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Earlier today, the Horn Book’s Calling Caldecott blog announced the results of our MOCK Caldecott vote. The voters chose a Caldecott winner and one honoree — two Horn Book favorites, both on our annual Fanfare list. The REAL winners, along with all the 2026 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, will...
Peterson, left, and Aly Plasterer, Parnassus Books' children's bookseller and floor manager, host weekly storytimes. Photo courtesy of Hannah Peterson. As a bookstore children’s events manager and weekly storytime reader, I know firsthand that different books serve different purposes. A slow, peaceful story is perfect for bedtime. A heartwarming tale...
“Gee, it’s good to be / Together again.” Kermit the Frog said it best, and being at this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony was a real reminder. For the first time since before COVID-19 (and only our second time back in person since 2019), every award winner and honoree...
Cover © 2026 by Matt James. Features Horn Book Fanfare by Horn Book editors Our choices for the best books of 2025. Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards BGHB Awards Gallery 2025 Celebrating the winners and honorees. Picture Book Fiction Nonfiction Columns Editorial Together Again by Elissa Gershowitz “Gee, it’s...
What is the ideal trim size for baby books? An average of six-by-six inches is what I see most often. It’s a good size for perusing, carrying, and even stacking by board books’ very young audience. I wonder if this convention harks back to Beatrix Potter, whose own picture books...
Original cover art by Matt James. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2025. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (at the Cambridge Public Library”): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Field Notes: bookstore children’s events manager Hannah Peterson shares “Storytime Smash Hits.” Single copies of...
In August of 2024, Illinois passed HB 4895, a bill mandating climate education in public high schools by the 2026–2027 school year. Four other states (NY, CA, CT, NJ) already mandate climate education in their schools. Recent surveys, however, show that the majority of U.S. teachers don’t teach climate change...
During the film adaptation of Wicked, the Wizard says, “The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.” The terms “diversity” and “DEI” (diversity, equity, and inclusion) have been recently miscast in that role, to mean unskilled people, unfairly hired or otherwise prioritized, and...
Welcome to our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season's greetings from the Horn Book staff! The Birds of Christmas by Olivia Armstrong; illus. by Mira Miroslavova Preschool, Primary Eerdmans 40 pp. 8/25 9780802856470 $18.99 One cold night, Raven receives a celestial...
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