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Editorial: Stranger than Fiction (May/June 2025)
One year ago, we were putting the finishing touches on our special issue highlighting “Our Centennial” during a yearlong celebration of The Horn Book Magazine’s hundredth anniversary. If you haven’t seen it recently (or at all), please check it out; commemorative copies are still available for purchase, and you’ll find...
It's Children's Book Week!
It's Children's Book Week! Visit the website for events and information. You may also get a kick out of these early ads for Children's Book Week. They came to us courtesy of K. T. Horning, whose article in the July/August 2012 Horn Book Magazine, "The Search for Distinguished," examines the...
2025 Summer Reading Recommendations
Downpour. © 2025 by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata. As longtime readers know, pleasure reading is a core value of the hundred-plus-year-old Horn Book, and Summer Reading provides an opportunity to follow that bliss. Or to discover a new type of bliss. Or to have your bliss challenged. We welcome...
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Review of Once for Yes
Once for Yes by Allie MillingtonIntermediate, Middle School Feiwel 272 pp.3/25 9781250326980 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250326973 $9.99Millington’s debut (Olivetti, rev. 5/24) was about a sentient typewriter, and this offering begins with the observations of the Odenburgh, an apartment building and one of several narrative perspectives in a quirky and affecting novel....
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Review of Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World About Water Pollution
Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World About Water Pollution by Julie Winterbottom; illus. by Susan ReaganPrimary, Intermediate Rocky Pond/Penguin 48 pp.3/25 9780593620229 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593620236 $11.99“When Ruth Patrick was five years old, she fell in love with pond scum.” Patrick (1907–2013) spent her childhood...
Ekua Holmes and Autumn Allen at MassArt: "Connected Legacies"
On April 17, the Horn Book was invited to staff a table at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design's (MassArt) Hellerstein Literary Reading and Lecture Series. The theme was "Connected Legacies: The Making of Children’s Books" and featured talks by two wonderful Friends of the Horn Book: Ekua Holmes and Autumn...
Patriots' Day and School Vacation Week
Today is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, a state and regional holiday that commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the beginnings of the Revolutionary War (this year marks the 250th anniversary). It's the day the Boston Marathon is traditionally run, and the start of Spring Break for the public schools. ...
National Siblings Day
April 10 is National Siblings Day (the picture above is Roger's brother with his bloopah). Here are some booklists and articles that highlight "siblings doing what siblings do best." Find more at Horn Book Family Reading blog; at Siblings tag; and lots and lots more at the Guide/Reviews Database subject Family--Siblings. From Notes from...
Laurie Halse Anderson "Salon" with Porter Square Books
On April 1 (no fooling!) I attended a "salon event" for Laurie Halse Anderson, hosted by Porter Square Books. Anderson was there to discuss her new middle-grade novel, Rebellion 1776, which will be starred in the upcoming May/June Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Perception and Reality. The salon was intimate and conversational —...
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