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| Caroline Fraser | 10 | Peter Rabbit and the Tale
of a Fierce Bad Publisher The bunnysploitation of a children’s literature icon. |
| Jeanne Birdsall | 27 | Middle Grade Saved My Life In praise of middle grade novels—and why not to confuse them with YA. |
| Jonathan Hunt | 31 | The Amorphous Genre Needed: a gateway drug for nonfiction. |
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Roger Sutton
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Editorial
Everybody Wants to Be a Teenager
Has contemporary YA literature outgrown our caretaking?. |
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Karen Jameyson
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Foreign Correspondence
Jeannie Baker: Mirror, Mirror… The hows and whys of a remarkable cross-cultural picture book |
| Kathleen T. Horning | 35 | Caldecott at 75 Madeline’s Rescue and the Question of Audience Third in a series on the Caldecott Medal at seventy-five—one winner per decade, here the 1950s. |
| Marc Tyler Nobleman | 43 | The Writer’s Page Danger! Dialogue Ahead Should nonfiction authors let their subjects speak for themselves? |
| Katrina Hedeen and Rachel L. Smith |
48 | What Makes a Good…? What Makes a Good YA Love Story? |
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From The Guide
Graphic Novels for Children A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide. |
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Cadenza
Retitled In a word, touchstone novels get title updates. |
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Letters to the editor May/June Starred Books Impromptu Index to Advertisers Index to Books Reviewed |
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Cover from Mirror. © 2010 by Jeannie Baker. Reproduced by permission of the publishers, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London. |
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A huge shout out to Jonathan Hunt who was somehow able to encapsulate all of my hopes for the future of nonfiction into one article. As a middle school librarian, I’m always looking for engaging narrative nonfiction for my students to read. It’s hard! And it’s not that there aren’t great books already out there. It’s that the trim size in which publishers are putting the books makes them seem like they are for small children. My original copy of Claudette Colvin hasn’t circulated once since I bought it, despite numerous book talks. My second copy, the novel-sized copy, has circulated several times. By far, the most popular nonfiction title in my library is Pete Nelson’s Left for Dead. It looks and reads like narrative nonfiction for adults, but it’s written with major middle school appeal. And can Pete Nelson please write more for middle school? Here’s hoping that publishers are taking note and that changes are coming for nonfiction!