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This week on hbook.com... Rebekah Taussig Talks with Roger about We Are the Scrappy Ones From the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: When Fingers Are Fearless by Shifa Saltagi Safadi Family Reading: Transgender Day of Visibility by Kitty Flynn Out of the Box: Announcing the Countalott...
Illustration from Our Lake by Angie Kang. The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Our Lake by Angie Kang (Kokila/Penguin) Downpour: Splish! Splash! Ker-splash! by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata; trans. from Japanese by Emily Balistrieri (Red Comet) Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Dlouhy/Atheneum) I...
April is Autism Acceptance Month, which kicks off with World Autism Acceptance Week and today's World Autism Awareness Day. We've compiled some resources for advocacy and three new Guide/Reviews Database recommended booklists for primary, intermediate, and older readers highlighting experiences of those with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their loved ones....
Update: If you’re the kind of person who counts a lot, you probably noticed that yesterday was April 1 (April Fool!). There isn’t really an award for the best page numbers (though if there were, this book would be a contender), and we don't really have an AI department; everything on this...
For Transgender Day of Visibility, here are some recently published books — for primary, intermediate, and older readers — from the Guide/Reviews Database that celebrate identities beyond the binary. See also: Transgender Awareness Week 2024 from October 2024 Notes from the Horn Book YA Pride from June 2022 Notes from the Horn Book...
This week on hbook.com... From the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Horn Book Reminiscences: Horn Book Editors I've Known and Loved Before by Cathryn M. Mercier Board Book Roundup: The Fabric of Baby Books by Rachel G. Payne Out of the Box: Baseball and unicorns by Elissa...
I have been to a lot of book award ceremonies in my career, and while the Newbery Awards’ ballroom of cheering people is glorious, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards back in the day were very fancy, the Blueberry Awards (now in its fourth year) genuinely inspire hope. Last Thursday,...
March is Women's History Month. To celebrate the accomplishments of women and female-identifying people, we will be highlighting recent recommended books "devoted to the achievements of a diverse gallery of women, heroes every one." Look for the social media tag #HBWomensHistoryMonth on Facebook.com/TheHornBook and @thehornbook.bsky.social on Bluesky as we share...
The Margret and H. A. Rey Curious George Lecture is always a good time, and this year the Cambridge (MA) Public Library hosted Jerry Craft. Craft is the author/illustrator of New Kid — the only book to have won the Newbery, CSK Author Award, and Kirkus Prize; and the first...
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