Recreational reading (and listening)

Our annual summer reading list is up, just in time for the long holiday weekend! If your Memorial Day plans involve travel (and traffic), be sure to peruse the new recommended audiobooks list for road trip listening suggestions.

May Notes out

This month's Notes from the Horn Book arrives today, including
- five questions for Patrick McDonnell
- nonfiction picture books for nature lovers
- chapter books for young readers
- middle-grade audiobooks (with bonus recommended audiobook list)
- new young adult fiction

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Required reading for Women's History Month

We've just put up a list of recommended women's history books on the Horn Book website.

Oy vey! A Hanukkah booklist

Though Elissa laments the lack of good Hanukkah books published this holiday season, we've compiled a list of tried-and-true titles to last at least the next seven nights.

Check 'em out here. And while you're at it, see what else -- like a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie review -- is new on the Horn Book website.

(To your left: a Matt James-worthy menorah.)