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The Boston Globe-Horn Book awards ceremony is on Thursday, and it sent me in search of some of the winning books that I haven't read yet! @thehornbook.bsky.social @clarionbooks.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/11/04/b...
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
An email alerting me to the upcoming Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony coming up this Thursday, November 6, sent me on a search for some of the books that I hadn’t read yet. You can see …
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November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
How did we get to this point in history? You'll find some answers in these two new young adult books about how history has been told to get us here. @clintsmithiii.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/10/09/r...
Rewriting the history books
White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War and Rewrote History by Ann Bausum (Roaring Brook Press, 368 pages, grades 9 and up). Beginning with a list of the 20 lies covered in this book from “Sla…
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October 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A picture book mystery that turns out to be a sweet friendship story, and a new chapter book by Katherine Applegate perfect for elementary book clubs. @kaaauthor.bsky.social @alexggriffiths.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/29/a...
Animal friendships
Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel and Friends, 272 pages, grades 3-7). Zephrynia is a cat who likes to “rescue” (some would say steal) items tha…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
You'll see double--or quadruple--in these two fun middle grade novels that celebrate Taylor Swift, the Parent Trap, and the power of friendship and family. @jencalonita kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/23/t...
Two (or more) of a kind
The Taylors by Jen Calonita (Scholastic, 224 pages, grades 3-6). Taylor, a.k.a. Teffy, is nervous about starting fifth grade, which is at the middle school. She’s surprised and delighted to discove…
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September 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What could be more timely than these two inspiring books that tell the stories of women creating and saving art, bringing light to a dark world. @vanlieshoutstudio.bsky.social @erinmcguire.bsky.social @01firstsecond.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/25/c...
Courageous women of World War II
The Spy in the Museum: How Rose Valland Saved Art from the Nazis by Erin McGuire (Beach Lane Books, 40 pages, grades 2-5). Rose Valland loved art. As curator of Paris’s Jeu de Paume Museum, s…
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September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Two picture books show how family and community can help kids through tough times. @nancyrosep.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/09/s...
Surviving tough times
The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Books, 32 pages, grades 1-5). When a hailstorm destroys their crops, Junior and his family are fo…
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September 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The miracle of sunflowers as seen through the eyes of a kindergartner and poems that have all kinds of things writing letters to each other! @joycesidman.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/07/s...
Science and nature
Sunflower Seeds by Ellen Heck (Levine Querido, 48 pages, ages 4-8). A boy tells of his adventures growing sunflowers, starting when his kindergarten teacher reads a book about them near the end of …
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September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'm always happy to find books featuring younger elementary protagonists, like the third- and fourth-graders in these new titles. @shannonhale.bsky.social kidsbookaday.com/2025/09/05/e...
Elementary heroines
Dream On by Shannon Hale, illustrated by Marcela Cespedes (Roaring Brook Press, 240 pages, grades 3-6). Fourth-grader Cassie has a lot of big emotions as she navigates the difficult terrain of grow…
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September 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM