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Five questions for E. K. Johnston

Titan of the Stars (Tundra, 14–17 years) is set in the future on a spaceship en route to Mars. Elements, including the social dynamics, may remind readers of the Titanic…but the danger for these passengers arises from space aliens discovered in a melting tundra; presumed to be dead, they’ve escaped...

Books mentioned in the June 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

Five questions for E. K. Johnston Titan of the Stars by E. K. Johnston; Tundra.  Future worlds Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins; Scholastic. Sea Change by Susan Fletcher; Amulet/Abrams. This Is the Year by Gloria Muñoz; Holiday.   Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel; Scholastic. The Legendary Scarlett & Browne by Jonathan Stroud; Knopf. Creatures featured The Undead Fox...

From the Editor - June 2025

I hope you will join us (virtually at hbook.com and on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky) next Monday, June 23, at 12 p.m. EDT for the announcement of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. We’re usually a fairly “open book,” but from when the judges tell us their fab choices to...

No one’s BOULDER than you!

Here are five recent picture books featuring rocks. And of quartz these choices aren’t written in stone — if you’re looking for more, see the Earth science--Geology subject tag in the Guide/Reviews Database…and rock on. Rock by Laurel Croza; illus. by Matt James Primary    Groundwood    44 pp. 3/25    9781773069487    $19.99...

Creatures featured

These seven books are for intermediate and/or middle-school animal lovers, including stories starring animals and stories of friendship across species. For more, see the Animals subject tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman Intermediate    Little, Brown    320 pp. 2/25    9780316575720    $17.99 e-book ed. ...

Future worlds

These five young adult novels implicitly or explicitly imagine future versions of our world, and might just give us new lenses through which to view the present. See also our Five Questions interview with E. K. Johnston about Titan of the Stars, the Reality Reimagined series from the May/June Horn...

Five questions for Rebecca Stead and Gracey Zhang

Anything (Chronicle, 4–8 years) is an introspective, sensitively conveyed picture book about a dad helping a child through difficult transitions in a new apartment. The ambiguity in Rebecca Stead’s (2010 Newbery Medalist for When You Reach Me) text, accompanied by Gracey Zhang’s spare illustrations, leaves room for readers to imagine...

Books mentioned in the May 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

Five questions for Rebecca Stead and Gracey Zhang Anything by Rebecca Stead, illus. by Gracey Zhang; Chronicle. Parents and children Mad at Dad by Janie Hao; Kids Can. Our Lake by Angie Kang; Kokila/Penguin. The Greatest River by Namita Moolani Mehra, illus. by Khoa Le; Harper/HarperCollins. Outside Mom, Inside Mom by Jane Park, illus. by Lenny Wen; Simon. Mama Hug by Emma Straub, illus....

From the Editor - May 2025

Illustration: Liza Woodruff. With Mother’s Day (and my birthday!) just past and Father’s Day coming soon, this issue of Notes features books about families in various configurations and with differing experiences…some supernatural! (Librarians with Superpowers, anyone?) Find more at our Family Reading blog, where Summer Reading also lives; and at Out...
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