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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 2025 winners. Tove and the Island with No Address by Lauren Soloy; illus. by the author Primary Tundra 48 pp. 10/24 ...
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. The books that didn’t win. Misdirected Tove and the Island with No Address by Lauren Soloy Telephone of the Tree by Alison McGhee Misjudged The Judgment of Yoyo Gold by Isaac Blum Missed the bus The Yellow...
Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2024 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2024 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Sophie Blackall Sophie Blackall Talks with Roger A Conversation with Sophie Blackall by Julie Danielson 2019 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by...
Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s annual best books list! What a way to close out the Horn Book’s centennial year, with our fifty-three (think of it as one per week plus a bonus!) most highly recommended titles. All year long we’ve been exploring the theme of “Past, Present, and...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2024. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2025 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
Five questions for Tracey Baptiste Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste; Algonquin. Thriller nights Once They See You: 13 Stories to Shiver and Shock by Josh Allen, illus. by Sarah J. Coleman; Holiday. Read at Your Own Risk by Remy Lai; Holt. It Happened to Anna by Tehlor Kay Mejia; Delacorte. We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord by Garth Nix; Scholastic. The Creepening...
These nine nonfiction books, recommended for preschool, primary, and/or intermediate readers, offer a glimpse at the variety of work scientists (including a president!) can do — from biology to psychology to astronomy. See also the Scientists tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. Thomas Jefferson’s Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a...
This week on hbook.com... From the May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Our Centennial: The Writer's Page: The Lovely Dance: The Alone Together Collaboration of Picture-Book Storytelling by Tanya Lee Stone Blowing the Horn series A Gathering of Excellence by M. T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes This...
A picture book is a dance that begins with a solitary dancer, whose success depends on sharing the stage with future partners. In truth, it is a company of dancers: author and illustrator, editor, designer, and art director. And only together will the dance flourish. But as Patrick Swayze famously...