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Review of Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret
History of the Vietnam Warby Steve SheinkinMiddle School, High School Roaring Brook 361 pp.9/15 978-1-59643-952-8 $19.99 gWithout a wasted word or scene, and with the timing and prowess of a writer of thrillers, Sheinkin takes on a spectacularly complex story — and makes...
Review of Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon
Bomb: The Race to Build — and Steal — the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)While comprehensive in his synthesis of the political, historical, and scientific aspects of the creation of the first nuclear weapon, Sheinkin focuses his account with an extremely alluring angle: the spies....
Review of The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
The Port Chicago 50:Disaster, Mutiny, and the
Fight for Civil Rightsby Steve SheinkinMiddle School Roaring Brook 190 pp.1/14 978-1-59643-796-8 $19.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-59643-983-2 $9.99Sheinkin follows Bomb (rev. 11/12) with an account of another aspect of the Second World War, stemming from an incident that seems small in scope but whose...
Five questions for Steve Sheinkin
Steve Sheinkin's young adult history books — including Bomb: The Race to Build — and Steal — the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award finalist, and the winner of both the Sibert Award and the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults)...
From the Editor—August 2015
When I was walking around the ALA exhibits in San Francisco earlier this summer, I kept running into publishers eager to show me their "narrative nonfiction." I knew this was a concept (see Elizabeth Partridge's article "Narrative Nonfiction: Kicking Ass at Last" and more on narrative nonfiction from The Horn...
Oh look, another newsletter
Look for The Horn Book's new quarterly newsletter, WHAT MAKES A GOOD...? debuting on August 26th with "What Makes Good Narrative Nonfiction?" The issue features Five Questions for Steve Sheinkin, an essay about how to select NNF by the Junior Library Guild's Deborah Brittain Ford, and brief reviews of our choices for the best...
Starred reviews, September/October Horn Book
The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October issue of The Horn Book Magazine:Fire Engine No. 9; written and illustrated by Mike Austin (Random)The Nonsense Show; written and illustrated by Eric Carle (Philomel)Waiting; written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)Two Mice; written and illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier (Clarion)Crenshaw; by Katherine Applegate (Feiwel)Sunny Side Up; by Jennifer L. Holm...
From the Editor - July 2015
I'm just back from ALA in San Francisco (conveniently also home to my two adorable grandchildren), where the term I kept hearing throughout the exhibit halls was narrative nonfiction (last year it was bullying). As is so often true of these trends, the term meant different things to different people,...
Mind the Gaps: Books for ALL Young Readers
HBAS keynote speaker Vaunda Micheaux Nelson.When Roger invited me to deliver the keynote for today’s program, I was a bit intimidated. He told me that the idea for the “Mind the Gaps” theme was inspired by Christopher Myers’s essay “Young Dreamers,” published in The Horn Book last November. Christopher’s essay...
Additional ALA Awards 2015
Alex Awardsfor the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)• Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia (Houghton)• Bingo’s Run by James A. Levine (Random House/Spiegel & Grau)• Confessions by Kanae Minato, trans. by Stephen Snyder (Little, Brown/Mulholland Books)• Everything...
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