This week on hbook.com... Minh Lê and Dan Santat Talk with Roger about The Blur From the May/June 2022 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: The Newbery Centennial: Family Memories of Frederic G. Melcher by Sue Melcher After the Call: Love Letters by Susan Cooper After the Call: The...
This week on hbook.com... May/June 2022 Horn Book Magazine Newbery cover key by Cynthia K. Ritter Fables, Folktales, and Puppets for the Pandemic by Helen Kelly From the May/June 2022 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: The Newbery Centennial: Table of Contents Editorial: Newbery Forever? by Kathleen T. Horning A...
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Celebrate with three updated booklists from the Guide/Reviews Database starring the holiday itself, Mexican and Mexican American protagonists, and the Spanish language. We've got recommended fiction and nonfiction titles for primary, intermediate, and older readers. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion....
Feel kinda like you're living in a dystopian sci-fi/fantasy story? You're not alone. The Guide/Reviews Database: Subject: Dystopias has lots of book recommendations; mostly YA, some middle-grade, and a handful of picture books (hi, Tomi Ungerer!). See also "What Makes a Good YA Dystopian Novel?" (from 2012) and other links and...
In commemoration of International Workers' Day, or May Day, here are some book reviews and links to amplify the fight of workers and their efforts to secure better working conditions for all. Review of Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers’ Rights by Deborah Hopkinson; illus. by Kristy Caldwell Review...
Cover of the January/February 2017 Horn Book Magazine by Francis Vallejo. Today is International Jazz Day. Over on the Guide/Reviews Database, search Music--Jazz for lots of great book recommendations, and below are some links and resources from The Horn Book about America's art form. Click the tag jazz for more....
Saturday, April 30, is Independent Bookstore Day (art: IndieBound) — and we suggest consulting our new, handy-dandy Summer Reading PDF that you can print and take with you to the store for book-recommendation reference. Independent Bookstore Day is a celebration near and dear to our hearts. Of course, we're big independent...
This week on hbook.com... Maggie Stiefvater Talks with Roger about Bravely From the March/April 2022 Horn Book Magazine: Publishers' Previews: Spring 2022 - Five Questions for... Layla F. Saad | Dhonielle Clayton | Phil Stamper | Victor Piñeiro | Stephen Briseño | Vincent Tirado | Kelly Yang Cadenza:...
Today is International Dance Day, a day "to celebrate dance, revel in the universality of this art form, cross all political, cultural and ethnic barriers, and bring people together with a common language — dance." We hope you are movin' and groovin' in celebration, but when you need a breather,...