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Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2023 winners. Let’s Go! [I Like to Read: Comics] by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. 1/23 ...
The votes are in for the first round of July/August Cover Madness, and we move on to round 2! Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your choices in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here....
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the May/June covers. Next up are the July/August covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click on any...
In commemoration of Black History Month, we'll be featuring articles, speeches, interviews, and reviews from The Horn Book's past year that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field — one a weekday through the month of February. Last Monday's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement...
Winner The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; illus. by Brett Helquist Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 288 pp. 9/23 9780593643846 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593643853 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593643860 $11.99 The Mona Lisa wasn’t the world’s...
Winner Fox Has a Problem [My First I Can Read!] by Corey R. Tabor; illus. by the author Primary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 32 pp. 8/23 9780063277915 $17.99 Paper ed. 9780063277922 $5.99 e-book ed. 9780063277946 $5.99 Fox and his friends are back in this newest installment in Tabor’s Geisel-winning (for Fox...
Winner Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 384 pp. 5/23 9780062888846 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780062888860 $12.99 Sixteen-year-old Nigeria is expected to lead the youth of the Movement (which is “like a small African West Philly village in the big, white state of Pennsylvania”) and model what...
Great Carrier Reef [Books for a Better Earth]by Jessica Stremer; illus. by Gordy WrightPrimary Holiday 40 pp.7/23 9780823452682 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455256 $11.99In 1976, after approximately twenty-five years of service, the massive aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was decommissioned. Rather than being sold or relegated to retirement, “chained to a pier. Rusted,...
Enlighten Me by Minh Lê; illus. by Chan ChauIntermediate, Middle School LB Ink/Little, Brown 144 pp.9/23 9780759555471 $24.99Paper ed. 9780759555488 $12.99e-book ed. 9780316395526 $9.99Middle-schooler Binh isn’t happy about his Vietnamese American family’s trip to a silent Buddhist meditation retreat. His beloved Game Boy is taken away, and, worse, Binh has...
Mine! by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric RohmannPreschool Schwartz/Random 40 pp.8/23 9780593181669 $18.99Library ed. 9780593181676 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593181683 $10.99“In a tall, tall tree, / at the tip-tippy top, / hung a single red apple, / just about to drop.” Crisp, bright illustrations with smooth black outlines, created on stained paper...