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Former Editor in Chief Roger Sutton asks five questions of the new ninth Horn Book Editor in Chief, Elissa Gershowitz.

Cover art by Micha Archer from Snow Horses: A First Night Story, written by Patricia MacLachlan.

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The 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to Sabaa Tahir for All My Rage published by Razorbill Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

The 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to Joseph Bruchac for Rez Dogs published by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

The 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to author Thomas King and illustrator Natasha Donovan for Borders published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

This picture-book biography of writer Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford), by the team behind Freedom Bird (rev. 1/20), pays homage to its renowned subject and the wondrous power of storytelling. In childhood, Morrison was a listener, relishing the stories and music shared by her parents and grandparents.

Alexander’s latest verse novel, the first in a projected trilogy, is historical fiction set in 1860, in an Asante Kingdom village. Kofi Offin learns about the world through his storyteller grandfather Nana Mosi: how he came to be named after the river; the origin of the rivalry with neighboring Lower Kwanta; and the history of “the wonderfuls,” the white colonials who have claimed dominion over their nation of Ghana.

Book, links, and interviews for Indigenous Peoples Day.

Im here (once again!) to put in a plug for picture books aimed at the very youngest — books that rarely receive Caldecott recognition. Today its the turn of Nina Crewss Im Not Small and Antoinette Portiss A Seed Grows.