Sarah Hunter

Chicago

Senior Editor at The Booklist Reader

Booklist Books for Youth and Graphic Novels Editor. I love weird art and have serious opinions about YA novels. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.

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By Sarah Hunter.

Oct 8, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

First published October 8, 2024 (Booklist Online). Welcome to another installment of the Shelf Care interview, an occasional podcast series in which Booklist editors talk to book people. This Shelf Care interview is sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group. In this episode of Shelf Care Interview, Sarah Hunter talked to Carole Boston Weatherford about her forthcoming picture book, The Doll Test: Choosing Equality, which will be out in November. You can listen to this interview here.
Top 10 Middle-Grade Graphic Novels: 2024

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published July 2024 (Booklist). Fairy tales, ghost stories, animal adventures, and burgeoning crushes are just some of the excellent middle-grade offerings in these graphic novels, reviewed in Booklist from July 2023 to June 2024. Art Club. By Rashad Doucet. Art by the author. 2024. Little, Brown Ink, $24.99 (9780759556362). Gr. 4–7.
Top 10 Graphic Novels: 2024

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published July 2024 (Booklist). From the claustrophobia of domesticity to the vast weirdness of space, these prime examples of graphic fiction, reviewed in Booklist from July 2023to June 2024, offer a rich variety of moods, genres, and subjects. Earthdivers, v.1: Kill Columbus. By Stephen Graham Jones. Art by Davide Gianfelice and others. 2023. IDW, $17.99 (9798887240459).
Top 10 Graphic Nonfiction: 2024

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published July 2024 (Booklist). A dynamic array of perspectives, histories, cultures, and experiences makes up this list of excellent graphic nonfiction, all reviewed in Booklist between July 2023 and June 2024. Artificial: A Love Story. By Amy Kurzweil. Art by the author. 2023. Catapult, $38 (9781948226387).
Read-alikes: Haunted Houses

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published August 2024 (Booklist). Lily Anderson’s delightfully campy and fantastically eerie Killer House Party is packed to the rafters with classic haunted-house tropes—urban legends about the house’s original inhabitants, secret rooms, bleeding walls, lots of spiders, and séances gone wrong, among others—but it also cleverly explores how urban legends spread and the dreaded feeling of being trapped in a small town after high school.
Top 10 SF/Fantasy Books for Youth: 2024

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published August 2024 (Booklist). This year’s top 10 SF and Fantasy titles for youth, reviewed in Booklistfrom August 2023 through July 2024, showcase a fascinating array of magic systems and technologies—and in one case, both—that will thrill genre fans with the expansive possibilities of imagination. The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat. By Camille Gomera-Tavarez. 2024. Levine Querido, $19.99 (9781646142651). Gr. 10–12.
Booklist Backlist: Try, Try, and Try Again

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published July 2024 (Booklist). The first step in any sport usually involves some kind of tumble, especially for little ones learning new skills, but finding the wherewithal to keep trying is just as essential as the actual abilities. The following picture books emphasize the importance of persistence when trying something new. Elena Rides. By Juana Medina. Illus. by the author. 2023. Candlewick. PreS–Gr. 1.
Talking With: Mara Rockliff and Melissa Sweet

Jun 1, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Melissa Sweet |Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published June 1, 2024 (Booklist). There have been a number of picture-book biographies about Pop artist and art teacher Sister Corita Kent in the past several years, but Mara Rockliff and Melissa Sweet’s Signs of Hope (one of our Top 10 Biographies & Memoirs for Youth) stands out from the crowd, thanks to its surprising narrator—a group of her students—and Sweet’s distinctive collage artwork.
By Sarah Hunter.

Jun 1, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Hunter

FEATURE. First published June 1, 2024 (Booklist). This isn’t the first time A. S. King has been awarded the Printz medal; four years ago, we interviewed her about her Printz-winning novel, Dig.
Newsmakers: Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier

May 1, 2024 | americanlibrariesmagazine.org | Sarah Hunter

In early 2020, Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) was wrapping up promotion for eir memoir Gender Queer when e received an email out of the blue from Sarah Peitzmeier, a social epidemiologist working in LGBTQ+ health at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Peitzmeier, a fan of Kobabe’s work, wanted to collaborate with em on an illustrated guide based on her research on current chest-binding practices. The resulting book became Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding (Dutton, May).