Modelling opportunity for blue-eyed brunettes

While editing my reviews for the upcoming Fall 2011 Horn Book Guide, Elissa spotted these:

From the last Guide:

Apparently, the heroine of a paranormal YA romance must be an extra-pale, blue-eyed brunette with her hair in her (partial) face—at least, if I'm going to review it.

—Katie Bircher

HBGO update

We've just added another 213 reviews to the Horn Book Guide Online database—take a peek at the newly added authors/illustrators and titles.

I think my favorite title this time around is The Time-Traveling Fashionista, though Jenna and Jonah's Fauxmance and Labracadabra are close runners-up.

Guide Online update

Get a sneak peek at the Fall 2011 Horn Book Guide! We've just added 210 reviews to the Guide Online—check out the brand-new titles, authors, and illustrators.

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Spring Guide now online

We've just added the final Spring 2011 Horn Book Guide reviews (1,551 of them!) to the Guide Online database. Take a peek at the newly added titles, authors, and illustrators.

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We're still waiting for spring in Boston...

but the Spring 2011 Guide just came in!

We can't stop exclaiming over the gorgeous cover, featuring art from Anita Lobel's Nini Lost and Found. Kudos to all the Guide goddesses and designer Lolly -- and Ms. Lobel, of course.

New Guide Online reviews

The Spring 2011 Horn Book Guide, covering books published from July to December 2010, will be out in April. Get a sneak peek over at our website, where we've added 349 reviews to the Guide Online.

Spring Guide preview!

The Spring 2011 Horn Book Guide will be published in April -- but you can get a sneak peek now. We've just updated the Guide Online database with 209 new reviews of titles published from July to December 2010.