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2023 Booklists and Resources Master List
Looking for books about annual observances, back-to-school season, human rights issues...or Star Trek? In 2023, we published booklists and resource lists covering a wide range of topics for all age levels, so we've compiled them together for readers to find some great new books to enjoy and share. Don't miss out — subscribe...
Black History Month 2024
In commemoration of Black History Month, we'll be featuring articles, speeches, interviews, and reviews from The Horn Book's past year that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field — one a weekday through the month of February. Last Monday's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement...
Week in Review, May 15th-19th
This week on hbook.com... May Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Vashti Harrison about Big + 7 self-empowerment + self-love picture books, 6 diverse stories for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and 4 YA memoirs From the May/June 2023 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Diverse Books:...
Five questions for Vashti Harrison
In the picture book Big (Little, Brown, 5–8 years), a young Black girl feels comfortable in her own skin — until classmates’ taunts and two adults’ admonishments make her question her size. Author/illustrator Vashti Harrison’s sensitive, compassionate story ends on an empowering note, with the girl finally able to hand...
Books mentioned in the May 2023 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Vashti Harrison Big by Vashti Harrison; Little, Brown. Self-empowerment and self-love I Have a Question by Andrew Arnold; Roaring Brook. The Loud Librarian by Jenna Beatrice, illus. by Erika Lynne Jones; Atheneum. Woo Hoo! You’re Doing Great! by Sandra Boynton; Little, Brown. A Girl Can Build Anything...
From the Editor - May 2023
Last month’s Notes from the Horn Book was our annual Summer Reading special issue, including a baker’s dozen of unique and enjoyable titles for each age range. If you haven’t yet downloaded the free PDF version, there’s no time like the present! In addition to being my birthday month, May...
Their own stories
“Who tells your story?” In the following four cases, these authors share their very personal and moving memoirs — in prose, verse, or graphic format — with young adult readers about the difficult situations they experienced while coming of age. See also Thien Pham Talks with Roger about Family Style:...
Diverse stories for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, celebrating people in the United States with ancestral ties to the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Here are six works of fiction — featuring realism, folklore, short stories, and historical fiction — for middle-graders and middle-schoolers that...
Self-empowerment and self-love
Here are seven new picture books meant to encourage and inspire young readers to set aside self-consciousness and embrace who they are, what they think, and what they can achieve. And in this month’s Five Questions interview, Vashti Harrison discusses how the heroine of her new picture book Big finds her voice...
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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