Five questions for Kevin Young
Emile and the Field by Kevin Young, illus. by Chioma Ebinama; Make Me a World/Random.

Picture books for National Poetry Month 2022
Zoobilations! by Douglas Florian; Beach Lane/Simon.
Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman, illus. by Loren Long; Viking.
Moving Words About a Flower by K. C. Hayes, illus. by Barbara Chotiner; Charlesbridge.
Poems from When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne, illus. by Rosemary Wells; Norton.
Stop That Poem! by Eric Ode, illus. by Jieting Chen; Kane Miller.

Say it in verse
Worst-Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara; Charlesbridge.
Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz, illus. by Fahmida Azim; Kokila/Penguin.
Burying the Moon by Andrée Poulin, illus. by Sonali Zohra; Groundwood.
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, illus. by Jason Griffin; Dlouhy/Atheneum.

Diverse fantastical worlds
Vial of Tears by Cristin Bishara; Holiday.
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen; Random.
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough; Scholastic.
A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee; Clarion/HarperCollins.
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi; Knopf.
From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos; Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.

From the March 2022 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.