The Horn Book » Notes http://www.hbook.com Publications about books for children and young adults Mon, 13 May 2013 16:01:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 April Notes out now http://www.hbook.com/2012/04/blogs/out-of-the-box/april-notes-out-now/ http://www.hbook.com/2012/04/blogs/out-of-the-box/april-notes-out-now/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:33:29 +0000 Katie Bircher http://www.hbook.com/?p=11657 The latest edition of Notes from The Horn Book is on its way! This month we’ve got an interview with Vaunda Micheaux Nelson about her new documentary novel No Crystal Stair, plus - YA about book lovers - preschool books you’ve been waiting for - kooky chapter books - baseball picture books Read it online, [...]

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]]> The latest edition of Notes from The Horn Book is on its way! This month we’ve got an interview with Vaunda Micheaux Nelson about her new documentary novel No Crystal Stair, plus

- YA about book lovers
- preschool books you’ve been waiting for
- kooky chapter books
- baseball picture books

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Check out this issue of Notes for Roger’s interview with Erin, plus

- picture books about nature and outside play
- funny books for middle-grade readers
- nonfiction about headlines of the turn of the last century
- audiobook recommendations for big kids

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- five questions for Rick Bowers, author of Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate (plus Adventures of Superman radio show audio!)
- more books on race in American history
- life science nonfiction for primary grades
- highly anticipated chapter books
- YA on love (and love lost)

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- five questions for Melissa Sweet on Balloons over Broadway
- picture book bios
- middle-grade audiobook recommendations
- YA page-turners
- Holiday High Notes

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]]> The July issue of Notes from the Horn Book is out, featuring “Five Questions for . . .” Sophie Blackall, a recent BGHB Honor honoree who seems to be everywhere these days and doing some great work. Also: new picture-book bios (talk about something that’s everywhere), middle-grade fiction, and a roundup of the kind of YA novel the Wall Street Journal loves to hate.

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]]> http://www.hbook.com/2011/07/blogs/read-roger/july-notes-2/feed/ 0 May Notes from the Horn Book http://www.hbook.com/2011/05/blogs/read-roger/may-notes-from-the-horn-book/ http://www.hbook.com/2011/05/blogs/read-roger/may-notes-from-the-horn-book/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 18:09:00 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3691 Wherein I interview Patrick McDonnell (Me . . . Jane), and we review more nature books for young children,  three new chapter books, audiobooks for middle-schoolers and some new YA novels.

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]]> Wherein I interview Patrick McDonnell (Me . . . Jane), and we review more nature books for young children,  three new chapter books, audiobooks for middle-schoolers and some new YA novels.

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]]> The December issue of Notes from the Horn Book is out with the complete annotated Fanfare, our choices for the best books of 2010, and an interview with the Fanfared Megan Whalen Turner.

Also, Anita Burkam reviews (the movie)  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Sounds good!

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]]> >The following books have been named to the Horn Book Magazine‘s 2010 Fanfare list, our selections for the best children’s and young adult books of the year. The list will be published in next week’s Notes from the Horn Book with annotations explaining what makes each book so great. In the same issue, Martha Parravano has “Five Questions For . . .” Fanfare honoree Megan Whalen Turner. Sign up now.

2010 Horn Book Fanfare
Picture Books
Mirror, written and illustrated by Jeannie Baker (Candlewick)
Me and You, written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (Farrar)
I Know Here, written by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood)
April and Esme, Tooth Fairies, written and illustrated by Bob Graham (Candlewick) 
The Village Garage, written and illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Ottaviano/Holt)
Nini Lost and Found, written and illustrated by Anita Lobel (Knopf)
Fiction
Forge, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Atheneum)
Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher (Dial)
Happy Birthday, Sophie Hartley, by Stephanie Greene (Clarion)
Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same! written and illustrated by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
The Sky Is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson (Dial)
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, written and illustrated by Lincoln Peirce (HarperCollins)
As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)
The Dreamer, written by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís (Scholastic)
Revolver, by Marcus Sedgwick (Roaring Brook)
The White Horse Trick, by Kate Thompson (Greenwillow)
A Conspiracy of Kings, by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Folklore
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, written and illustrated by Salley Mavor (Houghton)
Poetry
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton)
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, written by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse (Dutton)
Nonfiction
They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton)
The War to End All Wars: World War I, by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca (Porter/Flash Point/Roaring Brook)
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot [Scientists in the Field], written by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop (Houghton)
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery, written by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)

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]]> http://www.hbook.com/2010/12/blogs/read-roger/fanfare-2010/feed/ 28 >October Notes http://www.hbook.com/2010/10/blogs/read-roger/october-notes-3/ http://www.hbook.com/2010/10/blogs/read-roger/october-notes-3/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:39:00 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3576 >The latest issue of Notes is out, with five questions for Rosemary Wells about Max and Ruby (they should do a live-action remake with Bobby and Sally Draper, no?) and reviews of new picture books, nonfiction, chapter books and YA fantasy. Damn, what isn’t published in a series these days? Off to New York to [...]

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]]> >The latest issue of Notes is out, with five questions for Rosemary Wells about Max and Ruby (they should do a live-action remake with Bobby and Sally Draper, no?) and reviews of new picture books, nonfiction, chapter books and YA fantasy. Damn, what isn’t published in a series these days?

Off to New York to see some shows, walk in the bamboo forest and spy on our little sister for a couple of days.

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