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“Gee, it’s good to be / Together again.” Kermit the Frog said it best, and being at this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony was a real reminder. For the first time since before COVID-19 (and only our second time back in person since 2019), every award winner and honoree...
...one of our favorite days of the year! To help you celebrate, here are some recommended books, Horn Book Fanfare 2024 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners 2025 ALA Youth Media Award winners Board Book Roundup: A Golden Age of Board Books by Rachel G. Payne (September/October 2024 Magazine) The...
Five Questions for Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J. McDaniel, illus. by April Harrison; Dial. Go forth and help I’m Gonna Paint: Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People by Anne Broyles, illus. by Victoria Tentler-Krylov; Holiday. Fighting...
The subjects of these six picture-book biographies for primary and intermediate readers made a difference in the world around them through means ranging from political activism to the arts. To learn about another community helper, see our Five Questions interview with Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison about Go Forth...
Photo: Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2023! We know we're late to the party revisiting everything that happened in 2022 — how is it already the end of February?! — but we always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA literature with our annual...
Welcome to the 2022 edition of Fanfare, the Horn Book’s choices of the best books for children and teens published in the last year. This year’s list features more titles than usual (“Not to fifty[one]!” yells editor emeritus Roger Sutton in a Princess Bride voice), and it encompasses a wonderfully eclectic group...
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2022 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2022 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Mac Barnett Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli Talk with Roger Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger A Profile...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2022. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2023 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
Last Saturday the Boston Book Festival was back in-person (yay) for the first time since 2019, and people turned out in droves to enjoy the beautiful weather and a day full of wonderful discussion about books for the young and the young at heart. The Horn Book once again had...
This week on hbook.com... From the March/April 2022 Horn Book Magazine: Field Notes: Teaching Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Dean Schneider On Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Ellen Oh Family Reading: Five Questions for Maxine Beneba Clarke About When We Say Black Lives Matter by...