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2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards at Cambridge Public Library
Photo: Cynthia K. Ritter. The 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards took place last Thursday, November 6, at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library — and what a time we had! It was only our second time back in person post-COVID-19 (last year was at the beautiful and historic Boston Public Library) and...
Review of Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Middle School, High School Schwartz/Random 368 pp. 4/25 9780593480069 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593480076 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593480083 $11.99 On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple died at...
Presenting the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners
On Monday, June 23, 2025 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2025 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...
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Review of Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster
Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster by Candace FlemingIntermediate, Middle School Focus/Scholastic 160 pp.3/25 9781546110286 $26.99Paper ed. 9781339037936 $8.99e-book ed. 9781546110293 $8.99A prehistoric monster was sighted in Loch Ness! People say they have seen it. Newspapers have reported it. But does it really exist? Fleming involves readers in the...
Review of Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic by Candace Fleming; illus. by Deena So’Oteh Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 10/24 9780593377789 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593377796 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593377802 $11.99 Readers are immediately immersed in the life of a narwhal as the unseen narrator invites them into the narrative: “You are a narwhal—...
Review of The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace FlemingMiddle School, High School Focus/Scholastic 384 pp.3/24 9781338749571 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338749588 $19.99Bletchley Park, a World War II cryptology center, operated in the English countryside where an extensive and complicated code-breaking operation allowed...
Mine!
When I did my initial just-read-the-pictures look through Mine! (see Step 5 of Robin Smith’s advice), I found myself looking at this picture book as if it were a graphic novel. You know those occasional dramatic moments when the multi-panel structure gives way to an illustration that takes up the...
Review of Mine!
Mine! by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric RohmannPreschool Schwartz/Random 40 pp.8/23 9780593181669 $18.99Library ed. 9780593181676 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593181683 $10.99“In a tall, tall tree, / at the tip-tippy top, / hung a single red apple, / just about to drop.” Crisp, bright illustrations with smooth black outlines, created on stained paper...
Review of Penny & Pip
Penny & Pip by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric RohmannPreschool Dlouhy/Atheneum 40 pp.6/23 9781665913317 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665913324 $10.99Rohmann returns to the natural history museum setting of his debut, Time Flies, but this outing is far cozier than that 1995 Caldecott Honor Book. It’s just as fanciful, though. Penny, a brown-skinned...
Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann Talk with Roger
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 Random House Children’s Books It’s a simple enough tale: one apple hanging temptingly from a tree, five hungry animals waiting for the drop. Life- and artistic partners,...
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