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#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Nov/Dec #HBMag Martha Meyer on Blueberry Awards criteria + Jan/Feb issue preview; #CallingCaldecott x2; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#CallingCaldecott: Julie Hakim Azzam on OUR LAKE by Angie Kang (Kokila/ @penguinkids.bsky.social): "Its quiet, tender, and profound brilliance is wholly desiring of #Caldecott recognition." www.hbook.com/story/our-lake
Our Lake
Julie Hakim Azzam makes the case for Angie Kang's Our Lake:
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December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
From November/December #HBMag Martha Meyer examines the Blueberry Awards Committee's anti-anxiety criteria for nature and climate books www.hbook.com/story/wont-y...
Won't You Miss the Polar Bears?
From the November/December 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#Nonfiction #HBReviewoftheWeek LOUDMOUTH: EMMA GOLDMAN VS. AMERICA (A LOVE STORY) (@mackidsbooks.bsky.social) " @dheiligman.bsky.social distills this remarkable, complex legacy...using a conversational voice that draws readers into her meticulously researched narrative" www.hbook.com/story/review...
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Day 8 of #25DaysofHolidayBooks: A SNOW DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Erin E. Stead (Roaring Brook/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social) www.hbook.com/story/review... #HolidayHighNotes #HornBookHolidays #holidaybooks #giftaday #bookaday #kidlit #winter
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
#CallingCaldecott: Stephanie Ford on SONG OF A BLACKBIRD (@01firstsecond.bsky.social / @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @fiercereads.bsky.social): " @vanlieshoutstudio.bsky.social brilliantly harnesses the #graphicnovel form to bridge time and space, history and memory." www.hbook.com/story/song-o...
Song of a Blackbird
Will the Committee consider Maria van Lieshout's Song of a Blackbird— a graphic novel?
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December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek IF LOOKS COULD KILL by @julieberrybooks.bsky.social (@simonkids.bsky.social @simonteen.bsky.social): "Berry’s call to awareness of misogyny in its many guises is strong and clear" www.hbook.com/story/review...
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
#PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek THE HOUSE THAT FLOATED by Guojing (Random House Studio/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social): "A cinematic page-turner" www.hbook.com/story/review...
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Nov/Dec #HBMag A Publisher's Perspective column from Jason Low of @leeandlow.bsky.social; @jasonreynolds83.bsky.social in conversation with @thehornbook.bsky.social; Oct #HBHerald; + more! sbee.link/4mgf9y3bwv
Week in Review, November 24th-28th
This week on hbook.com...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Day 6 of #25DaysofHolidayBooks: THE GIVING FLOWER: THE STORY OF THE POINSETTIA by Alda P. Dobbs; illus. by Emily Mendoza (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky/ @sbkslibrary.bsky.social) sbee.link/wkxr87ab9c #HolidayHighNotes #HornBookHolidays #holidaybooks #giftaday #bookaday #kidlit #christmas
Review of The Giving Flower: The Story of the Poinsettia
This engaging botanical history of the ubiquitous holiday plant begins in southwest Mexico where what we now call poinsettias grew wild. In the...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
November #NotesfromtheHornBook Elissa Gershowitz's editorial: "This issue of Notes offers...many great recommendations with which to curl up as the weather gets chillier" www.hbook.com/story/newsle...
From the Editor - November 2025
From the November 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM