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Field Notes: Storytime Smash Hits
Peterson, left, and Aly Plasterer, Parnassus Books' children's bookseller and floor manager, host weekly storytimes. Photo courtesy of Hannah Peterson. As a bookstore children’s events manager and weekly storytime reader, I know firsthand that different books serve different purposes. A slow, peaceful story is perfect for bedtime. A heartwarming tale...
Editorial: Together Again (January/February 2026)
“Gee, it’s good to be / Together again.” Kermit the Frog said it best, and being at this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony was a real reminder. For the first time since before COVID-19 (and only our second time back in person since 2019), every award winner and honoree...
Table of Contents: January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine
Cover © 2026 by Matt James. Features Horn Book Fanfare by Horn Book editors Our choices for the best books of 2025. Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards BGHB Awards Gallery 2025 Celebrating the winners and honorees. Picture Book Fiction Nonfiction Columns Editorial Together Again by Elissa Gershowitz “Gee, it’s...
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Review of Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume
Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume by Selina Alko; illus. by the authorPrimary Ottaviano/Little, Brown 48 pp.2/26 9780316570633 $18.99A collection of poems introduces author Judy Blume (b. 1938) to readers who may not yet have encountered much of her work. The poems focus mainly...
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Review of The Dream Builder’s Blueprint: Dr. King’s Message to Young People
The Dream Builder’s Blueprint: Dr. King’s Message to Young People by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by E. B. LewisPrimary Calkins/Astra 32 pp.1/26 9781662680311 $19.99As an opening note explains, this book’s text is drawn from one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last public speeches, which he delivered in 1967 to...
Review of Melodies of the Weary Blues: Classic Poems Illustrated for Young People
Melodies of the Weary Blues: Classic Poems Illustrated for Young People by Langston Hughes; compiled by Shamar Knight-Justice; illus. by various artists Primary, Intermediate Harper/HarperCollins 48 pp.1/26 9780063327054 $19.99A twenty-three-artist ensemble interprets poems from Hughes’s poetry collection The Weary Blues in an illustrated volume that emphasizes the poems’ musical motifs....
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Review of The Big Bad Wolf Murder
The Big Bad Wolf Murder by P. G. BellIntermediate, Middle School Feiwel 224 pp.1/26 9781250864864 $17.99In a world where talking wolves live alongside humans, twelve-year-old Ruby is a rising star player of the sport Tooth & Claw, in which teams of human girls attempt to escape from a wolf opponent...
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Review of The Secret Astronomers
The Secret Astronomers by Jessica Walker; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School Viking 304 pp.11/25 9780593692677 $19.99This inventive epistolary novel is presented as a series of notes taped or stuck into an old astronomy textbook in a Green Bank, West Virginia, high school library. At first the notes are...
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Review of Wrong Friend
Wrong Friend by Charise Mericle Harper; illus. by Rory LuceyIntermediate, Middle School First Second 256 pp.1/26 9781250851963 $22.99Charise and Casey, best friends and neighbors, are two years apart. The age difference has never felt significant, but then Casey starts high school and shuts Charise out—suddenly and completely. There’s no explanation...
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Review of Better the Devil
Better the Devil by Erik J. BrownHigh School Storytide/HarperCollins 400 pp.1/26 9780063338326 $19.99What begins as a queer identity–focused young adult novel quickly turns into a dark mystery. The teen protagonist has fled his West Virginia home because his parents intend to send him to conversion therapy. After living on the...
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