Illustration by Brian Floca from With Dad by Richard Jackson.

The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine:

Let's Go! by Julie Flett (Greystone)

With Dad by Richard Jackson; illus. by Brian Floca (Porter/Holiday)

Monster Hands by Karen Kane and Jonaz McMillan; illus. by Dion MBD (Paulsen/Penguin)

Desert Song by Laekan Zea Kemp; illus. by Beatriz Gutiérrez Hernández (Porter/Holiday)

Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman; illus. by Susan Gal (Levine/Levine Querido)

Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol (First Second)

Everyone Gets a Turn by Marianne Dubuc; trans. from French by Celyn Harding-Jones (Princeton Architectural)

A New Car for Pickle [I Like to Read: Comics] by Sylvie Kantorovitz (Holiday)

Tree. Table. Book by Lois Lowry (Clarion/HarperCollins)

Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams; illus. by Danica Novgorodoff (Dlouhy/Atheneum)

Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose! by Beth Anderson; illus. by Jeremy Holmes (Calkins/Astra)

Life After Whale by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason Chin (Porter/Holiday)

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming (Focus/Scholastic)

A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Khalif Tahir Thompson (Quill Tree/HarperCollins)

Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo (Norton)