Ariel Baker-Gibbs

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Sign in Print

It’s 1995, and we’re standing on the sidewalk having a conversation. One of us is a six-year-old, and the other is her mother. We’re speaking in a language that’s not English, but this is Princeton, New Jersey, after all: French, Italian, Serbian, Arabic, Hebrew,  Mandarin, Hindustani…The Institute for Advanced Study...

In Front of My House app review

At the meeting when the Horn Book staff decided starred reviews for the May/June Magazine issue, we read aloud Marianne Dubuc’s picture book Animal Masquerade. It took a good fifteen minutes (each one of them absolutely delightful).The app In Front of My House (Winged Chariot, 2011) based on Dubuc’s book...

On onions and existentialism

Help! There is an onion trapped in this book, destined for certain death! It is up to us to save her from the Big Fry, the greatest fear of onions everywhere. But this onion has hope: "Yet I have been told / That there’s a way out / For an...

Two weeks and counting...

Now that March has finally arrived, we’re officially in the "T-minus" phase for The Hunger Games movie adaptation, hitting theaters on March 23.In anticipation, I’ve been perusing several pieces of fine literature, to wit: The Hunger Games: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion (Scholastic, February), Stars in the Arena: Meet the...
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