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The Horn Book | Review of The Art of Alice & Martin Provensen by Alice and Martin Provensen, Leonard S. Marcus, Robert Gottlieb, and Karen Provensen Mitchell

Marcus provides an enlightening introduction to a lavish collection of illustrations from the long and distinguished career of Alice and Martin Provensen. Pictures from twenty-four of their books (including those Alice Provensen created independently after her husband’s death) are arranged chronologically, with several illustrations representing each title.

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The Horn Book | Review of Poems from When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne; illus. by Rosemary Wells

Wells says in an opening note that she chose her favorite twelve poems from Milne’s beloved classic to present in “picture-book format.” She gives each its own introductory page on which she shows that poem’s characters (usually a cat, mouse, rabbit, or other critter) as well as other important elements.

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The Horn Book | Review of Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond and Daniel Minter

This wide-ranging nonfiction picture book explores the many facets of a single color, dipping a brush into culture, history, linguistics, art, science, and more. Brew-Hammond begins with a historical look into the different ways people around the world made the title hue and how the difficulty of those methods influenced the color’s early cultural meaning, causing it to be associated with luxury and royalty.

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The Horn Book | Review of Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe

This emotionally complex novel set within a contemporary Orthodox Jewish community is full of immersive Jewish detail — literally, as much of the story centers around the mikvah, or ritual bath, that eleven-year-old Aviva’s mother has run since Aviva’s father’s death; mother and daughter now live in a “shabby little apartment” above it.

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The Horn Book | Review of Mina by Matthew Forsythe

Mina is a mouse, her nose always in a book, who lives “in her own little world where nothing ever bothered her.” Her busy father brings home things he collects from the outside world, and one day he tells Mina that he has a big surprise.

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The Horn Book | Publishers' Preview: Diverse Books Spotlight: Five Questions for Jetta Grace Martin

From the January/February 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

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The Horn Book | Publishers' Preview: Diverse Books Spotlight: Five Questions for Victor Piñeiro

From the January/February 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

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The Horn Book | Review of Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life by Marilyn Nelson

Despite her prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, sculptor Augusta Savage (1892–1962) remains largely unknown to younger generations. Through her accomplished verse, Nelson (My Seneca Village, rev. 11/15, and many others) introduces young-adult readers to Savage’s life and work.

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The Horn Book | Seeking Freedom: The Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America by Selene Castrovilla and E. B. Lewis

A true story from the Civil War offers insight into a little-known aspect of African American history. In 1861 Virginia, a man named George Scott, who had escaped enslavement, overhears how field hands had rowed to the nearby Fortress Monroe seeking refuge — and Union soldiers had not returned them to captivity.

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The Horn Book | Publishers' Preview: Diverse Books Spotlight: Five Questions for Eva Chen and Sophie Diao

From the January/February 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

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