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Cat Nap

I love an ambitious picture book, and Brian Lies's Cat Nap is that and then some. When I wrote The Horn Book Magazine review for this book, I knew it then that it would be a Calling Caldecott candidate. The illustrations stand out in terms of the diverse media used and the technical skill necessary to work in these many different...

Review of The Winter of the Dollhouse

The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz Intermediate, Middle School    Candlewick    400 pp. 9/25    9781536236088    $18.99 e-book ed.  9781536247589    $18.99 Tiph is a child who is pulled in many directions. She loves her younger half siblings but is fed up with the chaos of a house with babies....

Review of Moon Song

Moon Song by Michaela Goade; illus. by the author Primary    Little, Brown    40 pp. 10/25    9780316461634    $18.99 As a family goes to bed on a cold night, a young girl begins a story to ease her cousin to sleep. The tale unfolds as a walk through the world around them,...

Call for second-round nominations

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December already? It’s beginning to look a lot like...time for Calling Caldecott’s second round of nominations! (Also, January and the YMA announcements are edging ever closer.)  Last month we asked readers for four titles that they’d nominate if they were members of The Committee. Twenty-three books were nominated; Cat Nap...

Fanfare 2025 Annotations

There’s nothing like a good library haul! Here’s mine, following the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine issue-to-press date. It’s the issue that begins our hundred-and-second year and contains all the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards speeches along with Fanfare, our annual annotated “best of” list that Notes from the Horn...

Review of Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham

Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary, Intermediate    Viking    40 pp. 8/25    9781984835185    $18.99 e-book ed.  9781984835208    $10.99 Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born into a large, loving family in the Pacific Northwest at the tail end of the nineteenth century. As...

Broken

“Let me tell you the story of the day I broke Ama’s cup.” So begins Mei Mei’s emotional odyssey through fear, guilt, confrontation with a menacing beast (cat), a dark underworld (closet), a River Styx (tears), and a return to the love of her grandmother. (I know I am overdoing...

Review of The Last Resort

The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by Naomi Franquiz Intermediate, Middle School    Scholastic    240 pp. 9/25    9781546132431    $17.99 e-book ed.  9781546132455    $17.99 In this supernatural murder mystery, the versatile Kelly (2025 Newbery medalist for The First State of Being, rev. 5/24) skillfully balances otherworldly horrors with more realistic...

Fanfare 2025 Booklist

Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2025. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2026 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
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