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From the Editor - August 2025
August may be winding down, but we’ve still got plenty of new reading recommendations: summer-set stories for middle-graders-and-up and page-turning (and door-stopping!) tomes for YA readers. See also our annual Summer Reading list and last month’s issue of Notes for back-to-school stories for all ages. For an astounding real-life whale...
Week in Review, July 21st-25th
This week on hbook.com... July Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter Back-to-School Edition: 5Qs for Ibi Zoboi and Juanita Londoño about First Day Around the World + 8 picture books about learning from each other, 5 graphic novels and highly illustrated books for learning visually, and 5 YA nonfiction...
Books mentioned in the July 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five Questions for Ibi Zoboi and Juanita Londoño First Day Around the World by Ibi Zoboi, illus. by Juanita Londoño; Versify/HarperCollins. Learning from each other George & Lenny Are Always Together by Jon Agee; Rocky Pond/Penguin. Bunny Made Tea by Amanda Baehr Fuller; Owlkids. Punch!: A Story About Kindness by Michael Hall; Greenwillow. Tiger, Don’t Worry! by Daishu Ma;...
From the Editor - July 2025
If you’re in the Boston area this weekend, join me at the Boston Public Library on Saturday, July 26, in conversation with Awkward author-illustrator Svetlana Chmakova, as part of Boston Reads Comics. On Sunday, July 27, I’ll be leading a lunchtime seminar at the Summer Children’s Literature Institute, “Are We...
Learning from the past
These five nonfiction books tell middle- and/or high-school readers more about people and moments they might learn about in history class, or may pique their interest beyond the curriculum. Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Middle School, High School Schwartz/Random 368...
Learning visually
These five graphic novels and highly illustrated books paint pictures of school life for intermediate and/or middle-school readers. See also the Schools--Elementary schools and Schools--Middle schools subject tags in the Guide/Reviews Database, and for a look at school for a younger audience, see our Five Questions interview with Ibi Zoboi...
Learning from each other
A new school year can mean new friendships…and it can also mean new worries. Here are eight picture books with social-emotional learning themes that new and returning learners may find helpful or reassuring when starting school (or at any other time). For more on first days of school everywhere, see...
Five questions for Ibi Zoboi and Juanita Londoño
In the picture book First Day Around the World (Versify/HarperCollins, 4–8 years), Ibi Zoboi’s verse and Juanita Londoño’s illustrations allow readers to travel from one place to another, exploring various aspects of the first day of school — from transportation to lessons to meals — in a world of ways....
Newsletter Archives
[See also our Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book archives] 2025 January 2025 Five questions for Jason Reynolds If you LOVE love stories... New year, new stories Black excellence From the Editor February 2025 Five questions for Amy Cherrix Real science Female-focused fiction Need a good laugh? From the...
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