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Hope Is an Arrow
[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.] Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran by Cory McCarthy; illus. by Ekua Holmes Primary Candlewick 40 pp. g 6/22 ...
Review of Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran
Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran by Cory McCarthy; illus. by Ekua HolmesPrimary Candlewick 40 pp. g6/22 978-1-5362-0032-4 $18.99In this picture-book biography, readers are introduced to artist and poet Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), whose work The Prophet is one of the most widely translated...
Dream Street
Dream Street, the locale for this breathtaking book of the same name, serves as a garden for growing a thriving community, rich relationships, and strong children who know who they are and what kind of difference they want to make in the world. The picture book opens with a warm welcome...
Together again 2021
The Horn Book editors have been together exactly twice since March 2020: at Katie Bircher's beautiful wedding; and last week (masked and vaxxed), when we saw the magnificent special exhibit Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (we just missed her next-day, in-person visit to the...
Review of Dream Street
Dream Street by Tricia Elam Walker; illus. by Ekua Holmes Primary, Intermediate, Middle School Schwartz/Random 32 pp. g 11/21 978-0-525-58110-9 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-525-58111-6 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-58112-3 $10.99 Dream Street: a microcosm of the African Diaspora where relationships matter and dreams thrive. It’s “the best street in the world,”...
Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes 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 Cousins and friends growing up together in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes celebrate community in Dream Street. Roger Sutton: It looks to me like this book...
Review of Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch by Heidi Tyline King; illus. by Ekua Holmes Primary, Intermediate Putnam 40 pp. g 4/21 978-1-101-99629-4 $17.99 American Beach in northeast Florida is now a protected part of the National Park Service, but it began as a private beach...
Review of Black Is a Rainbow Color
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy; illus. by Ekua Holmes Primary Roaring Brook 40 pp. 1/20 978-1-62672-631-4 $17.99 A young girl sits on her stoop contemplating the colors of the rainbow, then notes, “But my color is black…and there’s no black in rainbows.” There is, however, black in...
Publishers' Preview: Picture Books: Five Questions for Angela Joy
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by “Black is a...
2019 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance by Ekua Holmes
Ekua Holmes. Photo courtesy of Ekua Holmes.Congratulations to all of the 2019 awardees on the podium today. Along with you, I am deeply honored to receive this award, on its fiftieth anniversary, given in the name of Coretta Scott King — a woman whom I deeply admire for her work...
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