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Angie Kang’s Our Lake is a quiet, luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the enduring presence of love. When I read Our Lake, I was unexpectedly transported back to the loss of my own father, to summers on a lake in upstate New York; a grief I thought I had made...
Maria van Lieshout's Song of a Blackbird is a harrowing and hopeful story, grounded in historical events, of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Through expressive illustrations and inventive page layouts, this graphic novel weaves documented and imagined histories; past and contemporary timelines; and several characters' narrative arcs into...
This week on hbook.com... Jason Reynolds in Conversation with the Horn Book about Coach From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: A Publisher's Perspective: Modern-Day Merits of Diverse Books by Jason Low Horn Book Herald: October 2025 Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture Book: Together, United by Tami Charles; illus....
This week on hbook.com... November Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Laura Amy Schlitz about The Winter of the Dollhouse + 9 novels where our world meets fantasy, 6 YA works with families affected by history, and 5 picture books featuring space adventures Tae Keller Talks with Roger...
Illustration from Ling & Ting's Lunar New Year by Grace Lin. The following books will receive starred reviews in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: If This Were the World by Stephen Barr; illus. by A. G. Ford (Porter/Holiday) The Rare Bird by Elisha Cooper (Roaring Brook) Is It Spring? by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow) A...
Gracey Zhang illustrates with sensitivity and subtlety Rebecca Stead's sensitive and subtle picture-book text, telling the story of a father and child's first day in a new apartment. Why have they had to move? Has it always been just the two of them? Stead leaves plenty of room for interpretation,...
Simple elements do a lot of work in Corey R. Tabor’s picture book Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saved the World), whose illustrations were “drawn on a tablet, printed out on an old laser printer, then scanned back in and colored digitally.” (Gotta love a chatty copyright page.) My eye was drawn first to the...
This week on hbook.com... From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Curating The Art of Grace Lin by Melissa Hung Calling Caldecott: The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books by Kitty Flynn First-round nomination results! by Kitty Flynn Out of the Box: 2025...
November is Native American Heritage Month, a celebration of the many varied Native cultures. Check out the official website for more information and lots of resources. Here are some additional articles and links from The Horn Book's archives and beyond. Recent Horn Book resources by and about Native writers and...
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