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Our May Notes from The Horn Book newsletter, featuring an interview with illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky, is out! Here's what else you'll find in this issue:- animal behaving badly in picture books- nonfiction bug books- mystery novels for middle-graders- sci-fi and fantasy YA sequelsView the newsletter online, or subscribe to...
Our Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards judges (Lauren Adams, Megan Lambert, and chair Thom Barthelmess) will finish their deliberations this month. I will be announcing the winners on Thursday, June 7 at 1:00 P.M. at BookExpo America in New York City. The press conference will take place in the Librarians’ Lounge...
Sci-fi and fantasy fans will thrill to these engrossing sequels. The books are sure to satisfy readers’ expectations and leave them eager for more.In A Million Suns, the sequel to Beth Revis’s Across the Universe, Sol-Earth–born Amy is struggling with the claustrophobic life aboard the Godspeed after being prematurely awakened...
Animals playing dress-up? A swan dancing ballet? Like the incorrigible star of Z Is for Moose, the creatures in these four new picture books behave in unexpected (and often hilarious) ways.Marianne Dubuc’s witty pencil-crayon illustrations in Animal Masquerade show fifty-three animals heading for a costume party, each disguised as the...
Photo by Rachel ZelinskyHaving illustrated more than thirty books, Paul O. Zelinsky is a master of just about every artistic medium. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1998 for Rapunzel, a dark story illustrated with lush, realistic oil paintings. But most recently, he collaborated with Kelly Bingham on the side-splittingly...
The following novels show that puzzles can be solved by detectives both seasoned and green. These four sleuth stories — action-packed, suspenseful, and sometimes goofy — will lure in mystery-lovers.Caroline Lawrence’s The Case of the Deadly Desperados is a bang-up series starter told in flashback by young P.K. Pinkerton. P.K.’s...
You know it’s spring when, in any available yard or park, kids can be found kneeling on the ground, inspecting the local bug population. These four picture books will help answer kids’ questions about their favorite neighborhood critters as well as about a bunch they’re unlikely to encounter in real...
The latest edition of Notes from The Horn Book is on its way! This month we've got an interview with Vaunda Micheaux Nelson about her new documentary novel No Crystal Stair, plus- YA about book lovers- preschool books you've been waiting for- kooky chapter books- baseball picture booksRead it online,...
I’m so pleased to see the “kooky chapter books” Elissa Gershowitz reviews above. First, because they’re chapter books: while there is hand-wringing about the state of picture book publication and The Hunger Games is dominating the media, chapter books—which I define in A Family of Readers as the first place...
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