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Week in Review, October 13th-17th
This week on hbook.com... October Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Julie Berry about If Looks Could Kill + 4 mythical and magical YA novels, 7 good sports novels, and 6 nonfiction picture books about Mother Nature and human nature Calling Caldecott: How Elegant the Elephant...
Where Mother Nature and human nature meet
In these six nonfiction books, primary and/or intermediate readers can experience how people interact with, benefit from, study, and protect themselves from natural phenomena. For lots more, see the Science tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet by Martha Brockenbrough; illus. by...
How Elegant the Elephant
For years I’ve harbored a not-so-secret wish that Marla Frazee would illustrate a Mother Goose collection. With her Caldecott-worthy interpretation of Mary Ann Hoberman’s How Elegant the Elephant: Poems about Animals and Insects, she has delivered the next best thing. Through vivid visual characterization of a range of anthropomorphic creatures,...
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Review of Fish Don’t Go to School
Fish Don’t Go to School by Deb Pilutti; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Ottaviano/Little, Brown 40 pp.7/25 9780316565271 $18.99Henry loves wearing a fish costume that matches his pet goldfish, Marigold, and plans to wear it when he starts school—a milestone about which he is anxious. His parents try to reason...
Learning from each other
A new school year can mean new friendships…and it can also mean new worries. Here are eight picture books with social-emotional learning themes that new and returning learners may find helpful or reassuring when starting school (or at any other time). For more on first days of school everywhere, see...
Review of When I Move
When I Move by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Alea Marley Preschool, Primary Union Square 40 pp. 4/25 9781454945543 $18.99 This is a picture book tailor-made for storytime: Weatherford’s succinct first-person text makes great use of repetition, as well as end rhymes that beg for children’s voices to complete. Well-paced...
Review of Wonder Why
Wonder Why by Lisa Varchol Perron; illus. by Nik Henderson Primary Harper/HarperCollins 32 pp. 4/25 9780063310421 $19.99 Perron’s accessible STEM-friendly text about meteorological phenomena grounds itself in that quintessential question of childhood: “Why?” On alternating spreads, rhymed verses in a singsong cadence pose questions to the sky, wind, clouds, thunder,...
Father's Day 2025
Permit me a moment to give a shout-out to my amazing husband (happy anniversary to us next week!). Though he is generally spotlight-averse, this will nevertheless be a very special weekend for him: not only is he turning 45 on Saturday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!), he'll also be celebrating Father's Day on...
Mother's Day 2025
Not breaking news, but motherhood is hard (fatherhood, too; check back next month). Of course it's also all the good stuff — rewarding, gratifying, exhilarating, heartwarming — but easy it is not; and, to borrow from The Princess Bride, "anyone* who says differently is selling something." Mother's Day is this Sunday, May...
Review of Toto
Toto by Hyewon Yum; illus. by the author Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 1/25 9780823453894 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823462322 $11.99 “Toto” isn’t the young protagonist’s name but rather what she calls the large birthmark on her forehead. Opening lines read, “Sometimes I wonder how I would look without Toto.” Despite loving...
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