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Black History Month 2024
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 Monday's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement...
Reviews of the 2024 Sibert Award Winners
Winner The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; illus. by Brett Helquist Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 288 pp. 9/23 9780593643846 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593643853 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593643860 $11.99 The Mona Lisa wasn’t the world’s...
Reviews of the 2024 Geisel Award Winners
Winner Fox Has a Problem [My First I Can Read!] by Corey R. Tabor; illus. by the author Primary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 32 pp. 8/23 9780063277915 $17.99 Paper ed. 9780063277922 $5.99 e-book ed. 9780063277946 $5.99 Fox and his friends are back in this newest installment in Tabor’s Geisel-winning (for Fox...
Reviews of the 2024 CSK Author Award Winners
Winner Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 384 pp. 5/23 9780062888846 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780062888860 $12.99 Sixteen-year-old Nigeria is expected to lead the youth of the Movement (which is “like a small African West Philly village in the big, white state of Pennsylvania”) and model what...
Review of Great Carrier Reef
Great Carrier Reef [Books for a Better Earth]by Jessica Stremer; illus. by Gordy WrightPrimary Holiday 40 pp.7/23 9780823452682 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455256 $11.99In 1976, after approximately twenty-five years of service, the massive aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was decommissioned. Rather than being sold or relegated to retirement, “chained to a pier. Rusted,...
Review of Enlighten Me
Enlighten Me by Minh Lê; illus. by Chan ChauIntermediate, Middle School LB Ink/Little, Brown 144 pp.9/23 9780759555471 $24.99Paper ed. 9780759555488 $12.99e-book ed. 9780316395526 $9.99Middle-schooler Binh isn’t happy about his Vietnamese American family’s trip to a silent Buddhist meditation retreat. His beloved Game Boy is taken away, and, worse, Binh has...
Review of Mine!
Mine! by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric RohmannPreschool Schwartz/Random 40 pp.8/23 9780593181669 $18.99Library ed. 9780593181676 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593181683 $10.99“In a tall, tall tree, / at the tip-tippy top, / hung a single red apple, / just about to drop.” Crisp, bright illustrations with smooth black outlines, created on stained paper...
Review of Tee Time on the Moon: How Astronaut Alan Shepard Played Lunar Golf
Tee Time on the Moon: How Astronaut Alan Shepard Played Lunar Golf by David A. Kelly; illus. by Edwin FotheringhamPrimary Calkins/Astra 40 pp.7/23 9781662680175 $18.99e-book ed. 9781662680182 $11.99Although the book offers a factual recounting of the Apollo 14 moon landing, its true focus is astronaut Alan Shepard Jr.’s personal experiment...
Review of Tiger Daughter
Tiger Daughter by Rebecca LimMiddle School, High School Delacorte 192 pp.8/23 9780593648971 $17.99Library ed. 9780593648988 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593648995 $10.99Two “migrant kids”—first-generation immigrants to Australia from China—aspire to escape their dysfunctional lives and constricted futures by being accepted to a prestigious, government-funded high school. Wen Li Zhou, thirteen, and her best...
Review of Spanish Is the Language of My Family
Spanish Is the Language of My Family by Michael Genhart; illus. by John ParraPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.7/23 9780823450046 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455454 $11.99Spanish ed. 9780823454464 $18.99Genhart highlights the love between a grandson and his abuela through their connection with the Spanish language. Narrator Manolo signs up to compete in his school’s...
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