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Jason Reynolds in Conversation with The Horn Book
In Conversation with The Horn Book is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Horn Book Herald. This interview originally appeared in the October 2025 Horn Book Herald. To receive the Herald, sign up here. Sponsored by Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz: Grownups/authority figures as kids can be mind-blowing to...
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Review of A Snow Day for Amos McGee
A Snow Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Erin E. SteadPreschool, Primary Roaring Brook 48 pp.9/25 9781250324733 $19.99In his third outing, city-dwelling zookeeper—and lover of snow—Amos McGee (A Sick Day for Amos McGee, rev. 5/10; Amos McGee Misses the Bus, rev. 11/21) eagerly anticipates a forecasted...
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Review of Lost and Found Hanukkah
Lost and Found Hanukkah by Joy Preble; illus. by Lisa AnchinPrimary Chronicle 40 pp.9/25 9781797216096 $17.99Nate, who loves Hanukkah because “it’s always the same,” is sad about celebrating in a new apartment and without his menorah, which was lost in the family’s move. Visiting a Judaica store to replace it...
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Review of Santa Claws
Santa Claws by Bridget Heos; illus. by Galia BernsteinPreschool, Primary Holt 40 pp.9/25 9781250909497 $18.99“While kids scrawl notes to Santa Claus, /Hatchlings write to Santa Claws.” This companion to shark-themed Santa Jaws (rev. 11/21) focuses on the prehistoric world. Santa is a T-rex, the elves are pachycephalosauruses, and Heos crafts...
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Review of The Mouse Who Loved Latkes
The Mouse Who Loved Latkes by Joy Nelkin Wieder; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Kar-Ben 32 pp.10/25 9798765644249 $19.99e-book ed. 9798765675540 $9.99Mouse C.J. (short for Colby Jack) is worried when the Katz family (a family of cats) moves into the apartment he inhabits. After enticing smells bring him from his...
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Review of Dream On
Dream On by Shannon Hale; illus. by Marcela Cespedes; color by Lark PienIntermediate Roaring Brook 240 pp.8/25 9781250843067 $22.99Paper ed. 9781250843074 $14.99e-book ed. 9781250374226 $9.99In this 1984-set graphic novel, Cassie feels adrift somewhere in the middle of her family of eight: too old to need supervision at the dining-room table...
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Review of Flurry, Float, and Fly!: The Story of a Snowstorm
Flurry, Float, and Fly!: The Story of a Snowstorm by Laura Purdie Salas; illus. by Chiara FedelePreschool, Primary Bloomsbury 40 pp.11/25 9781547603503 $18.99Salas (Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm, rev. 1/21) turns her lyrical meteorological observations toward an impending snowstorm, as two children (and some forest animals) scan...
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Review of Pepe and the Piñata: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage
Pepe and the Piñata: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage by Tracey Kyle; illus. by Mirelle OrtegaPreschool, Primary Little Bee 32 pp.10/25 9781499817997 $18.99Pepe and his mami, papi, and abuelo are preparing their family home for Christmas as well as participating in a community-wide Latine Christmas cultural festival: “Pepe and his...
Review of The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe
The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe by Uri Shulevitz; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 160 pp. 8/25 9780374392468 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780374392475 $11.99 The late Shulevitz, author of the acclaimed memoir Chance: Escape from the Holocaust (rev. 11/20), recounts the story...
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