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Week in Review, June 19th-23rd
This week on hbook.com… Julie Danielson's tribute to the incomparable Robin Smith. Rest in peace and love, Robin. We are at ALA this weekend — visit booth #2626! Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Go Sleep in Your Own Bed! by Candace … [Read More...]
A tribute
I used to repeatedly tell my friend Robin Smith that my professional motto in life is: WWRD? (What Would Robin Do?) I think she thought I was joking, but I wasn’t. I know enough to respect those who came before me in the field of children’s … [Read More...]
Share your summer reading lists
With schools finished for the season, most have posted summer reading lists. Back in my school days, I remember two kinds of lists: the ones with required reading (classics to be read before grade 9) and the much-preferred lists of books we were … [Read More...]
AJL 2017 in NYC
This year's Association of Jewish Libraries conference was in NYC (don't worry, I've already made all the bagel jokes). The conference was hosted by Hebrew Union College, in the vicinity of dynamic and confusing Greenwich Village, and the theme was … [Read More...]
“It’s bigger than it looks.”
Forgive me but one more brief rant about television. What is UP with shows that hobble perfectly watchable characters and situations with annoying and incomprehensible long-game backstories? Sense8 and Orphan Black, and Fringe and Alias before them, … [Read More...]
Blogs
“It’s bigger than it looks.”
Forgive me but one more brief rant about television. What is UP with shows that hobble perfectly watchable characters and situations with annoying and incomprehensible long-game backstories? Sense8 and Orphan Black, and Fringe and Alias before them, … [Read More...]
AJL 2017 in NYC
This year's Association of Jewish Libraries conference was in NYC (don't worry, I've already made all the bagel jokes). The conference was hosted by Hebrew Union College, in the vicinity of dynamic and confusing Greenwich Village, and the theme was … [Read More...]
Share your summer reading lists
With schools finished for the season, most have posted summer reading lists. Back in my school days, I remember two kinds of lists: the ones with required reading (classics to be read before grade 9) and the much-preferred lists of books we were … [Read More...]
A tribute
I used to repeatedly tell my friend Robin Smith that my professional motto in life is: WWRD? (What Would Robin Do?) I think she thought I was joking, but I wasn’t. I know enough to respect those who came before me in the field of children’s … [Read More...]
Review of the Week
Review of Garvey’s Choice
Garvey’s Choice by Nikki Grimes Intermediate, Middle School WordSong/Boyds Mills 108 pp. 10/16 978-1-62979-740-3 $16.95 e-book ed. 978-1-62979-747-2 $7.99 In a little book of little poems, Grimes tells a big-hearted story of Garvey (named after Marcus Garvey), an overweight boy tormented by name-calling at school: “lard butt, fatso, Mister Tubs.” Of his size, he says, “My mom, dad, and sis / could fit inside my shadow / and — poof — disappear.” Garvey yearns for a better … [Read More...]
App Review of the Week
Tiggly Addventure app review
Tiggly Addventure (Tiggly, 2014; iOS and Android) is one of a series of educational apps which can be played alone or with the corresponding Tiggly-brand counting, letter, or shape toys. To begin, choose your goal: you’re either delivering an apple to a grandmotherly creature, or a wrapped gift to a monsterly peer. You play as a small, earnest green character (that'd be "Tiggly") and either way, you’re on a mission: get the thing to its recipient. That means navigating a world where numbers … [Read More...]
Recommended Books
Review of Garvey’s Choice
Garvey’s Choice by Nikki Grimes Intermediate, Middle School WordSong/Boyds Mills 108 pp. 10/16 978-1-62979-740-3 $16.95 e-book ed. 978-1-62979-747-2 $7.99 In a little book of … [Read More...]
Review of The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults
The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults by Cheryl B. Klein Norton 368 pp. 9/16 Paper ed. 978-0-393-29224-4 $18.95 Editor Klein has revised her earlier … [Read More...]
Review of Binny Bewitched
Binny Bewitched by Hilary McKay; illus. by Tony Ross Intermediate, Middle School McElderry 233 pp. g 6/17 978-1-4814-9102-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-9104-4 $10.99 McKay … [Read More...]
Review of Go Sleep in Your Own Bed!
Go Sleep in Your Own Bed! by Candace Fleming; illus. by Lori Nichols Preschool Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp. g 5/17 978-0-375-86648-7 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-375-96648-4 … [Read More...]
Review of Moo
Moo by Sharon Creech Intermediate, Middle School Cotler/HarperCollins 278 pp. 8/16 978-0-06-241524-0 $16.99 Library ed. 978-0-06-241525-7 $17.89 g e-book ed. … [Read More...]
Interviews
Five questions for 2017 Fiction and Poetry winner Angie Thomas
1. You shared on Twitter that in manuscript stage you wondered how this book’s subject matter would be received (“Are novels that deal with sensitive current issues a no-no?”). How much was that … [Read More...]
Five questions for Susan Juby
In The Fashion Committee (Viking, 14 years and up), author Susan Juby takes readers back to Green Pastures Academy, a high school for the arts and setting of her 2015 book The Truth Commission … [Read More...]
Mo Willems & Laurie Keller Talk with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by While — sob! — the beloved Elephant and … [Read More...]
Patricia Reilly Giff Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by While already beloved for her popular … [Read More...]
Five questions for Juana Medina
Juana Medina's 2017 Pura Belpré Award–winning Juana & Lucas (Candlewick, 5–8 years) introduces new readers to a new set of friends, a Colombian girl named Juana (just like the author) and her … [Read More...]
