[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.]   Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jason Griffin Middle School    Dlouhy/Atheneum    384 pp.    g 1/22    978-1-5344-3946-7    $19.99 e-book ed.  978-1-5344-3947-4    $10.99 Reynolds’s...

It is a rare thing to get a child’s-eye glimpse into a hidden, miniature world. And yet that is exactly what happens in Phoebe Wahl’s delightful Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest. Through the use of elegant framing devices and earth-toned illustrations that evoke the world of the woods, we go on four...