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In July 1888, women and girls working at a match factory in East London went on strike to protest dangerous working conditions and poor pay. Carroll...

The unnamed narrator’s grandfather has died, and her mother is taking her on a trip he had planned for them, to the ocean to see his beloved whales....

From the November/December 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

In this retelling of an Aesop’s fable, three elderly sisters don their patched-up coats—yellow, blue, and red—and head out for a walk. The next two...

Monica de los Reyes champions Duncan Tonatiuhs Game of Freedom: Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira.

Myer’s graphic memoir is a welcome transracial adoption story told from the adoptee’s point of view. Adopted from South Korea by a white couple,...

Kimberly Fakih on There Was a Party for Langston:

Set one week after its predecessor (Stuntboy, in the Meantime, rev. 1/22), this illustrated novel follows Portico Reeves through one very eventful...

Taken on its own merits, Tomfoolery! stands out in the field. As nonfiction it is beholden to the truth, but with the aid of its deft illustrator it is capable of evoking just as much action and enjoyment as any Randolph Caldecott illustrated title.

Wily Fox meets his match in crafty Rabbit­, as the would-be predator waits by a bunny hole. Underneath the ground, the light from the hole shines down on a rabbit listening alertly while the rest of the bunnies spring into action. Some have hard hats and shovels, while others pore over a map, looking as if they are strategizing. Fox wants Rabbit to come up from the hole and starts his pitch: “Might a kind bunny help out a poor fox?” Rabbit pretends not to be able to hear him properly.