>March Stars

by Roger Sutton
Feb 03, 2006 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>Or would that be March, stars!, anticipating a newly disciplined red carpet at the Oscars this year. (Forgive me, the fever is just breaking.)

Anyway, the books whose reviews will be starred in the March/April issue of the Horn Book are (in the order they will come in the book review section):

Lilly's Big Day (Greenwillow) by Kevin Henkes
My Mei Mei (Philomel) by Ed Young
Ask Me No Questions (Seo/Atheneum) by Marina Budhos
The Quigleys in a Spin (Fickling) by Simon Mason, illus. by Helen Stephens
Ptolemy's Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three (Miramax/Hyperion) by Jonathan Stroud
The King of Attolia (Greenwillow) by Megan Whalen Turner
The Book Thief (Knopf) by Markus Zusak
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor (Farrar) by Emily Arnold McCully
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Anonymous

>I just finished PTOLEMY'S GATE and it rocks! One of the few recent fantasy trilogies where each successive book gets stronger.

Looking forward to the others, particularly KING OF ATTOLIA.

Posted : Feb 08, 2006 03:47

Cynthia Leitich Smith

>I'm glad to hear Ask Me No Questions is getting a star. In case it's of interest, I have an interview today with Marina Budhos about the book on my blog.

Posted : Feb 07, 2006 10:41

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