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Need suggestions for summer reading? This year we've super-sized our lists, with a baker's dozen recommendations for different age ranges — including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — all published 2020–2021 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion. ...
Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., announced the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners on May 29th, 2019, at School Library Journal's Day of Dialog in New York City. You can watch the announcement video here and read the press release here.Read reviews of all of the...
Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., announced the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners on May 29th, 2019, at School Library Journal's Day of Dialog in New York City. You can watch the announcement video here and read the press release here.Read reviews of all of the...
March/April Horn Book Magazine Spring into Nature, Earth Day (April 22), and Conservation April Fools' Day KidLitCon 2019 More Signs of Springtime: themed booklists about bikes (and 5Qs with a librarian on one!), bunnies, birdies, and baseballFrom the April 2019: Spring News issue of The Horn Book Herald....
The theme of this year's National Library Week (April 7-13, 2019) is: Libraries = Strong Communities.• Upcoming May/June Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: The CSK Book Awards at 50• Roger Sutton's 2018 interview with Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden• ALA President Loida Garcia-Febo at Cambridge Public Library• Librarianship and...
Spring is here, and with it comes this Spring News edition of our Horn Book Herald e-newsletter, a bimonthly supplement to Notes from the Horn Book. Five Questions for Raúl the Third National Library Week National Poetry Month Signs of SpringtimeFrom the April 2019: Spring News issue of The Horn...
Agard, John Book: My AutobiographyGr. 4–6 138 pp. CandlewickIllustrated by Neil Packer. This is a quirky history of the codex (with a brief glimpse at ebooks), narrated in an alternately whimsical and lyrical style by the personified Book. Packer's illustrations, many of which resemble woodcuts, punctuate the brief narratives, as...
Bierregaard, Rob Belle's Journey: An Osprey Takes FlightGr. 4–6 106 pp. CharlesbridgeIllustrated by Kate Garchinsky. Belle, an osprey born on Martha's Vineyard, is tracked by two scientists as she migrates to South America and back. Bierregaard (one of the scientists) writes engagingly about Belle's adventure — over eighteen months and...
Bulion, Leslie Leaf Litter CrittersGr. 4–6 56 pp. PeachtreeIllustrated by Robert Meganck. Nineteen poems (in various forms) accompanied by bright digital illustrations provide information both whimsical and scientific about inhabitants of the brown food web — the layer of leaves and soil where organic matter breaks down and plants grow....
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