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Review of It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Julie Morstad Primary Harper/HarperCollins 48 pp. 10/19 978-0-06-244762-3 $17.99 "In early 1960s America, a country with laws that separated people by skin color," Japanese American artist Gyo Fujikawa (1908–1998) helped break the color barrier...
Review of The Crossover
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Dawud Anyabwile Intermediate, Middle School Houghton 218 pp. 9/19 978-1-328-96001-6 $22.99 Paper ed. 978-1-328-57549-4 $12.99 e-book ed. 978-1-358-12816-8 $8.99 Alexander's Newbery Medal–winning verse novel of the same name (rev. 5/14), about African American twins and middle-school b-ballers Josh and JB Bell, is an ideal choice for graphic-novel adaptation, with its on-court action, swaggering narrative voice, and poignant emotional pitches. Anyabwile's (of Alexander's Rebound,...
Review of A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa
A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa by Andrea D’Aquino; illus. by the author Primary Princeton 40 pp. 9/19 978-1-61689-836-6 $17.95 D’Aquino offers young readers “the story of an artist you may have never heard of”: Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), a Japanese American creator of nature-inspired wire sculptures....
New HB Guide Online reviews September 2019
As I hope you all know, the Horn Book Guide Online now publishes reviews of recommended books every month. Just this week we’ve added over a hundred more reviews to the database, as well as updated the (free!) content on the homepage: right now we’re featuring the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn...
YA anthologies and you
Four recent anthologies that celebrate racial, cultural, and religious identities (among others) help address the need for teens to see both themselves — and a spectrum of their peers — represented on shelves. In Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America, compiler Ibi Zoboi presents seventeen short stories by an impressive collection...
New HB Guide Online reviews August 2019
Here we are again! We’ve just added close to 200 new reviews to the revamped Horn Book Guide Online. In fact, you can now expect updates to this super-spiffy review database every month going forward (as opposed to every other month on the old site). And, as we add reviews each...
Reviews added to the (new!) HB Guide Online July 2019
We’re excited to announce our first batch of new reviews since the launch of the new Horn Book Guide Online! Among the newly uploaded reviews in the database are excerpted Horn Book Magazine reviews, more titles from the Horn Book’s summer reading list, and the remaining 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book...
Review of Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Darius the Great Is Not Okayby Adib KhorramHigh School Dial 313 pp. g8/18 978-0-5255-5296-3 $17.99 Sophomore Darius Kellner doesn’t fit in at his Oregon high school, where he’s bullied by Trent Bolger and his “Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy.” But Darius also doesn’t fit comfortably in his own life due to clinical...
Review of Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti
Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacomettiby Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; illus. by Hadley HooperPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 64 pp. g4/19 978-0-8234-4170-9 $21.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4224-9 $16.99Experts at accessibly describing art and exploring the often-complex lives of its creators, Greenberg and Jordan (most recently Meet Cindy Sherman, rev....
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