Illustration by Michael Emberley and Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, from I Can Make a Train Noise.

The following books will receive starred reviews in the July/August 2021 Horn Book Magazine:

My Two Border Towns; by David Bowles; illus. by Erika Meza (Kokila/Penguin).

I Can Make a Train Noise; by Michael Emberley and Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick; illus. by the authors (Porter/Holiday).

The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess written and illustrated by Tom Gauld (Porter/Holiday).

The Museum of Everything; written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow).

Strollercoaster; by Matt Ringler; illus. by Raúl the Third and Elaine Bay (Little, Brown).

On the Trapline; by David A. Robertson; illus. by Julie Flett (Tundra).

Wishes; by Mượn Thị Văn; illus. by Victo Ngai (Orchard/Scholastic).

Being Clem; by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Holiday).

Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School; by Emily Jenkins; illus. by Pete Oswald (Schwartz & Wade/Random).

The Legend of Auntie Po; written and illustrated by Shing Yin Khor (Kokila/Penguin).

Wildflowers; written and illustrated by Liniers (TOON).

Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend; by Dawn Quigley; illus. by Tara Audibert (Heartdrum/HarperCollins).

Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet; by Joyce Sidman; illus. by Miren Asiain Lora (Eerdmans).

In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks; written and illustrated by Don Brown (Etch/Houghton).

The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art; by Cynthia Levinson; illus. by Evan Turk (Abrams).

Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville’s Famous Conjoined Twins; by Sarah Miller (Schwartz & Wade/Random).

This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth; written and illustrated by Sean Rubin (Holt).