August Notes from the Horn Book

August's Notes from the Horn Book is available now. Here's what to expect this issue:
- five questions for historian and scholar Marc Aronson
- More new nonfiction
- Concept books with a twist
- YA sequels
- Books of interest to adults
- updates on the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony and Horn Book at Simmons

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Newest Notes out today

July's Notes from the Horn Book will be hitting inboxes in about an hour. Here's what to expect this issue:
- five questions for illustrator Sophie Blackall
- Sophie's recent picture books
- picture book bios
- brand-new middle-grade fiction
- fresh perspectives on tough topics in YA
- updates on the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony and Horn Book at Simmons

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June Notes on the way

June's Notes from the Horn Book will appear in your inbox this afternoon.  This time we've got

- five questions for Jeanne Birdsall

- long-anticipated middle-grade novels

- summer themed picture books

- biographies for middle schoolers

- YA trilogy enders

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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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April Notes is here!

Look for the new Notes from the Horn Book in your inbox this afternoon, chock-full with

- five questions for Franny Billingsley
- fantasy for older readers
- spring animal antics in picture books
- nonfiction picture books
- truthiness in middle-grade fiction

  

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New Notes

The new Notes from the Horn Book is coming soon to an inbox near you, with
- five questions for Lee Bennett Hopkins
- poetry picture books
- new chapter books for young readers
- nonfiction about American legends
- young adult historical fiction

In each newsletter you'll also find online resources provided by Teaching Books. This month's links include audio excerpts of featured books Amelia Lost, Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream, and The Notorious Benedict Arnold. Sign up here!

New newsletter and next issue's stars

The ALA awards edition of Notes from the Horn Book arrives this afternoon -- if you're not subscribed, visit our website to view it online and sign up.


If that's not quite enough to tide you over until the next issue, here are the books receiving starred reviews in the March/April Magazine:

Where’s Walrus? by Stephen Savage (Scholastic)
Chime by Franny Billingsley (Dial)
Recovery Road by Blake Nelson (Scholastic)
The Romeo and Juliet Code by Phoebe Stone (Levine/Scholastic)
Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt; illus. by Louise Yates (Knopf)
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random)
Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown)
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas F. Yezerski (Farrar)

A proud day for Amos McGee

Over at The Horn Book website, you'll find yesterday's ALA award winners, plus our reviews of winning titles. Congratulations to all the winners!

Also, January's Notes from the Horn Book (including five questions for Jeannie Baker, armchair-traveling novels for middle graders, "Read it again!"-worthy toddler books, nonfiction picture books, and "out-of-this-world" YA) is in your inbox now -- unless you're not a subscriber, in which sad case you can view it online here and sign up here.

December Notes: all Fanfare, all the time

December's Notes from the Horn Book is full of Fanfare goodness, with glowing recommendations of 26 of the year's best-of-the-best books for children and young adults -- plus an interview with honoree Megan Whalen Turner.


The December Notes is available online at the Horn Book website, but make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on upcoming issues.

Drumroll, please!

We're delighted to announce the 2010 Horn Book Fanfare list, our picks for the best children's and young adult books of the year.

Picture Books

Mirror, written and illustrated by Jeannie Baker (Candlewick)

Me and You, written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (Farrar)

I Know Here, written by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood)

April and Esme, Tooth Fairies, written and illustrated by Bob Graham (Candlewick)

The Village Garage, written and illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Ottaviano/Holt)

Nini Lost and Found, written and illustrated by Anita Lobel (Knopf)

Fiction

Forge, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Atheneum)

Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher (Dial)

Happy Birthday, Sophie Hartley, by Stephanie Greene (Clarion)

Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same! written and illustrated by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)

The Sky Is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson (Dial)

Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, written and illustrated by Lincoln Peirce (HarperCollins)

As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow)

The Dreamer, written by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís (Scholastic)

Revolver, by Marcus Sedgwick (Roaring Brook)

The White Horse Trick, by Kate Thompson (Greenwillow)

A Conspiracy of Kings, by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)

One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad/HarperCollins)

Folklore

Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, written and illustrated by Salley Mavor (Houghton)

Poetry

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton)

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, written by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse (Dutton)

Nonfiction

They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton)

The War to End All Wars: World War I, by Russell Freedman (Clarion)

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca (Porter/Flash Point/Roaring Brook)

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot [Scientists in the Field], written by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop (Houghton)

The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery, written by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)

Read more about each of these excellent titles -- plus an interview with honoree Megan Whalen Turner -- in the December Notes from the Horn Book, coming next week. Sign up for the newsletter and view Fanfare lists since 1938 on our website.

New Notes from the Horn Book

The November edition of our newsletter Notes from the Horn Book is currently winging its way to inboxes, jam-packed with
- five questions for Lincoln Peirce, creator of Big Nate
- comic novels
- poetic picture books
- big kids' nonfiction
- must-have holiday books
and more!


Missing out? View the November Notes online at the Horn Book website, then subscribe for upcoming issues.