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All the major newsreel companies ran features on Horn Book Magazine founder Bertha Mahony Miller's bookmobile—dubbed the Book Caravan. Below are transcriptions of those newspaper articles. Book Caravan Is Local Girl’s Idea Miss Bertha Mahony, the Gloucester girl who is the originator and director of the Bookshop for...
This week on hbook.com... May Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Paula Yoo about Rising from the Ashes + 6 intermediate and middle-school stories for AANHPI Heritage Month, 4 novels about the page-turning past for YA readers, and 4 primary books for die-hard dino fans From the...
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire (Norton, 12–18 years) by Paula Yoo provides a thoughtful, in-depth, and very compelling account of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath from...
May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a time for "paying tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society." Books for children and teens "that authentically portray the Jewish experience" can be found at the Association of Jewish Libraries' Sydney Taylor Book Awards....
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month." Here are some articles, interviews, and booklists by and about Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander Americans to help acknowledge, celebrate, and amplify the voices of children's book creators of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander descent. Also...
Five Questions for Paula Yoo Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo; Norton. Stories for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month The Partition Project by Saadia Faruqi; Quill Tree/HarperCollins. Next Stop by Debbie Fong; RH...
In these four books recommended for primary readers, some fiction and some nonfiction, you’ll find prehistoric creatures…and humans fascinated by them, as so many kids are! See also Danielle J. Ford’s May/June 2007 Horn Book Magazine article “Beyond Barney: What Makes a Good Dinosaur Book?” and the Guide Reviews/Database subject...
An engrossing story can help you see history in a new way. In these four novels for middle- and/or high-school readers — including realistic historical fiction as well as fantasy — moments in the past come alive. Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla by Alexandra Diaz Middle School Wiseman/Simon 336 pp. 9/23 ...
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Here are six works of fiction for intermediate and middle-school readers — novels, graphic novels, a short story collection — set in North America and starring characters of Asian heritage. And for slightly older readers, see our Five Questions...