Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko poems by Misuzu Kaneko; narrative by David Jacobson; illus. by Toshikado Hajiri; trans. from the Japanese by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi Primary, Intermediate, Middle School Chin Music Press 64 pp. 9/16 978-1-634905-962-6 $19.50 Part biography, part poetry collection, this book introduces Japanese children’s poet […]
A Second Look: The Egypt Game
March 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I was in second grade the first time I went to Egypt. Every Friday, I took a bus to another elementary school across town in order to attend a Gifted and Talented Education program. Once a week, I lived a separate school life, at a different campus with a different teacher and different friends. My […]
Kenn Nesbitt on One Minute till Bedtime
March 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In our January/February 2017 issue, our editors asked poet and selector Kenn Nesbitt about the wide (and somewhat surprising) range of contributors to his new anthology One Minute till Bedtime. Read the full review. Horn Book editors: Not everyone in the collection is someone you’d necessarily think of as a poet. How did you select […]
Review of One Minute till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to Send You Off to Sleep
March 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
One Minute till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to Send You Off to Sleep selected by Kenn Nesbitt; illus. by Christoph Niemann Preschool, Primary Little, Brown 168 pp. 11/16 978-0-316-34121-9 $19.99 A former Children’s Poet Laureate has compiled over 120 short and engaging poems by an impressive number of today’s children’s writers. Here you won’t find the […]
Review of Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
March 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley; illus. by Jessie Hartland Primary Wiseman/Simon 40 pp. 10/16 978-1-4814-5249-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-5250-2 $10.99 Stanley emphasizes Ada Lovelace’s right- and left-brain pedigree (her father, whom she never knew, was the poet Lord Byron; her mother, a scientist and mathematician) beginning with the […]
Review of Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer
March 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer by Fiona Robinson; illus. by the author Primary Abrams 40 pp. 8/16 978-1-4197-1872-4 $17.95 e-book ed. 978-1-61312-913-5 $15.54 Whisked away as a newborn by Anne Milbanke, her strait-laced mathematician mother, Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) never knew her father, the impetuous Romantic poet Lord Byron. […]
Review of The House of Months and Years
February 28, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The House of Months and Years by Emma Trevayne Intermediate, Middle School Simon 274 pp. 2/17 978-1-4814-6255-6 $16.99 g e-book ed. 978-1-4814-6257-0 $10.99 After the tragic deaths of her aunt and uncle, Amelia and her parents move out of their own home and in with Amelia’s orphaned cousins. Nudiustertian House (nudiustertian meaning “relating to the […]
Review of You DON’T Want a Unicorn
February 27, 2017 by Leave a Comment
You DON’T Want a Unicorn by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Liz Climo Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 2/17 978-0-316-34347-3 $16.99 g Dyckman and Climo’s tongue-in-cheek exposé reveals the “reality” of life with a unicorn. And the truth is a lot less wonderful than pro-unicorn propaganda (magic! rainbows! glitter!) would have you believe. The story begins […]
Review of Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal’d
February 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal’d by Mary Losure Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 164 pp. 2/17 978-0-7636-7063-4 $19.99 g In 1936, economist John Maynard Keyes bought a set of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts at auction only to discover that many of the pages had nothing to do with science, but rather alchemy. Newton, Keyes […]
Review of History Is All You Left Me
February 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera High School Soho Teen 293 pp. 1/17 978-1-61695-692-9 $18.99 g e-book ed. 978-1-61695-693-6 $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Griffin loses Theo, his best friend and first love, twice: first when the young men break up, and again, as the book opens, when Theo drowns. Dual timelines carry readers simultaneously […]
