#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview March #NotesfromtheHornBook w/ #5Qs for Shamar Knight-Justice; @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; #HBWomensHistoryMonth; register for @jerrycraft.bsky.social 's #ZenaSutherland Lecture; #StPatricksDay; 1st day of #spring; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
March #NotesfromtheHornBook w/ #5Qs for compiler Shamar Knight-Justice abt MELODIES OF THE WEARY BLUES: CLASSIC POEMS ILLUSTRATED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ( @harperkids.bsky.social ): "Hughes’s poems move in many diff directions, so bringing in a range of illus just made sense" www.hbook.com/story/five-q...
#HBBlackHistoryMonth: November/December 2025 #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Eric Velasquez about THE POLAR BEAR AND THE BALLERINA (Holiday House) www.hbook.com/story/author... #BlackHistoryMonth
#HBBlackHistoryMonth: November/December 2025 #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @caroleweatherford.bsky.social and Frank Morrison about FAMILY FEAST! (Crown/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social ) www.hbook.com/story/author... #BlackHistoryMonth
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: 2025 in review; February #NotesfromtheHornBook w/ #5Qs for Chanel Miller; Tracy Wolff #TalkswithRoger; #LunarNewYear; #Ramadan; #HBBlackHistoryMonth; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
#HBBlackHistoryMonth: May/June 2025 #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @antwaneady.bsky.social and London Ladd about THE GATHERING TABLE (Knopf/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social ) www.hbook.com/story/author... #BlackHistoryMonth
February #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Chanel Miller about THE MOON WITHOUT STARS (Philomel/ @penguinkids.bsky.social ): "To me books are valuable because they’re confirmation that someone out there has gone through something similar." www.hbook.com/story/five-q... [📸: Maria Tiffany]
#HBBlackHistoryMonth: May/June 2025 #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Craig Kofi Farmer about A METHOD FOR MAGIC AND MISFORTUNE @mackidsbooks.bsky.social
www.hbook.com/story/author... #BlackHistoryMonth
#HBBlackHistoryMonth: March/April 2025 #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @ibramxk.bsky.social about MALCOLM LIVES!: THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X FOR YOUNG READERS @mackidsbooks.bsky.social www.hbook.com/story/author... #BlackHistoryMonth
#HBBlackHistoryMonth: In March 2025 #NotesfromtheHornBook, we asked @chudson-author-66.bsky.social and London Ladd #5Qs about WHEN I HEAR SPIRITUALS sbee.link/xjyagwr4cf #BlackHistoryMonth
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: ALA Awards coverage; Jan/Feb #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Corey R. Tabor, @ashleybelote.bsky.social, @jencalonita.bsky.social, + @meerasub.bsky.social and Danica Novgorodoff; Mar/Apr #HBMag #HBStars; #CallingCaldecott x2; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
January/February #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @meerasub.bsky.social and Danica Novgorodoff about A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE ( @01firstsecond.bsky.social / @mackidsbooks.bsky.social ): "DN: There are solutions to the climate crisis everywhere." www.hbook.com/story/publis...
January/February #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @jencalonita.bsky.social about THE CURSE BREAKER ( @sbkslibrary.bsky.social ): "I wanted to tell this story about two girls, separated in time by two hundred years, trying to correct wrongs and solve a mystery" www.hbook.com/story/publis...
Jan/Feb #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @ashleybelote.bsky.social abt SQUIRREL LOCK HOLMES: THE PET ROCK MYSTERY (RH Graphic/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social ): "I need a rock-solid plan for the art in the early stages so I can outline what needs to be shown in each panel." sbee.link/9qwhyebkct
January/February #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Corey R. Tabor about WALLY MAMMOTH: HIDE-AND-SEEK (Greenwillow/ @harperkids.bsky.social ): "[Illustrator] Dalton [Webb] brought Wally, and Wally’s world, to life in a way that only he could have." www.hbook.com/story/author...
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: January #NotesfromtheHornBook w/ #5Qs for Hyewon Yum; @adibkhorram.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; #CallingCaldecott x2 (including the mock vote results!); + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
January #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Hyewon Yum about A SPOONFUL OF THE SEA ( @wwnorton.com ): "I felt responsible for recreating this story about the tradition properly." www.hbook.com/story/newsle... [📸: Sahn Choi]
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Nov/Dec #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @normfeuti.bsky.social , @caroleweatherford.bsky.social and Frank Morrison, + Eric Velasquez; #CallingCaldecott; Nov #HBHerald; + more! sbee.link/nt7qfcvrwk
November/December #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Eric Velasquez about THE POLAR BEAR AND THE BALLERINA (Holiday): "The polar bear was harder [to paint] because I’ve painted so many people and so few bears in the past." sbee.link/xrmw7au6vh
November/December #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @caroleweatherford.bsky.social and Frank Morrison about FAMILY FEAST! (Crown/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social ): "CBW: I find poetry in everyday life, even in the kitchen." www.hbook.com/story/publis...
N/D #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for @normfeuti.bsky.social abt A KID LIKE ME (HarperAlley/ @harperkids.bsky.social): "My biggest adjustment in writing for middle graders was learning to trust them to follow the story’s emotional arc w/o my spelling it out too explicitly" www.hbook.com/story/publis...
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Nov/Dec #HBMag #HolidayHighNotes + Jan/Feb #HBStars; Nov #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Laura Amy Schlitz; #CallingCaldecott x2; @taekeller.bsky.social #TalkswithRoger; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
November #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Laura Amy Schlitz about THE WINTER OF THE DOLLHOUSE (@candlewickpress.bsky.social): "I think what I was after was the idea of two worlds lying side by side." www.hbook.com/story/five-q... [📸: Joe Rubino]
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Sep/Oct #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Norman Ollestad + Brendan Kiely, Tori Tadiar, Karina Yan Glaser, Nicholas Day; #CallingCaldecott; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
September/October #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Nicholas Day abt A WORLD WITHOUT SUMMER (Random House Studio/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social): "There’s no science literacy w/o narrative. We see + interpret our world through stories, + that includes the world of science" www.hbook.com/story/publis...
September/October #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Karina Yan Glaser about THE NINE MOONS OF HAN YU AND LULI (@allidabooks.bsky.social / @harperkids.bsky.social): "I drew on themes I loved reading about when I was young" www.hbook.com/story/publis...
September/October #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Tori Tadiar about DAYBREAKER (Disney-Hyperion): "DAYBREAKER’s main characters all have a bit of me in them." www.hbook.com/story/publis...
September/October #HBMag #HBPubPreviews #5Qs for Norman Ollestad and @brendankiely.bsky.social about SOLE SURVIVOR (Farrar/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social): "BK: This is a story of great hope—and I jumped at the chance to collaborate with Norm to tell that story." www.hbook.com/story/publis...
#HBOutoftheBox #HBWeekinReview: Sep/Oct #HBMag Cadenza by Shawn Harris; Yuyi Morales #TalkswithRoger; #CallingCaldecott x2; #5Qs for Hollins University's @dulemba.bsky.social; #Diwali; + more! www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
#HBOutoftheBox: #5Qs for Hollins University's @dulemba.bsky.social abt the new low-residency pathway for their grad programs in #kidlit + illustration: "In today’s political climate, it’s important to us that students from around the world be able to access our courses" www.hbook.com/story/five-q...
