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⭐ IF WE WERE DOGS by Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers): "Blackall’s impeccably detailed, highl...
01/05/2026

⭐ IF WE WERE DOGS by Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers): "Blackall’s impeccably detailed, highly expressive illustrations add heart and humor to this tale about the endless paw-sibilities of pretend play—and the importance of speaking up for oneself."

In Blackall’s earlier picture book If I Was a Horse (rev. 9/23), a child imagines life as a spirited steed; activities include giving little sister a...

: Nicholl Denice Montgomery on DANCING WITH WATER by Gwendolyn Wallace; illus. by Tonya Engel (Kokila Books/Penguin Kid...
01/05/2026

: Nicholl Denice Montgomery on DANCING WITH WATER by Gwendolyn Wallace; illus. by Tonya Engel (Kokila Books/Penguin Kids): "Engel's illustrations are an excellent pictorial representation of the story and themes" https://www.hbook.com/story/blogs/dancing-with-water

⭐ OUTSIDE IN AND THE INSIDE OUT: A STORY ABOUT ARNOLD LOBEL by Emmy Kastner (Viking/Penguin Kids): "Readers will get...
12/31/2025

⭐ OUTSIDE IN AND THE INSIDE OUT: A STORY ABOUT ARNOLD LOBEL by Emmy Kastner (Viking/Penguin Kids): "Readers will get a sense of Lobel’s life, work, and personality in a book that’s as warm and vibrant as his best characters."

This picture-book biography of Arnold Lobel (1933–1987), which somewhat mimics the look of Lobel’s Frog and Toad series, explores his life through...

⭐ THE UNEXPECTED LIVES OF ORDINARY GIRLS by J. Anderson Coats (Atheneum/SimonKIDS): "This is historical fiction at i...
12/30/2025

⭐ THE UNEXPECTED LIVES OF ORDINARY GIRLS by J. Anderson Coats (Atheneum/SimonKIDS): "This is historical fiction at its best, fusing period details with a compelling narrative and challenging assumptions of then and now."

In 1910 small-town Colorado, Stanislava’s plan for getting out of her Slovene immigrant community—going by the “American name” of Sylvia, concealing...

ACROSS THE ICE: HOW WE SAVED THE OJIBWE HORSE by Darcy Whitecrow and Heather M. O’Connor; illus. by Natasha Donovan ...
12/29/2025

ACROSS THE ICE: HOW WE SAVED THE OJIBWE HORSE by Darcy Whitecrow and Heather M. O’Connor; illus. by Natasha Donovan (Candlewick Press): "The illustrations depict contemporary, twentieth-century, and historical Ojibwe people in appropriate ways, portraying authentic lived experience and avoiding stereotypes while showing continuity between the past and the present."

Whitecrow (Ojibwe/Dakota; Seine River First Nation Band), with coauthor O’Connor, tells of the rescue of the last four remaining Lac La Croix...

November/December for Eric Velasquez about THE POLAR BEAR AND THE BALLERINA (Holiday House Books for Young People)...
12/24/2025

November/December for Eric Velasquez about THE POLAR BEAR AND THE BALLERINA (Holiday House Books for Young People): "The polar bear was harder [to paint] because I’ve painted so many people and so few bears in the past."

From the November/December 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

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