Week in Review, February 19th-23rd

This week on hbook.com…

Black History Month 2018 at The Horn Book:

• “An Interview with Kishonna L. Gray” by Elissa Gershowitz
• “Beyond The Friends” by Yolanda Hare
• BGHB at 50: “Revisiting Anthony Burns” by Rudine Sims Bishop
• Review of Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis

February 2018 ALA YMA issue of The Horn Book Herald: Five questions for Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut author Derrick Barnes and illustrator Gordon C. James; Horn Book reviews of 2018 ALA winners; more on the Newbery, Caldecott, and the CSK Awards; extras on the 2018 YMA winners from the Horn Book archives; best of Calling Caldecott; A Word from JLG; just for fun awards trivia

Reviews of the Week:

• Picture Book: Buster and the Baby by Amy Hest; illus. by Polly Dunbar
• Fiction: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
• Nonfiction: Bird Builds a Nest [A First Science Storybook] by Martin Jenkins; illus. by Richard Jones

Lolly’s Classroom: Pictures/Visual literacy | Class #5, 2018

Family Reading: The arc of the moral universe

Events calendar

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