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This week on hbook.com... December Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Fanfare Edition, featuring annotations of all forty-nine entries on 2025's list Calling Caldecott: Broken by Dean Schneider Call for second round nominations by Kitty Flynn Out of the Box: Fanfare 2025 Booklist Fanfare 2025 extras Reviews of...
December already? It’s beginning to look a lot like...time for Calling Caldecott’s second round of nominations! (Also, January and the YMA announcements are edging ever closer.) Last month we asked readers for four titles that they’d nominate if they were members of The Committee. Twenty-three books were nominated; Cat Nap...
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Fanfare 2025 extras
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2025 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2025 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Lisa Brown Rule Breakers: The World Is My Canvas by Lisa Brown Lisa Brown on The Airport Book by Martha...
“Let me tell you the story of the day I broke Ama’s cup.” So begins Mei Mei’s emotional odyssey through fear, guilt, confrontation with a menacing beast (cat), a dark underworld (closet), a River Styx (tears), and a return to the love of her grandmother. (I know I am overdoing...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2025. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2026 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
This week on hbook.com... From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Won't You Miss the Polar Bears? by Martha Meyer From the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: Preview Calling Caldecott: Song of a Blackbird by Stephanie Ford Our Lake by Julie Hakim Azzam Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture...
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....
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