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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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
For Transgender Day of Visibility, here are some recently published books — for primary, intermediate, and older readers — from the Guide/Reviews Database that celebrate identities beyond the binary. See also: Transgender Awareness Week 2024 from October 2024 Notes from the Horn Book YA Pride from June 2022 Notes from the Horn Book...
Today is Major League Baseball's Opening Day. The following exchange encapsulates my children's fandoms and their reading interests. Me: Are they playing at home? Older Child: Yes, look at their uniforms. Younger Child: There are unicorns?! For related book recommendations, visit the Guide/Reviews Database subjects: Sports--Baseball + Unicorns. See also previous years' posts about...
When Lore Groszman Segal died at the age of ninety-six in October 2024, the New York Times celebrated her as “a virtuosic and witty author of autobiographical novels,” referring to her fiction for adults. Publishers Weekly’s obituary also acknowledged those works but gave equal weight to her stories for children....
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