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From the Editor - September 2024
In my house, baseball season never really ends, and September, with its lead-up to the MLB playoffs, is clutch. Sunday, September 15, was the annual celebration of Roberto Clemente Day — all players wear #21 — and the start of National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month (September 15–October 15). What...
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Review of ¡Vamos!: Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos [World of ¡Vamos!]
¡Vamos!: Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos [World of ¡Vamos!] by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine BayPreschool, Primary Versify/HarperCollins 48 pp.7/24 9780063277137 $16.99Little Lobo, Bernabé, and friends, some dressed as other characters from the series, go trick-or-treating on Halloween night, a time when...
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Review of Animal Countdown The Hidden Alphabet
Animal Countdown The Hidden Alphabet by Laura Vaccaro Seeger; illus. by the authorPreschool Porter/Holiday 32 pp.10/24 9780823448678 $19.99These lift-the-flap books creatively showcase threatened or endangered creatures (Countdown) and the ABCs (Alphabet; a reissue from 2003, rev. 1/04). In Countdown, left-hand pages present a spelled-out number, beginning with ten and counting...
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Review of Read at Your Own Risk
Read at Your Own Risk by Remy Lai; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Holt 160 pp.8/24 9781250323354 $13.99e-book ed. 9781250323347 $9.99Though others may call it “an accident…I know the word for someone who goes to science class to dissect earthworms and gets sliced in the forehead by an earthworm-juice-encrusted...
Review of The Forbidden Book
The Forbidden Book by Sacha LambMiddle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 256 pp.10/24 9781646144563 $19.99ebook 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 the rebbe’s son, a...
Editorial: Some Magazine! (September/October 2024)
For this centennial-year entry, with its mini-theme of middle grade, the Horn Book editors put our heads together to brainstorm cover art. We came up with a few ideas, in conjunction with our designers, and even mocked them up. And then came Shoshana Flax’s suggestion of Charlotte and friends —...
From the Editor - August 2024
This issue of Notes takes readers to fantastical realms, on shipboard adventures, and alongside intergenerational companions — sometimes all at once. Our Five Questions interview with Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer delves into the alt-historical world of their graphic novel The Worst Ronin; and Tokuda-Hall, a cofounder of Authors Against...
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Review of The First Week of School
The First Week of School by Drew Beckmeyer; illus. by the authorPrimary Atheneum 48 pp.6/24 9781665940429 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665940436 $10.99The cover of this back-to-school picture book appears to show an ordinary class photo, with some kids smiling, others posing, still others jostling, a frazzled teacher…and one space alien. The front...
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Review of Sink or Swim
Sink or Swim by Lee Durfey-Lavoie; illus. by Veronica Agarwal Intermediate, Middle School RH Graphic/Random 320 pp.6/24 9780593125519 $22.99Library ed. 9781984897039 $25.99Paper ed. 9781984897022 $14.99e-book ed. 9781984897046 $8.99At the start of this graphic novel, swimmer Tyler “Shark Fin” de Lugo has just gotten his cast off after a broken arm....
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