Shawn Harris

Nov 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Shawn Harris |Cheryl Hudson |Traci N. Todd |Kwame Alexander

Shawn Harris. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5709-0In this sound-centric account of a riotous readaloud session from Caldecott Honoree Harris, a bearded caregiver in a blue top holds one side of a book while a child in a yellow shirt grasps the other. “Let’s be bees,” reads text on the first spread’s verso.

Apr 7, 2024 | madisonpubliclibrary.org | Shawn Harris

I call them winners! No joke, this book is sensational and worthy of all the accolades. Recipient of the 2024 Newbery Award given to the author of the most distinguished children's book of the previous year, The Eyes and the Impossible is funny, smart and unusual. I loved it. A dog, a seagull, a squirrel, some bison and a couple of raccoons work together to maintain a journalistic network of sorts to provide an accurate record of the happenings in the park where they reside.

Nov 12, 2023 | moonbowbooks.substack.com | Jason Reynolds |Jerome Pumphrey |Dave Eggers |Shawn Harris

A few years ago, I wrote on my Instagram that it was rare for me not to like a book—that I can always find something I like about a story. Immediately after posting it, I knew it wasn’t true. It was like I’d slapped myself in the face. Lies! I don’t like every book I read. But it wasn’t until I made such a proclamation that I realized it was bogus. Looking back, I think years of writing articles aimed at appealing to as many people as possible, had made me numb. I was blind to my own criticism.

Nov 2, 2023 | shepherd.com | Michael Finkel |John Gimlette |Mac Barnett |Shawn Harris

Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…I am a strong introvert. I like my "me" time. But then there’s this man—Christopher Thomas Knight, who spent 27 years living in the woods of Maine alone. Michael Finkel’s The Stranger in the Woods is about Knight, who went into the forest, unprepared, in 1986 and didn’t come out again until he was arrested in 2013.

Oct 11, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Tim Wright |Mac Barnett |Shawn Harris |Natalie Babbitt

Serious, jolly, and instructive—an entertaining Christmas adventure in the best spirit of the season. This middle-grade sequel sees a young teen return to a fantasy world and battle a troll who has plunged the land into despair. Christmas is fast approaching in Minneapolis. Thirteen-year-old Toby Baxter, never much of a reader, is trying to engage with his mom’s favorite holiday book: Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.