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Holiday High Notes 2022

Sleigh bells ring. People pleading for some gifts made for reading. They’re new and they’re old and festively told: stories for a winter wonderland.* Here’s our annual list of recommended illustrated holiday books, new or reissued — season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! *with apologies to lyricist Jeremy Stuart...
      

Review of Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story

Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, and Alexis Bunten; illus. by Garry Meeches Sr. Primary    Charlesbridge    32 pp.    g 8/22    978-1-62354-290-0    $16.99 “Many Americans call it a day of thanksgiving. Many of our people call it a day of mourning.” A team of Native creators provides...
      

Review of The Best Gift for Bear

The Best Gift for Bear by Jennifer A. Bell; illus. by the author Preschool    Two Lions/Amazon    40 pp.    g 9/22    978-1-5420-2922-3    $17.99 Hedgehog has been baking cookies for her friends and neighbors, but “Bear should have a grand gift, a special gift, something wonderful…just like Bear.” Nothing...
      

Review of A Very Mercy Christmas

A Very Mercy Christmas [Mercy Watson] by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Chris Van Dusen Primary    Candlewick    32 pp.    g 9/22    978-1-5362-1360-7    $18.99 In this Mercy Watson picture-book spinoff, young Stella Endicott is feeling the Christmas spirit. She asks her neighbors to go caroling, but all the humans are either...
      

Review of Snow Horses: A First Night Story

Snow Horses: A First Night Story by Patricia MacLachlan; illus. by Micha Archer Primary    McElderry    40 pp.    g 11/22    978-1-5344-7355-3    $18.99 e-book ed.  978-1-5344-7356-0    $10.99 On New Year’s Eve, young Jenny drives Percheron horses Tim and Tom from their farm to the market for a bustling celebration (“There is...
      

Review of The Boston Chocolate Party

The Boston Chocolate Party by Tami Lehman-Wilzig and Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz; illus. by Fede Combi Primary    Apples & Honey/Behrman    32 pp.    g 10/22    978-1-68115-576-0    $17.95 Lehman-Wilzig and Prinz set their story during Hanukkah 1773 in the American colonies, centering ­Sephardic New England Jews. Protagonist ­Joshua’s...
      

Review of Latkes and Applesauce: A Hanukkah Story

Latkes and Applesauce: A Hanukkah Story by Fran Manushkin; illus. by Kris Easler Primary    Charlesbridge    32 pp.    g 9/22    978-1-62354-156-9    $17.99 e-book ed.  978-1-63289-937-8    $9.99 It’s Hanukkah, and the Menashe family is stuck at home during a blizzard in this picture-book reissue, with new illustrations and an updated...
      

Review of Through the North Pole Snow

Through the North Pole Snow by Polly Faber; illus. by Richard Jones Primary    Candlewick    32 pp.    g 11/22    978-1-5362-2852-6    $18.99 While searching for food in the snow, a white fox is rescued by a kindly bearded man. Though the man’s identity as Santa Claus isn’t revealed until...
      

Review of Hanukkah Nights

Hanukkah Nights by Amalia Hoffman; illus. by the author Preschool    Kar-Ben    24 pp.    g 10/22    978-1-7284-2883-3    $8.99 e-book ed.  978-1-7284-6921-8    $7.99 “1 light. / Special night. / 2 lights. / Happy nights.” A soothingly simple text guides young listeners through the nights and lights of Hanukkah in this...
      

Review of Hanukkah in Little Havana

Hanukkah in Little Havana by Julie Anna Blank; illus. by Carlos Vélez Aguilera Primary    Kar-Ben    24 pp.    g 10/22    978-1-7284-4284-6    $19.99 Paper ed.  978-1-7284-4285-3    $8.99 e-book ed.  978-1-7284-6918-8    $7.99 A Maryland family spends Hanukkah with their Nonna and Nonno (the Ladino names for grandparents) in Miami’s...
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