The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Note, too, that this is our annual special issue, this year on the theme of Collaboration. Join us!

 

The Airport Book; written and illustrated by Lisa Brown (Porter/Roaring Brook)

Excellent Ed; written by Stacy McAnulty; illustrated by Julia Sarcone-Roach (Knopf)

Frank and Lucky Get Schooled; written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)

Best Frints in the Whole Universe; written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis (Porter/Roaring Brook)

Freedom in Congo Square; written by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Little Bee)

Makoons; written and illustrated by Louise Erdrich (Harper/HarperCollins)

The Lie Tree; by Frances Hardinge (Amulet/Abrams)

Ask Me How I Got Here; by Christine Heppermann (Greenwillow)

Flannery; by Lisa Moore (Groundwood)

Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems; by Bob Raczka (Roaring Brook)

I Am Pan!; written and illustrated by Mordecai Gerstein (Roaring Brook)

Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois; written by Amy Novesky; illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault (Abrams)