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From The Guide: Darkly Funny YA

From The Guide: Darkly Funny YA
Horn Book,  Jul 11, 2017
When Andrew Smith’s book Grasshopper Jungle won the 2014 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction, it was praised for its blending of catastrophic sci-fi with angsty teen-humor. The following books likewise rely heavily on dark comedy to appeal to the snarky, self-referential nature of teenagers themselves, creating an appealing subgenre...
From The Guide: Art Appreciation

From The Guide: Art Appreciation
Horn Book,  Mar 27, 2017
Rita Auerbach’s extended review of Molly Bang's Picture This 25th anniversary edition took me back to my Simmons grad school days. I remember the eye-opening experience of reading Picture This for the first time — how it forever altered the way I “read” and examine art and illustration. The following...
From The Guide: Wonder-full World

From The Guide: Wonder-full World
Horn Book,  Jan 31, 2017
In Miss Rumphius, Alice’s grandfather told her to “do something to make the world more beautiful.” Now more than ever we need to encourage children’s interest in, connection to, and responsibility for the Earth and its inhabitants. As contributor Kathleen T. Isaacs says in “Fostering Wonder," “When we share picture...
From The Guide: American Politics 2016

From The Guide: American Politics 2016
Horn Book,  Nov 04, 2016
After months and months and months of campaigning, the presidential election is upon us. The following books, all recommended in recent and forthcoming issues of The Horn Book Guide, teach middle-graders about the American political system, providing some context for what the candidates have been fighting about.—Elissa GershowitzSenior Editor, The...
From The Guide: First-Day-of-School Picture Books

From The Guide: First-Day-of-School Picture Books
Horn Book,  Aug 23, 2016
The first day of school is a momentous event, one often anticipated with a mix of worry and excitement. School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex, illustrated by Christian Robinson, is one of our recent favorites and received a starred review in the March/April 2016 Magazine. The following picture...
From The Guide: Celebrating Music

From The Guide: Celebrating Music
Horn Book,  Jul 27, 2016
Troy Andrews’s Trombone Shorty, for which Bryan Collier took home the 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (read his acceptance speech), is an inspirational musician’s-origin story. It’s also a celebration of music’s power to transform and uplift performers and to open doors. For more books to foster a love of...
From The Guide: Picture Books in Translation

From The Guide: Picture Books in Translation
Horn Book,  May 20, 2016
In her article “Translator: Trafficking Between Cultures," Elena Abós compares translators to travel guides, successfully delivering a book from one culture to another. With universal relevance and appeal, the following picture books — all originally published in languages other than English and all recommended by The Horn Book Guide —...
From The Guide: Narrative Nonfiction

From The Guide: Narrative Nonfiction
Horn Book,  Mar 22, 2016
The trending genre of narrative nonfiction is one we have followed closely — see for example our August 2015 What Makes Good Narrative Nonfiction e-newsletter and Marc Aronson's Writer's Page article "What Is Narrative Nonfiction?" The Horn Book Guide’s wide-lens view on children’s publishing makes narrative nonfiction’s current popularity and...
From The Guide: Spanish-Language and Bilingual Books

From The Guide: Spanish-Language and Bilingual Books
Horn Book,  Jan 20, 2016
In her article “On Writing the American Familia," author Meg Medina speaks to the language “dilemma” of Latino families: “Some of us speak Spanish, and some of us don’t — sometimes all under the same roof.” Written in Spanish; both English and Spanish; or Spanglish (of which Medina is an...
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