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Phyllis J. Fogelman (1933-2022) has passed away.

From the January/February 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Librarians Patrick Gall and Jonathan Hunt engage in a free-wheeling conversation about early readers and the Caldecott Award (spoiler alert: theres not much overlap) — and offer some candidates from the crop of 2022 beginning readers for Caldecott consideration.

Showcasing another fascinating animal (Giant Squid, rev. 9/16; Honeybee, rev. 3/20)...

Guest poster Michelle H. Martin calls Frank Morrisons

In her debut YA novel, Cherokee writer Rogers distills two centuries of realistic intergenerational trauma into eighteen short horror stories linked by family connections. From the first story, set in 1839, to the last, set in 2039, the reader comes to know members of one family, forced out of their ancestral lands to the Cherokee Nation and dispersed further as “Urban Indians.”

Locating a lost library book

After a day on the hunt, Fox hears the birds singing in a new and different way. Fox follows their “strange morning song” and finds t...

From the November/December 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

From the November/December 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.