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Review of Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World About Water Pollution
Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World About Water Pollution by Julie Winterbottom; illus. by Susan ReaganPrimary, Intermediate Rocky Pond/Penguin 48 pp.3/25 9780593620229 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593620236 $11.99“When Ruth Patrick was five years old, she fell in love with pond scum.” Patrick (1907–2013) spent her childhood...
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Review of Extra Large
Extra Large by Tyler Page; illus. by the authorMiddle School First Second 208 pp.3/25 9781250851574 $22.99Paper ed. 9781250851567 $14.99e-book ed. 9781250422767 $9.99In Button Pusher (rev. 5/22), Tyler gained weight as a side effect of taking Ritalin for his ADHD. In this companion graphic memoir, Page explores the intersection of body...
Reading for Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (established by the United Nations General Assembly) is January 27 and Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, the United States, and other countries) is in April or May (in 2025 it's April 24). All of the following titles were recommended by The Horn Book Magazine and...
Review of The Hero Twins and the Magic of Song
The Hero Twins and the Magic of Song [Tales of the Feathered Serpent] by David Bowles; illus. by Charlene Bowles Middle School Cinco Puntos/Lee & Low 80 pp. 10/24 Paper ed. 9781947627697 $15.95 Spanish ed. 9781947627703 $15.95 This follow-up to Rise of the Halfling King (rev. 11/20) tells the story—again...
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2025: Five Questions for Sarah Clawson Willis
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2025, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by Band Nerd Lucy thinks that becoming...
Stories Save Lives and Walter Awards recap
2025 Walter Award winners, honorees, and committee members. L to R: Jolynn Asato, Yasmeen Shorish, Aleksandra (Sasha) Dowdy, Shoshana Flax, Sherri Winston, Eden Royce, June Hur, Ekua Holmes, Renée Watson, Dr. Shanetia P. Clark (vice chair), Jenna Wolf, Jenell Igeleke Penn (chair). Photo courtesy of Dr. Shanetia P. Clark. I...
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...
Review of The One & Only Googoosh: Iran’s Beloved Superstar
The One & Only Googoosh: Iran’s Beloved Superstar by Azadeh Westergaard; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Viking 40 pp. 11/24 9780593114636 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593114643 $11.99 Theatrical scenes in pomegranate reds and peacock greens introduce readers to a young, precocious Googoosh, born Faegheh Atashin, performing in the 1950s with...
Review of The Shape of Lost Things
The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 272 pp. 10/24 9780063256613 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063256620 $9.99 When Skye was six years old, her parents, both physicists, divorced. She and her brother, Finn, spent alternate weekends with their dad, but he became increasingly obsessed with physics and...
Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud Talk with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by What happens when a hero of middle-grade readers everywhere and a leading theorist of comics get together? In The Cartoonists Club, Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud bring story and...
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