Illustration from Tove and the Island with No Address by Lauren Soloy.

The following books will receive starred reviews in the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine:

How We Share Cake by Kim Hyo-eun; trans. from Korean by Deborah Smith (Scribble)

Your Farm; Your Forest; Your Island by Jon Klassen (Candlewick)

The Midnight Panther by Poonam Mistry (Candlewick Studio)

My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza (Abrams)

Tove and the Island with No Address by Lauren Soloy (Tundra)

The Curse of Madame Petrova by Marjolijn Hof; illus. by Annette Fienieg; trans. from Dutch by Bill Nagelkerke (Em Querido/Levine Querido)

Noodle & Bao by Shaina Lu (Quill Tree/HarperCollins)

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds (Dlouhy/Atheneum)

Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock: A Graphic Novel Poetry Collection Full of Surprising Characters! by Vikram Madan (Wordsong/Astra)

Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix (Harper/HarperCollins)

A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools by Debbie Levy (Bloomsbury)

Cicely Tyson by Renée Watson; illus. by Sherry Shine (Harper/HarperCollins)

The One & Only Googoosh: Iran’s Beloved Superstar by Azadeh Westergaard (Viking)