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Week in Review, December 8th-12th
This week on hbook.com... December Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Fanfare Edition, featuring annotations of all forty-nine entries on 2025's list Calling Caldecott: Broken by Dean Schneider Call for second round nominations by Kitty Flynn Out of the Box: Fanfare 2025 Booklist Fanfare 2025 extras Reviews of...
Review of To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here
To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here by Antoinette Portis; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 56 pp. 10/25 9780823459858 $18.99 The opening spread of this meta intergalactic romp should entice viewers: a small orange square with a smaller black circle at its center sits in the middle of a...
Books mentioned in the November 2025 Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz; Candlewick. Our world meets fantasy The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan; Knopf. Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol; Roaring Brook. Severe and Unusual Weather by Jessie Ann Foley; Quill Tree/HarperCollins. Into the Wild...
Space adventures
In this Notes section, we travel to space — or things from space travel to us. Here are five picture books featuring space aliens, space portals, or imaginative space travelers. For more, see the Space tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. RO-BO by Mariana Ruiz Johnson; illus. by the author; trans....
Honkin' plunger!
Years ago, I read Another Brother to my grandchildren for the first time. Matthew Cordell’s story about Davy, the oldest of thirteen brothers, amused us in part because Davy and his family are sheep. Each of the twelve younger lambs copies everything Davy does, from eating Toot Loops for breakfast...
September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews
Illustration from The Moon Moved in by Sue Soltis; illus. by Sonia Sánchez. The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Sato the Rabbit: Morning Light by Yuki Ainoya; trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky (Enchanted Lion) Together, United by Tami Charles; illus. by Bryan...
2022: The Year in Words and Pictures
This year’s ALA Youth Media Award winners represent a range of experiences, expertise, interests, and topics. There are previous, beloved winners and there are newcomers to the stage — notably Doug Salati for the Caldecott Medal and Amina Luqman-Dawson for both the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Author awards. Three...
Reviews of the 2023 Sibert Award Winners
Winner Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Lauren Tamaki Intermediate, Middle School Chronicle 132 pp. g 10/22 978-1-4521-6510-3 $21.99 Numerous books have been written about the forced removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans...
Reviews of the 2023 Geisel Award Winners
Winner I Did It! [I Like to Read: Comics] by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. g 9/22 978-0-8234-4651-3 $14.99 A red-nosed creature wearing a green-and-purple-striped onesie attempts a series of activities: building a tall block tower, climbing a rope and a tree, catching a...
Why the Hell Haven't More Beginning Readers Won the Caldecott Medal?
Today on Calling Caldecott, a conversation between Patrick Gall and Jonathan Hunt about early readers and the Caldecott Award. (This is an entry in the Why-the-Hell Calling Caldecott conversations, conducted in previous years between Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt. Earlier posts include discussions about the Caldecott and photography; board books; the Newbery Award; "didactic intent"; and holiday...
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