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Winner Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp. 10/24 9781665961271 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665961295 $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he...
Winner Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers; illus. by Rebecca Lee Kunz Preschool, Primary Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 10/24 9781646144549 $18.99 Narrator Sissy’s little brother Chooch is two and wants to help. When Elisi (grandmother) paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Etsi (mother) sews pucker-toe moccasins, he helps. When Etlogi...
Winner The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 272 pp. 3/24 9780063337312 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063337336 $9.99 It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so...
It was an absolute thrill, honor, and inspiration to accept the 2024 Mentor Honor on behalf of the Horn Book at the Carle Honors Benefit Gala at the New-York Historical Society in NYC on September 25. This special evening was hosted by the very charming, supremely talented, and velvety voiced Leslie...
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. The books that didn’t win. Stopped Let’s Go! by Michael Emberley Elena Rides by Juana Medina Eclipsed Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka When the Stars Came Home by Brittany Luby; illus. by Natasha Donovan Wilted My Baba’s...
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2023 winners. Let’s Go! [I Like to Read: Comics] by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. 1/23 ...
Photo courtesy of Dean Schneider. I bet I’m the only grown person (near-elderly, actually) to have burst into tears in a Mac Barnett signing line. The book was The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse written by Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen, and it was the inaugural winner of...
Dare Coulter. Photo: Joshua Steadman for WALTER Magazine. The first thing one learns about working with Dare Coulter is to expect the unexpected. Her beautiful world has its own rules of order and its own rhythms and rhymes. Adages, idioms, metaphors need to be rewritten. Case in point — for...
R. Alnita Coulter and Dare Coulter. Photo courtesy of R. Alnita Coulter. When my daughter Dare Coulter heard she had won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, she screamed. So did I, and the rest of our family, as we gathered around computer screens like they gathered around TV consoles...
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