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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...
Photos courtesy of Monica de los Reyes. Is there anything better than stories and snacks? Elissa and I were lucky enough to get both when we sat in on author Karina N. González’s bilingual storytime at the Connolly branch of the Boston Public Library last Friday afternoon. The event was...
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...
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....
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...
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"....
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...
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....
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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