May/June 2012 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews

by Roger Sutton
Mar 28, 2012 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
May/June 2012 Horn Book Magazine coverThe following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June issue of the Horn Book Magazine:

Animal Masquerade; by Marianne Dubuc; trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione (Kids Can)

Demolition; by Sally Sutton; illus. by Brian Lovelock (Candlewick)

The Drowned Cities; by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)

Dying to Know You; by Aidan Chambers (Amulet/Abrams)

A Confusion of Princes; by Garth Nix (Harper/HarperCollins)

Code Name Verity; by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)

Forget-Me-Nots:Poems to Learn by Heart; selected by Mary Ann Hoberman; illus. by Michael Emberley (Tingley/Little, Brown)

The President’s Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems about the Presidents; by Susan Katz; illus. by Robert Neubecker (Clarion)

A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole; by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano; illus. by Michael Carroll (Charlesbridge)
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Can't wait to smell this issue!

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