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The 2024 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize
It’s hard to believe that this is the seventh annual Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. It seems as if it’s been only a few months since my wife Robin died of cancer at age fifty-seven. I am so appreciative of The Horn Book Magazine and its Calling Caldecott blog, which...
Evergreen
This is the book I’ve been giving away this year to everyone with young children. I was on the Caldecott committee that chose Matthew Cordell’s Wolf in the Snow as its medal winner, and I see Evergreen as a very different but equally masterful picture book. It seems as if...
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Review of Leeva at Last
Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Matthew CordellIntermediate Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 320 pp.3/23 9780063114425 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063114449 $11.99Lonely, neglected Leeva Thornblossom’s greedy parents believe her job is to make them rich and famous. Since this hasn’t happened yet, they require Leeva to follow her Employee Manual and perform...
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Review of Evergreen
Evergreen by Matthew Cordell; illus. by the authorPrimary Feiwel 48 pp.2/23 9781250317179 $18.99Young squirrel Evergreen is afraid of just about everything. When Mama asks her to deliver soup to Granny Oak, Evergreen sets off through the woods with trepidation. Her journey is full of unexpected incidents: she extricates a rabbit...
Every Dog in the Neighborhood
[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.] Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Matthew Cordell Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 6/22 978-0-8234-4427-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5298-9 $11.99 Louis...
Review of Every Dog in the Neighborhood
Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Matthew CordellPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g6/22 978-0-8234-4427-4 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5298-9 $11.99Louis tells his grandma that he wants a dog. When she replies that there are already enough dogs in the neighborhood, Louis goes door to door to get a...
Review of Cornbread & Poppy AND Cornbread & Poppy at the Carnival
Cornbread & Poppy by Matthew Cordell; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 80 pp. g 1/22 978-0-759-55487-0 $15.99 Paper ed. 978-0-759-55486-3 $6.99 e-book ed. 978-0-759-55484-9 $9.99 Cornbread & Poppy at the Carnival by Matthew Cordell; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 80 pp. g 6/22 978-0-759-55489-4 $15.99 Paper...
Review of What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum
What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum by Candace Fleming; illus. by Matthew Cordell Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4263-8 $18.99 Just across the street from the Horn Book office sits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, whose story is at least as interesting as its idiosyncratic...
Bear Island
When I was on the 2018 Caldecott committee, we chose Matthew Cordell’s Wolf in the Snow. In preparing for our deliberations, we read and re-read the book. Sounds funny to say that, when there are hardly any words in it, and the ones that are there are sound effects: “bark! bark! bark!” and...
Review of Bear Island
Bear Island by Matthew Cordell; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Feiwel 48 pp. g 1/21 978-1-250-31716-2 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-82193-5 $10.99 As in his Caldecott Medal–winning Wolf in the Snow (rev. 11/16), Cordell begins his story before the title page, a series of wordless images telling of loss and...
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