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09/06/2024

Out of the Box Week in Review: September/October Horn Book Magazine Table of Contents + Editorial; Calling Caldecott season begins with 2 new posts; Chuck Wendig Talks with Roger Sutton; + more!

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09/06/2024

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: https://hbook.com/section/bookreviews/reviewsoftheweek
Random House Children's Books Candlewick Press MacKids Books The New York Review of Books

09/06/2024

is this Sunday! Celebrate intergenerational relationships with these articles and book recommendations: https://www.hbook.com/search?query=grandparents&tag=grandparents

09/06/2024

Talks with Roger: Chuck Wendig Talks with Roger Sutton about MONSTER MOVIE! (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Little Brown School): "Horror is a strong spice, so you don’t want to pile it on. I think grounding it in something that’s real or almost real is meaningful."

A resolutely trepidatious kid, Ethan does not want to go to Kevin’s house to watch Demons of Death 4: Death Fingers with the rest of the gang Friday night. But little does he know that this Monster Movie! is going to come for him anyway. Below I talk with author Chuck Wendig about the virtues of s...

09/06/2024

Calling Caldecott: "Today we present: The List™ (subject to and likely to change). These are the Caldecott-eligible books that we (NOT the actual committee) think are notable and worth discussion"

Today we present: The List™ (subject to and likely to change) — Caldecott-eligible books that we think are notable and worth discussion.

09/06/2024

Old Friends Return Review of the Week NEED A HOUSE? CALL MS. MOUSE! by George Mendoza; illus. by Doris Susan Smith (The New York Review of Books): "Illustrations have an old-fashioned feel that suits the story; they are chock-full of fascinating details to pore over"

Mouse Henrietta, a gifted architect, designs unique houses for all her friends, be they mammal or fish or bird or amphibian or even insect. Rabbit’s...

09/05/2024

From September/October Horn Book Magazine Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz's fifth editorial: "Longtime readers may have heard this before...but The Horn Book has a fascinating history with CHARLOTTE'S WEB." HarperKids Books HarperStacks

From the September/October 2024 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

09/05/2024

NEW: Watch The Horn Book + The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art interview " with Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison"
Penguin Kids

Presented by The Horn Book and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

09/05/2024

September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine Table of Contents (cover from CHARLOTTE'S WEB illus. by Garth Williams HarperKids Books HarperStacks)

September/October 2024 Cover from Charlotte’s Web. Cover art © ­renewed 1980 by Estate of Garth Williams. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

09/04/2024

Nonfiction Review of the Week THREE SUMMERS: A MEMOIR OF SISTERHOOD, SUMMER CRUSHES, AND GROWING UP ON THE EVE OF THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan (Farrar/MacKids Books), which our reviewer called a "vividly told and moving memoir"

After eleven-year-old Amra’s brother’s death from complications of Marfan syndrome, her mother’s remedy for Amra’s grief is to arrange for her cousin...

09/03/2024

Out of the Box: Did you correctly guess the answer to question "One of our most well-known Controversies & Kerfuffles involved author and critic Eleanor Cameron and which famous author and their popular book?" Find out here...

Q: Who likes trivia? A: Horn Book editors do! (And we hope you do too!) As part of our centennial celebration in 2024, we'll be quizzing our readers on Horn Book trivia every Tuesday.

09/03/2024

Kitty Flynn: "Welcome to a brand-new season of Calling Caldecott...I’m thrilled to introduce you to our two newest co-authors: Annisha Jeffries and Adrienne L. Pettinelli...I am beyond excited to dive into our list of books with them."

Welcome to a brand-new season of Calling Caldecott!

09/03/2024

Out of the Box: It's time for !
This week: "One of our most well-known Controversies & Kerfuffles involved author and critic Eleanor Cameron and which famous author and their popular book?" Share your guess in the comments; the answer will be revealed later today...

Q: Who likes trivia? A: Horn Book editors do! (And we hope you do too!) As part of our centennial celebration in 2024, we'll be quizzing our readers on Horn Book trivia every Tuesday.

09/03/2024

⭐ Fiction Review of the Week THE SECRET LIBRARY by Kekla Magoon (Candlewick Press): "Magoon adeptly and naturally weaves issues of race, class, and gender into a creative fantasy adventure."

Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Delilah “Dally” Peteharrington’s mother wants to prepare her to take over the family business. Every afternoon, she meets...

09/02/2024

ICYMI on Family Reading: In "Reading with Mimi," Dean Schneider shares how his librarian friend, Emmie Stuart, reads aloud to her niece: "Emmie may well be proud of having a hand in raising a reader, but she will be especially grateful for all the special time spent with Virginia"

Dean Schneider shares how his librarian friend, Emmie Stuart, reads aloud to her niece, Virginia.

09/02/2024

⭐ Picture Book Review of the Week HEATWAVE by Lauren Redniss (Random House Studio/Random House Children's Books), which our reviewer called an "assured, measured, and elegant meditation on life during our current environmental crisis"

Redniss’s assured, measured, and elegant meditation on life during our current environmental crisis begins during a record-breaking heatwave with a...

09/01/2024

ICYMI on Out of the Box: Did you correctly guess the answer to question "One of our current columns, A Second Look, began in what year? Bonus question: What was the title of the first book discussed?" Find out here...

Q: Who likes trivia? A: Horn Book editors do! (And we hope you do too!) As part of our centennial celebration in 2024, we'll be quizzing our readers on Horn Book trivia every Tuesday.

09/01/2024

ICYMI on Talks with Roger: Kwame Mbalia Talks with Roger Sutton about JAX FREEMAN AND THE PHANTOM SHRIEK + his Disney Books imprint Freedom Fire: "I’m the one who gets to read all the books and then travel around and shout excitedly at people as to why they should purchase them and put them in their library."

With Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek, Kwame Mbalia introduces not only a new middle-grade fantasy hero, but a new imprint for Hyperion/Disney: Freedom Fire, dedicated to “Black Joy, Black Resilience, Black Storytelling.” Kwame serves as Freedom Fire’s publisher, meaning, as he says below, ....

09/01/2024

ICYMI: July/August Horn Book Magazine Five Questions for Hannah Chung about THE MOST PERFECT PERSIMMON (Astra Books for Young Readers): "My grandmother is my biggest cheerleader. She always tells me that there is a story to my art."

From the July/August 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: ALA Awards.

08/31/2024

ICYMI: Horn Book Reminiscences from former interns Mikayla Lawrence, Rachel Marsh, Kate Smith, Jill Leibowitz, and Monica de los Reyes: https://www.hbook.com/search?query=intern%20reminiscences&tag=intern%20reminiscences

08/31/2024

ICYMI: July/August Horn Book Magazine Five Questions for Rob Cameron about DAYDREAMER (Labyrinth Road/Random House Children's Books): "Writing in first person, I was Charles. EVERYTHING was real unless I/he said otherwise."

From the July/August 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: ALA Awards.

08/31/2024

ICYMI: July/August Horn Book Magazine Five Questions for Emma Hunsinger about HOW IT ALL ENDS (Greenwillow Books/HarperKids Books): "I try to name everything I’m feeling and what’s making me feel that way. This usually helps me put it in perspective..."

From the July/August 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: ALA Awards.

08/30/2024

Out of the Box Week in Review: July/August Horn Book Magazine Five Questions for Emma Hunsinger, Rob Cameron, and Hannah Chung; Kwame Mbalia Talks with Roger; Family Reading post by Dean Schneider; Horn Book Reminiscences by former interns; + more!

This week on hbook.com...

08/30/2024

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: https://hbook.com/section/bookreviews/reviewsoftheweek
MacKids Books SimonKIDS Abrams Kids

08/30/2024

Family Reading: In "Reading with Mimi," Dean Schneider shares how his librarian friend, Emmie Stuart, reads aloud to her niece, Virginia: "Emmie may well be proud of having a hand in raising a reader, but she will be especially grateful for all the special time spent with Virginia" https://www.hbook.com/story/blogs/reading-with-mimi-growing-up-immersed-in-books

08/30/2024

Out of the Box: Did you correctly guess the answer to BELATED question "One of our current columns, A Second Look, began in what year? Bonus question: What was the title of the first book discussed?" Find out here...

Q: Who likes trivia? A: Horn Book editors do! (And we hope you do too!) As part of our centennial celebration in 2024, we'll be quizzing our readers on Horn Book trivia every Tuesday.

08/30/2024

: Kwame Mbalia Talks with Roger Sutton about JAX FREEMAN AND THE PHANTOM SHRIEK + his new Disney Books imprint Freedom Fire: "I’m the one who gets to read all the books and then travel around and shout excitedly at people as to why they should purchase them and put them in their library." https://www.hbook.com/story/kwame-mbalia-talks-with-roger-2024

08/30/2024

Out of the Box: It's time for BELATED !
This week: "One of our current columns, A Second Look, began in what year? Bonus question: What was the title of the first book discussed?" Share your guess in the comments; the answer will be revealed later today...

Q: Who likes trivia? A: Horn Book editors do! (And we hope you do too!) As part of our centennial celebration in 2024, we'll be quizzing our readers on Horn Book trivia every Tuesday.

08/29/2024

Former intern + assistant editor Monica de los Reyes's Horn Book Reminiscence: "Everyone was really nice, and we really got to read books! For pay!"

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. I didn’t know about the Horn Book before I saw the internship posting during my final semester of my master’s program in the spring of 2022. But I had always had a dream of working in publishing — fo...

08/29/2024

Former intern Jill Leibowitz's Horn Book Reminiscence: "Being part of the Horn Book prepared me to evaluate and select books for my library."

In honor of our centennial, we asked interns from over the years to share their reminiscences. As an intern at the Horn Book, I was immersed in the world of children’s books. I remember sitting in on staff meetings where books were passed around and discussed by the group.