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Review of How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects

How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects by Mary Ann Hoberman; illus. by Marla Frazee Primary    Tingley/Little, Brown    88 pp. 3/25    9780316417129    $20.99 e-book ed.  9780316584968    $12.99 As an introduction by the late Hoberman explains, for this collection she selected favorite poems of hers “about animals and insects”...
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Review of Goats Afloat

Goats Afloat by Lezlie Evans; illus. by Julia PattonPreschool, Primary    Two Lions/Amazon    32 pp.6/25    9781662520259    $18.99In this rhyming tale of goats going somewhere, the fun is in the journey. Five goats want to deliver a bouquet and a cake to Granny Goat for her birthday, but they hope to avoid...
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Review of Neshama

Neshama by Marcella PixleyIntermediate, Middle School    Candlewick    368 pp.5/25    9781536236613    $18.99e-book ed.  9781536244854    $18.99Early in this verse novel, sixth grader Anna’s grandmother Bubbe Esther gives her a journal: “It’s still waiting / for a shayna neshama, / a beautiful soul, / to write / her own poems inside.” The poems...

Real Talk

From the May/June 2025 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Perception and Reality. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from: Horn Book Magazine Customer Service hbmsubs@pcspublink.com Full subscription information is here. ...

While the Climes They Are A-Changin'

To the tune of “The Times They Are A-Changin’” by Bob Dylan Come gather ‘round, people. Come speak and engage on the street, on the screen, on the passed-around page. For so many living a formative age, there’s a million stories worth saving. Save stories of joy—and tell stories of...

Five questions for Rebecca Stead and Gracey Zhang

Anything (Chronicle, 4–8 years) is an introspective, sensitively conveyed picture book about a dad helping a child through difficult transitions in a new apartment. The ambiguity in Rebecca Stead’s (2010 Newbery Medalist for When You Reach Me) text, accompanied by Gracey Zhang’s spare illustrations, leaves room for readers to imagine...
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Review of Best of All Worlds

Best of All Worlds by Kenneth OppelHigh School    Scholastic    256 pp.6/25    9781546158202    $19.99e-book ed.  9781546158219    $19.99One morning, Xavier Oak and his family wake up to find that their weekend lakeside cottage has been moved, with them in it, to a farm without explanation. They eventually determine that they’re trapped within...
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Review of 13 Ways to Say Goodbye

13 Ways to Say Goodbye by Kate FussnerMiddle School    Harper/HarperCollins    304 pp.3/25    9780063256989    $19.99In this introspective verse novel, American narrator Nina spends the summer with her aunt in Paris, as her whole family used to do regularly; the visits stopped three years earlier after Nina’s older sister, Lily, died in...
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Review of Dino Poet

Dino Poet by Tom Angleberger; illus. by the authorPrimary    Abrams Fanfare    96 pp.3/25    9781419772801    $13.99e-book ed.  9798887072456    $12.59In this graphic novel for primary readers, a dinosaur is trying to shut out nearby roars and write a poem. A frog tries to help, or perhaps to provide distraction, since the dino’s...
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