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February Boston-area book events
February is a good month for book-lovers! Here’s a sampling of events coming up around Boston; check our calendar for details and even more events. Email cbb@hbook.com to submit your event for listing.Tonight at 7:00 pm, join Brookline Booksmith to celebrate new releases from two young adult novelists: Melissa Albert...
Boston Book Festival 2017: "Where We Find Ourselves"
The theme of the ninth annual Boston Book Festival was "Where We Find Ourselves." We found ourselves in Booth #9 enjoying the music and performances from the Berklee Festival Stage — and all throughout the twenty-plus (!) venues in and around Copley Square and the Boston Public Library. Here are...
Reviews of the 2017 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction and Poetry Winner The Hate U Giveby Angie ThomasHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 453 pp.2/17 978-0-06-249853-3 $17.99Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a life many African American teenagers can relate to: a life of double consciousness. Caught between her rough, predominantly black neighborhood and the “proper,” predominantly...
Review of The Hate U Give
The Hate U Giveby Angie ThomasHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 453 pp.2/17 978-0-06-249853-3 $17.99Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a life many African American teenagers can relate to: a life of double consciousness. Caught between her rough, predominantly black neighborhood and the “proper,” predominantly white prep school she...
2016 in review
Happy New Year! We hope your year is full of great reads and good friends.Before we ring in 2017, though, let’s take a look back at 2016 — we had a very busy year!BGHB 2016 coverageFanfare 2016ALA 2016 coverageRemembering children's lit Great Ladies Lois Duncan, Anna Dewdney, and Natalie Babbitt;...
Week in Review, September 5th-9th
This week on hbook.com…RIP Anna Dewdney, 1965–2016Calling Caldecott is back! Which books do you want to see CC cover this year?From the September/October 2016 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: "A Second Look: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Kekla MagoonReviews of the Week: Picture Book: Goodbye Summer,
Hello Autumn by...
A Second Look: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
It was one of those rickety paperback book racks that creak when you turn it. It listed to one side, so I made sure to stand on the side it was leaning away from, in order to see the books better.Spin. Creak. Spin. Creak.I’d read most of these books already....
Horn Book Magazine – September/October 2016
Table of ContentsFeatures"Orlando" by Christopher Myers“In the aftermath…there is a need for stories to contain, to comfort, to process, to prevent.”"Machetes" by Jason ReynoldsFrom the author’s 2016 Coretta Scott King Honor Award acceptance speech for All American Boys."How I Discovered Young Adult Poetry" by Marilyn NelsonThe 2016 Zena Sutherland Lecture."Interview...
Preview September/October 2016 Horn Book Magazine
Author Kekla Magoon’s Second Look at Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and cover art by Kadir Nelson from the 40th Anniversary Special Edition.Author/illustrator Christopher Myers’s "Orlando.""Machetes": from Jason Reynolds’s 2016 CSK Author Honor award acceptance speech for All American Boys."How I Discovered Young Adult Poetry": Marilyn Nelson’s 2016 Zena...
2015 in Review: The Year in Words
The year was 2015. A year in which so many people from so many backgrounds said so much about books with so few words.It was a year in which people didn’t just discuss books. They cheered and argued, raged and kvetched, praised them and condemned them.Social media wasn’t new in...
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