Special Issue: Different Drummers
- The Writer’s Page: Authors Polly Horvath and Jack Gantos exchange ideas on what it is to be weird. In their own unique ways.
- Barbara Bader discusses the work of versatile illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky (whose original art graces the March cover).
- Roger Sutton interviews two independent children’s book publishers: Mary Cash of Holiday House and Jason Low of Lee & Low Books.
- Eugene Yelchin on growing up reading in the former Soviet Union.
- Elizabeth Burns argues for books for print-disabled children.
- Sight Reading: Leonard S. Marcus on Tomi Ungerer.
- Field Notes: Independent bookstore co-owner Elizabeth Bluemle on the challenges and rewards of bookselling in a digital age.
- “What Makes a Good YA Coming-Out Novel?” asks librarian Claire Gross.
- Caldecott at 75: Scholar-librarian Kathleen T. Horning continues a multi-part series of articles looking back at the Caldecott Medal by decade, here focusing on the 1940s with Rachel Field’s Prayer for a Child.
- Throughout the issue: Authors, publishers, and reviewers answer the question: “What’s the strangest children’s book you’ve ever enjoyed?”
- From The Guide: Novels in Verse.
- Cadenza: “My Life in Comics,” an original comic by Raina Telgemeier.
