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Review of Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me
Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me by Eloise Greenfield; illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi Primary Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 40 pp. g 4/19 978-1-4926-7724-6 $15.99 Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award recipient Greenfield (Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems; Nathaniel Talking, rev. 9/90; The Great Migration, rev. 1/11) here presents a series of...
More magic! (July 2019)
These sequels encourage intermediate and middle-school readers to return to favorite fantasy worlds…or to go back and start each series from the beginning. In Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits, the second book set in and around the Logroño family's Amor y Azúcar Panaderia bakery, Leonora's friend Caroline tries...
Apply for a fall Horn Book internship + meet intern Katie!
Interested in learning more about the children’s book industry, book reviewing, or how magazines and review journals operate? A Horn Book internship is a great place to start.Our editorial interns are an invaluable help in managing the gazillion books that enter and leave our office (and if the phrase “gazillion...
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah near Santa Monica*: 2019 AJL annual conference recap
This year’s Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference was held June 17th through 19th in Woodland Hills, CA. That’s in the Los Angeles area, near Topanga Canyon, lots of beaches, and plenty of other beautiful scenery. As a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee, I was forced to attend.It’s...
Review of Ogilvy
Ogilvyby Deborah Underwood; illus. by T. L. McBethPreschool, Primary Godwin/Holt 40 pp.5/19 978-1-250-15176-6 $17.99Ogilvy, a wide-eyed, line-drawn bunny, is excited to make friends in a new town. But upon arrival, the rabbit’s sartorial choices are challenged; Ogilvy, clad in a knit article of clothing, is asked: “Is it a sweater...
Middle grade and YA for Pride Month 2019
These novels — some upper-middle grade and some young adult — reflect a range of experiences among LGBTQIA+ young people. Happy Pride! Find more recommendations for Pride Month reading in these featured lists of picture books, middle grade, and YA on the shiny and new Horn Book Guide Online.In The...
The Sun Is Also a Star movie review
In Nicola Yoon’s YA novel The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte, 2016), Natasha Kingsley and her family are a day from being deported to Jamaica after nine years living in New York City. Natasha is doing everything she can to get that decision overturned — and then she meets...
Jewish American Heritage Month 2019
May is Jewish American Heritage Month! The Boston Public Library has a good list of books to get you started exploring the (varied) Jewish experience in the U.S. Check out The Knish War on Rivington Street for a glimpse into the early-twentieth-century Lower East Side (and two knish recipes); or...
Review of The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. Jamesby Ashley Herring BlakeIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 373 pp. g3/19 978-0-316-51553-5 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-51550-4 $9.99After receiving a heart transplant, twelve-year-old Sunny decides it’s time for a “New Life” with specific components — including finding a boy to kiss and finding a new best...