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07/08/2025

2025 Illustrator Award Speech by C. G. Esperanza for MY DADDY IS A COWBOY (Abrams Kids): "Now that I have been awarded the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award as well as a Caldecott Honor for my first horse drawings, I have drawn many horses, and I have learned some interesting facts about horses that I’d like to share." https://hubs.la/Q03wgyrw0 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table-CSKBART American Library Association

From the July/August 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards.

07/08/2025

⭐ MAX IN THE LAND OF LIES by Adam Gidwitz (Dutton/ Penguin Kids): "[Story twists]...are brilliantly engineered by Gidwitz and feel entirely organic."

This sequel picks up where Max in the House of Spies (rev. 3/24) ended, with just-turning-thirteen Max parachuting into N**i Germany on a...

07/07/2025

2025 Author Award Speech by Jason Reynolds for TWENTY-FOUR SECONDS FROM NOW... (Dlouhy/Atheneum/SimonKIDS Simon Teen): "To be in a constant state of learning, a non-mastery, is the best way to be loving. But one has to be given space to learn." https://hubs.la/Q03w7nfW0 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table-CSKBART American Library Association

From the July/August 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards.

07/07/2025

⭐ DOWNPOUR: SPLISH! SPLASH! KER-SPLASH! by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata; trans. from Japanese by Emily Balistrieri (Red Comet Press): "A joyful and refreshing multisensory experience."

Vivid illustrations and enthusiastic prose evoke the surprise and awe of a summer rainstorm in this Japanese import. A child narrator peers out the...

07/04/2025

: Jul/Aug Special Issue Awards speeches by medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, medalist Rebecca Lee Kunz, and winner Carole Boston Weatherford; + more! https://hubs.la/Q03vkjft0

07/04/2025

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: https://hubs.la/Q03vk8yl0
Candlewick Press SimonKIDS Simon Teen MacKids Books Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

07/04/2025

Happy 4th of July from The Horn Book! Here are some for the holiday recommended by : https://hubs.la/Q03vkqgx0 + dig into our 2025 recommendations: https://hubs.la/Q03vkhGK0

07/03/2025

⭐ HOW ELEGANT THE ELEPHANT: POEMS ABOUT ANIMALS AND INSECTS by Mary Ann Hoberman; illus. by Marla Frazee (Tingley/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers): "A hotel worth checking into—and a collaboration worth checking out."

As an introduction by the late Hoberman explains, for this collection she selected favorite poems of hers “about animals and insects” from past books...

07/02/2025

From July/Aug : Special Issue: Awards: Acceptance by Carole Boston Weatherford: "My books bear witness to African American traditions, trials, trauma, and triumphs." https://hubs.la/Q03vkC6P0 ALSC - The Association for Library Service to Children American Library Association

From the July/August 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards.

07/02/2025

REVOLUTIONARY MARY: THE TRUE STORY OF ONE WOMAN, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND AMERICA'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM by Karen Blumenthal and Jen McCartney; illus. by Elizabeth Baddeley (Roaring Brook/MacKids Books): "Baddeley’s mixed-media illustrations bring home Goddard’s determination and resolve."

A little-known fact is that the Declaration of Independence, or the “Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America,” signed by...

07/01/2025

2025 Medal Acceptance by Rebecca Lee Kunz for CHOOCH HELPED (Levine/Levine Querido): "Children need honest stories that can speak to their intelligence." https://hubs.la/Q03vkx710 ALSC - The Association for Library Service to Children American Library Association

From the July/August 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards.

07/01/2025

⭐ REBELLION 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Dlouhy/Atheneum/SimonKIDS Simon Teen): "Anderson’s return to historical fiction highlights her mastery of the genre, with well-rounded characters, detailed storytelling, and timely subject matter that make it a must-read for today’s youth."

Thirteen-year-old Elsbeth Culpepper, maid to a judge, lives through the Siege of Boston only to find herself in a precarious situation when British...