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Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner and Honor Books
Picture Book Winner I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely; illus. by Matt James Primary Holiday/Porter 32 pp. 10/24 9780823456666 $18.99 In this quietly affecting and beautifully illustrated book, young Belle's drawing of an owl draws praise from her teacher, but the child doesn't want...
Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and Honor Books
Nonfiction Winner Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Middle School, High School Schwartz/Random 368 pp. 4/25 9780593480069 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593480076 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593480083 $11.99 On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple...
Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction Winner Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay High School Kokila/Penguin 288 pp. 8/24 9780593461419 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593461433 $10.99 Perspectives in this novel alternate among members of the Maghabol family from four different generations. In 1929, Francisco has recently emigrated from the Philippines to Watsonville, California, where he...
Review of Anything
Anything by Rebecca Stead; illus. by Gracey ZhangPrimary Chronicle 48 pp.4/25 9781797215150 $17.99In this first picture book written by middle-grade powerhouse Stead (Newbery Medalist for When You Reach Me, rev. 7/09), the unnamed narrator’s father serves up chocolate cake to celebrate their first day in apartment 3B. “But something was...
Creatures featured
These seven books are for intermediate and/or middle-school animal lovers, including stories starring animals and stories of friendship across species. For more, see the Animals subject tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman Intermediate Little, Brown 320 pp. 2/25 9780316575720 $17.99 e-book ed. ...
Future worlds
These five young adult novels implicitly or explicitly imagine future versions of our world, and might just give us new lenses through which to view the present. See also our Five Questions interview with E. K. Johnston about Titan of the Stars, the Reality Reimagined series from the May/June Horn...
Review of (S)Kin
(S)Kin by Ibi ZoboiHigh School Versify/HarperCollins 400 pp.2/25 9780062888877 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062888891 $10.99In this verse novel with a basis in Caribbean folklore, fifteen-year-old Marisol and her mother, Lourdes, have recently emigrated from the Caribbean to Brooklyn. The two are soucouyant, shapeshifting “monsters” who shed their skin during the new moon...
Father's Day 2025
Permit me a moment to give a shout-out to my amazing husband (happy anniversary to us next week!). Though he is generally spotlight-averse, this will nevertheless be a very special weekend for him: not only is he turning 45 on Saturday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!), he'll also be celebrating Father's Day on...
Reality Reimagined: Zombies and Ghosts and Aliens, Oh My!
The Texas State Forensic Anthropology Research Facility located in San Marcos, Texas, sprawls across twenty-six acres of rolling hills, scraggly mesquite bushes, seasonal bluebonnets…and decomposing bodies. The cadavers lying under wire cages bake in the searing heat as researchers measure the presence of maggots and blowflies, the chronology of skin...
Manga roundup
When I worked as a bookseller, I was often asked about manga appropriate for young readers. Even though I am an avid manga reader, it was sometimes difficult for me to provide concrete recommendations. Manga series are often long; series generally come in around twelve to twenty-five volumes total, and...
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