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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...
November is Native American Heritage Month, a celebration of the many varied Native American cultures. Check out the official website for more information and lots of resources. Here are some additional articles and links from The Horn Book's archives and beyond. Horn Book resources about Native writers and their work...
This week on hbook.com... From the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Horn Boo! Halloween Book Recommendations From the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Table of Contents Editorial: Little Jackie Paper by Roger Sutton Elisha Cooper Talks with Roger about River Calling Caldecott: The Fisherman and the Whale by...
Happy Halloween! To help myself get into the festive holiday spirit on a recent trip to New York's picturesque Hudson Valley for a friend's wedding, I embraced the local literary love for a certain spooky tale: Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The scene was set listening to the...
Diwali began yesterday. In honor of the Festival of Lights, here are some books about the celebration of Diwali along with picture books and fiction by and about South Asian and South Asian American people. These books for young readers — all recommended at the time of their publication by...
This week on hbook.com... From the September/October 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Happy Anniversary: It's Perfectly Normal by Kitty Flynn Horn Boo! Halloween Book Recommendations From the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Letter to the Editor from Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley, November 2019 Calling Caldecott: The Caldecott Torch...
Cindy Ritter: I started off the morning setting up our booth. Two moments of pride: figuring out how to hang up our banner using some zip-tie chain-link magic; and discussing with passersby the 2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award–winning books we had on display, which I’d chosen this year with committee...
If you were inspired by this morning's history-making all-woman spacewalk -- like we were! -- here are some booklists about: strong women making an impact, picture-book biographies of pioneering women, collective biographies of "brazen" women, and groundbreaking women in STEAM. And don't miss the new picture book Astro Girl, by...
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