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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...
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Review of When I Move
When I Move by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Alea MarleyPreschool, Primary Union Square 40 pp.4/25 9781454945543 $18.99This 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 page-turns at the...
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...
Review of Meena's Saturday
Meena’s Saturday by Kusum Mepani; illus. by Yasmeen Ismail Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 10/24 9780593110317 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593110324 $10.99 This captivating ode to weekly gatherings of friends and extended family brims with affection for foods, activities, and traditions shared by a loving, large group crowded together in the narrator’s...
Countdown to Caldecott: Celebrating Conversations and Community
We’re all excited about Monday's Caldecott and other Youth Media Awards announcements! The YMA presentation will be livestreamed from Phoenix starting at 8 a.m. MT (10 a.m. EST). The Caldecott announcement will come toward the end; here’s a link to the video stream. What a weekend the Committee members have before them...
Week in Review, January 6th-10th
This week on hbook.com... From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Table of Contents Editorial: Somewhat Unusual by Elissa Gershowitz Calling Cadecott: Noodles on a Bicycle by Megan Dowd Lambert They Call Me Teach by Cathryn M. Mercier Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Pigs Dig a...
Noodles on a Bicycle
A tall portrait layout might have been the natural choice for Noodles on a Bicycle, with its depictions of bicycling demae (deliverymen) who balance gravity-defying towers of trays and bowls of soba noodles as they move through the streets of Tokyo. Instead, Zhang opted for a square trim, which infuses her illustrations...
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Review of Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right
Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right by Mo Willems; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary Union Square 40 pp.12/24 9781454951483 $18.99With each spread decorated as a simple stage, photo collages of two goggle-eyed, bespectacled hands-as-puppets enter on verso and recto. The one on the left is clad with a cuff...
Week in Review, December 9th-13th
This week on hbook.com... December Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Fanfare Edition, featuring annotations of all fifty-three books on 2024's list Rosanne Parry Talks with Roger about A Wolf Called Fire From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Tomorrow by Nikki Giovanni Calling Caldecott: Golden Gate...
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