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It's Children's Book Week!

It's Children's Book Week! Visit the website for events and information. You may also get a kick out of these early ads for Children's Book Week. They came to us courtesy of K. T. Horning, whose article in the July/August 2012 Horn Book Magazine, "The Search for Distinguished," examines the...
      

Five questions for Brian Selznick

In Run Away with Me (Scholastic, 14 years and up), Brian Selznick brings his signature mix of text and immersive black-and-white drawings to his first book for young adults. Two teen boys meet in 1986 Rome for a summer of mystery, art, and of course, first love. For more romantic recommendations,...
      

2025 Summer Reading Recommendations

Downpour. © 2025 by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata. As longtime readers know, pleasure reading is a core value of the hundred-plus-year-old Horn Book, and Summer Reading provides an opportunity to follow that bliss. Or to discover a new type of bliss. Or to have your bliss challenged. We welcome...
      
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2025 Summer Reading List

Find annotations, interview, and more, here.    Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2   Wind Watchers by Micha Archer (Paulsen/Penguin) A Sleepless Night by Micaela Chirif; illus. by Joaquín Camp; trans. from Spanish by Jordan Landsman (Transit) Duckie & Snaps: We Cannot Be Friends by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Tim Miller (Orchard/Scholastic)...
      

2025 Summer Reading: High School

Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | Middle School   High School Suggested grade level for all entries: 9 and up   Sọmadịna by Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf) Fifteen-year-old Sọmadịna’s beloved twin brother, Jayaike, is stolen away by a sinister figure who aims to consume the twins’...
      

2025 Summer Reading: Middle School

Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | High School   Middle School Suggested grade level for all entries: 6–8   Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Dlouhy/Atheneum) After the Siege of Boston, thirteen-year-old maid Elsbeth finds herself in a precarious situation when British troops — and...
      

2025 Summer Reading: Intermediate

Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Middle School | High School   Intermediate Suggested grade level for all entries: 4–6   Sea Legs by Jules Bakes; illus. by Niki Smith (Graphix/Scholastic) After third grade, Janey’s family moves onto their schooner to sail the Caribbean islands. Janey befriends...
      

2025 Summer Reading: Beginning Readers and Primary Grades

Picture Books | Intermediate | Middle School | High School   Beginning Readers and Primary Grades Suggested grade level for all entries: 1–3   How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Charly Palmer (Little, Brown) This reverent nonfiction picture-book celebration of African American music begins its tour in...
      

2025 Summer Reading: Picture Books

Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | Middle School | High School   Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2   Wind Watchers by Micha Archer (Paulsen/Penguin) Three children experience the invisible power of wind over the course of a year. They begin with a direct question...
      

Reading in the family

When they were learning to read, my grandsons brought home decodable books: readers the size of a playing card with simple stories featuring Bob, Dot, and Pat who did things with bats and pots and cats.   The plots were slender, but they were more compelling than my grade-school readers about Alice...
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