Starred reviews, Horn Book Magazine, September-October 2019

Art from FIELD TRIP TO THE MOON

 

The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Field Trip to the Moon; written and illustrated by John Hare (Ferguson/Holiday).

A Big Bed for Little Snow; written and illustrated by Grace Lin (Little, Brown).

Double Bass Blues; by Andrea J. Loney; illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez (Knopf).

Vroom!; written and illustrated by Barbara McClintock (Farrar).

Saturday; written and illustrated by Oge Mora (Little, Brown).

Beverly, Right Here; by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick).

The Language of Fire; by Stephanie Hemphill (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins).

A Place to Belong; by Cynthia Kadohata; illus. by Julia Kuo (Dlouhy/Atheneum).

Strange Birds; by Celia C. Pérez (Kokila/Penguin).

Pumpkinheads; by Rainbow Rowell; illus. by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second/Roaring Brook).

The Fountains of Silence; by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel).

Liberty Arrives!; written and illustrated by Robert Byrd (Dial).

Ordinary Hazards; by Nikki Grimes (Wordsong/Boyds Mills).

Torpedoed; by Deborah Heiligman (Godwin/Holt).

Crossing on Time; written and illustrated by David Macaulay (Roaring Brook).

The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets; by Sarah Miller (Schwartz & Wade/Random).

Guts; written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier (Graphix/Scholastic).

A Place to Land; by Barry Wittenstein; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Porter/Holiday).

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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