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Week in Review, December 1st-5th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Won't You Miss the Polar Bears? by Martha Meyer   From the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: Preview   Calling Caldecott: Song of a Blackbird by Stephanie Ford Our Lake by Julie Hakim Azzam   Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture...
      

Preview January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine

Original cover art by Matt James. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2025. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (at the Cambridge Public Library”): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Field Notes: bookstore children’s events manager Hannah Peterson shares “Storytime Smash Hits.” Single copies of...
      

Our Lake

Angie Kang’s Our Lake is a quiet, luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the enduring presence of love. When I read Our Lake, I was unexpectedly transported back to the loss of my own father, to summers on a lake in upstate New York; a grief I thought I had made...
      

Won't You Miss the Polar Bears?

In August of 2024, Illinois passed HB 4895, a bill mandating climate education in public high schools by the 2026–2027 school year. Four other states (NY, CA, CT, NJ) already mandate climate education in their schools. Recent surveys, however, show that the majority of U.S. teachers don’t teach climate change...
      

Review of Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story)

Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman High School    Farrar    336 pp. 9/25    9781250823076    $21.99 e-book ed.  9781250823083    $11.99 Heiligman’s newest work of nonfiction touches on a long list of hot-button contemporary issues: due process, free speech, gender equity, economic inequality, pacifism, prison reform, reproductive freedom,...
      

Song of a Blackbird

Maria van Lieshout's Song of a Blackbird is a harrowing and hopeful story, grounded in historical events, of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Through expressive illustrations and inventive page layouts, this graphic novel weaves documented and imagined histories; past and contemporary timelines; and several characters' narrative arcs into...
      

Review of If Looks Could Kill

If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry High School    Simon    448 pp. 9/25    9781534470811    $21.99 e-book ed.  9781534470835    $10.99 This expansive historical novel with Medusa-inspired fantasy elements features Jack the Ripper, Salvation Army missionaries, and new-made Gorgons in New York’s Bowery, 1888. With two principal viewpoints, Berry alternates between the...
      

Review of The House That Floated

The House That Floated by Guojing; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate    Random House Studio/Random    40 pp. 9/25    9780593709054    $18.99 Library ed.  9780593709061    $21.99 Guojing (The Flamingo, rev. 11/22; Oasis, rev. 3/25) presents a vivid wordless picture book about a family who lives in a small seaside cabin atop a...
      

Week in Review, November 24th-28th

  This week on hbook.com... Jason Reynolds in Conversation with the Horn Book about Coach   From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: A Publisher's Perspective: Modern-Day Merits of Diverse Books by Jason Low   Horn Book Herald: October 2025   Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture Book: Together, United by Tami Charles; illus....
      

Review of The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest

The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest by Lynn Street; illus. by Anne Hunter Primary    Quinlin/Peachtree    48 pp. 8/25    9781682636046    $18.99 Most everyone knows that “mighty oaks from little acorns grow,” as the old saw goes, but how many people know that blue jays are integral to their propagation? Street’s...
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