In commemoration of Black History Month, we'll be featuring articles, speeches, interviews, and reviews from The Horn Book's past year that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field — one a weekday through the month of February. Monday's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement saw...
Winner Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado High School Sourcebooks Fire 352 pp. g 5/22 978-1-7282-4600-0 $18.99 In this horror novel grounded in a real-world setting, sixteen-year-old Raquel’s life is upended when her friend disappears — part of a pattern of unexplained disappearances — and her mother is...
Winner I Did It! [I Like to Read: Comics] by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. g 9/22 978-0-8234-4651-3 $14.99 A red-nosed creature wearing a green-and-purple-striped onesie attempts a series of activities: building a tall block tower, climbing a rope and a tree, catching a...
Winner Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Frank Morrison Primary, Intermediate Crown 32 pp. g 9/22 978-0-593-30634-5 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-30635-2 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-30636-9 $10.99 This is a moving walk through African...
Winner Hot Dog by Doug Salati; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Knopf 40 pp. g 5/22 978-0-593-30843-1 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-30844-8 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-30845-5 $10.99 It’s a hot time in the city. A small, low-slung pup greets the morning from the window of a narrow NYC brownstone. But...
Every year we set off at Calling Caldecott with a determination to cover Absolutely Everything, and every year we don't quite make it — a testament, I think, to how many great books there are. (Which also prompts me to remind everyone of the gargantuan task the Real Committee must accomplish!...
[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.] H Is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson; illus. by April Harrison Primary Ottaviano/Little, Brown 48 pp. g 7/22 978-0-316-32237-9 $18.99 This engaging and beautiful alphabet book features and celebrates...
[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 ...
[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.] Berry Song by Michaela Goade; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. g 7/22 978-0-316-49417-5 $18.99 In Goade’s (Caldecott Medalist for We Are Water...
[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.] The World Belonged to Us by Jacqueline Woodson; illus. by Leo Espinosa Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g 5/22 978-0-399-54549-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-399-54550-4 $10.99 Spanish ed. ...