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These new picture books model self-love, strength in community, and pride in identity for very young children of color.Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel, illustrated by Shane W. Evans, is an affirmation of self-love for children of color. An exuberant brown-skinned girl recounts many situations in which she puts her...
February is Black History Month. The following nonfiction titles present informative, inspirational, and moving stories about notable African American people and events, to be shared with readers all year long. See also our Five Questions interview with Claire Hartfield, winner of the 2019 Coretta Scott King Author Award for A...
Five questions for Claire HartfieldA Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield, Clarion, 12–16 years.Celebrating Black History 2019The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illus. by Kadir Nelson, Houghton/Versify, 8–14 years.We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, ed. by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson, illus....
Photo: Brian McConkey.With painstaking historical detail, Claire Hartfield’s nonfiction book A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (Clarion, 12–16 years) recounts the week of violence in 1919 Chicago that left thirty-eight people dead and 537 wounded (two-thirds of the casualties were black; one-third, white) and the underlying...
Five questions for Caroline CalaBest Babysitters Ever by Caroline Cala, Houghton, 10–12 years.Non-snoozy storytimes I’m Tough! by Kate McMullan, illus. by Jim McMullan, HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, 3–5 years.Bigger Than You by Hyewon Kyung, Greenwillow, 3–5 years.Bark Park! by Trudy Krisher, illus. by Brooke Boynton-Hughes, Simon/Beach Lane, 3–5 years.Lost and Found Ducklings...
Here is Fanfare, the Horn Book’s annual list of the books we really loved the most. I wish I could tell you there was some more objective criteria, but there isn’t: these are the books the Horn Book editors, in consultation with our reviewers, are happiest to have read. They...
Five questions for Traci Sorell and Frané LessacWe Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell, illus. by Frané Lessac, Charlesbridge, 5–8 years.Noticing nature's cyclesThey Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki, Abrams, 5–8 years.Look at the Weather by Britta Teckentrup, trans. by Shelley Tanaka, 5–8 years.Quiet by Tomie dePaola, Greenwillow, 3–7 years.Winter Is...
These illustrated poetry collections touch on a variety of topics — from the everyday to the prehistoric to the supernatural — but all provide inviting ways to introduce primary readers to poetry.In Did You Hear What I Heard?: Poems About School, thirty-five poems follow the months of the school year,...
Five questions for Kate DiCamilloRaymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, 8–11 years.Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, 8–11 years.Finding homeFront Desk by Kelly Yang, Scholastic/Levine, 8–11 years.Just Under the Clouds by Melissa Sarno, Knopf, 9–12 years.Why Can't I Be You by Melissa Walker, HarperCollins/Harper, 9–12 years.No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen,...
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