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Holiday High Notes 2023
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but these tales are so delightful. When we’ve candled or decked or treed… let us read! Let us read! Let us read!* Here’s our annual list of recommended new holiday picture books. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! *with apologies to lyricist Sammy...
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Review of What You Need to Be Warm
What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman; illus. by various artistsPrimary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 32 pp.10/23 9780063358089 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063358102 $12.99Gaiman, who serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, used social media to ask people about their memories of being warm, to draw attention to—and...
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Review of The North Wind & the Sun
The North Wind & the Sun by Philip Stead; illus. by the authorPreschool Porter/Holiday 48 pp.10/23 9780823455836 $18.99In this retelling of an Aesop’s fable, three elderly sisters don their patched-up coats—yellow, blue, and red—and head out for a walk. The next two spreads are vertically oriented: readers turn the book...
Review of Stories of the Islands
Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Holiday 176 pp.10/23 9780823449781 $22.99Paper ed. 9780823455737 $14.99e-book ed. 9780823457281 $11.99These graphic-format retellings of three Indonesian folktales steer their female protagonists away from traditional “superficial tropes” and render them as empowered, intelligent characters who determine their own...
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Review of Baby Be
Baby Be by Alison McGhee; illus. by Sean QuallsPreschool Dlouhy/Atheneum 40 pp.10/23 9781534405394 $18.99e-book ed. 9781534405400 $10.99McGhee and Qualls present an exuberant celebration of dads and their babies. A recurring, multiracial cast of father-and-baby pairs enacts the fun, with McGhee’s rhythmic, rhyming text backgrounding the mood: “Give me that tie...
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Review of The Concrete Garden
The Concrete Garden by Bob Graham; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 32 pp.11/23 9781536233803 $18.99“After a cold, hard winter” (and “written in the time of Covid,” per the dedication page), Graham tells and shows a story of children making a world with art. The setting initially appears unpromising: a brutalist,...
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Review of The Three Little Mittens
The Three Little Mittens by Linda Bailey; illus. by Natalia ShaloshviliPrimary Tundra 32 pp.10/23 9781774880111 $17.99e-book ed. 9781774880128 $10.99Dotty and Other Dotty are a perfect match. The pair of yellow-spotted, pink, woolly mittens flaunt their partnership in front of lonesome single mitten Stripes. Drab and gray in both affect and...
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Review of Lonely Bird
Lonely Bird by Ruth Whiting; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.10/23 9781536226188 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536234466 $18.99Stories of tiny beings navigating their large surroundings have long populated children’s literature. Here, a simple sketch of a bird on a scrap of white paper explores an all-too-big world in the home of...
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Review of I’m Not Sleepy! / ¡No tengo sueño!
I’m Not Sleepy! / ¡No tengo sueño! by Angela Dominguez; illus. by the authorPreschool Holt 32 pp.11/23 9781250874993 $18.99The dinosaur-and-bird duo from I’m Hungry! / ¡Tengo hambre! (rev. 3/22) and Dominguez’s other cleverly told stories for preschoolers using English and Spanish is wrestling with a classic bedtime conundrum. While Birdie...
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