review of The Great Zombie Pumpkin Parade!
The Great Zombie Pumpkin Parade! by Robert Burleigh; illus. by Wendell MinorPreschool, Primary Ottaviano/Little, Brown 40 pp.8/23 9780316331975 $18.99In propulsive rhyming verse and spooky watercolor and gouache illustrations (“mixed with digital”), readers are introduced to the participants in a parade of zombies with jack-o’-lanterns for heads—Slime-Faced Sumpkin, Ghoul-Eyed Gumpkin, Crush-Headed...
Horn BOO! 2021
Cows that go boo? Vampenguins? Poultrygeist? While our annual roundup of recommended picture books for the season features some unusual characters, we’ve also got plenty of pumpkins, ghouls, and treats to set the eerie mood. For more spooktacular reads, visit hbook.com/HalloweenBooks. Trick or Treat, Crankenstein by Samantha Berger; illus. by...
Table of Contents: September/October 2021 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from Pumpkin Heads! Illustration © 2000 by Wendell Minor. Features My Father’s Final Lesson by Jason Reynolds The 2021 Zena Sutherland Lecture. The Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin An excerpt from Yelchin’s forthcoming middle-grade memoir; see also starred review on page 129. How a Prelingual Deaf...
Preview September/October 2021 Horn Book Magazine
Cover art from Pumpkin Heads! by Wendell Minor. The Zena Sutherland Lecture: Jason Reynolds on his father’s final lesson. An excerpt from Eugene Yelchin’s forthcoming memoir, The Genius Under the Table. Author Ann Clare LeZotte recalls how she learned to love books as a prelingual deaf child. The Writer’s Page: Sayantani DasGupta on children’s literature and radical imagination. Horn BOO!: a roundup of Halloween books. ...
Week in Review, June 1st-5th
This week on hbook.com... 2020 BGHB Picture Book Award winners extras 2020 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Award winners extras 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Award winners extras From the May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Breaking the Rules: Our Modern Minstrelsy by Kekla Magoon Rule Breakers: Not "Not Your Business"...
Review of Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird's Amazing Journey
Tiny Bird: A Hummingbird’s Amazing Journey by Robert Burleigh; illus. by Wendell Minor Primary Ottaviano/Holt 40 pp. 4/20 978-1-62779-369-8 $18.99 In the late days of summer in the northeastern United States, a ruby-throated hummingbird (here called Tiny Bird) “feels a pull and knows it must go” on its migration journey...
Horn Book Magazine Covers
Randolph Caldecott was The Horn Book Magazine‘s first — and for decades only — cover artist. Then in 1985 another picture book master, Maurice Sendak, took over the task for a few issues, leading the way for a whole new crop of talented contributors. Much of their work is on view...
Earth Day 2019
Today (as every day should be!) is Earth Day, and this year's theme is: "Protect Our Species."The books below celebrate our precious planet, educate about the crises it faces, and offer age-appropriate models for environmental activism. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction titles for a range of ages, all...
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