Reviews of the 2013 Batchelder Award winners

My Family for the War

Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Batchelder Award winner My Family for the War and the two honor books.

Reviews of 2013 CSK Illustrator Award winners

I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes

Horn Book reviews of the 2013 CSK Illustrator Award winner I, Too, Am America and the three honor books.

Reviews of the 2013 CSK Author Award winners

Hand in Hand by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Horn Book reviews of the 2013 CSK Author Award winner Hand in Hand and the two honor books.

Reviews of the 2013 Newbery winners

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan and the three honor books.

Reviews of the 2013 Caldecott winners

This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

Horn Book reviews of the 2013 Caldecott Medal winner This Is Not My Hat and the five honor books.

Additional ALA Awards 2013

Alex Awards for the ten best adult books that appeal to a teen audience • Caring Is Creepy by David Zimmerman (Soho) • Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman (Picador) • Juvenile in Justice by Richard Ross (Richard Ross) • Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Farrar) • My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) [...]

ALA Awards 2013: Horn Book reviews of the winners

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Links to Horn Book reviews of the 2013 ALA Youth Media award winners.

The 2013 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction

chickadee

The 2013 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Louise Erdrich for Chickadee, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The annual award, created by Scott O’Dell and Zena Sutherland in 1982 and now administered by Elizabeth Hall, carries with it a prize of $5000, and goes to the author of a distinguished [...]

Gerald McDermott in Paris

Photo credit: Angela Schellenberg

During one of the last times Gerald was here in Paris, we went off hunting for an oyster restaurant. We finally found one in the Quartier Montorgueil on Rue des Petits Carreaux. The owner shipped oysters from his own farm on the Brittany coast so they were guaranteed to be fresh. We ordered a plate [...]

From the Editor – January 2013

Roger Sutton

Editor in chief Roger Sutton’s editorial from the January 2013 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.