This week on hbook.com…
Black History Month
For Black History Month, we’ve selected articles by and/or about African American children’s book luminaries — one a day throughout February, with a roundup on Fridays. This week’s selections:
- “Decolonizing the Imagination” by Zetta Elliott
- “The Dillons on the Dillons” by Leo, Diane, and Lee Dillon
- “The Changing Image of the Black in Children’s Literature” by Augusta Baker
- “Do Great Work and the Rest Will Follow” by Shadra Strickland
Starred reviews coming in the March/April 2016 Horn Book Magazine
February 2016 Notes from the Horn Book: 5Q for Tanita S. Davis, more YA about families facing serious situations, apps to take preschoolers through the day, nonfiction sports picture books, plucky fantasy protagonists
Reviews of the Week:
- Picture Book: Here Comes Valentine Cat by Deborah Underwood; illus. by Claudia Rueda
- Fiction: The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
- Nonfiction: The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton by Audrey Vernick; illus. by Steven Salerno — plus a Q&A for the author
- App: Frontier Heroes
Out of the Box:
- Happy Year of the Monkey!
- All a-Twitter 2016: Our annual guessing game of lovey-dovey tweets between characters
Lolly’s Classroom: Fantasy and science fiction | Class #4, 2016: Feed and Far Far Away
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