Book Reviews
Wonderstruckby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 640 pp.9/11 978-0-545-02789-2 $29.99 gWith Wonderstruck’s opening wordless sequence of an approaching wolf, readers might think they’ve embarked upon a Gary Paulsen novel, but this is a story not of wilderness adventure but of two young people running — to...
In honor of Diana Wynne Jones, a long and true friend of the Horn Book who will be much missed, we're posting an article she wrote for the July/August 2004 Horn Book. Also, a rather funny letter....
>Next Tuesday through Friday I'll be down at the University of Southern Mississippi's Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, delivering the Ezra Jack Keats Lecture on Thursday. Hope to see some of you there. I last spoke there in 1998 and have gone to the Guide to find some very...
Countdown [The Sixties Trilogy]by Deborah WilesIntermediate Scholastic 394 pp.5/10 978-0-545-10605-4 $17.99 gEven the weakest history student knows that the world didn’t end during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, yet it can be hard to shrug off the old-time geopolitical jitters in this first-rate novel — especially when its eye-grabbing...
I think we did. In the news: Australian fantasy writer, and winner of the 1984 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (for A Little Fear), Patricia Wrightson has died. More happily, Hans Christian Andersen awards have been won by David Almond (also a BGHB winner, for The Fire Eaters) for writing and...
>We had only been watching half an hour or so of the new Prisoner mini-series when Richard said, "I'm tired of these shows." Pressed for elucidation, he said "you know, shows where the whole thing is WHAT'S GOING ON?"There certainly a lot of these cued on our DVR--Heroes, FlashForward, Fringe,...
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