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Week in Review, December 9th-13th
This week on hbook.com... December Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Fanfare Edition, featuring annotations of all fifty-three books on 2024's list Rosanne Parry Talks with Roger about A Wolf Called Fire From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Tomorrow by Nikki Giovanni Calling Caldecott: Golden Gate...
Review of Lost
Lost by Bob Staake; illus. by the author Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 10/24 9780593707029 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593707036 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593707043 $10.99 Many people can relate to the worry that strikes when a pet goes missing. Staake (Bluebird, rev. 3/13) brings empathy, camaraderie, and humor to a familiar experience...
Pick Your Favorite May/June Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the March/April covers. Next up are the May/June covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click on any...
Horn Book Magazine Covers
Randolph Caldecott was The Horn Book Magazine‘s first — and for decades only — cover artist. Then in 1985 another picture book master, Maurice Sendak, took over the task for a few issues, leading the way for a whole new crop of talented contributors. Much of their work is on view...
National Bullying Prevention Month 2017 Unity Day
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Today is Unity Day, when people wear orange to spotlight the issue of bullying and raise awareness of bullying prevention. "Together against bullying — united for kindness, acceptance and inclusion." Click here for additional ways to show your support, and look for the hashtag...
Great Crafts You Can Do at Home (As Inspired by Recent Picture Books)
I feel like I need to start off with a bit of a confession. I’m a children’s librarian by training. And part of that job requires a complete and thorough knowledge of crafts and crafting. Now here’s the problem: I hate crafts. Well, not completely; I’ll color in an adult...
Updated not-so-new New Yorkers
We just HAD to update this post to include this beautiful Kadir Nelson cover: By Kadir NelsonRead 2011's Kadir Nelson Talks with Roger about Nelson's book Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans and publisher Donna Bray's 2012 profile of Nelson. By Bob Staake (Click to see...
Horn Book Magazine – May/June 2015
Table of Contents Special Issue: Transformations Features "Hijacking the Pumpkin Coach" by Gregory Maguire Steering familiar stories in new directions. "Book & Me" by Charise Mericle Harper We debut a new comics series. "Apples to Elephants: Artists in Animation" by Betsy Bird Animation skills can —...
Apples to Elephants: Artists in Animation
Children’s book geekery comes in many forms. My own most recent example came while watching Disney’s The Little Mermaid with my daughter for the first time. After skipping all the scary sea-witch scenes (which incidentally makes for a remarkably short film), we were watching the credit sequence roll when suddenly...
Week in Review, March 30th-April 3rd
This week on hbook.com…The Horn Book Guide Online just passed an amazing milestone: 100,000 reviews! Demo or subscribe to the database here.From the March/April 2015 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: "'This Is Too Much!' Why Verse Novels Work for Reluctant Readers" by Dorie RaybuckPreview the May/June 2015 Horn Book...
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