...one of our favorite days of the year! To help you celebrate, here are some recommended books,

• Horn Book Fanfare 2023
• 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners
• 2024 ALA Youth Media Award winners
• Board Book Roundup: Board Book Adaptations: When Picture Books Get on Board by Rachel G. Payne (January/February 2024 Magazine)
• The 2024 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize by Dean Schneider (Calling Caldecott)
• The Roots of Storytelling by Pamela S. Turner (March/April 2023 Magazine)
• Five questions for Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison about picture-book biography Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
• Stories about storytelling (November 2022 Notes)
• Non-Snoozy Storytimes (January 2019 Notes)

tips,

• Learning to Read Upside Down by Amanda Lawrence
• Fables, Folktales, and Puppets for the Pandemic by Helen Kelly
• Have Book Bag, Will Travel: A Practical Guide to Reading Aloud by Mary M. Burns and Ann A. Flowers (March/April 1997 Magazine)
• What Makes a Good Storytime? by Julie Roach (May/June 2016 Magazine)
• What Makes a Good Read-Aloud for Middle Graders? by Christine McDonnell (January/February 2010 Magazine)
• What Makes a Good Book for All Ages? by Horn Book contributors (September/October 2010 Magazine)
• Help! My Newborn Hates to Read by Elissa Gershowitz (Family Reading)
• Reading Together Across the Miles by Cynthia K. Ritter (Family Reading)

and testaments to the power of reading together.*

• The Snowy Storytime by Erin E. Moulton (Family Reading)
• Margot Bartlett's articles for Family Reading
• Reading on the Spectrum by Ashley Waring (September/October 2010 Magazine)
• How a Prelingual Deaf Child Learned to Love Books by Ann Clare LeZotte (September/October 2021 Magazine)

Happy reading-aloud!

 *And — ahem — may we also suggest A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature by Horn Book editor emeritus Roger Sutton and contributing editor Martha V. Parravano?