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Field Notes: Camp Read-a-Rama: Learning to “Live Books”

Leader: Hey Nick.Nick: Yeah!L: Hey Nick.N: Yeah!L: Can you Gruff?N: Gruff-a-what?L: Can you Gruff?N: Gruff-a-lo.N: My hands are high, my feet are low, and this is how I Gruffalo. [Nick dances]All: His hands are high, his feet are low, and this is how he Gruffalos! [Everyone mimics Nick’s dance]All: Gruff-a-lo,...
      

Review of I Got It!

I Got It!by David Wiesner; illus. by the authorPrimary    Clarion    32 pp.    g4/18    978-0-544-30902-9    $17.99A boy stands watching a group of kids milling around a baseball diamond. He approaches the group and is (wordlessly) directed to the outfield. The game begins; the first batter smacks the ball. “I got it!”...
      

From The Guide: New for New Readers

As the Horn Book editors discuss in this issue, we’re experiencing an “Easy Reader Renaissance,” with publishers exploring all the possibilities of these mainstays of children’s literature. The recommended examples below offer a glimpse at the wide variety of easy readers that are available for the equally wide variety of...
      

Review of This Is Our Constitution: Discover America with 
a Gold Star Father

This Is Our Constitution: Discover America with 
a Gold Star Fatherby Khizr Khan with Anne QuirkIntermediate, Middle School    Knopf    216 pp.10/17    978-1-5247-7091-4    $16.99Library ed.  978-1-5247-7092-1    $19.99e-book ed.  978-1-5247-7093-8    $10.99This clearly written, straightforward study of the U.S. Constitution, written by Pakistan-born Khan (who spoke passionately at the 2016 Democratic National Convention...
      

Review of The Prince and the Dressmaker

The Prince and the Dressmakerby Jen Wang; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School    First Second/Roaring Brook    282 pp.2/18    978-1-250-15985-4    $24.99Paper ed.  978-1-62672-363-4    $16.99With a setting and palette reminiscent of Disney’s Cinderella and a setup involving a royal ball, this graphic novel has all the trappings of a rags-to-riches romance....
      

Review of People Don’t Bite People

People Don’t Bite Peopleby Lisa Wheeler; illus. by Molly IdlePreschool    Atheneum    40 pp.4/18    978-1-4814-9082-5    $17.99e-book ed.  978-1-4814-9083-2    $10.99In subversively lilting rhymed verse, Wheeler enumerates the reasons “people don’t bite people” and suggests alternatives: “It’s good to bite a biscuit. / It’s good to bite a plum. / It’s BAD to...
      

Spring 2018 Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for Brian Lies

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2018 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews, 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 byWe think that The Rough Patch is...
      

Spring 2018 Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2018 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews, 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 byIn Mass and Stead’s middle-grade 
collaboration Bob,...
      

Spring 2018 Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for J. S. Puller

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2018 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews, 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 byIn Captain Superlative, the arrival of the...
      

Spring 2018 Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for Sara Saedi

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2018 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews, 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 byIn Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card,...
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