Features & Opinion
The Horn Book interns have the pleasure of receiving, opening, and occasionally playing with the incoming mail. I got to open a box from Chronicle Books in which I discovered Hervé Tullet’s Ready, Set, Draw!: A Game of Creativity and Imagination. This non-competitive game is meant for groups of...
This week on hbook.com... December Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book newsletter: Language and Literature; War and Peacemakers; U.S. Landmarks; and Poetry and Poetry Collections From the Nov/Dec 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Holiday High Notes 2019 Calling Caldecott: Double Bass Blues by Nicholl Montgomery Saturday by Brian...
This week on hbook.com... Fanfare 2019, the Horn Book's "Best Books" List - newly annotated! Jerry Craft Talks with Roger about New Kid Obituary: Andrew Clements (1949-2019) From the Nov/Dec 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Why Do Comics Matter? — The Zena Sutherland Lecture by Gene Luen Yang ...
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2019 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2019 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Calling Caldecott: The Little Guys Five Questions for Vera Brosgol about Leave Me Alone Family Reading: Happy Camping! Summer Camp...
This week on hbook.com... Fanfare 2019, the Horn Book's "Best Books" List Pat Mora Talks with Roger about My Singing Nana Calling Caldecott: A Brief Pause for 'Nominations' Why the Hell Hasn't a Book Won the Newbery AND the Caldecott? by Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt River...
Transgender Awareness Week is November 13-19, leading to Transgender Day of Remembrance / Trans Day of Resilience on November 20th, today. We join our trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary family members, friends, and neighbors near and far in celebrating the lives of trans people, remembering those lost to transphobic hate...
This week on hbook.com... November Notes from the Horn Book newsletter: 5Q for Susan Cooper on The Shortest Day, more contemplative seasonal picture books, YA audiobooks, and intermediate/middle school historical fiction Calling Caldecott: When Aidan Became a Brother by Hillary Saxton Vroom! by Martha V. Parravano You...
Today, Veterans Day, is a good day to share books about veterans, their experiences and sacrifices, and their supportive families and communities on the homefront. These titles, both fiction and nonfiction for a range of reader ages, were recommended by The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide at...
This week on hbook.com... From the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Borderlands: Reading as Theater by Dean Schneider Calling Caldecott: The 2019 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books list by Julie Danielson The Undefeated by Monique Harris My Papi Has a Motorcycle by...
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