Using Books
Supplement school-day studies with reading for pleasure and experiential learning: 2018 Horn Book Summer Reading From The Guide: Summer of Change Summer and Children and Birds and Animals and Flowers and Trees and Bees and Books Extracurriculars from Nonfiction Notes from The Horn Book Welcome to Family Reading, a place...
Welcome to our back-to-school issue of The Horn Book Herald, in which we chat with Dear Substitute co-authors Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick, recommend new books for students of all ages as well as essential reading for parents and teachers, and take a break from the school-day grind with...
Audrey Vernick and Liz Garton Scanlon. Photo: Sam Bond Photography.In new picture book Dear Substitute (Disney-Hyperion, 4–7 years), a little girl arrives at school to find her regular teacher out sick (“Dear Substitute, / Wow. This is a surprise. / What are you doing here?”). She works through the disorientation...
The Poet Xby Elizabeth AcevedoHarperTeen 361 pp3/18 978-0-06-266280-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-266282-8 $9.99Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, a self-described "brown and big and angry" Dominican girl from Harlem, finds peace in writing poetry. The slow-burning suspense of what will transpire when devoutly Catholic Mami discovers Xiomara's clandestine relationship with a classmate is eclipsed only...
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nineby Melba Pattillo Beals; illus. by Frank MorrisonHoughton 214 pp.1/18 978-1-328-88212-7 $16.99As one of the Little Rock Nine, Beals helped integrate Central High School in 1957; here she recounts the childhood years that led up to that important step (described in...
Stella Díaz Has Something to Sayby Angela Dominguez; illus. by the authorRoaring Brook 202 pp.1/18 978-1-62672-858-5 $16.99Shy, artistic third grader Stella Díaz, who emigrated from Mexico to Chicago, is self-conscious about her accent and occasional English blunders. She's also worried about being in a different class than best friend Jenny....
Lena's Shoes Are Nervous: A First-Day-of-School Dilemmaby Keith Calabrese; illus. by Juana MedinaAtheneum 40 pp.7/18 978-1-5344-0894-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0895-1 $10.99Lena isn't nervous to start kindergarten…but her shoes are. Lena enlists her headband (who is "a good listener") to talk to them, and, with fears assuaged and a bit of reverse...
Four new picture-book biographies introduce primary readers to female scientists and mathematicians who wouldn't let anything stand in the way of their pursuit of knowledge. Also look for a review of Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement by Stephanie Roth Sisson in the upcoming September/October Horn...
Five questions for Sergio RuzzierFox + Chick: The Party and Other Stories by Sergio Ruzzier, Chronicle, 5–8 years.Two Mice by Sergio Ruzzier, Clarion, 3–5 years.Uncommon graphic novels for beginnersThe Itchy Book by LeUyen Pham, Hyperion, 5–8 years.New Shoes by Sara Varon, Roaring Brook/First Second, 5–8 years.The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from...
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