Horn Book reviews of the 2013 CSK Illustrator Award winner I, Too, Am America and the three honor books.
Reviews of the 2013 CSK Author Award winners
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Horn Book reviews of the 2013 CSK Author Award winner Hand in Hand and the two honor books.
Reviews of the 2013 Newbery winners
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Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan and the three honor books.
Reviews of the 2013 Caldecott winners
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Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Caldecott Medal winner This Is Not My Hat and the five honor books.
Additional ALA Awards 2013
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Alex Awards for the ten best adult books that appeal to a teen audience • Caring Is Creepy by David Zimmerman (Soho) • Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman (Picador) • Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross (Richard Ross) • Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Farrar) • My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) [...]
ALA Awards 2013: Horn Book reviews of the winners
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Links to Horn Book reviews of the 2013 ALA Youth Media award winners.
The 2013 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction
January 16, 2013 By 3 Comments
The 2013 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Louise Erdrich for Chickadee, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The annual award, created by Scott O’Dell and Zena Sutherland in 1982 and now administered by Elizabeth Hall, carries with it a prize of $5000, and goes to the author of a distinguished [...]
New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books winners 2012
November 1, 2012 By 14 Comments
Breaking news! The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2012 have just been announced via Twitter. This year marks the 60th anniversary of this annual picture book award. Judges Chris Raschka, Bruce Handy (Vanity Fair), and Cathryn Mercier (director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College) selected the [...]
2012 NBA Finalists reviews
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Goblin Secrets by William Alexander Intermediate McElderry 226 pp. 3/12 978-1-4424-2726-6 $16.99 reviewed in the fall 2012 Horn Book Guide Theater is outlawed for the humans of Zombay. But when orphan Rownie flees witch Graba’s custody, he joins a performance troupe of goblins he hopes can help locate his brother (who disappeared after illegally acting); [...]
Medalist matching game round-up
July 30, 2012 By 3 Comments
For our July/August 2012 special awards issue, The Horn Book Magazine asked Newbery and Caldecott Medalists to write about their favorite winning books. On Out of the Box we challenged readers to match each author or illustrator to his or her choice. We’ve collected all the entries here in case you missed any. For each [...]
