Five questions for Talia Dutton
M Is for Monster by Talia Dutton; Surely/Abrams ComicArts.

YA PRIDE
Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta; Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.
Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson; HarperTeen.
Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie; Feiwel.
The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian; Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.
The Hollow Heart by Marie Rutkoski; Farrar.
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado; Sourcebooks Fire.

In the good old summertime
Fibbed by Elizabeth Agyemang; Razorbill/Penguin.
Consider the Octopus by Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae Polisner; Godwin/Holt.
Wreck at Ada’s Reef [Swallowtail Legacy] by Michael D. Beil; Pixel + Ink.
Camp Famous by Jennifer Blecher; Greenwillow.
Breda’s Island by Jessie Ann Foley; Quill Tree/HarperCollins.
Twelfth by Janet Key; Little, Brown.

Picture books for National Caribbean American Heritage Month 2022
Tía Fortuna’s New Home by Ruth Behar, illus. by Devon Holzwarth; Knopf.
Malaika’s Surprise by Nadia L. Hohn, illus. by Irene Luxbacher; Groundwood.
The Little House of Hope by Terry Catasús Jennings, illus. by Raúl Colón; Porter/Holiday.
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico by Lesléa Newman, illus. by Elizabeth Erazo Baez, trans. into Spanish by Georgina Lázaro; Children’s/Lee & Low.
Starting Over in Sunset Park by José Pelaez and Lynn McGee, illus. by Bianca Diaz; Tilbury.
Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories by Annette Bay Pimentel, illus. by Magaly Morales; Abrams.
¡Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines by Dean Robbins, illus. by Eric Velasquez; Candlewick.

From the June 2022 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.