Publications about books for children and young adults
It’s a pretty easy bet that you are reading this issue of Notes from the Horn Book on some kind of screen. And in the current issue of The Horn Book Magazine, we look at all the different places that children’s books are likely to be read (or heard or watched . . .) in [...]
I was pleased to see that the 2012 Newbery committee displayed such excellent taste in its choice of a winner (Jack Gantos’s Dead End in Norvelt), and that for one of only two Honor Books it chose a book (Eugene Yelchin’s Breaking Stalin’s Nose) I thought no one but us had even read much less [...]
Five questions for Rick Bowers Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate by Rick Bowers, National Geographic, 12 years and up. Race relations Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network That Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers, [...]
Five questions for Jane Yolen Snow in Summer by Jane Yolen, Philomel, 12 years and up. More fantastic books for older readers Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst, McElderry, 14 years and up. Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Feiwel, 12 years and up. Diabolical by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Candlewick, 14 years and up. The Space [...]
As we all await the announcements of the ALA book awards from the Midwinter Conference in Dallas on January 23rd, don’t miss the betting and brawling at the Horn Book’s Calling Caldecott blog and School Library Journal’s Heavy Medal, scoping out all things Newbery. Both blogs seem to have done their darnedest to appraise all [...]
November’s Notes from the Horn Book is here! This issue’s got – five questions for Melissa Sweet on Balloons over Broadway – picture book bios – middle-grade audiobook recommendations – YA page-turners – Holiday High Notes Not a subscriber? View it online or sign up.
To view this email as a web page, click here. Hbook.com | Review of the Week | Interviews | Read Roger | Out of the Box | Calling Caldecott | Books in this issue | Subscribe November 9, 2011 Five questions for Melissa Sweet Picture book biographies Listen up, middle-graders Page-turners for older readers Holiday [...]
In the November/December 2011 issue of The Horn Book Magazine five writers — Marc Aronson, Carmen Agra Deedy, Malinda Lo, Susan Patron, and Rita Williams-Garcia — honor the spirit of the Thanksgiving season by sharing with us the books for which each one is grateful. Susan Patron warmed my children’s librarian heart when, remembering an incident in her childhood, she wrote “everything on the fiction
Five questions for Melissa Sweet • A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet, Eerdmans, 4–6 years. • Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet, Houghton, 6–10 years. Picture book biographies • Jim Henson: The [...]
To view this email as a web page, click here. Hbook.com | Review of the Week | Interviews | Read Roger | Out of the Box | Calling Caldecott | Books in this issue | Subscribe October 12, 2011 Five questions for Claire A. Nivola Artist memoirs Finding home Boo to you! Superior supernaturals From [...]
