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Table of Contents: January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine
Cover © 2026 by Matt James. Features Horn Book Fanfare by Horn Book editors Our choices for the best books of 2025. Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards BGHB Awards Gallery 2025 Celebrating the winners and honorees. Picture Book Fiction Nonfiction Columns Editorial Together Again by Elissa Gershowitz “Gee, it’s good to be…” Field Notes Storytime Smash Hits by Hannah Peterson A bookstore children’s events manager and weekly storytime reader recommends tips and tricks to captivate a crowd.
Preview January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine
Original cover art by Matt James. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2025. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (at the Cambridge Public Library”): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos.
Won't You Miss the Polar Bears?
In August of 2024, Illinois passed HB 4895, a bill mandating climate education in public high schools by the 2026–2027 school year. Four other states (NY, CA, CT, NJ) already mandate climate education in their schools. Recent surveys, however, show that the majority of U.S. teachers don’t teach climate change in part because they don’t feel prepared to do so.
Nurturing Nature
About three in five young adults worldwide report they are “worried” about climate change, but 55% of teachers don’t address the topic because they feel unprepared to do so. And when it comes to books that present climate information to preschool- and elementary-age kids, many titles end up exacerbating readers’ fears or engaging in greenwashing. Our mid-size Midwestern public library thought: Why not develop an award to honor excellent titles that buck this trend?
Christ Church Parish Episcopal to hold celebration of Redding writers | The Redding Pilot
Jazz Vespers at the Episcopal church in Redding on Sunday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. takes as its sestercentennial theme “Present With the Past,” a celebration of Redding writers. Quotations from diverse authors including Joel Barlow, Ruth Stout, Alvin Toffler, Jack Lawrence, and Mark Twain will be relevant to each piece of music.
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