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Week in Review, July 7-11

  This week on hbook.com... A Most Remarkable Maine Man: A Tribute to Ashley Bryan by Sheila Wilensky   From the July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: ALA Awards: 2025 CSK Author Award Acceptance by Jason Reynolds 2025 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance by C. G. Esperanza 2025 CSK–Virginia Hamilton...

Week in Review, June 30th-July 4th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: ALA Awards: 2025 Newbery Medal Acceptance by Erin Entrada Kelly 2025 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by Rebecca Lee Kunz 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Carole Boston Weatherford   Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Fairy...

2024: The Year in Words and Pictures

On January 27, 2025, the Youth Media Awards were announced, as usual, during what was long known as the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference (in recent years: LibLearnX). It seems likely that this was the last wintertime conference in that form. With so much upheaval and uncertainty (e.g., book bans,...

Week in Review, June 23rd-27th

  This week on hbook.com... Presenting the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners   From the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Perception and Reality: The Writer's Page: Evidence!: Long Road to a Short Book by Deborah Hopkinson Publishers' Preview: Diverse Books: Erin Entrada Kelly | Craig Kofi Farmer |...

Pride Month 2025

Pride Month is almost finished, but here at the Horn Book, we celebrate all year long the best way we know how: by blowing the horn for children's and young adult books that center LGBTQIA+ creators and/or characters (and we hope you will too).  We'd especially like to alert your...

Presenting the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners

On Monday, June 23, 2025 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here:     2025 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...

Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner and Honor Books

Picture Book Winner I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely; illus. by Matt James Primary    Holiday/Porter    32 pp. 10/24    9780823456666    $18.99 In this quietly affecting and beautifully illustrated book, young Belle's drawing of an owl draws praise from her teacher, but the child doesn't want...

Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and Honor Books

Nonfiction Winner Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Middle School, High School    Schwartz/Random    368 pp. 4/25    9780593480069    $19.99 Library ed.  9780593480076    $22.99 e-book ed.  9780593480083    $11.99 On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple...

Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award Winner and Honor Books

Fiction Winner Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay High School    Kokila/Penguin    288 pp. 8/24    9780593461419    $18.99 e-book ed.  9780593461433    $10.99 Perspectives in this novel alternate among members of the Maghabol family from four different generations. In 1929, Francisco has recently emigrated from the ­Philippines to Watsonville, California, where he...
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