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Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 4h

ICYMI on #HBOutoftheBox yesterday: Books, links, articles, & interviews for #IndigenousPeoplesDay worth reading all year long: www.hbook.com/story/indige...

Book, links, and interviews for Indigenous Peoples' Day.

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 5h

#Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek ZARINA DIVIDED by Reem Faruqi (Harper/HarperKids Books): "Faruqi’s thoughtful use of verse emphasizes the fragmented nature of Zarina’s life—moments of calm are broken by violence, fear, or sadness." www.hbook.com/story/review...

Review of Sato the Rabbit: Morning Light Morning Light

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 5h

#Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek ZARINA DIVIDED by @harperkids.bsky.social (Harper/@harperkids.bsky.social): "Faruqi’s thoughtful use of verse emphasizes the fragmented nature of Zarina’s life—moments of calm are broken by violence, fear, or sadness." sbee.link/gxuwtcdr6k

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 1d

⭐ #PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek SATO THE RABBIT: MORNING LIGHT by Yuki Ainoya; trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky (@enchantedlion.bsky.social): sbee.link/3pxawm8j4r

Is Sato a boy in a rabbit costume or a rabbit with a human face and bearing? Is he a kid or a grownup? What matters is that he’s an alert, curious,...

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 4d

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: sbee.link/pcdh49qwjt
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Preview November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 4d

Week in Review: Banned Books Week 2025, November/December Horn Book Magazine preview, Amber McBride Talks with Roger, and more: www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 4d

NEW! November/December 2025 #HornBookMagazine #HBMag preview. Cover art by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower (@sbkslibrary.bsky.social) written by Alda P. Dobbs: www.hbook.com/story/previe...

Cover art by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower written by Alda P. Dobbs.

Amber McBride Talks with Roger

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 4d

Amber McBride #TalkswithRoger about The Leaving Room: www.hbook.com/story/amber-... @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social

The Leaving Roomdoesn’t start with much—a girl in a room talking to herself. But I knew, from interviewingAmber McBrideaboutGone Wolf, to trust that nothing was necessarily as it seemed.

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 5d

#CallingCaldecott: Annisha Jeffries on TO SEE AN OWL: www.hbook.com/story/to-see...

To See an Owl

The Writer's Page: Freedom Braids: The Power of Metaphors in Liberation Literature

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 5d

From the Sept/Oct #HornBookMagazine #HBMag "The Writer's Page: Freedom Braids: The Power of Metaphors in 'Liberation Literature'" by Monique Duncan: www.hbook.com/story/the-wr...

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

Review of Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 6d

#Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek BE THE LIGHT: HOW SHE BECAME ANGELA DAVIS by Daria Peoples (Greenwillow Books/@harperkids.bsky.social): sbee.link/n7uc64er9x

This picture-book biography of the educator and “passionate activist for equality and justice for all” emphasizes how the events of Davis’s (b. 1944)...

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

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 7d

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

A Forest Song

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

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 7d

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

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 8d

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

Banned Books Week 2025

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

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 8d

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

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 11d

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: sbee.link/kdn9chmyvr
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#hbreviewoftheweek #fridayreads #kidlit #yalit

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

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 11d

#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/...

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 12d

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

Let's Be Bees

November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 13d

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

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

Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 13d

⭐ #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

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 14d

#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...

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

The Writer's Page: The Impossibility of Writing Board Books

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 14d

#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 Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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