The following books will receive starred reviews in the November/December 2013 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:

Little Santa; written and illustrated by Jon Agee (Dial)

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild; written and illustrated by Peter Brown (Little, Brown)

The Tiny King; written and illustrated by Taro Miura (Candlewick)

All the Truth That’s in Me; by Julie Berry (Viking)

Coaltown Jesus; by Ron Koertge (Candlewick)

Invasion; by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster; by Matt Phelan (Candlewick)

Rose Under Fire; by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)

The Great American Dust Bowl; by Don Brown (Houghton)

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible…on Schindler’s List; by Leon Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson (Atheneum)

Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives; by Elizabeth Rusch; photos by Tom Uhlman (Houghton)

Romeo & Juliet; by William Shakespeare; adapted by Gareth Hinds; illus. by the adapter (Candlewick)

Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing; by Leonard S. Marcus (Foster/Farrar)

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