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A Report from the Rabbit Hole
I went down a rabbit hole recently, and this is what I saw: a larger-than-life girl dressed in yellow striding down a railing toward me; an old Italian lady reaching for a book; a bear wearing a red, pointy hat; a man sitting under a tree with a stack of...
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Review of Slugfest
Slugfest by Gordon KormanMiddle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 304 pp.1/24 9780063238091 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063238114 $11.99Eighth grader Arnie Yashenko hits a lot of home runs playing for the high school’s JV baseball team. Problem is, he’s been missing middle-school gym classes to practice at the high school, and now the state...
Review of One Day This Tree Will Fall
One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth; illus. by Stephanie Fizer ColemanPreschool, Primary McElderry 40 pp.3/24 9781534496965 $18.99e-book ed. 9781534496972 $10.99“LOOK AT IT. Wounded, worn, twisted, torn. / One day this tree will fall / and this story will end. / Won’t it?” So begins this Pacific...
The 2024 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize
It’s hard to believe that this is the seventh annual Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. It seems as if it’s been only a few months since my wife Robin died of cancer at age fifty-seven. I am so appreciative of The Horn Book Magazine and its Calling Caldecott blog, which...
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Review of A Royal Conundrum
A Royal Conundrum [Misfits]by Lisa Yee; illus. by Dan SantatIntermediate, Middle School Random 288 pp.1/24 9781984830296 $14.99Library ed. 9781984830302 $17.99e-book ed. 9781984830326 $8.99In this series opener, twelve-year-old Olive Cobin Zang is a lonely homebody who feels invisible and uncool. She doesn’t play sports and is only good at things she...
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Review of The Reckoning
The Reckoning by Wade HudsonMiddle School Crown 256 pp.1/24 9780593647776 $18.99Library ed. 9780593647783 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593647790 $10.99Lamar Phillips, a contemporary middle schooler in Morton, Louisiana, wants to be a filmmaker. With the new camcorder his grandfather helped him buy, he interviews students, records school football and baseball games, and films...
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Review of Hummingbird Season
Hummingbird Season by Stephanie V. W. LucianovicIntermediate Bloomsbury 272 pp.2/24 9781547612741 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547612758 $12.59Lucianovic documents the life of her protagonist during COVID-19 when “every day / everything / is the same boring same.” Archie’s father works from his bedroom, his mother from the kitchen, and his older brother is...
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Review of All the Small Wonderful Things
All the Small Wonderful Things by Kate FosterIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 240 pp.10/23 9781536225808 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536234190 $17.99Eleven-year-old Alex is in grade six and lives on the Gold Coast of Australia. He is autistic and feels he needs a strategy for making friends: be good enough at his favorite computer...
The Skull
Given the cover, you might think this book, based on old Tyrolean folktale, will open, “Alas, poor Yorick!” But, no, it opens with a young girl on the run, and as Otilla runs through the snowy forest, readers are plunged along with her. It’s an unusual story and completely engaging. But is it...
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