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As Horn Book editors, we read every review that goes into the Magazine multiple times until we feel that each line and word is just right. Sometimes, all this repetition causes our minds to make connections between the reviews we read and other things that are bouncing around in our...
Since 1964, every spring “La Rossa” (the beautiful red city of Bologna, Italy) becomes the global capital of children’s publishing. This year, 1,577 exhibitors from ninety-five countries and regions gathered for four intense days from March 31–April 3, 2025, in the BolognaFiere Exhibition Centre to establish partnerships, buy and sell...
This week on hbook.com... Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud Talk with Roger about The Cartoonists Club From the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: The Horn Book & the Ampersand by Nancy Upper From the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Perception and Reality: Preview Family...
April 10 is National Siblings Day (the picture above is Roger's brother with his bloopah). Here are some booklists and articles that highlight "siblings doing what siblings do best." Find more at Horn Book Family Reading blog; at Siblings tag; and lots and lots more at the Guide/Reviews Database subject Family--Siblings. From Notes from...
It's National Library Week, the American Library Association's celebration of all things library. This year's theme is "Drawn to the Library" with honorary chairs Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud. Speaking of the team behind The Cartoonists Club (Graphix/Scholastic), their new Talks with Roger interview arrives in Horn Book newsletter subscriber...
Passover begins Saturday night! For more on the holiday, see the Passover tag on hbook.com and the Holidays--Passover tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. And for a…slightly sillier look at Seders, matzah, and the afikomen, here’s a song commissioned for Parodies for Charities by friends of the Horn Book Sylvie Shaffer...
On April 1 (no fooling!) I attended a "salon event" for Laurie Halse Anderson, hosted by Porter Square Books. Anderson was there to discuss her new middle-grade novel, Rebellion 1776, which will be starred in the upcoming May/June Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Perception and Reality. The salon was intimate and conversational —...
This week on hbook.com... Rebekah Taussig Talks with Roger about We Are the Scrappy Ones From the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: When Fingers Are Fearless by Shifa Saltagi Safadi Family Reading: Transgender Day of Visibility by Horn Book Out of the Box: Announcing the Countalott...
Illustration from Our Lake by Angie Kang. The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Our Lake by Angie Kang (Kokila/Penguin) Downpour: Splish! Splash! Ker-splash! by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata; trans. from Japanese by Emily Balistrieri (Red Comet) Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Dlouhy/Atheneum) I...
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