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Reviews of 2020 Mind the Gap Award winners
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 2020 winners. A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein; illus....
Review of Someday We Will Fly
Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin Middle School, High School Viking 360 pp. g 1/19 978-0-670-01496-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-101-61788-5 $10.99 In 1940, Lillia’s Jewish family plans to escape the Nazi threat in Warsaw for Shanghai. Her parents are acrobats, and when their circus is raided, Lillia and her...
Reviews of the 2020 Sibert Award winners
Winner Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard; illus. by Juana Martinez-Neal Preschool, Primary Roaring Brook 48 pp. 10/19 978-1-62672-746-5 $18.99 This affectionate picture book depicts an intergenerational group of Native American family members and friends as they make fry bread together. The text begins: “Fry...
Reviews of the 2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winners
Winner Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle; illus. by Rafael López Primary Atheneum 40 pp. 8/19 978-1-4814-8740-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-8741-2 $10.99 Engle and López (Drum Dream Girl, rev. 5/15) bring us another engaging story about a young, successful, female musician of...
Reviews of the 2020 Printz Award winners
Winner Dig. by A.S. King High School Dutton 394 pp. g 3/19 978-1-101-99491-7 $17.99 David has never met his father and is tired of constantly moving around with his mom. Malcolm has already lost his mother and is about to lose his beloved father to cancer. Katie deals drugs out...
Reviews of the 2020 CSK Illustrator Award winners
Winner The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Kadir Nelson Primary, Intermediate, Middle School Versify/Houghton 40 pp. g 4/19 978-1-328-78096-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-05761-1 $12.99 Alexander and Nelson honor the achievements, courage, and perseverance of ordinary black people as well as prominent black artists, athletes, and activists. The free-verse poem...
Reviews of the 2020 Caldecott Medal winners
Winner The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Kadir Nelson Primary, Intermediate, Middle School Versify/Houghton 40 pp. g 4/19 978-1-328-78096-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-05761-1 $12.99 Alexander and Nelson honor the achievements, courage, and perseverance of ordinary black people as well as prominent black artists, athletes, and activists. The free-verse poem...
Reviews of the 2020 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner New Kid by Jerry Craft; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 249 pp. g 2/19 978-0-06-269120-0 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-0-06-269119-4 $12.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269121-7 $10.99 Craft’s engaging graphic novel follows Jordan Banks (an African American seventh grader from Washington Heights) through his first year at the prestigious...
Fall 2019 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Jen Wang
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Fall 2019 Publishers’ Previews, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In the graphic...
Fall 2019 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Sofiya Pasternack
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Fall 2019 Publishers’ Previews, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by Anya and the...