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Table of Contents: May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Perception and Reality
Cover © 2025 by Edel Rodriguez. Features Between Fiction and Reality by Cathryn M. Mercier The playground of metafiction in picture books. Reality Reimagined We asked fourteen sci-fi/fantasy authors how reality shapes their work. Worlds, Worries, and Wishes by Tracey Baptiste Zombies and Ghosts and Aliens, Oh My! by Adrianna Cuevas The...
Teacher Appreciation 2025
The late, beloved Robin Smith's rocking chair. This year May 5-9 is Teacher Appreciation Week, with today, May 6, 2025, marked as National Teacher Day. Please #ThankaTeacher — including teacher librarians, if your district is lucky enough to have them — and remember the extreme difficulties, unique challenges, and seeming near-impossibilities that our educators face on...
Cinco de Mayo
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Celebrate with three updated booklists from the Guide/Reviews Database starring the holiday itself, Mexican and Mexican American protagonists, and the Spanish language. We've got recommended fiction and nonfiction titles for primary, intermediate, and older readers. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion....
Week in Review, April 28th-May 2nd
This week on hbook.com... April Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Summer Reading edition: 5Qs for Brian Selznick + a baker's dozen picture books, beginning readers & primary grades, intermediate, middle school, and high school selections — including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — all published 2024–2025 and ideal...
May Day
In commemoration of International Workers' Day, or May Day, here are book reviews to amplify the fight of workers and their efforts to secure better working conditions for all. See also author Francisco Jimenez's 1999 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award speech for The Circuit plus recommended reading on "the circuit"....
Five questions for Brian Selznick
In Run Away with Me (Scholastic, 14 years and up), Brian Selznick brings his signature mix of text and immersive black-and-white drawings to his first book for young adults. Two teen boys meet in 1986 Rome for a summer of mystery, art, and of course, first love. For more romantic recommendations,...
International Jazz Day
Cover of the January/February 2017 Horn Book Magazine by Francis Vallejo. Today is International Jazz Day. Over on the Guide/Reviews Database, search Music--Jazz for lots of great book recommendations, and below are some links and resources from The Horn Book about America's art form. Click the tag jazz for more....
Día 2025
April 30 is El día de los niños / El día de los libros (Children's Day / Book Day), a "celebration of children, families, and reading...that emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds." This year marks the twenty-ninth anniversary of Día — read about its history here and find...
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2025 Summer Reading List
Find annotations, interview, and more, here. Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2 Wind Watchers by Micha Archer (Paulsen/Penguin) A Sleepless Night by Micaela Chirif; illus. by Joaquín Camp; trans. from Spanish by Jordan Landsman (Transit) Duckie & Snaps: We Cannot Be Friends by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Tim Miller (Orchard/Scholastic)...
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