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Cadenza: Crayon Drawing
(c) 2025 by Shawn Harris. From the September/October 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Single copies of this issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from: Horn Book Magazine Customer Service magazinesupport@mediasourceinc.com Full subscription information is here....
Let's Be Bees
It is a singular rite of passage when a newly minted children’s librarian comes to the sudden (and, in some cases, slightly traumatizing) realization that not all picture books are good read-alouds to groups of small children. I myself recall the dawning horror I felt when I attempted to read...
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Review of The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish by Shawn Harris; illus. by the authorPrimary Knopf 40 pp.3/25 9780593571910 $18.99Library ed. 9780593571927 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593571934 $8.99The teeny-weeny unicorn is back, just as small, just as smudgy, and just as pink as he was in his original appearance in The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn (rev....
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Review of Let’s Be Bees
Let’s Be Bees by Shawn Harris; illus. by the authorPreschool Porter/Holiday 40 pp.2/25 9780823457090 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462278 $11.99Bold, comical crayon illustrations set the tone for a boisterous game of pretend and its noisy cacophony of sounds. “Let’s be bees,” suggests the text on the opening page, while the accompanying illustration...
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Review of The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn by Shawn Harris; illus. by the authorPrimary Knopf 48 pp.2/24 9780593571880 $18.99Library ed. 9780593571897 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593571903 $10.99The title page of this adventure features both a unicorn and a rainbow, but things quickly shift from cutesy to a more absurd and sidelong tone. The unnamed teeny-weeny unicorn...
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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 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...
The 2022 Caldecott Announcement
The winner is Watercress, written by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Jason Chin, edited by Neal Porter, and published by Holiday House. Let's just sit with that cover a minute as we remember the impressive strengths of...
Have You Ever Seen a Flower?
If there were a comic about my first sighting of Shawn Harris’s Have You Ever Seen a Flower?, it would show my eyes as wide as the child’s on the cover, my mouth open far enough to be visible through a mask, and an oversized cumulus-style thought cloud floating above,...
Review of Have You Ever Seen a Flower?
Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Chronicle 48 pp. g 5/21 978-1-4521-8270-4 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4521-8292-6 $11.99 The child in Harris’s pencil illustrations first appears as a bright patch of color within a grayscale cityscape and then emerges into a rainbow...
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