Marva Anne Hinton
29 Articles
Last 30 days
Last 6 months
Last 12 months
Last 24 months
Specific Dates
From:
To:
Music to May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Perception and Reality
As Horn Book editors, we read every review that goes into the Magazine multiple times until we feel that each line and word is just right. Sometimes, all this repetition causes our minds to make connections between the reviews we read and other things that are bouncing around in our...
PREMIUM
Review of Rap It Up!
Rap It Up! by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford; illus. by Ernel Martinez Primary Holt 32 pp. 3/25 9781250833570 $18.99 “My mom claims I was rapping before I could speak. / Matter of fact, I freestyled eight days a week.” A young MC serves as the narrator of...
Review of My Daddy Is a Cowboy
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/24 9781419760815 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781647006280 $17.09 A Panamanian American girl and her daddy get up before dawn to ride horses through their town in this atmospheric picture book that celebrates a close...
PREMIUM
Review of Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood
Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood edited by Leah JohnsonIntermediate, Middle School Freedom Fire/Disney 320 pp.11/24 9781368098960 $18.99e-book ed. 9781368098984 $10.99Common early adolescent issues and those particular to Black girls are covered with depth and heart in this short story collection by fifteen authors. The protagonists are all...
PREMIUM
Review of Danilo Was Here
Danilo Was Here by Tamika BurgessIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 304 pp.1/25 9780063159662 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063159686 $8.99In this fast-paced historical novel, Danilo is a Black Panamanian living in a neighborhood destroyed by the United States’ invasion of Panama in 1989. Since the first night of the attack, life has become more...
PREMIUM
Review of Will’s Race for Home
Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker RhodesIntermediate Little, Brown 208 pp.1/25 9780316299336 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316299541 $9.99In this coming-of-age Western, twelve-year-old Will Samuels and his father, a stoic, formerly enslaved man, leave their sharecropper home in Texas for the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. Along the way, they encounter Caesar,...
PREMIUM
Review of Radiant
Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonIntermediate Dutton 320 pp.1/25 9780593855782 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593855799 $10.99In this historical novel in verse, fifth grader Cooper Dale is growing up near Pittsburgh in 1963 and grappling with issues concerning her identity as a Black child attending a predominantly white school. While her family encourages her...
Review of A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story
A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story by Nadia Salomon; illus. by London Ladd Primary Philomel 40 pp. 9/24 9780593525913 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593525920 $11.99 This picture-book biography begins with Evers-Williams (b. 1933), the first woman to chair the NAACP full time, speaking at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration...
PREMIUM
Review of Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—the First Lady of Children’s Music
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—the First Lady of Children’s Music by Traci N. Todd; illus. by Eleanor Davis Primary Chronicle 48 pp. 1/25 9781452170640 $19.99 Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) longed to make music from the time she was a little girl growing up in the segregated Bronzeville...
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
Thank you for visiting.
We’ve noticed you are using a private browser. To continue, please log in or create an account.
