"Cons! Frauds! Good old-fashioned hornswoggling! It’s a rich vein." Join a discussion of writing about that all-American shyster, Charles Ponzi.

“The eel is hard to hold. It slips from our grasp,” and so does certainty itself in an awe-inspiring nonfiction title from Day (...

Fresh off winning the 2026 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction for A World Without Summer, about volcanoes, climate change, and Frankenstein, Nicholas Day— again — surprises us with a picture ...

Migrating snow geese provide a moment for awe and connection across Burke Kunkel and Goodale’s crisply rendered work. A child’s ...

Maclear (Noodles on a Bicycle) and Subisak (Sorry, Snail) make a fresh case for inactivity, treating it not as a prescribed virt...

Why wander aimlessly around the ALA Conference floor when you can learn which books are worth seeking? Additionally: See when you might run into me in the next few days!

From the May/June 2026 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: The Sibert Award at 25.

Includes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book Committee as the best of the best published in 2025. In choosing books for the annual list, committee members consider literary quality and ...

Fun chatting with author Kat Choppy about her inspiration and insights into her fun and touching new picture book - But I'm a Pumpkin.

This sweetly empathetic story from Thurman (No Way, Wash Day) and DeRoma (Awake) sees an ordinary workday become an imaginative ...

A peach tree’s slow growth gives way to a budding understanding of change and time in this profound picture book from Day (How t...

Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

Our choices for the best books of the year.

A child grapples with “needs and wants and wishes” during Ramadan in this quietly moving picture book from Thompkins-Bigelow and...

From the September/October 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Sunshine becomes a metaphorical thread connecting three brown-skinned sisters during a frolicsome afternoon in Thompkins-Bigelow...

In 'A World Without Summer,' Nicholas Day traces the devastating fallout from the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, which triggered a worldwide climate shock.

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Day (The Mona Lisa Vanishes) and Imamura (Love in the Library) chronicle the story of Mount Tambora’s 1815 volcanic eruption in ...

Something going “THUD!” in the night has turned the once-ordinary snail protagonist of this picture book into a vampire—he gains...

Writing children's books? There's no set deadline to publish your first. We talk with Mel Rosenberg about his first picture book at age 74 and his unique path to publication.

A global disaster on an epic scale all thanks to a single volcanic eruption? It's not science fiction, it's history, and today I get to grill Nicholas Day about his deep dive into the world of 1816.

From the January/February 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

From the January/February 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

I asked Rebecca Lee Kunz, Cherry Mo, C.G. Esperanza, Gracey Zhang, and Yuko Shimizu to each answer two questions and finish two sentence sta...