Four recent iOS nonfiction apps for middle grade and older users.
January children’s book events in Boston
January 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Children’s book–related events coming up in the greater Boston area: Former Horn Book editor in chief Anita Silvey will sign her latest book The Children’s Book-a-Day Almanac (a companion to her blog of the same name) at Porter Square Books on Thursday, January 10th, at 7:00 p.m. Ms. Silvey’s many books include The Essential Guide [...]
Animal SnApp Farm app review
December 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Animal SnApp, developer Nosy Crow’s latest series of preschooler apps, kicks off with Animal SnApp: Farm (October 2012) illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Six alliteratively named barnyard denizens are introduced in a puzzle which asks users to swipe their screen and align the animals’ top and bottom halves. Correctly matching the pieces and completing an animal [...]
Special Fanfare edition of Notes
December 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
December’s Notes from the Horn Book newsletter is on the way to subscribers’ inboxes. This month we’ve got something special for you: Fanfare — our choices for the best books of 2012 — accompanied by glowing annotations explaining why they’re wonderful. Just in time for holiday shopping! See the Fanfare list online here. To receive Notes [...]
Sound the horn! Fanfare is here
December 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Fanfare time! Over at Read Roger you’ll find our selection of the best books of 2012. An expanded version of the list with glowing annotations of the titles will be sent to Notes subscribers next Wednesday. Sign up here. And now you can take a stroll through Horn [...]
December children’s book events in the greater Boston area
December 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Some upcoming events of interest to children’s book people in Boston and beyond: Author/illustrator Peter H. Reynolds (Ish, The Dot, and Sky Color, among many others) will be signing his books and prints of his illustrations at The Blue Bunny bookstore in Dedham Square for the next three Saturdays. Stop in between 10 a.m. and [...]
Recommended holiday reading
December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmakwanzukkah around here: Cindy and Martha have put up a Charlie Brown Christmas–sized tree by the Mag office and we’ve just posted our annual Holiday High Notes list. For even more holiday books, see last year’s Holiday High Notes. Additional Hanukkah-specific reading is here and here. Megan Lambert [...]
Picture Book Month coverage round up
November 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Our Picture Book Month 2012 celebration draws (no pun intended!) to a close today. Here’s a cheat sheet to our coverage in case you missed anything. New web-only articles: – Barbara Bader on “Absorbing Pictures and What They Say” – 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award winner Peter Sís pays tribute to “Three Mentors” – [...]
Missed Connections: F4I [fan for illustrator]
November 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
–F4I [fan for illustrator] (Boston) I saw you from across the Paresky Center at the 2011 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony. You were accepting your honor for illustrating Pecan Pie Baby. Charmed by your watercolors, your accent, and your admission that you can’t draw bicycles, I was too shy to ask you to sign my [...]
March of the Dinosaurs app review
November 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
March of the Dinosaurs (Touch Press LLP with National Geographic and Wide-Eyed Entertainment, 2011) is based on National Geographic Channel’s 2011 documentary Escape of the Dinosaurs. The app begins with an optional trailer for the film, which also serves as a preview of the app’s content, then opens an illustrated, animated table of contents. From [...]
