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We had plans to ski last Sunday, but high winds kept the chairlifts at Whiteface Mountain grounded for the first part of the morning. Instead of waiting it out, we headed into Lake Placid for some pancakes and a dogsled ride.
I've always been fascinated by the Iditarod, the 1150-mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. A few years ago, my husband and I visited Iditarod headquarters and got to meet some of the amazing dogs that make that journey. But it was summer, so we couldn't actually ride on a dogsled.
That's why we jumped at the chance to take a ride with these gorgeous dogs on Lake Placid's Mirror Lake.
The dogs were excited to find out they had some business.
The ride around a frozen Mirror Lake was brisk but spectacular!
This is our musher, whose name has escaped me, but he was very, very cool and friendly. Interestingly enough, he never actually hollered "Mush!" He hollered "Hike!" instead. We were slightly disappointed but got over it.
While we circled the lake, other winter weather lovers were skating or riding toboggans down an icy chute set up along the shore.
This is Lightning. He likes to run in the back of the pack and was the friendliest of the sled dogs -- the only one the kids could pet after our ride. The rest of them couldn't wait to pull us around on the sled but wanted nothing to do with us when the ride was over. You can see in their eyes that these dogs still have a lot of the wild left in them -- one of the reasons they do so well in the actual race in Alaska.
The real Iditarod is going on right now.
Here's a great website where you can follow the progress of the teams.
Is or is not "Stars" the most lugubrious song Janis Ian ever wrote? And that is saying a lot.
In either event, here are the starred books from the March/April Horn Book Magazine:
Dog and Bear: Two’s Company (Porter/Roaring Brook) written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Rex Zero, King of Nothing (Kroupa/Farrar) by Tim Wynne-Jones
On the Farm (Candlewick) written by David Elliott, illustrated by Holly Meade
Frogs (Scholastic) written and illustrated with photos by Nic Bishop
Spiders (Scholastic) written and illustrated with photos by Nic Bishop
What To Do about Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy (Scholastic) written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City (Knopf) written by Janet Schulman, illustrated by Meilo So
If you're in need of a sign of spring, go with Pale Male, one of my favorite books thus far this year. It makes you want to take a walk in the park with Janet Schulman (who I never thought of as a walk-in-the-park kind of gal) and Meilo So's watercolors have never been so rich.
is out, and the table of contents with links to selected features is up on our site.
Zoe's been at it again.
Update: and Claire kicks off a new occasional series of booklists about world religions with one on Islam.
is up for your reading pleasure. This list will be published in the January/February issue of the Horn Book Magazine.
The following books will receive starred reviews in the January/February issue of the Horn Book Magazine:
Becca at Sea (Groundwood) by Deirdre Baker
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Foster/Farrar) by Peter Cameron
How the Hangman Lost His Heart (Walker) by K. M. Grant
Jabberwocky (Jump/Hyperion) illustrated by Christopher Myers
When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs (National Geographic) written and illustrated by Hannah Bonner
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas (Clarion) by Russell Freedman
War in the Middle East: A Reporter’s Story (Candlewick) by Wilborn Hampton
is out and we've posted some selections on our website along with a nifty bunch of web extras (who knew Astrid Lindgren could be such a . . . oh, go look for yourself and fill in the blank).
And that Christmassy cover of Olivia is giving me complete permission to ramp up the carols on Miss Pod. A great way to get into the seasonal spirit: try singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to the tune of "The House of the Rising Sun."
Oops, wrong fantasy*. But in honor of the upcoming extravaganza with Susan Cooper and Gregory Maguire, Kitty and Claire have put online some of the Horn Book Magazine's finest fantasy articles, including Susan Cooper on Tolkien and Tom's Midnight Garden, Gregory Maguire on Philip Pullman, Philip Pullman on The Republic of Heaven, and several more esteemed writers on the whole doom-and-unicorns shebang. They won't be up forever, so read 'em now.
*But I still maintain that, in Susan Cooper's time fantasy King of Shadows, young hero Nat and the Bard of Avon totally had it going on, if you know what I'm saying.
Kitty here. While Roger is communing with ISBNs in VT and Blogger is currently cooperating, I'm happy to present you with a list of the books that will receive starred reviews in the November-December issue of the Horn Book Magazine:
Picture books:
On Angel Wings (Candlewick) written by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Quentin Blake
First the Egg (Porter/Roaring Brook) written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
The Arrival (Levine/Scholastic) illustrated by Shaun Tan
Fiction:
Little Rat Makes Music (Harcourt) written by Monika Bang-Campbell, illustrated by Molly Bang
Being Bee (Holiday) by Catherine Bateson
Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic) by Christopher Paul Curtis
Passion and Poison: Tales of Shapeshifters, Ghosts, and Spirited Women (Cavendish) written by Janice M. del Negro, illustrated by Vince Natale
Red Spikes (Knopf) by Margo Lanagan
Folklore and Poetry:
The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm (Candlewick) retold by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Max Grafe
Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose (Harcourt) selected and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
Nonfiction:
Whale Port (Lorraine/Houghton) written by Mark Foster, illustrated by Gerald Foster
The inaugural Horn Book Podcast is up for your listening pleasure. Lolly is setting it up with iTunes so you'll be able to subscribe; for now, go to the podcast page on our site to hear my interview with Jon Scieszka.
I interviewed Jon for our special September issue, Boys and Girls. That too is now just out and you can see the table of contents here and web extras here. I think this is one of the best issues we've done.
The following books will receive starred reviews in the (jumbo-sized special issue) September-October issue of the Horn Book Magazine:
At Night (Farrar) written and illustrated by Jonathan Bean
Cowboy & Octopus (Viking) written by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio (Holt) by Lloyd Alexander
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little) written by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney
Mistik Lake (Kroupa/Farrar) by Martha Brooks
A Darkling Plain (Eos/HarperCollins) by Philip Reeve
Aunt Nancy and the Bothersome Visitors (Candlewick) written by Phyllis Root, illustrated by David Parkins
The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain (Foster/Farrar) written and illustrated by Peter Sís
Actually, she doesn't give all that much away, but Claire Gross' review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is up. The review will appear in the September/October issue of the Horn Book Magazine.
The July-August issue of the Horn Book Magazine is out; selected snippets can be found on our website but, c'mon, subscribe already.
Also new: assistant editor cum tea-dumping subversive Claire Gross gets all in the (British) government's face with a reading list of books about the events of 1776.
Reviews of the following books will be starred in the July/August issue of the Horn Book Magazine.
Picture Books:
Fred Stays with Me! (Little) written by Nancy Coffelt, illustrated by Tricia Tusa
Orange Pear Apple Bear (Simon) written and illustrated by Emily Gravett
Follow the Line through the House (Viking) written and illustrated by Laura Ljungkvist
Starring Miss Darlene (Porter/Roaring Brook) written and illustrated by Amy Schwartz
Fiction:
Jack Plank Tells Tales (di Capua/Scholastic) written and illustrated by Natalie Babbitt
The Plain Janes (Minx/DC Comics) written by Cecil Castellucci, illustrated by Jim Rugg
Pure Spring (Groundwood) by Brian Doyle
The Wednesday Wars (Clarion) by Gary D. Schmidt
The Lion Hunter (Viking) by Elizabeth E. Wein
Nonfiction:
May I Pet Your Dog?: The How-to Guide for Kids Meeting Dogs (and Dogs Meeting Kids) (Clarion) written by Stephanie Calmenson, illustrated by Jan Ormerod
Beowulf: A Hero’s Tale Retold (Houghton) retold and illustrated by James Rumford
Ooh, I'm a big fan of Goodreads.
Great list!
AB
May I suggest my own blog misrule.com.au/s9y as another source of information and opinion on Australian children's and YA literature?
Thanks for the booklist on Islam. This is an often-requested topic at my library, and it can be hard to find books, especially fiction, for the right age group.
I'd also like to recommend MY NAME IS BILAL by Asma Mobin-Uddin. It shows how Bilal, one of the few Muslims in his school, sees his sister bullied for covering her hair. It follows him through complex emotions and at last shows how he makes friends with the bully and yet stays true to himself. A good read. It looks like it would be for upper elementary or middle school, but I have used it successfully as a read-aloud with a small group of first graders, too.