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A Forest Song Adrienne L. Pettinelli finds Evan Turk's illustrations for A Forest Song, written by Kirsten Hall,

Calling Caldecott: Adrienne L. Pettinelli on A FOREST SONG: www.hbook.com/story/a-fore...

#Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek LINK + HUD: SHARKS & MINNOWS by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey (Norton Young Readers): sbee.link/tadj3qe79f

Banned Books Week 2025 It’s Banned Books Week again, and the censorship of books continues to be a clear and present danger.

Kicking off #BannedBooksWeek2025: www.hbook.com/story/banned...

⭐ #PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek ISLAND STORM by Brian Floca; illus. by Sydney Smith (Porter/Holiday): https://sbee.link/k4aruc9dgq

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#HBWeekinReview : Nov/Dec #HornBookMagazine #HBMag Starred Reviews, "The Impossibility of Writing Board Books" by Rachel G. Payne, #CallingCaldecott, and more: www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

Let's Be Bees Betsy Bird on Shawn Harris's Let's Be Bees:

#CallingCaldecott Betsy Bird on LET'S BE BEES: www.hbook.com/story/lets-b...

November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews The following books will receive starred reviews in the November/December 2025Horn Book Magazine.

The following books will receive starred reviews in the Nov/Dec #HornBookMagazine www.hbook.com/story/novemb... (Illustration from "Nunu and the Sea" by Isabella Kung) #HBMag #HBStars

⭐ #HBReviewoftheWeek THE HISTORY OF WE by Nikkolas Smith (Kokila/@penguinkids.bsky.social): "Combining vibrant, painterly illustrations and short, lyrical, explanatory paragraphs, Smith outlines major contributions of these various groups from prehistoric Africa" sbee.link/fdjbk3te6r

Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island Could an original board book be a Caldecott winner? Rachel G. Payne considers Jon Klassen's Your Places series.

#CallingCaldecott : Rachel G. Payne asks: "Could Jon Klassen’s trio of board books in the Your Places series (Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island) be a Caldecott winner?" www.hbook.com/story/your-f...

#HBReviewoftheWeek Susan Fletcher's SEA CHANGE (Amulet/Abrams Kids): "The romantic elements are as compelling as the philosophical and scientific questions throughout the text, and Turtle’s efforts to slow down and observe the world make for moments of beautiful prose." sbee.link/3byp6mwdvg

The Writer's Page: The Impossibility of Writing Board Books From the September/October 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

From Sept/Oct #HornBookMagazine #HBMag "The Writer's Page: The Impossibility of Writing Board Books" by Rachel G. Payne. "I started writing books for very young children in anger. A strange admission, I know..." www.hbook.com/story/the-wr...

⭐ #PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek CRANKY, CRABBY CROW (SAVES THE WORLD) by Corey R. Tabor (Greenwillow Books/@harperkids.bsky.social): sbee.link/kgwxqehu3c

#HBWeekinReview: Brian Lies #TalkswithRoger, Mac Barnett's National Ambassador speech, #CallingCaldecott, Rosh Hashanah, and more: www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

The Horn Book The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide are the most distinguished journals in the field of children’s and young adult literature and the core of our company. Founded in 1924 by Bertha Mahony to herald the best in children’s literature, more t

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: https://sbee.link/wad3pnyjfe
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ICYMI: FREE #BGHB25 registration is open: www.hbook.com/story/bghb25...

Brian Lies Talks with Roger ACat Napturns into a fantastical museum tour for the titular feline and for child readers.Brian Liesuses “colored glass, lead, gold leaf, ink, graphite and colored pencil, plaster, wood, goatskin parc...

Brian Lies #TalkswithRoger about CAT NAP (@harperkids.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social): "A CAT NAP turns into a fantastical museum tour for the titular feline and for child readers..." www.hbook.com/story/brian-...

Good Golden Sun From Scot Smith:

#CallingCaldecott: Scot Smith on GOOD GOLDEN SUN: www.hbook.com/story/good-g...

Thank you, Mac Barnett Margo Barlett and Mac Barnett are on the same wavelength.

#HBFamilyReading #FamilyReading Margo Bartlett: "Mac Barnett is among the many children’s authors who understand that writing for kids is writing both for kids and those who read to them..." www.hbook.com/story/thank-...

Please join us for the 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library! Registration is free + help spread the word: www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-bosto... #BGHB25

Review of We Carry the Sun Thousands of years ago, humans gathered under the sun’s rays for immediate heat. Then they began constructing homes that faced south to take...

⭐ #Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek WE CARRY THE SUN by Tae Keller; illus. by Rachel Wada (Norton Young Readers): "Full-bleed illustrations, both informative and bold, enhance Keller’s compelling, poetic text in this, her first nonfiction picture book." sbee.link/dkjtyhq864

A Gift of Dust Yesica Hurd considers Juana Martinez-Neal's illustrations for A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet, written by Martha Brockenbrough.

#CallingCaldecott: Yesica Hurd on A GIFT OF DUST: "Repetition of color and the theme of the circle of life are found throughout the book..." www.hbook.com/story/a-gift...

Review of This Moth Saw Brightness D (short for ’Wayne; the D is “invisible”), who lives in a somewhat off-kilter version of Baltimore, keeps to himself and doesn’t care about...

#Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS by @penguinkids.bsky.social (Dutton/@penguinkids.bsky.social): "Vacharat’s debut is a standout work of speculative fiction and a foreboding social satire about unethical governing and the corrosive values of Big Tech." sbee.link/efn3rwvah4

Shana tovah! 2025 / 5786 Rosh Hashanah begins tonight, and Yom Kippur begins the evening of October 1.

Shoshana Flax: "Rosh Hashanah 5786 begins tonight, and Yom Kippur begins the evening of October 1. Not to mention Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah, all in the coming weeks! Wishing you a year of safe passage / self-expression..." www.hbook.com/story/shana-...

An Important Job: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature From the September/October 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

From the Sept/Oct #HornBookMagazine #HBMag Mac Barnett's "An Important Job: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature," including Q/A by Dr. Carla Hayden @librarycongress.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social

⭐ #PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek THE MOVING BOOK by Lisa Brown (Porter/Holiday): "Lighthearted elements, especially regarding the unreliability of the brother’s narration, mix with more poignant ones" sbee.link/d7uchvef9b

The Horn Book The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide are the most distinguished journals in the field of children’s and young adult literature and the core of our company. Founded in 1924 by Bertha Mahony to herald the best in children’s literature, more t

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: sbee.link/3fecdxbqut
@harperkids.bsky.social
#hbreviewoftheweek #fridayreads #kidlit #yalit

@shoshanaflax.bsky.social's "From the Editor" from September's issue of Notes from the Horn Book: sbee.link/x7wbvkpqdm

"School Stories" from September's Notes from the Horn Book: sbee.link/ktv38cxphw

How Sweet the Sound Dean Schneider poses the question about Charly Palmer's illustrations for How Sweet the Sound, written by Kwame Alexander: “Is this fine art that decorates the page, or is this a children’s picture bo...

#CallingCaldecott : Dean Schneider on HOW SWEET THE SOUND: "Here’s a book so beautiful you wish you could have the original art gracing your living room walls...And it reads beautifully, too": www.hbook.com/story/how-sw...