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From the May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: : Past, Present, and Future—SEEING OURSELVES: OUR STORIES COULD FLY: THE FUTURE OF BOOKS FOR BLACK CHILDREN by honoree Ibi Zoboi: "Our books document humanity. Diverse books for children are a collective testimony to the human experience."
Fiction Review of the Week FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS by Cherie Dimaline (Tundra Books): "Dimaline’s intense, bittersweet, and often funny novel is more than a ghost story"
From the May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue : Past, Present, and Future—Jason Low Lee & Low Books on three decades of inclusive publishing: "The publisher’s role is to champion the stories that still need to be told, in order to depict the human condition as widely and inclusively as possible."
⭐ Picture Book Review of the Week LITTLE LAND by Diana Sudyka (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Little Brown School): "Sudyka’s lush spreads burst with a symphony of colors; graceful, swirling lines depict balance"
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ICYMI on Out of the Box: Congratulations to all on the Horn Book Magazine list! Reviews to come in the July/August issue
ICYMI on : Dashka Slater Talks with Roger Sutton about ACCOUNTABLE: THE TRUE STORY OF A RACIST SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT AND THE TEENAGERS WHOSE LIVES IT CHANGED (Farrar/MacKids Books): "One of the things that I hope that a book like this can do is to frontload kids with some understanding of the fact that things on social media are not private and that jokes have lasting consequences, both for the person who is the target of the joke and for the person who makes the joke."
https://www.hbook.com/story/dashka-slater-talks-with-roger-2023
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ICYMI: From the May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: : Past, Present, and Future—SEEING OURSELVES: QTBIPOC IN ABUNDANCE by honoree Sonora Reyes: "I want there to be enough books out there that they don’t all have to be 'important' or 'revolutionary'"
ICYMI: From the May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: : Past, Present, and Future—Katie Bircher on chronic pain in fantasy: "The characters who live with it are more than their pain, and their pain is more than a plot device"
ICYMI: From the May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: : Past, Present, and Future—SEEING OURSELVES: ALL BOOKS FOR ALL by winner Angela Joy: "My hope for the future of diverse is that one day, the segregating qualifiers will fall away for good."
Out of the Box Week in Review: May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue articles by Angela Joy, Katie Bircher, + Sonora Reyes; July/August ; Dashka Slater ; + more!
: Dashka Slater Talks with Roger Sutton about ACCOUNTABLE: THE TRUE STORY OF A RACIST SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT AND THE TEENAGERS WHOSE LIVES IT CHANGED (Farrar/MacKids Books): "One of the things that I hope that a book like this can do is to frontload kids with some understanding of the fact that things on social media are not private and that jokes have lasting consequences, both for the person who is the target of the joke and for the person who makes the joke."
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From the May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: : Past, Present, and Future—SEEING OURSELVES: QTBIPOC IN ABUNDANCE by honoree Sonora Reyes: "I want there to be enough books out there that they don’t all have to be 'important' or 'revolutionary'"
The following books will be receiving starred reviews in the upcoming July/August 2023 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards. Congratulations!