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December already? It’s beginning to look a lot like...time for Calling Caldecott’s second round of nominations! (Also, January and the YMA announcements are edging ever closer.) Last month we asked readers for four titles that they’d nominate if they were members of The Committee. Twenty-three books were nominated; Cat Nap...
There’s nothing like a good library haul! Here’s mine, following the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine issue-to-press date. It’s the issue that begins our hundred-and-second year and contains all the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards speeches along with Fanfare, our annual annotated “best of” list that Notes from the Horn...
Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary, Intermediate Viking 40 pp. 8/25 9781984835185 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781984835208 $10.99 Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born into a large, loving family in the Pacific Northwest at the tail end of the nineteenth century. As...
“Let me tell you the story of the day I broke Ama’s cup.” So begins Mei Mei’s emotional odyssey through fear, guilt, confrontation with a menacing beast (cat), a dark underworld (closet), a River Styx (tears), and a return to the love of her grandmother. (I know I am overdoing...
The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by Naomi Franquiz Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 240 pp. 9/25 9781546132431 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781546132455 $17.99 In this supernatural murder mystery, the versatile Kelly (2025 Newbery medalist for The First State of Being, rev. 5/24) skillfully balances otherworldly horrors with more realistic...
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...
To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here by Antoinette Portis; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 56 pp. 10/25 9780823459858 $18.99 The opening spread of this meta intergalactic romp should entice viewers: a small orange square with a smaller black circle at its center sits in the middle of a...
Original cover art by Matt James. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2025. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (at the Cambridge Public Library”): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Field Notes: bookstore children’s events manager Hannah Peterson shares “Storytime Smash Hits.” Single copies of...
Angie Kang’s Our Lake is a quiet, luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the enduring presence of love. When I read Our Lake, I was unexpectedly transported back to the loss of my own father, to summers on a lake in upstate New York; a grief I thought I had made...
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