Notes From The Hornbook
Laura Amy Schlitz’s imagination has created books ranging from the Newbery-winning verse novel Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! to the multi-award-winning historical YA novel The Hired Girl. Her latest, The Winter of the Dollhouse (Candlewick, 9–12 years), is a doll story — with human and doll points of view. Can’t get...
Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz; Candlewick. Our world meets fantasy The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan; Knopf. Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol; Roaring Brook. Severe and Unusual Weather by Jessie Ann Foley; Quill Tree/HarperCollins. Into the Wild...
From outer space to worlds almost like our own to realities in historical fiction, this issue of Notes offers a variety of settings and journeys. With Five Questions for Laura Amy Schlitz about her thought-provoking and enjoyable sentient-dolls-meet-plucky-and-complex-protagonist novel The Winter of the Dollhouse, there are many great recommendations with which to curl...
In this Notes section, we travel to space — or things from space travel to us. Here are five picture books featuring space aliens, space portals, or imaginative space travelers. For more, see the Space tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. RO-BO by Mariana Ruiz Johnson; illus. by the author; trans....
In these six works of historical fiction recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers (including prose novels, a graphic novel, and a verse novel), historical events have profound effects on families’ lives. Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 384 pp. 9/25 9781250328533 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250328540 ...
In these nine novels recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, characters from our world meet fantasy elements. You’ll find more at the Fantasy tag in the Guide/Reviews Database, and see also our Five Questions interview with Laura Amy Schlitz about The Winter of the Dollhouse. The Library of Unruly Treasures...
Julie Berry’s work ranges from light middle grade and picture books to sweeping YA-to-adult crossover historical novels with fantasy elements. Her latest, If Looks Could Kill (Simon, 14 years and up), is one of those historical fantasy novels (with a vengeance — literally). Set primarily in New York’s Bowery in 1888,...
Five questions for Julie Berry If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry; Simon. Mythical and magical Chaos King by Kacen Callender; Tor Teen. Defanged by H.E. Edgmon; Feiwel. The Scorpion Queen by Mina Fears; Flatiron. The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell, illus. by Ashley Mackenzie; Knopf. Good sports The Big Splash by Angela Ahn, illus. by Julie Kim; Tundra. The Incredibly Human Henson...
The November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine has gone to press, with its hopeful, looking-ahead cover image (by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower, written by Alda P. Dobbs and reviewed in our Holiday High Notes column). And we’re looking ahead ourselves to a busy fall. On October 25, come see...
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