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Every year in the November/December issue, the Horn Book Magazine presents Holiday High Notes, reviews of recommended new holiday books. The list usually consists of a majority of Christmas books, with a few Hanukkah titles and maybe a couple of Kwanzaa books thrown in.This year, though, there are no Hanukkah...
Over the course of Betty White’s recent blazing-hot comeback, she’s played a hit-taking, Snickers-eating football player; a pee-drinking anthropology professor (Community); exaggerated Larry David-esque versions of herself (30 Rock, Ugly Betty); and, in The Proposal, Sandra Bullock’s character’s randy grandma who harasses an unlikely stripper played by Oscar from The...
"To my son, my husband, and my cell phone." — iDrakula's dedicationBekka Black’s new novel iDrakula (Sourcebooks Fire, October 2010) retells Bram Stoker’s classic epistolary story entirely through digital communication, including text messages, email, and websites. This “e-pistolary” format itself is still unusual, but it’s quickly gaining ground, particularly for...
As promised, some book-related ephemera!The eponymous boxes. Behind them you can see (left to right) a Halloween card sent by Penguin ("Happy Halloween from Dick and Jane and Vampires"), a leaf art thank-you note from Lois Ehlert, a Bink and Gollie watch, and pink pouches of fairy dust. What you...
Although President Obama's Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Knopf) came in too late for review in the Horn Book Magazine, I thought I might offer a few comments here.Like most celebrity picture books (by which I mean picture books written by people famous for doing something...
You may have heard this summer's buzz surrounding Jodi Lynn Anderson’s (bestselling author of Peaches) Loser/Queen (Simon & Schuster), an “interactive” novel for which cyber fans voted weekly on turns in the plot. With the paperback edition’s release date of December 21 approaching, and the ARC landing in the Horn...
I was pleasantly surprised by the made-for-TV adaptation of David Almond’s Skellig, a Printz Honor and Carnegie Medal–winning book. Released on DVD in August 2010, Skellig: The Owl Man (Feel Films; PG) — the unfortunate subtitle added for the U.S. release — originally aired in the U.K. in 2009.Fantastical realism...
The November edition of our newsletter Notes from the Horn Book is currently winging its way to inboxes, jam-packed with- five questions for Lincoln Peirce, creator of Big Nate- comic novels- poetic picture books- big kids' nonfiction- must-have holiday booksand more!Missing out? View the November Notes online, then subscribe for...
“B is for Boombox”; “F is for Flames”; “M is for Mohawk.”— from Alternative ABCs by 13th FloorOkay. I know I’m not the intended audience for this book, as a parent or as a children’s book reviewer. I’m not young, hip, or edgy -- quite the opposite on all counts....
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