Book Reviews
We wish you a loaded bookshelf with snowflake, with dreidel, with elf for gift-giving, or your own self. Some ideas are right here. Here’s our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! Uri and the King...
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but these tales are so delightful. When we’ve candled or decked or treed… let us read! Let us read! Let us read!* Here’s our annual list of recommended new holiday picture books. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! *with apologies to lyricist Sammy...
Sleigh bells ring. People pleading for some gifts made for reading. They’re new and they’re old and festively told: stories for a winter wonderland.* Here’s our annual list of recommended illustrated holiday books, new or reissued — season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! *with apologies to lyricist Jeremy Stuart...
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, and Alexis Bunten; illus. by Garry Meeches Sr. Primary Charlesbridge 32 pp. g 8/22 978-1-62354-290-0 $16.99 “Many Americans call it a day of thanksgiving. Many of our people call it a day of mourning.” A team of Native creators provides...
Moo, Baa, Fa La La La La! by Sandra Boynton; illus. by the author Preschool Boynton Bookworks/Simon 16 pp. g 9/22 978-1-6659-1435-2 $6.99 The familiar farmyard gang celebrates Christmas Eve in Boynton’s latest holiday-themed board book (Christmas Parade, rev. 11/20; Boo! Baa, La La La!, rev. 9/21). After “deck[ing] the...
Season of Light by Jess Redman; illus. by Ramona Kaulitzki Preschool, Primary Farrar 40 pp. g 9/22 978-0-374-31460-6 $18.99 Redman’s lyrical rhyming text describes with anticipation the preparations that take place before Christmas. She showcases common traditions of the holiday that explain why this is a...
Happy All-idays! by Cindy Jin; illus. by Rob Sayegh Jr. Preschool Little Simon 16 pp. g 9/22 978-1-6659-2141-1 $7.99 e-book ed. 978-1-6659-2548-8 $7.99 “The time has come to send holiday cheer / to family and friends far and near.” Outside an apartment building whose windows showcase holiday decorations (including...
Harvest Days: Giving Thanks Around the World by Kate DePalma; illus. by Martina Peluso Primary Barefoot 40 pp. g 9/22 978-1-64686-626-7 $17.99 Paper ed. 987-1-64686-627-4 $9.99 A series of eye-pleasing, digitally rendered double-page spreads depicts twelve different holiday traditions around the world (e.g., Martes de Challa in Bolivia; Crop Over...
Mother Winter by James Christopher Carroll; illus. by the author Primary Creative Editions 16 pp. g 8/22 978-1-56846-377-3 $16.99 “If you are awake, / on the longest cold night, / when the wind curls and frost holds time, / you’ll hear her bells and smell the first snow, /...
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