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Nov 26, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rhonda Roumani |Katheryn Russell-Brown |Frank Morrison |Candace Fleming
A well-crafted biography of a lesser-known singer who deserves many more tributes. In spite of sexism, the singer also known as “Egypt’s Fourth Pyramid” built a storied career with her voice and integrity. Growing up in a village where few families believed in educating their daughters, Umm Kulthum (1898-1975), who was named after a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, defied expectations early by memorizing the Qur’an.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
storagereview.com | Frank Morrison
Azure Stack HCI represents Microsoft’s cutting-edge approach to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), offering a seamless…
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Frank Morrison
Nonfiction and Poetry WinnersNonfiction WinnerThe Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; illus. by Brett HelquistIntermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 288 pp. 9/23 9780593643846 $19.99Library ed. 9780593643853 $22.99e-book ed. 9780593643860 $11.99The Mona Lisa wasn’t the world’s most famous painting when it disappeared from the Louvre in 1911.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Frank Morrison
Fiction Winner Remember Us by Jacqueline WoodsonMiddle School Paulsen/Penguin 192 pp. 10/23 9780399545467 $18.99e-book ed. 9780399545481 $10.99Sage Durham, a basketball-obsessed Black twelve-year-old, is looking forward to a summer of pick-up games with the boys (she’s always the only girl on the court) in her close-knit 1970s Brooklyn neighborhood. Instead, it proves to be a season of screaming sirens and burned-out buildings.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Frank Morrison
Picture Book Winner Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 10/23 9780823442621 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823450237 $11.99A mother and child lie in bed, sharing memories in the dark. Changes in font color and placement guide readers in knowing who is speaking at which moment. First, the mother asks “Do you remember...” about a picnic they once had. The child then recalls a first bicycle, and the mother, a rainstorm.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Frank Morrison
On Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. On Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: VIDEO * * * For reviews of the winning titles and more, click on the tag BGHB24.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Frank Morrison
Special CitationThe New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Familiesby Karida L. Brown and Charly PalmerChronicle 208 pp. 10/23 9781797216829 $40.00This inspiring and impressive volume is a tribute to the original Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun (an offshoot of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Crisis, it was published from 1920 to 1921 with the intention to uplift and center Black children).
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
hbook.com | M. T. Anderson |Kevin Hawkes |Frank Morrison |Elizabeth Wein
M. T. Anderson: The first time I went to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, I was overwhelmed. I was a young man with only a couple of novels out, which had sold only a handful of copies, mainly to wincing relatives. This was back when YA was still considered the embarrassing side-door of the publishing industry, a dead-end genre that could never match the literary heights of Knopf novels about dreary infidelities in Connecticut.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Frank Morrison |Elizabeth Wein |Anne Quirk |Liza Woodruff
We have it allBrilliance, talent, artists, writers, philosophers, scholars, educators, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs,Activists, and meFrom the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Frank Morrison |Carole Weatherford |Michaela Goade |Joy Harjo
In our Book Reviews section, between Fiction and Nonfiction, you can often find reviews of Folklore and/or Poetry. This is an “and/or” because we don’t always have both, and sometimes we have neither. Our coverage tends to ebb and flow, as do the trends in books being published.
