Search Results
29 Results for: sophie blackall
Last 30 days
Last 6 months
Last 12 months
Last 24 months
Specific Dates
From:
To:
Review of Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups
Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups by Annie Barrows; illus. by Sophie Blackall Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 116 pp. 9/25 9781797219714 $15.99 Big sister Stella and little sister Marigold make a welcome return to the page with their own brand of sibling affection. The humor, energy, and poignancy of the first...
Review of If We Were Dogs
If We Were Dogs by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 9/25 9780316581721 $18.99 In Blackall’s earlier picture book If I Was a Horse (rev. 9/23), a child imagines life as a spirited steed; activities include giving little sister a ride to school. In...
PREMIUM
Review of Lost Evangeline
Lost Evangeline by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Sophie BlackallIntermediate Candlewick 160 pp.9/25 9781536225525 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536247596 $17.99In this, the latest of DiCamillo’s Norendy stories (The Puppets of Spelhorst, rev. 9/23; The Hotel Balzaar, rev. 9/24), we meet a cast of characters who come trailing their folktale origins. Evangeline, in the...
Ahoy!
Ahoy there! I’m here to start a conversation about Sophie Blackall’s latest picture book — one that has many of the hallmarks of her previous books (yes, including spectacular seascapes and even a lighthouse) but also breaks new ground — or explores new seas, in this case. And no, the...
PREMIUM
Review of Stella & Marigold
Stella & Marigold by Annie Barrows; illus. by Sophie BlackallPrimary, Intermediate Chronicle 108 pp.10/24 9781797219707 $15.99Stella and Marigold, ages seven and four, are a force to be reckoned with. In eight tightly constructed, linked short stories, we follow the sisters through a domestic plumbing disaster, a visit to the zoo,...
Review of Ahoy!
Ahoy! by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 4/24 9780593429396 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593429402 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593429419 $10.99 Picture books about imaginary play can be belabored or overly precious. Not so Blackall’s brilliantly constructed latest. The opening setting is a living room (just a...
PREMIUM
Review of Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson by Ann E. Burg; illus. by Sophie BlackallIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 304 pp.3/24 9781338883381 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338883404 $19.99In this first-person novel in verse, Burg (Serafina’s Promise, rev. 9/13) imagines the life of the groundbreaking environmentalist from age eleven through adulthood. Rachel possesses...
Sophie Blackall Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by I sternly cautioned my old friend Sophie Blackall that there would be no talking-like-pirates in our conversation about Ahoy!, the two-time Caldecott Medalist’s new picture book about an afternoon...
PREMIUM
Review of If I Was a Horse
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 32 pp.10/23 9780316510981 $18.99A horse-obsessed child imagines all the things they could do if they were a horse. “I could go anywhere I want, and I’d come home when I was hungry.” The earnest text...
Farmhouse
[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.] Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 48 pp. g 9/22 978-0-316-52894-8 $18.99 Blackall brings herself and her artistic process into this...
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
Thank you for visiting.
We’ve noticed you are using a private browser. To continue, please log in or create an account.
