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Women's History Month 2024, Week 1

March is Women's History Month. To celebrate the accomplishments of women and female-identifying people, we will be highlighting recent articles and recommended books "devoted to the achievements of a diverse ­gallery of women, heroes every one." Look for the social media tag #HBWomensHistoryMonth on Facebook.com/TheHornBook and @HornBook on Twitter as...
      

Week in Review, February 19th-23rd

  This week on hbook.com... February Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Dean Robbins and Susanna Chapman about The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith! + 8 picture-book biographies about women in the arts, 4 historical novels spanning centuries, and 6 empowering YA tales   From...
      

Five questions for Dean Robbins and Susanna Chapman

The picture-book biography The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith! (Candlewick, 6–9 years) introduces young readers to a passionate musician whose long career also included influential advocacy for women in music. For books that sing a similar tune, see the “Express yourself” section of this issue of Notes...
      

Books mentioned in the February 2024 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

Five questions for Dean Robbins and Susanna Chapman The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith! by Dean Robbins, illus. by Susanna Chapman; Candlewick. Express yourself Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden, illus. by R. Gregory Christie; Harper/HarperCollins. Song After Song:...
      

From the Editor - February 2024

Our second “Cover to Cover” event with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has just been announced! “Reimagining Familiar Stories with Different Faces” features March/April Horn Book cover artist Kristen Joy Emack discussing her photo-essay centering a diverse group of teens in fairy tales. The talk — virtual...
      

Empowering tales

Oppressive patriarchal systems are to everyone’s detriment. The protagonists of these six novels for middle- and high-school readers do what they can to take back their power. See also our Women’s History Month tag and Women’s History Month 2024 coverage. Plan A by Deb Caletti High School    Labyrinth Road/Random    416...
      

Across so many years

These four historical novels for intermediate and middle-school readers bring to life the journeys of female protagonists from a wide range of points in history. See also “Learning from history” from the January 2023 Notes issue and “Living through history” from the July 2022 issue, plus our Women’s History Month...
      

Express yourself

In honor of Women’s History Month, coming up in March, here are eight picture-book biographies about women in the arts. See also our Five Questions interview with Dean Robbins and Susanna Chapman about The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith!, Guide/Reviews Database section The Arts, and our Women’s...
      

Newsletter Archives

[See also our Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book archives]   2024 January 2024 Five questions for Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison Go forth and help Rising to the occasion It's almost Valen-time From the Editor February 2024 Five questions for Dean Robbins and Susanna Chapman Express yourself Across...
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