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In our March/April 2017 issue, our editors asked illustrator Sydney Smith about his illustrations for quiet new picture book Town Is by the Sea. Read the full starred review.Horn Book Editors: The illustrations help pace the story so beautifully. How did this book come together among text, art, and design?Sydney...
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 byI was always in and out of Peter H. Reynolds's store when I was a kid, but back then — half a century ago! — it was...
Photo by Catherine Wink.In our March/April 2017 issue, reviewer Susan Dove Lempke spoke with Chris Raschka about his free-spirited paintings for a new illustrated edition of John Keats's A Song About Myself. Read the full review.Susan Dove Lempke: Your free-flowing illustrations are a perfect match for this type of child-friendly...
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 byAlthough there's probably some contractual brand-management thing going on, I like to think that A.S. King, the author of such deeply weird YA novels as Everybody Sees...
Kathleen T. HorningThe Cooperative Children’s Book Center (a research library of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education) began documenting the numbers of children’s books by African American authors and illustrators in 1985 — when then–CCBC director Ginny Moore Kruse, serving on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury, learned...
Anniss, Matt Make a Podcast!Gr. 4–6 32 pp. ArcturusAnniss, Matt Start a Blog!Gr. 4–6 32 pp. ArcturusFind Your Talent series. General directions, some of which seems like common sense, guide readers through creating a web presence. Anecdotal snippets about already established and popular sites add interest to the occasionally contradictory...
Drummond, Allan Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable FutureGr. K–3 40 pp. Farrar/FosterOn May 4, 2007, a tornado leveled Greensburg, Kansas. The citizens who stayed decided to rebuild a community as environmentally sound as possible. Drummond creates a first-person narrator from a composite...
We are excited to debut our shiny new Family Reading landing page, a one-stop spot to easily access this blog as well as handy links to Horn Book content of particular interest to families (however we define the term).From this page, you can browse Books in the Home tagged articles...
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 byVicente is the only parent Sal(vador) has ever known. Sal's biological father is a mystery; his mother, Alexandra, died when Sal was three; Vicente was his mom's...
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real Worldedited by Kelly JensenMiddle School, High School Algonquin 228 pp.1/17 Paper ed. 978-1-61620-586-7 $16.95 gThis lively anthology, edited by Book Riot associate editor Jensen, broaches the subject of “feminism for the real world” through forty-four essays, comics, poems,...