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,...
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...
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...
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...
Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell by Candace Fleming Intermediate, Middle School Focus/Scholastic 288 pp. g 10/22 978-1-338-82946-4 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-82948-8 $12.99 Fleming deftly explores the enigmatic history of UFOs, extraterrestrials, and conspiracy theories related to the infamous events during the...
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace FlemingHigh School Schwartz/Random 368 pp. g3/22 978-0-593-17742-6 $19.99Library ed. 978-0-593-17743-3 $22.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-17744-0 $11.99“Nineteen-year-old Nathan Leopold would kill a child today.” The kidnapping, ransom, and murder plot had been in the works for months, but...
The Tide Pool Waits by Candace Fleming; illus. by Amy HevronPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g4/22 978-0-8234-4915-6 $18.99This informative and appealing nonfiction picture book gives young readers a detailed look at the tide-pool ecology of the Pacific Coast, the “astonishing world” of creatures that wait in seawater collected among rocks on...
What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum by Candace Fleming; illus. by Matthew Cordell Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4263-8 $18.99 Just across the street from the Horn Book office sits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, whose story is at least as interesting as its idiosyncratic...
Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo’s First Woman Zookeeper by Candace Fleming; illus. by Julie Downing Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. g 8/20 978-0-8234-4318-5 $18.99 “Helen and Fred Martini longed for a baby,” begins this engaging picture-book biography. Fred spends his days working at the...
Dear friends: Oh, NO, did I just engage on Twitter? I thought I had learned my lesson. Nonfiction, though. The Horn Book editors had a rousing discussion of its protean nature in the May/June “Breaking the Rules” Special Issue of The Horn Book Magazine, but enough about them: I’m discovering...