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Week in Review, February 24th-28th

  This week on hbook.com... Maria van Lieshout Talks with Roger about Song of a Blackbird   From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: BGHB Nonfiction and Poetry speeches - Maria Gianferrari | Diana Sudyka | Nicholas Day | Brett Helquist | Carole Boston Weatherford | Jeffery Boston Weatherford BGHB...

Ramadan

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The Islamic month of Ramadan is a solemn holiday of fasting, charity, and additional prayer, culminating in the joyous feasting of Eid al-Fitr. Ramadan mubarak to those observing, and Happy Eid! We’d like to call your attention to archived reading suggestions from our friends at KitaabWorld, who used to review...

Carle Honors and Uri Shulevitz (1935–2025)

Look what came Out of the Box: What a thrill to receive in the mail this gorgeous art from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: Last fall we were co-honorees for the Carle Honors with Uri Shulevitz, who sadly passed away earlier this week. Shulevitz wasn’t in attendance,...

Week in Review, February 17th-21st

  This week on hbook.com... Bertha Miller's Letters to Hilda van Stockum, 1941–1944  by John Tepper Marlin 2024 Booklists and Resources Master List February Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Amy Cherrix about Virus Hunters + 5 nonfiction books about real science, 6 female-focused YA novels for Women's...

2024 in review

Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...

Week in Review, February 10th-14th

  This week on hbook.com... Megan E. Freeman Talks with Roger about Away   From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: BGHB Fiction speeches - Elana K. Arnold | Byron Graves | Jacqueline Woodson   Family Reading: Reading in the family by Margo Bartlett   Out of the Box: Black...

Books by young people for young people

It’s no secret that children’s books have made and continue to make a lasting impact on those who read them, but children and teens have not restricted themselves to the role of readers only. They have contributed to the canon of children’s literature as authors, too.  Who better to tell...

Happy Tu Bishvat!

Tomorrow is Tu Bishvat, the Jewish holiday (of many spellings) considered the New Year of the Trees. Looking for tree-related inspiration? See the Trees tag, or the more specific Holidays --Tu B’Shvat tag, in the Guide/Reviews Database. Or see the Trees tag on hbook.com, especially this verdant veritable forest from a few...

Joyful Song: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2025

Welcome to our stop on the Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour! Author Lesléa Newman and illustrator Susan Gal were kind enough to answer our questions about Joyful Song: A Naming Story, which received a Sydney Taylor Honor in the Picture Book category and was on the Horn Book’s 2024...
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