May/June 2020 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews

by Roger Sutton
Apr 06, 2020 | Filed in Blogs

(image from Green on Green, by Dianne White; illus. by Felicita Sala)

The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June 2020 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:

Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story by Maria Gianferrari; illus. by Jonathan Voss (Putnam)

The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann (Candlewick)

A New Green Day by Antoinette Portis (Porter/Holiday)

In My Anaana’s Amautik by Nadia Sammurtok; illus. by Lenny Lishchenko (Inhabit Media)

Green on Green by Dianne White; illus. by Felicita Sala (Beach Lane/Simon)

Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)

The Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown (First Second/Roaring Brook)

We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow)

Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley (RH Graphic/Random)

The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein (Little, Brown)

Kent State by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic)

Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder (Dial)

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang; color by Lark Pien (First Second/Roaring Brook)

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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