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This week on hbook.com... ALA Awards 2025: Horn Book Reviews of the Winners Calling Cadecott: The 2025 Caldecott Announcement by Kitty Flynn, Annisha Jeffries, and Adrienne L. Pettinelli The 2025 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize by Dean Schneider Out of the Box: Happy Lunary New Year! March/April...
Illustration from Afloat by Kirli Saunders; illus. by Freya Blackwood. The following books will receive starred reviews in the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: When I Hear Spirituals by Cheryl Willis Hudson; illus. by London Ladd (Holiday) Sakina and the Uninvited Guests by Zahra Marwan (Bloomsbury) Afloat by Kirli Saunders;...
Robin Smith was the best teacher I ever knew. A nationally known writer and children’s book committee member, she was committed to books as the heart of her teaching. She read hundreds of picture books every year in her second-grade classroom and always had a novel going, too — The...
Lunar New Year begins today. Happy Year of the Snake! We wish all who are celebrating a new year full of joy and prosperity. Here is our Lunar New Year reading list with fiction and nonfiction books featuring the holiday for preschool, primary, intermediate, and older readers; and don't miss...
The winner of the 2025 Caldecott Award is Chooch Helped, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz, written by Andrea L. Rogers, published by Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido. The Committee selected four 2025 Honor Books: Home in a Lunchbox, written and illustrated by Cherry Mo, published by Penguin Workshop, an...
This week on hbook.com... From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Black Means: Roll Call & Rap: A Found Poem of Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Book Titles (for 3 voices) by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford 100 Years Old and Still Relevant: A Conversation...
We’re all excited about Monday's Caldecott and other Youth Media Awards announcements! The YMA presentation will be livestreamed from Phoenix starting at 8 a.m. MT (10 a.m. EST). The Caldecott announcement will come toward the end; here’s a link to the video stream. What a weekend the Committee members have before them...
The votes have been counted; the readers have spoken. Calling Caldecott’s 2025 Mock Vote Winner is {{drum roll, please}}: The Yellow Bus, written and illustrated by Loren Long. And our one Honor Book is: Home in a Lunchbox, written and illustrated by Cherry Mo. Excellent choices! Congratulations to Loren Long and Cherry...
Perhaps now more than ever, Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides an opportunity to reflect not only on the life of the great civil rights leader, but also on how far we've come — and how very far we still have to go. Below is an updated list of recommended...
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