Publications about books for children and young adults
We were very sad to hear about the recent passing of E. L. Konigsburg. Konigsburg was the author of Newbery Award-winners From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The View from Saturday, along with Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, which won a Newbery Honor the same year as Mixed-Up Files won [...]
Llama Llama… author-illustrator and rock star to preschoolers Anna Dewdney will be our special guest at the Fostering Lifelong Learners conference on April 25th, joining in the conversation about making and sharing great books for preschoolers. Here are five questions for her. 1.What did your own children teach you about creating books for preschoolers? My [...]
On Wednesday afternoon, Hervé Tullet, author of Press Here (2011, Chronicle Books) and the new I Am Blop! (2013, Phaidon Press), gave a presentation here in the Boston area at the Brookline Public Library. He was in NYC earlier this month, so I think he’s traveling around a bit. I strongly recommend going to see [...]
Linda Sue Park is delivering the 2013 Zena Sutherland Lecture on May 3rd at the Harold Washington Center, Chicago Public Library. Admission is free but reservations are required; go to zenasutherland.eventbrite.com to sign up. I’ll be there and hope you will be too!
by Ludwig Bemelmans About seven years ago a typographer brought Miss Massee to my house for dinner. It was a dreary building of six rooms in a noisy neighborhood. The windows of my living room looked out at a cobweb of telegraph wires, a water tank, and a Claude Neon sign that flashed “Two Pants [...]
by May Massee Every writer leaves bits and pieces of his own story in his books whether he knows it or not, so I thought I’d look through some of Ludwig Bemelmans’ books to see what he says about himself here and there. The trouble is, I find a paragraph that shows what a good [...]
by Ludwig Bemelmans *Paper read at the meeting of the American Library Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 22, 1954. My deep gratitude to the members of the American Library Association for the Caldecott Medal. Now we shall talk about art. There is one life that is more difficult than that of the policeman’s and that is [...]
In the March/April 2013 Horn Book Magazine, our editors asked Nicola Davies about facing a dangerous animal herself — and got not one, but four stories. Read the review of Deadly! The Truth About the Most Dangerous Creatures on Earth here. Horn Book Editors: What’s the most dangerous creature you’ve ever encountered? Nicola Davies: My [...]
A. Arthur Geisert B. Cynthia Rylant C. D.B. Johnson D. Barry Moser E. Martha Brooks F. Marilyn Nelson G. Katherine Paterson H. Helen Oxenbury I. Brian Pinkney J. Bill Martin Jr K. Peter Sís L. Walter Dean Myers M. Christopher Myers N. Michael Rosen O. Paul Fleischman P. Avi Q. Lynne Rae Perkins R. Jerry [...]
Last week we shared our collection of author and illustrator (and critic!) photos and asked readers to name the subjects. A few remain unidentified — can you match the names to the faces? Here are their names, in random order: Paul Fleischman Christopher Myers Helen Oxenbury Cynthia Rylant Marilyn Nelson Caralyn and Mark Buehner (we [...]
