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Books for World Refugee Day
Help children honor World Refugee Day with these Guide/Reviews Database-recommended picture books, middle-grade, and young adult books. For more discussion on the topic, visit the Horn Book website....
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Review of The Bicycle: How an Act of Kindness Changed a Young Refugee’s Life
The Bicycle: How an Act of Kindness Changed a Young Refugee’s Life by Patricia McCormick and Mevan Babakar; illus. by Yas ImamuraPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp.5/24 9780063056992 $19.99When her family must flee their beloved home in Kurdistan, young Mevan’s status as a refugee makes her feel smaller and smaller...
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Review of The Night War
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyIntermediate, Middle School Dial 288 pp.4/24 9780735228566 $17.99e-book ed. 9780735228580 $10.99In 1942, French police in Occupied Paris rounded up over thirteen thousand French Jews and corralled them into a stadium; almost all perished at Auschwitz. Bradley’s (The War That Saved My Life, rev. 1/15,...
Review of The House Before Falling into the Sea
The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang; illus. by Hanna Cha Primary Dial 40 pp. 3/24 9780593530153 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593530160 $10.99 In this picture book set in 1950, Kyung lives with her family in a seaside house in the southeastern Korean coastal city of Busan....
At home with poetry
Get ready for National Poetry Month, coming in April! These five books for younger readers feature poems about all kinds of places, about feeling at home, and about poetry itself. See also the Guide/Reviews Database subject tag Poetry, and for older readers, check out our Five Questions interview with Renée...
Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners
Winner Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather...
Review of Alebrijes
Alebrijes by Donna Barba HigueraIntermediate, Middle School Levine Querido 336 pp.10/23 9781646142637 $18.99On Higuera’s barren post-apocalyptic Earth, Pocatels rule over the Spanish-speaking Cascabels, refugees from the San Joaquin Valley, forcing them to live in squalid tent cities, endure long hours harvesting potatoes, and subsist on next to nothing. Thirteen-year-old Leandro...
Go forth and help
The subjects of these six picture-book biographies for primary and intermediate readers made a difference in the world around them through means ranging from political activism to the arts. To learn about another community helper, see our Five Questions interview with Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison about Go Forth...
Review of What You Need to Be Warm
What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman; illus. by various artists Primary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 32 pp. 10/23 9780063358089 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063358102 $12.99 Gaiman, who serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, used social media to ask people about their memories of being warm,...
On the Tip of a Wave
A picture book about a contemporary conceptual artist is already a difficult task. There’s a lot to unpack and consider when presenting the work of a prominent conceptual artist and activist to a young audience. Heck, even we adults struggle to make sense of conceptual installation art, so I want to...
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