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We wish you a loaded bookshelf with snowflake, with dreidel, with elf for gift-giving, or your own self. Some ideas are right here. Here’s our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! Uri and the King...
The votes are in for the first round of September/October Cover Madness, and we move on to round 2! Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your choices in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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"...
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...