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Books for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Perhaps now more than ever, Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides an opportunity to reflect not only on the life of the great civil rights leader, but also on how far we've come — and how very far we still have to go. Below is an updated list of recommended...

Week in Review, January 12th-16th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: Field Notes: Storytime Smash Hits by Hannah Peterson   Calling Caldecott: Night Light by Cathryn M. Mercier A Knot Is Not a Tangle by Sylvie Shaffer Books we missed by Adrienne L. Pettinelli 2026 Calling Caldecott Mock Ballot —...

Week in Review, January 5th-9th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine: Table of Contents Editorial: Together Again by Elissa Gershowitz   Calling Caldecott: Moon Song by Allison Grover Khoury Imogen by Shelley Isaacson Aggie and the Ghost by Adrienne L. Pettinelli Dear Acorn (Love, Oak) by Annisha Jeffries   Reviews...

Week in Review, December 29th-January 2nd

  This week on hbook.com...   Calling Caldecott: Dancing with Water by Nicholl Denice Montgomery   Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse by Darcy Whitecrow and Heather M. O’Connor; illus. by Natasha Donovan Starred Fiction: The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats...

Week in Review, December 22nd-26th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Publishers' Preview: Picture Book and Graphic Novels: Norm Feuti | Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison | Eric Velasquez    Calling Caldecott: A Place for Us by Scot Smith   Horn Book Herald: November 2025   Reviews of the...

Week in Review, December 15th-19th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Board Book Roundup: That's About the Size of It by Rachel G. Payne   Calling Caldecott: Cat Nap by Marva Anne Hinton Second-round nomination results! by Kitty Flynn   Reviews of the Week: Starred Picture Book: Moon Song by Michaela Goade...

Week in Review, December 8th-12th

  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...
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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...

Fanfare 2025 Booklist

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...
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