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This afternoon subscribers to our monthly newsletter Notes from the Horn Book receive its nonfiction counterpart Nonfiction Notes. Editor in chief Roger Sutton has an important (and happy!) announcement about the newsletter’s schedule. You’ll also find reviews of recommended nonfiction books for all grade levels, covering these subjects: – the Holocaust – explorers and exploration [...]
Tomorrow we’re hosting the free Fostering Lifelong Learners: Prescribing Books for Early Childhood Education conference with Reach Out and Read and the Cambridge Public Library. Pediatricians, educators, critics, and librarians will speak about early learning and literacy from birth to preschool. Over the last few weeks Roger gave several of the presenters his “five questions” [...]
It feels like everyone (the Horn Book included) is talking about Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park (St. Martin’s Griffin, February 2013) — and for good reason. I recently read it when it up was for starring in the May/June issue (it was a shoe-in), and mourned the fact that Rachel Smith and I hadn’t come [...]
In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve compiled a list of poetry books for a wide range of ages, all recently published and recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. There’s something for everyone: anthologies and verse narratives; silly poetry and serious poetry; love poems and lullabies; free verse, formal verse, and brand-new verse forms. What [...]
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 [...]
Auryn Inc.’s seek-and-find interactive storybook app Mitzi’s World: Seek and Discover More Than 150 Details in 15 Works of Folk Art (2012), based on Deborah Raffin’s book of the same name, features a selection of “neo-naive” oil paintings by prominent folk-artist Jane Wooster Scott. Spanning the four seasons, each painting depicts a scene inspired by [...]
April is National Poetry Month! In this month’s Notes of the Horn Book, Roger chats with poet Marilyn Singer on the reverso (her original verse form) and her latest poetry collection Follow Follow. Here’s what else you’ll find in this issue: – more poetry picture books – primary and intermediate animal nonfiction – middle-grade fantasy [...]
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 [...]
