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Three days more...
Three more dawns / Three more days / Three days more! (You’re welcome for the Les Mis earworm). We hope the Caldecott committee members get to Chicago before the bitterly cold temps and monster snowstorm hit. If you can’t be bundled up at home, maybe hunkered down in a hotel to vote on the most distinguished picture book of 2025 isn’t such a bad gig? (Whatever you’re doing this weekend, if you’re affected by the extreme weather,...
Tasty traditions
Pass the soy sauce or the tea saucer…and try a taste of these six picture books about food traditions passed from one generation to another. For a timely early reader where food similarly figures in to love of one’s heritage, check out Ling & Ting's Lunar New Year: Two Times Lucky...
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Review of Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams
Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams by Eric Darnell Pritchard; illus. by Shannon WrightPrimary Abrams 48 pp.1/26 9781419768866 $19.99As a young child growing up in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the 1950s and ’60s, Patrick Kelly (1954–1990) was fascinated by clothing and fashion. Money was tight and clothes...
Week in Review, December 1st-5th
This week on hbook.com... From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Won't You Miss the Polar Bears? by Martha Meyer From the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: Preview Calling Caldecott: Song of a Blackbird by Stephanie Ford Our Lake by Julie Hakim Azzam Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture...
Our Lake
Angie Kang’s Our Lake is a quiet, luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the enduring presence of love. When I read Our Lake, I was unexpectedly transported back to the loss of my own father, to summers on a lake in upstate New York; a grief I thought I had made...
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Review of A Knot Is Not a Tangle
A Knot Is Not a Tangle by Daniel Nayeri; illus. by Vesper StamperPrimary Knopf 48 pp.11/25 9780593809693 $18.99Library ed. 9780593809709 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593809716 $6.99A boy in Isfahan, Iran, learns how to design and make a rug with his grandmother. The new rug will replace the old frayed one in the...
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Review of Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites
Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace; illus. by Nancy CarpenterPrimary, Intermediate Wiseman/Simon 48 pp.10/25 9781534493339 $19.99e-book ed. 9781534493346 $10.99Much of what scientists know about the solar system originated in the work of geologist Ursula Marvin (1921–2018), “rock star of the universe” and...
2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards at Cambridge Public Library
Photo: Cynthia K. Ritter. The 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards took place last Thursday, November 6, at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library — and what a time we had! It was only our second time back in person post-COVID-19 (last year was at the beautiful and historic Boston Public Library) and...
Call for first-round nominations!
Kitty and I are stunned to find ourselves here in November already! It’s time for our first-round nominations. The real Caldecott committee is beginning their nomination process, which you can learn more about in this excellent post that Julie Hakim Azzam wrote a couple years back. Here on Calling Caldecott, we’ll be doing nominations in two rounds, asking you...
Review of The Sleeper Train
The Sleeper Train by Mick Jackson; illus. by Baljinder Kaur Primary Candlewick 32 pp. 7/25 9781536238983 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536249378 $18.99 A child and parents board a train. At night, they pull down bunks to sleep, but the child, wide awake, reflects on “all the different places I have slept”:...
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