Review of Mirror to Mirror by Rajani LaRocca, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2023. Print.
Review of Finding Papa by Angela Pham Krans; illus. by Thi Bui, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2023. Print and online.
Review of Windrush Child: The Tale of a Caribbean Child Who Faced a New Horizon by John Agard; illus. by Sophie Bass, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2023. Print and online.
Review of The Forest Keeper: The True Story of Jadav Payeng, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2023. Print and online.
Review of Milloo’s Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women’s Education, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2023. Print.
Review of The Moon over Dehradun: A Story of Partition, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2022. Print and online.
Review of As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2022. Print and online.
Review of Thirst by Varsha Bajaj, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2022. Print and online.
Review of A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2022. Print and online.
Review of Dadaji’s Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande ; illus. by Ruchi Mhasane, The Horn Book Magazine, September/ October 2022. Print and online.
Review of Tomatoes in My Lunchbox by Costantia Manoli; illus. by Magdalena Mora, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2022. Print and online.
Review of Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray; illustrated by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2022. Print and online.
Review of The Monster in the Bathhouse by Sina Merabian; illustrated by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2022. Print and online.
Review of Nour’s Secret Library by Wafa’ Tarnowski; illustrated by Vali Mintzi, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2022. Print and online.
Review of One Wish: Fatima al-Fihri and the World’s Oldest University by M.O. Yuksel; illustrated by Marian Quraishi, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2022. Print and online.
Review of Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home by Zahra Marwan; illustrated by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2022. Print and online.
Review of Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds by Samira Ahmed, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2021. Print and online.
Review of Burying the Moon by Andrée Poulin; illustrated by Sonali Zohra, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2021. Print and online.
Review of Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2021. Print.
Review of All of Us by Kathryn Erskine; illustrated by Alexandra Boiger, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2021. Print.
Review of A Thousand White Butterflies by Jessica Betancourt-Perez and Karen Lynn Williams; illustrated by Gina Maldonado, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2021. Print.
Review of Red, White, and Whole by Rajani Roca, The Horn Book Magazine, May/June 2021. Print and online.
Review of The Perfect Shelter by Clare Helen Welsh; illustrated by Asa Gilland, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2021. Print.
Review of The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan, The Horn Book Magazine, January/February 2021. Print and online.
Review of Return to the Most Beautiful Village in the World [Yamo’s Village] by Yutaka Kobayashi; illustrated by the author; translated by Mariko Shii Gharbi, The Horn Book Magazine, January/ February 2021. Print.
Review of Ten Beautiful Things by Molly Beth Griffin; illustrated by Maribel Lechuga, The Horn Book Magazine, January / February 2021. Print.
Review of The Mountains of Mumbai by Labanya Ghosh; illustrated by Pallavi Jain, The Horn Book Magazine January/ February 2021. Print.
Review of Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow; illustrated by Luisa Uribe, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2020. Print and online.
Review of Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper; illus. by Kenard Pak, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2020. Print and online.
Review of Bo the Brave by Bethan Woollvin; illustrated by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2020. Print and online.
Review of Catch That Chicken! by Atinuke; illustrated by Angela Brooksbank, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2020. Print.
Review of Hand-Me-Down Magic [Stoop Sale Treasure] by Corey Ann Haydu; illustrated by Luisa Uribe, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2020. Print.
Review of In My Anaana’s Amautik by Nadia Sammurtok; illustrated by Lenny Lishchenko, The Horn Book Magazine, May/June 2020. Print and online.
Review of The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha; illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2020. Print and online.
Review of Leaving Lymon by Lesa Cline-Ransome, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2020. Print and online.
Review of The Paper Kingdom by Helena Ku Rhee; illustrated by Pascal Campion, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2020. Print.
Review of Just Like Me, by Vanessa Brantley-Newton; illus. by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, January/ February 2020. Print and online.
Review of With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle, The Horn Book Magazine, January/ February 2020. Print and online.
Review of I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage, compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins; illus. by various artists, The Horn Book Magazine, January/ February 2020. Print and online.
Audiobook review of The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina; read by Miranda Tapsell, The Horn Book Magazine, November/December 2019. Print and online.
Audiobook review of Grenade by Alan Gratz; read by Todd Haberkorn and Andrew Eiden, The Horn Book Magazine, November/December 2019. Print and online.
Review of Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin retold by Sean Taylor and the Khayaal Theatre; illus. by Shirin Adl, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2019. Print and online.
Audiobook review of Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough; read by Xe Sands, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2019. Print and online.
Review of The Parrot and the Merchant: A Tale by Rumi, retold by Marjan Vafaeian; illus. by the author; trans. from the Persian by Azita Rassi, The Horn Book Magazine, September/ October 2019. Print and online.
Audiobook review of Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary Schmidt; read by Christopher Gebauer, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2019. Print and online.
Review of In the Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen, The Horn Book Magazine, May/ June 2019. Print.
Review of A Friend for Henry by Jean Bailey; illustrated by Mika Song, The Horn Book Magazine, May/ June 2019. Print.
Review of Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2019. Print.
Audiobook review of Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge; read by Ray Porter, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2019. Print.
Audiobook review of Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed; read by Priya Ayyar, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2019. Print
Audiobook review of Like Vanessa by Tami Charles; read by Channie Waites, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2019. Print.
Review of Poetree by Shauna LaVoy Reynolds; illus. by Shahrzad Maydani, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2019. Print and online.
Review of Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons by Laura Purdie Salas; illustrated by Mercè López, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2019. Print and online.
Review of The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman, The Horn Book Magazine, January/ February 2019. Print and online.
Review of A Grain of Rice by Nhung N. Tran-Davies, The Horn Book Magazine, January/ February 2019. Print.
Review of Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin; illustrated by Giovanni Rigano, The Horn Book Magazine, January/ February 2019. Print.
“Five Questions for Traci Sorrel and Frané Lessac.” Interview with the authors of We Are Grateful: Otsalheliga. Notes from the Horn Book, November 2018. Online.
Audiobook review of Refugee by Alan Gratz; read by Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, and Assaf Cohen, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2018. Print and online.
Review of We Are Grateful: Otsalheliga by Traci Sorell; illus. by Frané Lessac, The Horn Book Magazine, November/December 2018. Print and online.
Review of The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown, The Horn Book Magazine, September/ October 2018. Print and online.
Review of Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransom, The Horn Book Magazine, September/ October 2018. Print.
Review of Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community by Susan Verde; illustrated by John Parra, The Horn Book Magazine, September/ October 2018. Print.
Review of Mustafa by Marie-Louise Gay; illustrated by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, September/ October 2018. Print.
Review of Rock What Ya Got by Samantha Berger; illustrated by Kerascoet, The Horn Book Magazine, September/October 2018. Print.
Audiobook Review of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez; read by Kyla Garcia, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2018. Print.
Review of Bark Park! by Trudy Krisher; illustrated by Brooke Boynton-Hughes, The Horn Book Magazine, July/ August 2018. Print.
Review of New Shoes by Chris Raschka; illustrated by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, March/ April 2018. Print and online.
Review of How are You?/¿Cómo Estás? by Angela Dominguez; illustrated by the author, The Horn Book Magazine, May/ June 2018. Print.
Audiobook Review of The First Rule of Punk by Celia Perez; read by Trini Alvarado, The Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2018. Print and online.
Review of Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Latham and Charles Waters; illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko, The Horn Book Magazine, January/February 2018.
Review of The Doorman’s Repose by Chris Raschka, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), December 8, 2017. Print. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/childrens-fiction-4/
Review of Bizzy Mizz Lizzie by David Shannon, The Horn Book Magazine, November/December 2017. Print.
Review of That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes and Daniel Miyares, The Horn Book Magazine, November/ December 2017. Print. http://bit.ly/2hOTmMv
Review of I Know Numbers! by Taro Gomi, The Horn Book Magazine, November/December 2017. Print.
“Mommy, Do I Have White Skin? Race and Skin Color in Picture Books.” The Horn Book Magazine (Nov./ Dec. 2016). http://bit.ly/2gh7rV0
“Got a ‘Reluctant Reader’? Try Poetry, Says Author Kwame Alexander,” interview with Kwame Alexander. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 October 2016. http://bit.ly/2eaFhu6
“Fierce Reads Tour Brings Leading Young Adult Writers to Pittsburgh.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2 Oct. 2016. http://bit.ly/2dPxOOY
“ ‘Baby-Sitters Club’ Author Takes on Challenge with ‘Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’ Spin-Off,” interview with Ann M. Martin. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13 Sept. 2016. http://bit.ly/2e76TvM
“Judy Blume Speaks at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall,” interview with Judy Blume. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6 July 2016. http://bit.ly/2r5nK8E
“Author Jacqueline Woodson Listens to Silences and History,” interview with Jacqueline Woodson. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 24 February 2016. http://bit.ly/24tgMJ2
“Author-Illustrator Draws on Everyday Feelings, Happenings,” interview with Kevin Henkes. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20 January 2016. http://bit.ly/1KnueHr
“Comic Strip Author Stephan Pastis Finds Humor in Failure,” interview with Stephan Pastis. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 19 February 2016. http://bit.ly/1WFk7T4
“Giver Author Dislikes Dystopian Label,” interview with Lois Lowry. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 November 2015. http://bit.ly/1I5NyTg
“In Graphic Novel, Author Turns Being Different into a Superpower,” interview with Cece Bell. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4 November 2015. http://bit.ly/1iCZ2qn
“Drawn to Tell Tales: Award-Winning Children’s Author Goes Comic Book-Style Route in Latest Book,” interview with Kate DiCamillo. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 14 October 2015. http://bit.ly/1Qr6e4u
“Author Rainbow Rowell Pushes Boundaries with Fanfiction and Romance,” interview with Rainbow Rowell. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4 October 2015. http://bit.ly/1FQ4ZeO
“Children’s Author R.J. Palacio Thrilled by Response to ‘Being Kind’ Idea,” interview with R.J. Palacio. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13 November 2014. bit.ly/1u4RGh2
“Gregory Maguire Tells Tales within Tales, with Witches, Too,” interview with Gregory Maguire. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5 November 2014. bit.ly/1yYpNZJ
“Children’s Book Duo Klassen and Barnett Favor Experimental Approach,” interview with Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 October 2014. bit.ly/ZR2rc5
“Elizabeth Wein Defends Young Adult Fiction,” interview with Elizabeth Wein. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13 July 2014. bit.ly/1sfAtCv
“Author Extols the Virtues of Dorkiness,” interview with Rachel Renee Russell. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mar. 12, 2014. http://bit.ly/1jU0nce
“Author Wants Children to Follow Their Dreams,” interview with Shane Evans. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 19 February 2014. bit.ly/1py2HFF
“Author James Dashner was Counting on Maze Runner,” interview with James Dashner. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 19 November 2013. bit.ly/19GVVSG
“Lemony Snicket’s Dark Humor Appeals to Children,” interview with Lemony Snickett (aka Daniel Handler). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 October 2013. bit.ly/1a4jF96
“Two Authors to Address the Angst of Teen Life,” interview with Siobhan Vivian and Jenny Han. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9 October 2013. bit.ly/1cjoS8v
“Christopher Paul Curtis Mixes History and Humor to Entice Children to Read,” interview with Christopher Paul Curtis. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9 February 2013. bit.ly/1b6v1ab
“Sarah Dessen Tells the Truth about High School,” interview with Sarah Dessen. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 26 January 2013. bit.ly/19HVzk2
“Sharon Creech’s Book Looks at How Children Deal with Unexpected,” interview with Sharon Creech. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 December 2012. bit.ly/193TT4Y
“Origami and Star Wars Inspire Children’s Author Tom Angleberger,” interview with Tom Angleberger. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13 October 2012. bit.ly/16upKIi
“Children’s Author Andrew Clements to Speak Sunday at Carnegie Library,” interview with Andrew Clements. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 September 2012. bit.ly/15HcyPn
“Wes Moore Aims to Assist Youths in Picking Right Path,” interview with Wes Moore. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 September 2012. bit.ly/13H18YE
Julie Azzam, PhD 