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Jul 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jason Reynolds |Brendan Kiely |Ibram X. Kendi |Jason Griffin
Reynolds (Long Way Down) astounds in a sweetly hilarious story of two Black teens preparing to take a huge first step in their relationship. Twenty-four seconds before this book’s start, 17-year-old Neon Benton and Aria, his girlfriend of two years, were kissing on Aria’s bed.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
hbook.com | Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
NEW: Register for the 2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Virtual Celebration!Join us LIVE online Friday, November 3, 2023, at 5:00pm Eastern for our first-ever, virtual, free Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration! The 2023 BGHB winners — Angeline Boulley, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, and Jack Wong — will read their acceptance speeches, discuss their work, and answer questions from the virtual audience.
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
laptrinhx.com | Jason Griffin
How to configure GitOps-driven, immutable infrastructure workflows for Terraform using Gruntwork Patcher. A couple of months ago we announced the beta release of Gruntwork Patcher, a tool to automatically keep your infrastructure code up-to-date, even with breaking changes. I’m now happy to announce the beta release of Patcher promotion workflow.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
hbook.com | Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
Fiction and Poetry Winner Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline BoulleyHigh School Holt 400 pp. 5/23 9781250766588 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250766595 $11.99Boulley returns to Sugar Island, Michigan, in 2014, ten years after the events of the multi-award-winning Firekeeper’s Daughter (rev. 5/21). This novel’s protagonist is Daunis’s sixteen-year-old niece, Perry Firekeeper-Birch.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
hbook.com | Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here:The 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners are: PICTURE BOOK AWARD WINNER: When You Can Swim by Jack Wong (Orchard Books/Scholastic Inc.) Read the Horn Book's review.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
hbook.com | Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
Picture Book Winner When You Can Swimby Jack Wong; illus. by the authorPrimary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. 5/23 9781338830965 $18.99e-book ed. 9781338830989 $18.99With poetic text and gorgeous, inclusive illustrations, Wong invites readers to learn how to swim — to conquer fear of the water, and also to reclaim aquatic spaces for Brown, Black, and differently abled bodies.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
hbook.com | Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
Nonfiction Winner Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School Graphix/Scholastic 240 pp. 4/23 978133856328 $24.99Paper ed. 9781338356311 $14.99e-book ed. 9781338747621 $14.99This follow-up graphic memoir to Hey, Kiddo (rev. 9/18) is aesthetically similar to its predecessor but altogether different in subject and scope.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
hbook.com | Pamela Turner |Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
We all know stories are powerful. And some themes and subject matter are evergreen: friendship is celebrated in Don Quixote as well as in the Frog and Toad books. Mating partners and social standing figure equally in Pride and Prejudice and the eleventh-century Japanese saga The Tale of Genji. “Widespread infatuation with a tale involving brother-sister incest, adultery, and fractious kingdoms” describes Game of Thrones and the legends of King Arthur. But why do stories matter?
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Feb 26, 2023 | 
sonderbooks.com | Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. Our Story. Our Way. Review posted May 3, 2023. Atheneum, 2022. (First created in 2009.) 96 pages. Review written February 26, 2023, from a library book. 2022 Cybils Finalist - Poetry Collections My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. is from the same two Jasons who created the award-winning Ain't Burned All the Bright. This book came first, and was recently reissued.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
hbook.com | Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Jason Reynolds |Jason Griffin
Cover art by Juana Medina from Elena Rides. Cover art by Juana Medina from Elena Rides. Pamela S. Turner on why the need for narrative is universal across time and cultures. The Illustrator’s Eye: JooHee Yoon on the wonder of preseparation art. On Audiobooks: An interview by Kate Smith about adapting a graphic novel into audio. Field Notes: Dean Schneider looks back at his journey through the world of children’s literature.
