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Week in Review, June 30th-July 4th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: ALA Awards: 2025 Newbery Medal Acceptance by Erin Entrada Kelly 2025 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by Rebecca Lee Kunz 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Carole Boston Weatherford   Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Fairy...

Week in Review, June 23rd-27th

  This week on hbook.com... Presenting the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners   From the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Perception and Reality: The Writer's Page: Evidence!: Long Road to a Short Book by Deborah Hopkinson Publishers' Preview: Diverse Books: Erin Entrada Kelly | Craig Kofi Farmer |...

Pride Month 2025

Pride Month is almost finished, but here at the Horn Book, we celebrate all year long the best way we know how: by blowing the horn for children's and young adult books that center LGBTQIA+ creators and/or characters (and we hope you will too).  We'd especially like to alert your...

Week in Review, June 16th-20th

  This week on hbook.com... June Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for E. K. Johnston about Titan of the Stars + 5 sci-fi YA novels that imagine future worlds, 7 books for intermediate and middle-school animal lovers, and 5 picture books featuring rocks   Andrea Zuill Talks with...

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.  Click here for more discussion of the topic on our website....

Celebrate Juneteenth

Today is Juneteenth, a day of celebration for many, who commemorate June 19th, 1865, the date enslaved people in Texas finally learned of their emancipation. The May/June Horn Book Magazine recently included a review of So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story (Clarion/HarperCollins) by Anne Wynter; illus. by Jerome Pumphrey. To view other...

The Art of Grace Lin: Meeting a Friend in an Unexpected Place at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

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On Friday, June 13, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art opened its exhibit The Art of Grace Lin: Meeting a Friend in an Unexpected Place with a special members' preview. I wasn't able to attend — but my parents did and reported a fantastic conversation between Grace and exhibit curator...

Week in Review, June 9th-13th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Perception and Reality: Reality Reimagined: Escapist Fantasies Are Political by Jordan Ifueko Reality Reimagined: A Club of Science Nerds by Donna Barba Higuera Reality Reimagined: Reality and Fantasy by Sabaa Tahir Reality Reimagined: A Hero...

Father's Day 2025

Permit me a moment to give a shout-out to my amazing husband (happy anniversary to us next week!). Though he is generally spotlight-averse, this will nevertheless be a very special weekend for him: not only is he turning 45 on Saturday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!), he'll also be celebrating Father's Day on...
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