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From the Editor - January 2025
Calling Caldecott fans: tomorrow’s the day! Our annual Mock Caldecott ballot opens at noon on Thursday, January 16. Just like the real committee members, you pick your top three picture-book choices, ranked and weighted; unlike on the real committee, there’s just one round. (Also unlike the real committee, our outcome...
Review of Pick the Lock
Pick the Lock by A.S. King High School Dutton 400 pp. 9/24 9780593353974 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780593353998 $10.99 Jane, sixteen, lives with her father, Vernon; her younger brother, Henry; house staff; and a rat in a Victorian-style mansion that has been in her mother’s family for generations. Mom is a...
Editorial: Somewhat Unusual (January/February 2025)
It was an especially busy, unusually in-person end of 2024 for the Horn Book. Following appreciative receipt of the Mentor Award at the Carle Honors Benefit Gala in NYC, we spent time at the sixteenth annual Boston Book Festival. A road trip to Western Massachusetts led to the R. Michelson...
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Review of The Little Green Swing
The Little Green Swing by Brenda Maier; illus. by Sonia SánchezPrimary Scholastic 40 pp.9/24 9781338816198 $18.99Paper ed. 9781546145691 $8.95The third zippy folklore-inflected book about inventive Ruby and her three rambunctious brothers, Oscar Lee, Rodrigo, and José (The Little Red Fort, rev. 3/18; The Little Blue Bridge), is a takeoff on...
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Review of How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way
How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way by Rachel Michelle Wilson; illus. by the authorPrimary Feiwel 32 pp.10/24 9781250910172 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250405449 $11.99In this nonjudgmental, laid-back, and very funny picture book, a bespectacled young penguin demonstrates how to cope with a potty accident at school: “It can happen when...
Review of The Forbidden Book
The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb Middle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 256 pp. 10/24 9781646144563 $19.99 ebook ed. 9781646144822 $13.99 “On a full moon night, after a day of fasting, the young bride Sorel Kalmans leapt from a window and left her life behind.” Seventeen-year-old Sorel is betrothed to...
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Review of Oy, Santa!: Or, There’s a Latke to Learn About Hanukkah
Oy, Santa!: Or, There’s a Latke to Learn About Hanukkah by Joyce Schriebman; illus. by Gila von MeissnerPrimary Intergalactic Afikoman 40 pp.10/24 9781951365226 $19.99With Hanukkah fast approaching, Oliver writes an email to Santa: “I’m Jewish. And that means you don’t have to come down my chimney on Christmas Eve. I...
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Review of Uri and the King of Darkness: A Hanukkah Story
Uri and the King of Darkness: A Hanukkah Story by Nati Bait; illus. by Carmel Ben Ami; trans. from Hebrew by Ilana KurshanPrimary Kalaniot/Endless Mountains 32 pp.10/24 9781962011983 $19.99Uri, his little sister Shir, and their mother are waiting for their father to come home to begin their Hanukkah celebration. As...
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Review of The Last Pomegranate
The Last Pomegranate by F. Nakhaei; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Clavis 32 pp.10/24 9798890630896 $18.95“For a perfect Yalda Night, you need a pomegranate.” No sooner does young Pouya find one than the wind plucks it from his hand. The fruit falls and rolls to Rabbit, who takes a few...
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