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Five questions for Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds’s sensitive, funny YA novel Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story (Dlouhy/Atheneum, 14–18 years) begins just before Neon and Aria’s “first time” — and then tells the story backward, giving perspective on how their relationship has led up to that moment. For more novels featuring all kinds of...
Review of Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason ReynoldsHigh School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp.10/24 9781665961271 $19.99e-book ed. 9781665961295 $10.99Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he was rushing to the bathroom...
Review of There Was a Party for Langston
There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett PumphreyPrimary Dlouhy/Atheneum 56 pp.10/23 9781534439443 $18.99e-book ed 9781534439450 $10.99An intriguing photograph of writers Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka dancing at a party at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...
There Was a Party for Langston
Readers are beholden to the many writers and illustrators who continue to play catch-up with United States history, filling in huge gaps with books such as That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Nikkolas Smith, or Olaudah Equiano's story of his life as a slave, as told in Nearer My Freedom by Monica...
Review of Stuntboy, In-Between Time
Stuntboy, In-Between Time by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Raúl the Third Intermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 272 pp. 8/23 9781534418226 $14.99 e-book ed. 9781534418240 $9.99 Set one week after its predecessor (Stuntboy, in the Meantime, rev. 1/22), this illustrated novel follows Portico Reeves through one very eventful day as the self-appointed...
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2023: Five Questions for Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey, and Jarrett Pumphrey
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2023 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2023, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by When the Schomburg Center for...
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Review of Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Zeke Peña Middle School, High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 320 pp. 5/23 9781665918466 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665918480 $10.99 In the previous installment (Miles Morales, rev. 9/17), sixteen-year-old Miles (“Boricua and Black and Brooklyn as hell”) was bitten by a radioactive spider,...
Ain't Burned All the Bright: Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin's 2022 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech
Jason Reynolds. (Photo courtesy of Jason Reynolds.) REYNOLDS: First, I just want to take a moment to thank the Horn Book, not only as the bestower of this award but also as a relentless and consistent space exploring and celebrating children’s literature. I’m not sure that enough light is given...
Some (former) Real Committee Members Talk Books!
A quick note before we jump in: as I'm always saying, one of the aims of Calling Caldecott is to model book discussion about picture books — the kind of specific, granular, almost microscopic discussion that would occur on an actual Caldecott committee. So I'm very excited about today's post: a conversation among...
Preview January/February 2023 Horn Book Magazine
Original cover art by Jason Griffin. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2022. Coverage of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards virtual celebration: judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. New for New Readers: a roundup of beginning-reader comics by Adrienne L. Pettinelli. Single copies of this special issue...
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