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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 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 FlemingMiddle School, High School    Schwartz/Random    368 pp.4/25    9780593480069    $19.99Library ed.  9780593480076    $22.99e-book ed.  9780593480083    $11.99On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple died at Jonestown in Guyana. Though 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

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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,...
      

Review of Polar Bear

Polar Bear by Candace Fleming; illus. by Eric Rohmann Primary    Porter/Holiday    32 pp.    g 11/22    978-0-8234-4916-3    $18.99 e-book ed.  978-0-8234-5435-8    $11.99 Showcasing another fascinating animal (Giant Squid, rev. 9/16; Honeybee, rev. 3/20), and with their usual dynamism and immediacy, Fleming and ­Rohmann turn their attention to polar...
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