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I have to admit, my initial response to Mark Binder's CD A Holiday Present! Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, Ramadan, Diwali, Solstice, New Year's (Light Publications) was unenthusiastic. The carefully non-denominational cover illustration and the tagline "Warm, joyful, and fun adventures celebrating giving and family" had me bracing for some seriously touchy-feely...
December's Notes from the Horn Book is full of Fanfare goodness, with glowing recommendations of 26 of the year's best-of-the-best books for children and young adults — plus an interview with honoree Megan Whalen Turner. The December Notes is available online, but make sure to subscribe so you don't miss...
Mike Austin's A Present for Milo (December 2010) is Ruckus Media's first app created expressly for the iPad and lacking a print predecessor. The story is simple: Milo, a kitten, chases a mouse through the house until they reach — surprise! — a birthday party. This is all perfectly acceptable...
Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: Enter If You Dare! is the seventh compendium of all things bizarre, freakish, and grotesque from around the world. You know the stuff: a sculpture of an Australian actress made with 24,000 peaches, an eighteen-inch-long fingernail, mice kebabs, a turtle with two heads and six...
We're delighted to announce the 2010 Horn Book Fanfare list, our picks for the best children's and young adult books of the year.Picture Books Mirror, written and illustrated by Jeannie Baker (Candlewick) Me and You, written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (Farrar) I Know Here, written by Laurel Croza, illustrated...
The Spring 2011 Horn Book Guide will be published in April -- but you can get a sneak peek now. We've just updated the Guide Online database with 209 new reviews of titles published from July to December 2010....
Lefty press Reach & Teach has published Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon, a coloring book by Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz. The "tea, trains and tiaras for everyone!" message throughout is winningly lighthearted, even if such jokes as "Marriage is so gay" (illustrated with a wedding cake...
¡Muy bueno! Leslie Patricelli's Higher! Higher!, a 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book honor book, will be reissued as a bilingual board book (Higher! Higher! / ¡Más alto! ¡Más alto!) in January, along with The Birthday Box / Mi caja de cumpleaños.Look for reviews of two brand-new Patricelli titles, Potty and Tubby...
Though Elissa laments the lack of good Hanukkah books published this holiday season, we've compiled a list of tried-and-true titles to last at least the next seven nights.Check 'em out here. And while you're at it, see what else—like a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie review—is new on...
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