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Fungi Grow: Diana Sudyka's 2024 BGHB Nonfiction and Poetry Honor Speech
Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for honoring Fungi Grow. I have found the Horn Book to be a guiding voice and influence both in my time illustrating and writing picture books and as an avid reader of the genre. I have long admired Maria Gianferrari’s writing...
Review of Meena's Saturday
Meena’s Saturday by Kusum Mepani; illus. by Yasmeen Ismail Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 10/24 9780593110317 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593110324 $10.99 This captivating ode to weekly gatherings of friends and extended family brims with affection for foods, activities, and traditions shared by a loving, large group crowded together in the narrator’s...
Week in Review, February 17th-21st
This week on hbook.com... Bertha Miller's Letters to Hilda van Stockum, 1941–1944 by John Tepper Marlin 2024 Booklists and Resources Master List February Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Amy Cherrix about Virus Hunters + 5 nonfiction books about real science, 6 female-focused YA novels for Women's...
Books mentioned in the February 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Amy Cherrix Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix; Harper/HarperCollins. Real science Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel Prize by Lori Alexander, illus. by Rebecca Santo; Clarion/HarperCollins. Mountain of Fire: The...
From the Editor - February 2025
Who’s got the flu? Here in Massachusetts we’re getting walloped ("Flu virus just won’t quit this year,” says the Boston Globe), making it a particularly good time to read Amy Cherrix’s well-researched and highly compelling Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike and Five Questions interview....
Need a good laugh?
In case you could stand to smile…these six books, recommended for preschool and/or primary readers, are full of giggles and chortles for young readers and listeners and for adult readers-aloud. See also the Humorous stories tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. Silly Boobies: A Love Story by Ame Dyckman; illus. by...
2024 in review
Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...
2024 Booklists and Resources Master List
Booklists and resources about annual observances/holidays, special events, social justice...and (a personal Horn Book favorite) food? We've covered a wide range of topics for all age levels in 2024, so we've compiled them together for readers to find some great new books to enjoy and share. Don't miss out —...
Bertha Miller's Letters to Hilda van Stockum, 1941–1944
As my mother's executor, I was exhilarated to find forty-four letters from the great Bertha Mahony Miller to my late mother in my attic. Simmons University Library later sent me copies of five of my mother's letters to Bertha for the war years 1941-1944. In her letters, my mother, Hilda van Stockum...
Review of Chooch Helped
Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers; illus. by Rebecca Lee Kunz Preschool, Primary Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 10/24 9781646144549 $18.99 Narrator Sissy’s little brother Chooch is two and wants to help. When Elisi (grandmother) paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Etsi (mother) sews pucker-toe moccasins, he helps. When Etlogi (aunt)...
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