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A Wichita girl, Katie, writes a letter to Bob, her family’s trustworthy white sedan, after it’s determined they need to trade it in for a larger...

Its time to tip our hat to the 2024 CaldeNotts-distinguished picture books that are ineligible for Caldecott consideration.

Vashti Harrisons Big was the first picture book to be named a National Book Award finalist. Will the Caldecott Committee recognize this powerful books creative use of color, and the way it stretches the picture-book form by forcing the pages of the book itself it to grow bigger?

Cathryn M. Mercier considers A Walk in the Woods, written by Nikki Grimes with illustrations by Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney:

From the January/February 2024 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

These graphic-format retellings of three Indonesian folktales steer their female protagonists away from traditional “superficial tropes” and render...

Will Remember, written by Joy Harjo, give Michaela Goade more Caldecott recognition? Allison Grover Khoury hopes the Committee soaked in the beauty and wisdom of this gorgeous book.

January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine Table of Contents. Cover (c) 2024 by Jack Wong.

We chose this title — THE HORNBOOK — because of its early and honorable place in the history of children’s literature, but in our use of it we are giving it a lighter meaning, as Mr. Caldecott’s three jovial huntsmen on the cover suggest. Just as they are so full of exuberant joy for the hunt that they cannot blow hard enough, so we are so full of enthusiasm for The Bookshop as a hunting-ground, and so keen on the trail of you lovers of books, that we must blow a horn — even our own ho...

Daunting, exhausting, sweaty, filthy, and dangerous are all words that can describe the work of the teams of firefighters who join together to contain and control wildfires...