Horn Book Magazine: September/October 2011

		Features
Jon Scieszka	11	“Under the Rug” An excerpt from The Chronicles of Harris Burdick illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.
Barbara Bader	15	Mildred Batchelder: The Power of Thinking Big Third in a series paying homage to the post–Anne Carroll Moore generation of pioneering children’s librarians.
Elizabeth Thomas	32	Project Child’s Play Designing a fresh new look for some children’s literature icons. Who vill be da vinner of this challenge?
		Columns
Roger Sutton	7	Editorial What Books Can Do And what they can’t. Also: Heavy Medal, meet Calling Caldecott.
Leonard S. Marcus	24	Sight Reading It’s My Party A conversation with Maurice Sendak about his latest picture book.
Sonia Levitin	40	Borderlands Why Vampires? A YA author examines the paranormal craze.
Madelyn Travis	42	Books in the Home Thank Heavens for Hugo, or When Size Matters A parent learns to let go and let Hugo.
Carey E. Hagan	4	Field Notes One Tough Cookie How one librarian persuades boys to read books about girls.
Siobhán Parkinson	52	Foreign Correspondence Flying Kites and Chasing White Rabbits: Children’s Literature in Functional Times Ireland’s first children’s laureate considers what literacy is for.
Susan Dove Lempke	56	What Makes a Good…? What Makes a Good Book about Sharing?
	121	From The Guide Batchelder Award Winners A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.
	128	Cadenza Bumble-Ardy’s Beginnings From animated short to picture book.
		Reviews
	62	Book Reviews
		Departments
	4 5 123 126 127	Letters to the Editor September/October Starred Books Impromptu Index to Advertisers Index to Books Reviewed
		Cover art from “Under the Rug” from The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg. Illustrations copyright © 1984 by Chris Van Allsburg. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.