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Original cover art by Matt James. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2025. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (at the Cambridge Public Library”): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Field Notes: bookstore children’s events manager Hannah Peterson shares “Storytime Smash Hits.” Single copies of...
On Monday, June 23, 2025 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2025 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...
Rock by Laurel Croza; illus. by Matt JamesPrimary Groundwood 44 pp.3/25 9781773069487 $19.99e-book ed. 9781773069500 $16.99The team behind I Know Here (rev. 5/10) and From There to Here (rev. 5/14) presents a story about standing resolute in the face of a bully who seeks to diminish one’s self-worth. A loquacious...
I’m Afraid, Said the Leaf by Danielle Daniel; illus. by Matt JamesPreschool Tundra 64 pp.5/24 9781774880708 $18.99e-book ed. 9781774880715 $10.99A child explores the outdoors on a sunny day, observing living things all around: a tall, verdant tree and animals on land, in the air, and underwater. Author Daniel gives voice...
Tadpoles by Matt James; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.5/23 9780823450053 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455478 $11.99In this childlike, stream-of-consciousness narrative, James’s (Nice Try, Charlie!, rev. 9/20) opening illustration depicts a child exiting a door, on the way to meet his father at his new place. There the two explore a...
Pi Day (3.14) is this Sunday. Last year we recommended Remy Lai's Pie in the Sky (Holt) (and before that Pie Is for Sharing and Pies from Nowhere) and this year we've got another recent book about pie that we bet Jingwen would enjoy: Matt James's Nice Try, Charlie! (Groundwood). Or you can...
Nice Try, Charlie! by Matt James; illus. by the author Primary Groundwood 48 pp. g 9/20 978-1-77306-180-1 $18.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77306-181-8 $16.95 Sporting a full beard, shaggy hair, and a wide-brimmed hat, Charlie roams his neighborhood finding things: an old television, a pair of mismatched oven mitts (and Aunt Myrtle’s...