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Over at The Horn Book website, you'll find yesterday's ALA award winners, plus our reviews of winning titles. Congratulations to all the winners!Also, January's Notes from the Horn Book (including five questions for Jeannie Baker, armchair-traveling novels for middle graders, "Read it again!"-worthy toddler books, nonfiction picture books, and "out-of-this-world"...
What?? Glee: The Beginning isn't even an honor book? I know! Shocking. And I wouldn't have even brought it up (mostly because a novel based on a TV show that's successful due to the fabulous musical numbers doesn't have much to offer—even if it does include a "Gleetastic Poster Inside"),...
I have to admit to having some trepidation in reviewing children's apps. It's clear that book-related apps for kids are a different animal from kids' books -- but how different are they? Is what makes a good app the same as what makes a good book? Can I still talk...
I just got a send-a-story of Susan Meyers's and Marla Frazee's Everywhere Babies from thoughtful Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publicity Director—and Horn Book alum—Karen Walsh. (How did she know I love Marla Frazee?) These genius greeting card/book hybrids allow you to mail an entire picture book to a loved one for...
Donald Crews's Caldecott Honor book Freight Train, beloved by train-crazed toddlers for decades, will win even more fans with the new app available from HarperCollins/Curious Puppy (December 2010).With the app's interactive elements, even kids who can recite the book backwards and forwards will find surprises. As each component of the...
Grace Lin has some adorable Ling & Ting paper dolls up on her blog—the perfect activity to keep my daughters (ages 5 and 10) busy during these last few moments of school vacation week.Grace recommends using cardstock, which we lacked, so our dolls were a little flimsy. I can’t blame...
I know we're not supposed to judge by covers and all, but I'm guessing that the publisher BOOM! Town has us mistaken for some other book review journal....
A shipment of The Creative Company's review copies recently arrived—creatively packaged in a box emblazoned with text from their fiction and biography frontlist titles. Any guesses as to which seasonally appropriate novel this is?"As you go into the sitting-room in the Stahlbaums’ house, on your left-hand side you will see...
Quick question: which would you rather read, a book that tells you reading is fun, or a book that is fun to read? Judy Sierra and Marc Brown's Wild About Books, first published in 2004, manages to be a little bit of both, as bookmobile librarian Molly McGrew turns a...
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