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Review of And Then It's Spring
And Then It’s Springby Julie Fogliano;
illus. by Erin E. SteadPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.2/12 978-1-59643-624-4 $16.99A small bespectacled boy and his companions, a dog, a rabbit, and a turtle, are on a search for spring. “First you have brown, / all around you have brown / then there are...
Review of The One and Only Ivan
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate;
illus. by Patricia CastelaoIntermediate Harper/HarperCollins 305 pp.1/12 978-0-06-199225-4 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-06-210198-3 $9.99“I am Ivan. I am a gorilla. / It’s not as easy as it looks.” In short chapters (the book has an open layout and frequent illustrations) that have the...
Review of 10 Hungry Rabbits
10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Conceptsby Anita Lobel; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Knopf 24 pp.2/12 978-0-375-86864-1 $9.99Library ed. 978-0-375-96864-8 $12.99 gWhen Mama Rabbit announces her plans to make vegetable soup for dinner, her ten children — each one wearing a different color — gather ten matching colorful ingredients:...
What Makes a Good Rock-and-Roll Book?
Every time critics and writers declare rock-and-roll dead, it rises again; re-tuned, rebranded, and repackaged for a new generation. Signs of life abound: Green Day’s Gen Y suburban angst, captured in their mini rock opera American Idiot, has sold 14 million copies internationally and became a smash adaptation for the...
Review of Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic
Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a
Brave Dog Named Balticby Mônica Carnesi;
illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp.1/12 978-0-399-25666-0 $15.99An edge-of-your-seat adventure story, based on a true story, for the very young — with a text that also works beautifully as a beginning reader for older...
Books to Unite the Digitally Divided Family
This article is adapted from the keynote speech author Richard Peck delivered at the Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, “Engaging Worlds, Real and Imagined,” on October 1, 2011.Ladies and gentlemen, winners of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, people of the book…We gather to ask our annual question: “Can there still...
From The Guide: Paranormal Romance
Dying for some paranormal romance? These swoon-worthy YA stories of supernatural love, all recommended by The Horn Book Guide, are sure to melt hearts and raise spirits.—Elissa GershowitzManaging Editor, The Horn Book GuideCremer, Andrea Nightshade454 pp. Philomel 2010. ISBN 978-0-399-25482-6YA Werewolf Calla defies her pack by saving human Shay from...
Review of Extra Yarn
Extra Yarnby Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon KlassenPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp.1/12 978-0-06-195338-5 $16.99 gWhen young Annabelle finds a small box containing yarn of every color, she does what any self-respecting knitter would do: she knits herself a sweater. Then she knits a sweater for...
Review of Cold Cereal
Cold Cerealby Adam Rex; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 422 pp.2/12 978-0-06-206002-0 $16.99 gIn the town of Goodborough, home to the Goodco cereal company, new kid Scott Doe is seeing things. Specifically, a rabbit-headed man, a unicat, and a leprechaun named Mick. His only friends, brainy...
Letter to the Editor from Mary Alice Garber, January/February 2012
November/December 2011 Horn BookI am one of the buyers, along with Jewell Stoddard, for the children and teens’ department at the Politics & Prose bookstore. The picture book “Proclamation!” published in the November issue and your editorial (“The Sign on Sendak’s Door”) echo what Jewell and I feel strongly. I...
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