Publications about books for children and young adults
I’m glad to see a new addition from Callaway Digital Arts, developer of the well-executed Monster at the End of This Book app. In the educational Endless Alphabet (January 2013), young users explore the alphabet, spelling, and vocabulary. Users may begin the app with any letter of the alphabet by tapping it on the root menu, [...]
Recommended love stories, all published in the last few years and reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine.
Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor High School Little, Brown 517 pp. 11/12 978-0-316-13397-5 $18.99 Star-crossed lovers Karou and Akiva, torn apart by unforgivable betrayal at the end of Daughter of Smoke & Bone (rev. 11/11), are now engaged in the renewed war between the chimaera and the seraphim. Both are repulsed by [...]
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illus. by Brian Pinkney Intermediate, Middle School Disney-Jump at the Sun 243 pp. 10/12 978-1-4231-4257-7 $19.99 Presenting ten biographical vignettes in chronological order — Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Malcolm X, [...]
Touch Press, developers of The Elements and X is for X-Ray, present a virtual odyssey through the ancient monuments of the Giza Plateau in Pyramids 3D: Wonders of the Old Kingdom (October 2012). 3D imaging and zoom capabilities allow for 360 degree rotation and manipulation of space and objects in this informative and interactive e-book, [...]
My First Day by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page; illus. by Steve Jenkins Preschool, Primary Houghton 32 pp. 1/13 978-0-547-73851-2 $16.99 “What did you do on your first day — the day you were born? Probably not much” begins this book about baby animals’ first hours of life. Jenkins and Page’s simple text effectively highlights [...]
Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Sibert Award winner Bomb and the three honor books.
Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Printz Award winner In Darkness and the four honor books.
Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Belpre Author Award winner Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and the honor book.
Horn Book review of the 2013 Belpré Illustrator Award winner Martín de Porres: The Rose in the Desert.
