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Where history and biography meet
The following six nonfiction books for middle-grade readers merge the lines between history book and biography to create compelling works of narrative nonfiction. See also Tanya Lee Stone’s September/October Horn Book Magazine article “The Art of Visual Storytelling in Long-Form Nonfiction,” including her upcoming YA title Peace Is a Chain...
Audiobooks: Summer 2022
An occasional list of select titles being released in audio format. See the reviews referenced for the Horn Book’s evaluation of the print titles. And subscribe to our digital plan for access to other reviews. In Honor of Broken Things by Paul Acampora; read by Michael Crouch, Amanda Damron,...
Board Book Roundup Plus Five Questions: Summer 2022
For over twenty years a team of librarians, educators, creators, and others who work with young children and families have been compiling a “Best Books for Babies” list in (where else?) the city that Fred Rogers called home: Pittsburgh, PA. In fact, Mr. Rogers was a consultant on the list...
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Review of Because of You, John Lewis: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Because of You, John Lewis: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illus. by Keith Henry BrownIntermediate Scholastic 40 pp. g3/22 978-1-338-75908-2 $18.99What could have been a straightforward story of a boy meeting his idol becomes in Pinkney’s (Martin Rising, rev. 3/18; Loretta Little Looks Back,...
Black History Month 2022
In commemoration of Black History Month, we'll be featuring articles, speeches, interviews, and reviews from The Horn Book's past year that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field — one a weekday through the month of February. Last week's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement...
2021 in review
Welcome, 2022! 2021 wound up being another highly unusual year like 2020. Revisit the past twelve months — is that all it has been?! — and lose yourself in the world of children's and YA literature with our annual Horn Book Year in Review. 2021 ALA Awards coverage May/June 2021 Horn Book...
Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners
2023 Fiction & Poetry Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group) Honor Books: Promise Boys by Nick Brooks (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group); When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhhà Lại (Harper/HarperCollins Children’s Books) Nonfiction Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix/Scholastic...
Should the ALA Awards Get Graphic?
I always look forward to reading here at Calling Caldecott about the graphic novels and comics that could bring home a Caldecott. Just next week we will hear from Alec Chunn and Niki Marion about the 2021 graphic novels that have grabbed their attention. We’ve seen graphic novels win some...
Review of Unsettled
Unsettled by Reem Faruqi Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 352 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-304470-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-304472-2 $8.99 Faruqi’s evocative immigrant story in verse follows a young girl from the “land of the pure” to the “land of the free.” Thirteen-year-old Nurah Haqq and her family move from Karachi, Pakistan, to...
YA issues in verse
Like the sixteen-year-old protagonist of Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam’s Boston Globe–Horn Book honor book Punching the Air, illustrated by Omar T. Pasha, the stars of these YA verse novels use poetry and art as means of self-expression to help them remain true to themselves. See also Five Questions about The...
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