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Week in Review, December 8th-12th

  This week on hbook.com... December Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Fanfare Edition, featuring annotations of all forty-nine entries on 2025's list   Calling Caldecott: Broken by Dean Schneider Call for second round nominations by Kitty Flynn   Out of the Box: Fanfare 2025 Booklist Fanfare 2025 extras   Reviews of...

Fanfare 2025 Annotations

There’s nothing like a good library haul! Here’s mine, following the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine issue-to-press date. It’s the issue that begins our hundred-and-second year and contains all the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards speeches along with Fanfare, our annual annotated “best of” list that Notes from the Horn...
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Fanfare 2025 extras

Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2025 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2025 booklist here and our newly annotated list here.   Picture Books Lisa Brown Rule Breakers: The World Is My Canvas by Lisa Brown Lisa Brown on The Airport Book by Martha...

Fanfare 2025 Booklist

Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2025. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2026 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...

Week in Review, December 1st-5th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Won't You Miss the Polar Bears? by Martha Meyer   From the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: Preview   Calling Caldecott: Song of a Blackbird by Stephanie Ford Our Lake by Julie Hakim Azzam   Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture...

Preview January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine

Original cover art by Matt James. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2025. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (at the Cambridge Public Library”): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Field Notes: bookstore children’s events manager Hannah Peterson shares “Storytime Smash Hits.” Single copies of...

Week in Review, November 24th-28th

  This week on hbook.com... Jason Reynolds in Conversation with the Horn Book about Coach   From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: A Publisher's Perspective: Modern-Day Merits of Diverse Books by Jason Low   Horn Book Herald: October 2025   Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture Book: Together, United by Tami Charles; illus....

Week in Review, November 17th-21st

  This week on hbook.com... November Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Laura Amy Schlitz about The Winter of the Dollhouse + 9 novels where our world meets fantasy, 6 YA works with families affected by history, and 5 picture books featuring space adventures Tae Keller Talks with Roger...

January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews

Illustration from Ling & Ting's Lunar New Year by Grace Lin. The following books will receive starred reviews in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: If This Were the World by Stephen Barr; illus. by A. G. Ford (Porter/Holiday) The Rare Bird by Elisha Cooper (Roaring Brook) Is It Spring? by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow) A...
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