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Welcome to the Horn Book’s annual Summer Reading list, this year supersized and coming to you in springtime. (Hi, Earth Day, April 22!) We’ve heard your feedback and are starting a month earlier, with this April issue of Notes debuting our Summer Reading goodies: Five Questions for Kat Fajardo about...
The middle-grade graphic novel Miss Quinces, written and illustrated by Kat Fajardo, with color by Mariana Azzi (Graphix/Scholastic, 10–13 years; simultaneously published in Spanish as Srta. Quinces) takes place during the summer of Suyapa’s fifteenth year, when her family goes to Honduras to visit extended family. Cajoled into a quinceañera,...
My family roots for North Carolina, and needless to say, today we are a little bummed (and tired!). What a run — what a heartbreaker. Sometimes books can help; here are recommendations from the Guide/Reviews Database subject searches on: Sports--Basketball, Behavior--Sportsmanship, Behavior--Teamwork, Emotions--Disappointment, and...Sleep. Congrats to Kansas, the NCAA Division 1 Men's...
When Kitty and I visited All She Wrote Books last week, it was the first time we were able to see "in person" some of our recent favorite new picture books. Some of them even came home with us — including When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke, winner of...
Last weekend, Kitty Flynn and I were finally able to make our long-planned visit to All She Wrote Books in Somerville, MA (in Assembly Square — a much fancier place than when the Horn Book office, then in Charlestown, was its neighbor). We got to chat with the store's founder and...
Art by Samya Arif In honor of Muslim Women's Day on Sunday, re-read "'Mommy, Do I Have White Skin?': Skin Color, Family, and Picture Books." See also Five Questions for Jasmine Warga about Newbery honoree Other Words for Home; Five Questions for Tahereh Mafi about An Emotion of Great Delight; Amra Sabic-El-Rayess...
Tomorrow night, March 22, at 7pm ET, KidLit TV will be hosting a virtual benefit to raise money for children of Ukraine. All proceeds will go to Save the Children, with nearly $10,000 raised as of this writing; a donation of any amount grants viewers access to the event. #KidLitForUkraine Logo designed by Mike Curato...
A big "Welcome!" to the Boston Book Festival's new executive director, Gina Gagliano (and a huge congratulations and thank you to outgoing executive director and longtime Horn Book contributor Norah C. Piehl; and to former director of operations and outreach Sarah Howard Parker, who is in this play!). 1. In...
Bright and early on Monday, January 24, the American Library Association announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards (known to some as the Oscars of KidLit), including the Newbery, Caldecott, Children's Literature Legacy, Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator, and many others. Read Horn Book reviews of the winners, and...
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