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Thank you, Mac Barnett
I read Mac Barnett’s remarks when he was named the 2025–2026 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. “I started writing books for children because I love reading picture books out loud to kids,” he told his audience. Oh, Mac. May I call you Mac? We seem to be on the...
An Important Job: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
I started writing books for children because I love reading picture books out loud to kids. But I started loving reading because my mom read picture books out loud to me. My mom and dad divorced when I was one, and she took being a single mom very seriously. She...
Review of Santa’s First Christmas
Santa’s First Christmas by Mac Barnett; illus. by Sydney SmithPrimary Viking 40 pp.10/24 9780593524978 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593524985 $10.99“Santa doesn’t do anything special” for Christmas?! The elves are embarrassed not to have thought about it before: after a night of delivering toys, Santa just sleeps in an extra half hour and...
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Review of The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom
The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom by Mac Barnett; illus. by Shawn HarrisPrimary, Intermediate Tegen/HarperCollins 272 pp.10/23 9780063084117 $16.99e-book ed. 9780063084131 $11.99Following The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza (rev. 7/22) is an elaborate and emotionally sincere graphic novel that fortunately retains much of the oddball...
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Review of How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon KlassenPreschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp.9/23 9781536223767 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536234442 $18.99Barnett and Klassen (The Three Billy Goats Gruff, rev. 1/23, and others) reunite to address the title’s age-old Christmas question. Barnett’s text expertly speculates as a child might,...
Review of The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon Klassen Preschool, Primary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. 10/22 9781338673845 $18.99 Frequent collaborators Barnett and Klassen serve up a delectable rendition of the oft-retold folktale. The bare-bones narrative “clip clops” along with abundant humor and plenty of verbal delights, repetition,...
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Review of Twenty Questions
Twenty Questions by Mac Barnett; illus. by Christian RobinsonPreschool Candlewick 40 pp.3/23 9781536215137 $17.99This conversation-starting picture book presents a series of questions and invites children to supply the answers. The first spread asks viewers to count the number of animals pictured, with Robinson depicting a creature-filled tree and a bear...
Liza Baker Talks with Roger (Video Edition)
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 by For this special video edition of Talks with Roger, I’m joined by Elissa Gershowitz, the newly named editor in chief of the Horn Book, Inc. (yay!), and Liza Baker,...
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Review of The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett; illus. by Shawn HarrisPrimary, Intermediate Tegen/HarperCollins 320 pp. g5/22 978-0-06-308408-7 $15.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-308410-0 $10.99What began as an online storytelling experiment between Barnett and Harris during COVID-19 has been adapted into a graphic novel. This wacky space opera follows a...
Review of The Great Zapfino
The Great Zapfino by Mac Barnett; illus. by Marla FrazeePreschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp. g4/22 978-1-5344-1154-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-1155-5 $10.99The stage is set, the circus curtains part, and out walks the short, bald, and unassuming Great Zapfino, who will leap from death-defying heights onto a tiny trampoline. Barnett plays...
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