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In Margo Bartletts latest dispatch from adventures in reading to her grandsons first-grade class, a small boy — well call him Bertie — surprised her. She finished reading, and as the kids lined up for lunch, Bertie said, “I thought it was boring.”

A striking die-cut paper-over-board cover, vertical orientation (with spine at the top of the book), and adventurous use of white space are only some...

“Those you are about to meet are real people, not stereotypes. They are women and men who truly were, through their words and their deeds, voices of...

The Horn Book is seeking a part-time Articles Development Editor

From the March/April 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Barone (Race to the Bottom of the Earth, rev. 5/21) delivers another impressive feat of narrative nonfiction storytelling. In the years...

From the March/April 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Lamb, shy protagonist and one of several narrators, tells of growing up in 1940s Jackson, Mississippi, with her brother, Simeon, and Marion, their...

Cohen’s inventive picture book uses graphic-novel conventions and is ­wordless but for the front and back matter and Hebrew and Aramaic text...

Frequent collaborators Barnett and Klassen serve up a delectable rendition of the oft-retold folktale. The bare-bones narrative “clip clops” along with abundant humor and plenty of verbal delights, repetition, and rhyme (“Who seeks to reach the grassy ridge? / Who dares to walk across my bridge?”) as the brash, blustery bully of a troll gleefully lists all the ways he loves to eat goat.