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What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice by Richard Michelson; illus. by Stacy Innerst Primary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp. 10/25 9781662680632 $18.99 This picture-book biography follows Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) from his secular Jewish childhood in Kentucky with immigrant parents from Prague...
Gracey Zhang illustrates with sensitivity and subtlety Rebecca Stead's sensitive and subtle picture-book text, telling the story of a father and child's first day in a new apartment. Why have they had to move? Has it always been just the two of them? Stead leaves plenty of room for interpretation,...
Laura Amy Schlitz’s imagination has created books ranging from the Newbery-winning verse novel Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! to the multi-award-winning historical YA novel The Hired Girl. Her latest, The Winter of the Dollhouse (Candlewick, 9–12 years), is a doll story — with human and doll points of view. Can’t get...
Welcome to our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season's greetings from the Horn Book staff! The Birds of Christmas by Olivia Armstrong; illus. by Mira Miroslavova Preschool, Primary Eerdmans 40 pp. 8/25 9780802856470 $18.99 One cold night, Raven receives a celestial...
The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe by Uri Shulevitz; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 160 pp. 8/25 9780374392468 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780374392475 $11.99 The late Shulevitz, author of the acclaimed memoir Chance: Escape from the Holocaust (rev. 11/20), recounts the story...
In these six works of historical fiction recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers (including prose novels, a graphic novel, and a verse novel), historical events have profound effects on families’ lives. Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 384 pp. 9/25 9781250328533 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250328540 ...
In these nine novels recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, characters from our world meet fantasy elements. You’ll find more at the Fantasy tag in the Guide/Reviews Database, and see also our Five Questions interview with Laura Amy Schlitz about The Winter of the Dollhouse. The Library of Unruly Treasures...
Years ago, I read Another Brother to my grandchildren for the first time. Matthew Cordell’s story about Davy, the oldest of thirteen brothers, amused us in part because Davy and his family are sheep. Each of the twelve younger lambs copies everything Davy does, from eating Toot Loops for breakfast...
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2025, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by Almost minute-by-minute, Sole Survivor recounts then...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Inspired by her own community advocacy for the environment in the Mexican town where she lives, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner (for Dreamers) Yuyi Morales explores what it can...