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07/18/2025

: Jul/Aug Special Issue Awards Table of Contents and Editorial plus The Year in Words and Pictures; Daniel Miyares ; recap; + more! https://hubs.la/Q03xXLQf0

07/18/2025

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: https://hubs.la/Q03xWN6C0
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07/18/2025

: Daniel Miyares talks with Roger Sutton about HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN CUBAN (Schwartz/Random House Children's Books): "Learning the history made me able to get at what would motivate a father to uproot his wife and kids and put everyone's lives in danger, to go somewhere else. And now I’m a father. What would I do?"

With How to Say Goodbye in Cuban, picture book author and illustrator Daniel Miyares essays his first graphic novel, based on his father’s childhood in Cuba.

07/18/2025

As part of our online coverage of this year's Awards, the editors look back on 2024: "The past 'year in words and pictures' finds a celebration of creativity and resilience, familiarity and memory-keeping, through the words of and the images created by the award winners in our July/August issue and beyond." https://hubs.la/Q03xTZz_0

On January 27, 2025, the Youth Media Awards were announced, as usual, during what was long known as the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference (in recent years: LibLearnX). It seems likely that this was the last wintertime conference in that form. With so much upheaval and uncertainty...

07/16/2025

From July/Aug Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz's editorial: "In this -themed issue, several of the , , , and ­winners share their own 'origin stories' and/or those of the projects that brought them this year's accolades." https://hubs.la/Q03xw8DL0

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

07/16/2025

⭐ A LINE CAN GO ANYWHERE: THE BRILLIANT, RESILIENT LIFE OF ARTIST RUTH ASAWA by Caroline McAlister; illus. by Jamie Green (Roaring Brook/MacKids Books): "Green’s illustrations nicely complement the thoughtful and well-researched text"

This picture-book biography of Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) uses lines (straight, curved, wavy; physical and imaginary) as metaphors connecting the...

07/15/2025

July/August 2025 Special Issue: Awards (original cover by Rebecca Lee Kunz )
See the Table of Contents: https://hubs.ly/Q03xlW540
American Library Association ALSC - The Association for Library Service to Children Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table-CSKBART

July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards. Table of Contents. Cover (c) 2025 by Rebecca Lee Kunz.

07/15/2025

⭐ THE STRONGEST HEART by Saadia Faruqi (Quill Tree/HarperKids Books): "A raw portrayal of the pain, confusion, and hurt of a memorable young teenager."

Thirteen-year-old Pakistani American Mohammad and his father move from Queens to Houston to stay with his aunt and cousin while his research...

07/14/2025

: "Monday morning [at ] our customary giveaway of NEW July/August issues went off without a hitch and WITH a special surprise: this year’s Medalist Rebecca Lee Kunz, who illustrated our July/August cover, signed copies of the magazine for eager fans and colleagues." https://hubs.la/Q03x95Fr0 Levine Querido

Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz's roundup of the 2025 American Library Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia,

07/14/2025

THE LITTLEST DROP by Sascha Alper; illus. by Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (Schwartz/Random House Children's Books): "A stirring tale of courage, unity, and environmental stewardship."

When a brush fire begins raging, the animals flee to the river for safety—except for one determined hummingbird. The tiny bird carries drops of water...

07/13/2025

Today was the birthday of the late author-illustrator . Read more by and about him, including Sheila Wilensky's tribute to her friend + Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Drew Nelson's birthday tribute poem https://hubs.la/Q03w-SkL0 Ashley Bryan Center

07/13/2025

Today is ! Check out these 5 rock-solid from June https://hubs.la/Q03w-SjT0
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From the June 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.