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This week on hbook.com... July Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter Back-to-School Edition: 5Qs for Sarah Sax about Tryouts + 8 middle grade and middle school novels about school + 5 history lessons, 8 school-related picture books, and 6 YA novels with a school backdrop From the July/August 2024...
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the September/October covers. Next up are the November/December covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click...
This week on hbook.com... From the July/August 2024 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: ALA Awards: 2023: The Year in Words and Pictures by Horn Book editors All About Awards by Horn Book editors Profile of 2024 Newbery Medal winner Dave Eggers by Amanda Uhle Profile of 2024 Caldecott Medal winner...
Karen M. McManus is a best-selling author of young adult mysteries. I started reading McManus’s books shortly after I graduated college, and the first one reignited my love of young adult novels and made me realize how much I adore a good mystery. So far, she has written one series,...
Congratulations to Crockett Johnson's 2012 September/October Horn Book Magazine cover! Come back next Monday, July 22 to vote for your favorites from twenty-four years of November/December covers. Read the Cover Madness rules here. ...
This week on hbook.com... Hena Khan Talks with Roger about We Are Big Time From the July/August 2024 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: ALA Awards: 2024 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Pam Muñoz Ryan 2024 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Christopher Paul Curtis Table of Contents Editorial: An Honor Indeed...
I wanted to write about my eleven-year-old grandson’s decision to read To Kill a Mockingbird as an independent reading assignment. The book was on a “stretch” list his fifth-grade teacher had distributed, so his choice wasn’t like deciding to read Ulysses or worse, Infinite Jest, out of nowhere. Still, even voracious eleven-year-old readers...
One of the best parts of this year's ALA Annual conference in San Diego was handing out Boston Globe–Horn Book Award stickers with 2023–2024 committee member Rodney Fierce -- and texting about it afterward with Katrina Hedeen Eftekhari and chair Cathie Mercier. See the slide show below; and read more about this year's...
The votes are in for the second round of September/October Cover Madness, and we move on to round 3! Pick your favorite of the final two choices — let us know your choice in the comments! Come back next week to see which cover was voted the winning September/October cover from the last twenty-four years! ...
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