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Muhammad Najem was just eight years old when civil war began in his home country of Syria. Early in this excellent graphic memoir, Mu...

Allison Grover Khoury takes in the thoughtful beauty and the wisdom that Michaela Goade offers us in the story and art of Berry Song.

Vernick’s absorbing historical World War II novel alternates between the perspectives of two teenage girls: Nellie Doud in Oregon and...

Cole’s skill in creating wordless picture books (see, for example, Nesting , rev. 3/20) shi...

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

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Hale (Water Land, rev. 7/18) introduces readers to biomimicry through fifteen examples fou...

In 1968, a grandfather and grandchild wait for the train carrying the slain Robert F. Kennedy’s body to pass by, in order to pay thei...

Evicted from their Oklahoma farm in the midst of the Dust Bowl, the Willard family strikes out for California looking for work as mig...

The Caldecott award criteria ask the committee to identify excellence in artistic technique and pictorial interpretation of theme; appropriateness of style to that theme; delineation of plot, theme, and characters through the pictures; and excellence of presentation for a child audience. Clearly, Sophie Blackalls gorgeous and poetic Farmhouse is superb on all counts -- and the fact that shes won the Caldecott twice before should be irrelevant.