Book Reviews
Ready to celebrate? I bet you are, and our annual Holiday High Notes list of recommended seasonal titles is here to help you get the party started. It’s not too early, he says, having picked up two boxes of chocolate peppermint cookies earlier today, and while to keep household peace...
’Twas the holiday issue, and all across Boston... the remote-working Horn Bookers were writing reviews of recommended new and reissued Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas books. (See also Marjorie Ingall’s article “What Makes a Good Hanukkah Book?” in the November/December 2020 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.) Jack and Santa...
Dear friends: What I’m late with this week are my Christmas book reviews, destined for our annual “Holiday High Notes” list to be published in the November/December issue of the Magazine. I believe it was a Winnie Winkle comic that taught me that some industries — fashion, publishing — live...
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Grab a candy confection and read our selection of books filled with cheer — new or just reissued from yesteryear.* *with apologies to lyricist Edward Pola My Baby Loves Christmas by Jabari Asim; illus. by Tara Nicole Whitaker Preschool HarperFestival 20 pp. 9/19 978-0-06-288462-6 $7.99 In this cozy board book, Asim (Preaching to the Chickens, rev....
The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper; illus. by Carson Ellis Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 10/19 978-0-7636-8698-7 $17.99 “So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing / To drive the dark away.” Thus begins...
Deck the halls! It's time for our annual selection of fa-la-la-lots of new (and one reissued) holiday books, with reviews written by the Horn Book staff.Carols and Chaosby Cindy AnsteyHigh School Swoon/Feiwel 284 pp. g10/18 Paper ed. 978-1-250-17487-1 $10.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-17486-4 $7.80In 1817 England, eighteen-year-old Kate Darby, lady’s maid to...
We have a little sectionof books this time of year.They’re new (and some reissued),and filled with winter cheer.Nutcrackedby Susan AdrianIntermediate Random 234 pp.9/17 978-0-399-55668-5 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-399-55669-2 $19.99e-book ed. 978-0-399-55670-8 $10.99During each rehearsal for her role as Clara in The Nutcracker, Georgie finds herself — like the ballet’s heroine —...
The Twelve Days of Dash & Lilyby Rachel Cohn and David LevithanHigh School Knopf 217 pp.10/16 978-0-399-55380-6 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-399-55381-3 $20.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-399-55382-0 $10.99It’s been a year since the two teens met and fell in love in New York City (Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, rev. 1/11), thanks...
A Hanukkah with Mazelby Joel Edward Stein; illus. by Elisa VavouriPrimary Kar-Ben 32 pp.9/16 978-1-4677-8171-8 $17.99Paper ed. 978-1-4677-8176-3 $7.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-5124-0936-9 $6.99Artist Misha doesn’t have much, but he has enough milk to share with the cat he finds in his barn, whom he names Mazel (“luck”). He can’t afford...
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