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Week in Review, December 23rd-27th
This week on hbook.com... From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Hope Larson | Frank Weber Calling Cadecott: Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube by Kitty Flynn Out of the Box: Horn Book trivia Horn Book Guide: Horn Book...
Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube
In his post about Call Me Roberto!, Brian E. Wilson noted that picture-book biographies aren’t often among the Caldecott winners and honorees. The criteria states that a picture book needs to have “a collective unity of story-line, theme or concept, developed through the series of pictures of which the book...
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Review of Molly, Olive, and Dexter: You Can’t Catch Me!
Molly, Olive, and Dexter: You Can’t Catch Me! by Catherine Rayner; illus. by the authorPreschool Candlewick 32 pp.1/25 9781536235586 $17.99The three animal friends who live in an oak tree “at the edge of the meadow” are back for more lighthearted frolicking (Molly, Olive, and Dexter: The Guessing Game, rev. 7/24)....
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Review of An Anishinaabe Christmas
An Anishinaabe Christmas by Wab Kinew; illus. by Erin HillPreschool, Primary Tundra 48 pp.10/24 9781774883570 $18.99e-book ed. 9781774883587 $10.99During the car ride to celebrate Christmas on the Rez, Baby asks questions that Mommy and Daddy patiently answer, sharing Anishinaabe customs and beliefs. Once they arrive, Baby tells their grandparents, Kookum...
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Review of Lemming’s First Christmas
Lemming’s First Christmas by Jamesie Fournier; illus. by Tim MackPreschool Inhabit Media 32 pp.10/24 9781772275438 $12.95Avinngaq the lemming is excited to learn about Christmas and presents under the tree, but…“what is a tree?” There aren’t any in the Arctic (as a prefacing note states), so Avinngaq enlists her animal friends’...
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Review of Merry Christmas, Dear Mars
Merry Christmas, Dear Mars by Penny Parker Klostermann; illus. by Estrela LourençoPrimary Godwin/Holt 32 pp.9/24 9781250870308 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250399557 $11.99Santa’s sleigh crash lands on Mars, and technicians from the Outer Space Rescue Division are called in to diagnose the problem: “Malfunctions are due to our cosmic conditions!” Working together, Santa...
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Review of We Celebrate the Light
We Celebrate the Light by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple; illus. by Jieting ChenPreschool, Primary Rise/Penguin Workshop 32 pp.10/24 9780593752296 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593887493 $11.99A thoughtful main text reflects in general on commonalities among late fall/winter holidays: e.g., gathering with loved ones, decorating, sharing food—“When we honor traditions, /...
Review of Santa’s First Christmas
Santa’s First Christmas by Mac Barnett; illus. by Sydney SmithPrimary Viking 40 pp.10/24 9780593524978 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593524985 $10.99“Santa doesn’t do anything special” for Christmas?! The elves are embarrassed not to have thought about it before: after a night of delivering toys, Santa just sleeps in an extra half hour and...
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Review of Letters to Never Send Santa: Confessions, Complaints, and Outlandish Requests from the Files of St. Nick
Letters to Never Send Santa: Confessions, Complaints, and Outlandish Requests from the Files of St. Nick by David Griswold; illus. by Luis San Vicente Primary Moonshower/Bushel & Peck 64 pp. 9/24 9781638192046 $18.99 Santa has “gathered the strangest and worst” letters he’s received. More than twenty letters in verse beg,...
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Review of Mad at Dad
Mad at Dad by Janie Hao; illus. by the authorPreschool Kids Can 32 pp.10/24 9781525310263 $19.99e-book ed. 9781525310737 $13.99“Sometimes my dad makes me…” begins this expressive narrator; open the two gatefold pages to finish the overwhelming thought: “SOOO MAD!” A standoff at the dinner table (over vegetables) has the defiant...
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