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Nov 12, 2024 | 
slj.com | Carole Weatherford |David Cooper |Linda Park |Chris Raschka
We’ve all heard the old adage “Never judge a book by its cover.” But as school and public librarians, you may well judge books by their covers all the time, whether you are conscious of it or not. It’s hard to look away from a great cover, especially with picture books. And publishers know that a gut reaction to a picture book cover can mean the difference between a librarian adding that title to a collection or looking for other options.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Carole Lindstrom |Katherine Paterson |Duncan Tonatiuh |Linda Park
Happy Anniversary, Horn Book! It’s been pure joy to watch you grow over the years. I read you voraciously as I honed my writing craft. And now I jump for joy to see my books so thoughtfully reviewed by you. I learned so much from you as an aspiring kidlit author. I would pore over your magazine to read the reviews, which were so carefully and professionally done, helping me to become a better writer though I didn’t even know it at the time.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Katherine Paterson |Duncan Tonatiuh |Linda Park |Andrea Davis Pinkney
My son John, who is not only a voracious reader but has also had the opportunity to meet many writers, librarians, editors, and publishers, said to me once, “You know, Mom, how lucky you are. You get to work with the best people in the world.” I do know that, and I am very grateful. But that world is under threat as it has never been before in my lifetime.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Duncan Tonatiuh |Linda Park |Andrea Davis Pinkney |Barbara McClintock
"My hope is that in the future there will be more and more diversity in children's literature so that kids of all different backgrounds can see their cultures and histories depicted in the books they read."Illustration (c) 2024 by Duncan Tonatiuh. From 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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Jun 17, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Linda Park |Andrea Davis Pinkney |Barbara McClintock |Steve Sheinkin
As a wide-eyed debut author in the century before this one, I had a kind of breathless regard for The Horn Book Magazine. It was partly the trim size, which somehow gave it a booklike heft and purpose. It was also the infrequency of its appearances — just six times a year, making it rare and desirable.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Linda Park
Illus. by Chris Raschka.
June 2024. 36p. Red Comet, $18.99 (9781636550947). PreS-Grade 2.
REVIEW.
First published June 1, 2024 ().
Budding bibliophiles will embrace this celebration of the pleasures of reading, in which a wide array of children sing the praises of their favorite book. Strolling in the rain, a girl holds an umbrella with one hand, snugly clutches a treasured tome with the other, and proudly announces, “This is my book. / My favorite book.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Richard Jackson |Chris Raschka |Alice Faye Duncan |Linda Park
My Book and MeNewbery Medalist Park and two-time Caldecott Medalist Raschka celebrate the ways children shower their books with love—and what they get in return—in a picture book that catalogs reading’s pleasures. In each spread, a child, painted in lush, loose, rounded strokes, describes the way volumes teach, feed, and free them.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
whereverfamily.com | Linda Park |Barbara Rogers |Tomie dePaola
One of the benefits of travel for children is broadening their horizons beyond their hometown and making them aware of different places, people and customs. Family travels don’t need to be to exotic places or foreign countries to accomplish this. And without leaving home, you can help your child become familiar with places other than their own, and even begin to develop a world view, by choosing books reaching beyond their own surroundings.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
wwb-campus.org | Linda Park
About Graphic Fiction by Kim Han-min Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang and Sora Kim-Russell Influenced by video games, the graphic novel Kafe Limbo takes place inside a dystopian future, as a group of renegades desperately searches for a new home and a mythical life-saving "Mirror." Below is one chapter from the book.
Navigation Click the Next button to read the story.
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May 16, 2023 | 
thehudsonindependent.com | Linda Park
May 2023 Mid-Month Programs UpdateLIBRARY CLOSINGS THIS MONTH:The Library will be closed on:Monday May 29 for Memorial DaySummer Sundays — Closed through September!Meet the RaptorsWednesday, May 313:45 – 4:45 PMAges 6 and UpTeatown Reservation visits the Dobbs Ferry Library with a live presentation of 4-5 birds of prey!Registration recommended but not required – email [email protected], call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.
