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Week in Review, August 12th - 16th

by Horn Book
Aug 16, 2019 | Filed in Blogs

This week on hbook.com...

August Notes from the Horn Book newsletter: 5Q for George Takei on They Called Us Enemy, more books about Japanese internment, picture books about things that go, nonfiction about amazing animals

August Back-to-School edition of The Horn Book Herald: 5Q for Celia C. Pérez on Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers + back-to-school reading recommendations for students and resources for parents, teachers, and librarians

Reviews of the Week:

Picture Book: Spot & Dot by Henry Cole
Fiction: The Hero Next Door edited by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Nonfiction: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott; illus. by Harmony Becker
Of Professional Interest: The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games [Postmillennial Pop] by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Family Reading: 5Q for The Blue Club

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