This week on hbook.com... From the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Table of Contents Editorial: The Horn Book and... by Elissa Gershowitz Out of the Box: International Women's Day Women's History Month 2025, Week 1 Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture Book: My Daddy Is a Cowboy...
March is Women's History Month. To celebrate the accomplishments of women and female-identifying people, we will be highlighting recent recommended books "devoted to the achievements of a diverse gallery of women, heroes every one." Look for the social media tag #HBWomensHistoryMonth on Facebook.com/TheHornBook and @thehornbook.bsky.social on Bluesky as we share...
Tomorrow is International Women's Day. On hornbookguide.com, we've updated two booklists of recent biographies, one for younger and one for intermediate and older readers, to honor the extraordinary lives of women, girls, and female-identifying people throughout history from other countries around the world. And every day throughout the month of...
This week on hbook.com... Maria van Lieshout Talks with Roger about Song of a Blackbird From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: BGHB Nonfiction and Poetry speeches - Maria Gianferrari | Diana Sudyka | Nicholas Day | Brett Helquist | Carole Boston Weatherford | Jeffery Boston Weatherford BGHB...
The Islamic month of Ramadan is a solemn holiday of fasting, charity, and additional prayer, culminating in the joyous feasting of Eid al-Fitr. Ramadan mubarak to those observing, and Happy Eid! We’d like to call your attention to archived reading suggestions from our friends at KitaabWorld, who used to review...
Look what came Out of the Box: What a thrill to receive in the mail this gorgeous art from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: Last fall we were co-honorees for the Carle Honors with Uri Shulevitz, who sadly passed away earlier this week. Shulevitz wasn’t in attendance,...
This week on hbook.com... Bertha Miller's Letters to Hilda van Stockum, 1941–1944 by John Tepper Marlin 2024 Booklists and Resources Master List February Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Amy Cherrix about Virus Hunters + 5 nonfiction books about real science, 6 female-focused YA novels for Women's...
Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...
This week on hbook.com... Megan E. Freeman Talks with Roger about Away From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: BGHB Fiction speeches - Elana K. Arnold | Byron Graves | Jacqueline Woodson Family Reading: Reading in the family by Margo Bartlett Out of the Box: Black...