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Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s selection for the best books published for children and teens in 2011. Publishing trends being what they are, the editors make no attempt to provide a balanced list (where’s the folklore?), but you will find the thirty choices fairly evenly divided among picture books,...
November’s Notes from the Horn Book is here! This issue's got- five questions for Melissa Sweet on Balloons over Broadway- picture book bios- middle-grade audiobook recommendations- YA page-turners- Holiday High NotesNot a subscriber? View it online or sign up....
To view this email as a web page, click here.Hbook.com | Review of the Week | Interviews | Read Roger | Out of the Box | Calling Caldecott | Books in this issue | SubscribeNovember 9, 2011 Five questions for Melissa Sweet Picture book biographies Listen up, middle-graders Page-turners for...
In the November/December 2011 issue of The Horn Book Magazine five writers — Marc Aronson, Carmen Agra Deedy, Malinda Lo, Susan Patron, and Rita Williams-Garcia — honor the spirit of the Thanksgiving season by sharing with us the books for which each one is grateful. Susan Patron warmed my children’s...
Five questions for Melissa Sweet • A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet, Eerdmans, 4–6 years. • Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet, Houghton, 6–10 years.Picture book biographies • Jim Henson:...
From comedy to ghost story, from a modern-day historical reenactment village to a future New York, these new middle-grade and YA novels range wildly in genre and setting. What do these books have in common? Readers won’t be able to put them down before the last gripping page.The first book...
Four topnotch audiobooks provide hours of entertainment for middle-grade listeners.In Geraldine McCaughrean’s Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen, when a diphtheria epidemic hits 1890s Olive Town, Oklahoma, twelve-year-old Cissy and her friends are sent away to stay with their former, beloved teacher, now an actress in a traveling theater troupe...
The first helium-filled creatures to bob through Manhattan on Thanksgiving morning were brought to being by master puppeteer Tony Sarg in the 1920s. Now master illustrator Melissa Sweet, a prolific artist and winner of a Caldecott Honor for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen...
Three new picture book biographies feature a visionary puppeteer, a world-renowned clown, and a young lighthouse keeper who would later be dubbed the “Bravest Woman in America.”Jim Henson’s imaginative early life served as the foundation for his later creative efforts, a connection author Kathleen Krull and illustrators Steve Johnson and...
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