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Salmieri delivers a moving intergenerational story using opposites as its central conceit. Opening pages show a view of Earth from space, reading:...

A supporting character in Saadia Faruqi’s popular series about Yasmin (from Yasmin the Builder to Yasmin the Zookeeper, with eighteen books in between thus far), Ali Tahir is another Muslim-American second grader with a big imagination. Now he gets his own series.

When I wrote this editorial for Julys issue of Notes from the Horn Book, my own kids were still weeks away from back-to-school. Now the time has come!

From the August 2023 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

“One night…Otilla finally ran away.” After trekking through the snowy forest, she knocks at the door of a large old house. A skull in the window says...

The Horn Books 2022–2023 Yearbook Superlatives

Horn Book at Tanglewood

In this picture book, Martínez seamlessly blends legend and science to expand readers’ understanding of axolotls. She starts with the creature’s life...

When the school bus drops Lily off after the last day of fifth grade, four months after the death of her twin brother, Anders, her loneliness is so...

On the day of a funeral, a young brown-skinned boy wears the cape that the deceased gave him, as a shield against painful memories. After the...