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Perhaps now more than ever, Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides an opportunity to reflect not only on the life of the great civil rights leader, but also on how far we've come — and how very far we still have to go. Below is an updated list of recommended...
This week on hbook.com... January Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Jason Reynolds about Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... + 8 YA love stories, 8 stories for Lunar New Year, and 7 picture-book biographies for Black History Month From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: On the...
And now the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Okay, not that moment (the YMA announcements on Jan. 27), but here at Calling Caldecott it’s what we’ve been working toward since last September. It’s time to select your top three choices for the most distinguished picture book of 2024. Along...
A bummer about Caldecott is that not all the excellent and worthwhile picture books published in a given year can win. There’s only one Caldecott winner, and even if committees are generous with their honors, many books can’t and won’t receive Caldecott recognition. However, there are a number of other...
It happens each Calling Caldecott season. We start out in September full of excitement and high hopes that we will be able to weigh in on all the books on our list...and now it's January and we've run out of time. On Thursday this week the polls will open for...
This week on hbook.com... From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Table of Contents Editorial: Somewhat Unusual by Elissa Gershowitz Calling Cadecott: Noodles on a Bicycle by Megan Dowd Lambert They Call Me Teach by Cathryn M. Mercier Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Pigs Dig a...
Teach learns to read alongside his master’s son and transfers this knowledge through forbidden tutorials to enslaved men, women, and children. Lesa Cline-Ransome’s free verse narrative in Teach’s hushed voice opens on Monday and closes with lifted voices at Sunday School. As the congregation reads the biblical lines “Let My...
A tall portrait layout might have been the natural choice for Noodles on a Bicycle, with its depictions of bicycling demae (deliverymen) who balance gravity-defying towers of trays and bowls of soba noodles as they move through the streets of Tokyo. Instead, Zhang opted for a square trim, which infuses her illustrations...
This week on hbook.com... From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Kathryn Ormsbee and Molly Brooks Calling Cadecott: Two Together by Adrienne L. Pettinelli Out of the Box: Horn Book trivia Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: A Roof!...
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