Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Caldecott Medal winner This Is Not My Hat and the five honor books.
X Is for X-Ray app review
January 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Touch Press, developers of such apps as The Elements and March of the Dinosaurs, presents X Is for X-Ray (2011), an interactive alphabet book designed to elucidate the ins and outs of everyday objects through x-ray photography. With a series of swipes and pinches (swipe up for natural light, down for x-ray, left and right [...]
Review of The Archived
January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Archived by Victoria Schwab Middle School, High School Hyperion 324 pp. 1/13 978-1-4231-5731-1 $16.99 g Mackenzie is a “Keeper”; her job is to return the wakeful dead (or “Histories”) to the Archive, a repository of all human memory. Persuading the dead to return to their rightful resting place often involves kick-ass combat, but never [...]
Review of The Friends
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Ethel L. Heins ROSA GUY The Friends 204 pp. Holt 1973 The first juvenile novel by a young writer is a penetrating story of considerable emotional depth. Two teenaged girls — Phyllisia and her older sister Ruby — come to New York from the West Indies to join their émigré parents in ” [...]
Dragon, Robot, Gatorbunny e-book review
January 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Poet Calef Brown, author and illustrator of such books as Flamingos on the Roof and We Go Together (which dropped January 15), transforms his paperback doodle book, Dragon, Robot, Gatorbunny: Pick one. Draw it. Make it funny., into an imaginative and interactive e-book (Chronicle, print book published April 2012; e-book November 2012). The chimerical menagerie [...]
Review of Building Our House
January 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Building Our House by Jonathan Bean; illus. by the author Primary Farrar 48 pp. 1/13 978-0-374-38023-6 $17.99 g Drawing on childhood memories from his own family’s house construction (see author’s note), Bean creates an engaging story as well as a glimpse into a warm family setting. A little girl narrates, and her childlike voice provides [...]
Review of A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal
January 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Review of A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal by Leonard Marcus. From the November/December 1998 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.
Recommended concept books
January 15, 2013 By 2 Comments
Recommended concept books, all published in the last few years and reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine.
Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals
January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Part history lesson, part folklore, Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals (Gecko, September 2012) uses sequential art and richly colored portraits to tell the stories of twenty-seven extinct animal species. Spanning thousands of years, this book introduces extinct animals from several continents with explorers’ accounts, cultural folk stories, and archeological facts. Authors Hélène Rajcak [...]
Review of Rounds: Parker Penguin app
January 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Nosy Crow’s second entry in their series of life cycle educational apps for preschoolers is Rounds: Parker Penguin.
