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I'm From

This was the year when one picture book creator after another gave us a glimpse of the neighborhood that informed the writer or illustrator within, including Raúl the Third’s exuberant ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Read, in which an entire Mexican American community celebrates books and literacy with bilingual abandon, and Margarita Engle’s Water Day, where...
      

Review of I’m From

I’m From by Gary R. Gray, Jr.; illus. by Oge MoraPreschool, Primary    Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins    40 pp.9/23    9780063089969    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063334366    $10.99“I come from / early morning wake-ups, / handcrafted blankets / knitted with memories.” A young Black boy arises from his cozy bed and finds Dad in the kitchen...
      

Review of Everybody in the Red Brick Building

Everybody in the Red Brick Building by Anne Wynter; illus. by Oge Mora Preschool    Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins    32 pp.    g 10/21    978-0-06-286576-2    $17.99 On a clear, starry night, everybody in a red brick apartment building is sound asleep. That is, until Baby Izzie sits up in her crib and starts...
      

Saturday: Oge Mora's 2020 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech

As I worked on Saturday, it was important to me that every visual decision embodied joy. Throughout the book, there is a steady stream of fluorescent pinks, bold yellows, and electric blues. I designed each page with broad diagonal lines in mind in the hope that they would feel dynamic...
      

A Note from Me (Jan 8, 2021)

Dear friends: Welcome to the end of this week! Better days are coming. Happy New Year to all and I hope you got some restorative time during the holidays, although who knew one would need it quite so quickly? Lori and Richard and I took our annual sojourn in Provincetown,...
      

Table of Contents: January/February 2021 Horn Book Magazine

Cover © 2021 by Oge Mora.   Features Horn Book Fanfare by Horn Book editors Our choices for the best books of 2020. Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards BGHB Awards Gallery 2020 Celebrating the winners and honorees in this most unusual year. Fiction and Poetry Nonfiction Picture Book “Sometimes You Have...
      

Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Five Questions for Oge Mora

This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2020 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by...
      

Preview January/February 2021 Horn Book Magazine

Original cover art by Oge Mora. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2020. Coverage of the 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards virtual celebration: judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Kathleen T. Horning interviews Leslie Brody, author of the Louise Fitzhugh biography Sometimes You Have to Lie. An update on the CCBC’s diversity statistics from Madeline Tyner. Gregory Maguire remembers Jill...
      

BGHB 2020: Saturday

We've reached the culmination of Picture Book week in our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.   Today, judge Leo Landry introduces the 2020 BGHB Picture Book Winner Saturday:   The 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book is presented to Oge Mora for Saturday published by Little,...
      

Review of The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard; illus. by Oge Mora Primary    Schwartz & Wade/Random    40 pp.    g 1/20    978-1-5247-6828-7    $17.99 Library ed.  978-1-5247-6829-4    $20.99 e-book ed.  978-1-5247-6830-0    $10.99 As an enslaved child on an Alabama plantation, Mary Walker would look up at the...
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