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09/12/2025

Week in Review: Caldecott Eligibility, Alexs Pate Talks with Roger, "Teaching Our Stories with the Latinx KidLit Book Festival" + more! https://www.hbook.com/story/blogs/week-in-review-september-8th-12th-2025

09/12/2025

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: https://hubs.la/Q03GrCLJ0
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09/12/2025

Alexs Pate Talks with Roger about GOOD (Capstone): "With his national teacher-training program, The Innocent Classroom, Alexs Pate explores a new paradigm for learning. GOOD, Pate’s picture book for young children (illustrated by Tequitia Andrews), puts that paradigm into action, providing reader-aloud and reader-along with an opportunity to co-discover Good": https://www.hbook.com/story/alexs-pate-talks-with-roger-2025

09/11/2025

Calling Caldecott's Adrienne L. Pettinelli: "Today, I thought I’d get into the weeds on eligibility, because this is something the Caldecott Committee spends time thinking about, and it comes up in our musings here on Calling Caldecott as well..." https://www.hbook.com/story/caldecott-eligibility

09/10/2025

From the September/October Horn Book Magazine: "Teaching Our Stories with the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival" by Tracey T. Flores and Carla España. "It is a joy to witness the ­thoughtful LKBF programming enabling ­pre-K–12 teachers, teacher educators, and higher education scholars to weave the Latinx writing many of us missed in our early schooling into instructional and community events...We hope our experiences also motivate others to consider ways to amplify Latinx stories and voices along with supporting programming like the LKBF, which connects Latinx creatives with the ­storytellers in our ­communities."

From the September/October 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

09/10/2025

⭐ A GIFT OF DUST: HOW SAHARAN PLUMES FEED THE PLANET by Martha Brockenbrough; illus. by Juana Martinez-Neal (Knopf/Random House Children's Books): "Light, airy illustrations dotted with golden specks float across the pages, lending a near-magical atmosphere to a story that starts with a mother-to-be in a child’s nursery and then travels through space and time, providing clear and fascinating scientific explanations of Saharan dust along the way."

“When a sunbeam slips through a window in a certain slant of light, you can see a scattered sparkle: dust!” Light, airy illustrations dotted with...

09/09/2025

Calling Caldecott: Here's our (tentative) list. Tell us: what's on yours? https://www.hbook.com/story/whats-on-your-list

09/09/2025

SQUID IN PANTS by Kaz Windness (Simon Spotlight/SimonKIDS): "The buoyant text relies on one-syllable words and a poetic use of rhythm, rhyme, and repetition in phrases and short sentences that have a Seussian cadence."

A squid and friends—a turtle, pufferfish, and crab—snag some clothes hanging off the side of a small boat in this kooky, distinctive book for early...

09/08/2025

⭐ HOW TO REACH THE MOON by Nicolás Schuff; illus. by Ana Sender; trans. from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel (Amazon Crossing Kids/Amazon Publishing): "This well-orchestrated adventure is a childhood idyll, complete with apple cake, chocolate, just enough danger, and the ultimate luxury of being carried home asleep in a grandfather’s arms."

How can one visit the moon without leaving our Earth? This question, reminiscent of a riddle or folktale, is answered in a surprising and loving...

09/05/2025

: Sept/Oct TOC + Editorial: "What Do YOU Think?" and WELCOME BACK https://hubs.la/Q03GWzs80

09/05/2025

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: https://hubs.ly/Q03Grcrs0
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09/05/2025

is this Sunday! Celebrate intergenerational relationships with these articles and book recommendations: https://hubs.la/Q03GVR4d0