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Table of Contents: January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine

Cover © 2026 by Matt James.   Features Horn Book Fanfare by Horn Book editors Our choices for the best books of 2025. Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards BGHB Awards Gallery 2025 Celebrating the winners and honorees. Picture Book Fiction Nonfiction   Columns Editorial Together Again by Elissa Gershowitz “Gee, it’s...
      

Preview January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine

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...
      

Presenting the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners

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...
      
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Review of Rock

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...
      
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Review of I’m Afraid, Said the Leaf

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...
      
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Review of Tadpoles

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 2021

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...
      

Review of Nice Try, Charlie!

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...
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