(no initials) are reviews written by The Horn Book Magazine or Guide staff.
(LA) Lauren Adams teaches English and ELL at Natick High School.
(KA) Kari Allen is an elementary school teacher with a master’s degree in the teaching of writing. She does teacher consultant work for the National Writing Project in New Hampshire.
(SRA) Sethany Rancier Alongi is an editorial project manager with an educational publisher in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds an MEd in elementary education from Lesley University and a certificate in children’s writing from Emerson College.
(TDA) A former middle school teacher, Tanya D. Auger holds a master’s degree in learning and teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
(B. BADER) Barbara Bader is the author of American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within and a former children’s book editor, nonfiction editor, and editor in chief of Kirkus Reviews.
(DFB) Deirdre F. Baker reviews children’s books for the Toronto Star and teaches children’s literature at the University of Toronto.
(ABG) Ariel Baker-Gibbs is an editorial intern for The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
(HRB) Hannah Rodgers Barnaby holds an MA in children’s literature from Simmons College and an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College. Formerly a children’s book editor, she also has worked as a bookseller and a writing instructor.
(LB) Lana Barnes is a graphic production assistant for a children’s book publisher in the Boston area. She holds an MAT in elementary education from Sacred Heart University and an MA in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College.
(BB) Barbara Barstow is the former youth services manager for the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Cleveland, Ohio. She has chaired both the Newbery and Caldecott award committees.
(TB) Thom Barthelmess has worked in public libraries across the country and is now a lecturer at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University and serves as Curator of the Butler Children’s Literature Center.
(JB) Julie Bartynski has worked as a children’s book editor and holds a master’s degree in children’s literature from Simmons College.
(ACB) Aimee Chevrette Bear is a graduate of Simmons College and also holds an MA from the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Roehampton University in London.
(LMB) Liane Behrens is a design intern for The Horn Book, Inc.
(JLB) J. L. Bell blogs about fantasy literature for children at Oz and Ends (ozandends.blogspot.com) and was editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club. He also runs the Boston 1775 blog (boston1775.blogspot.com) about the start of the American Revolution in Massachusetts.
(ABZ) Amy Bennett-Zendzian holds an MA/MFA in children’s literature from Simmons College and is working toward a PhD in English at Boston University.
(NB) Nell Beram is a longtime Horn Book Guide reviewer and coauthor of the young adult biography Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies (Abrams).
(KLB) Katie Bircher is marketing and editorial assistant for The Horn Book, Inc.
(FFB) Frieda F. Bostian is retired from the Virginia Tech English department, where she taught children’s literature.
(JMB) Jennifer M. Brabander is executive editor of The Horn Book Guide.
(RB) Robin Brenner is a reference and teen librarian at the Public Library of Brookline in Massachusetts. She is also editor in chief of the graphic novel review website No Flying No Tights (noflyingnotights.com).
(MLB) Miriam Lang Budin is head of children’s services at the Chappaqua Library in New York. She has served on the Newbery, Caldecott, and Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice award committees and is currently a member of the Ezra Jack Keats Award and ALSC Notable Books committees.
(ALB) Anita L. Burkam is a former associate editor of The Horn Book Magazine.
(PMC) Paula M. Cairo is the Lower School librarian at Friends Select School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(BC) Betty Carter, an independent consultant, is professor emerita of children’s and young adult literature at Texas Woman’s University.
(LC) Lauren Chambers holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
(LBC) Luther B. Clegg, professor emeritus of education at Texas Christian University, taught children’s literature and social studies methods. He is the author of The Empty Schoolhouse: Memories of One-Room Texas Schools and coauthor of Celebrating Diversity: A Multicultural Resource.
(AEC) Allison Cole is an editorial intern for The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
(AC) Andrea Curtis is a former editorial intern at The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide. She holds an MEd in arts in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and currently works as a museum educator.
(TLD) Tamara DePasquale holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College and is the youth services librarian for the Eldredge Public Library in Chatham, Massachusetts.
(ME) Monica Edinger teaches fourth grade at the Dalton School in New York City.
(SE) Vancouver writer and critic Sarah Ellis is on the faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a Horn Book Magazine reviewer.
(DE) David Elzey is a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts program in writing for children and young adults and currently manages a bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(LCF) Lisa Catherine Findlay is a special education teacher in Massachusetts. Formerly, she was a children’s book editor and worked in the children’s room at the New York Public Library. She holds an MA in English literature and an MEd in special education.
(SF) Shoshana Flax, a children’s bookseller at Brookline Booksmith in Massachusetts, holds an MFA in writing for children from Simmons College.
(KF) Kitty Flynn is executive editor of The Horn Book Guide.
(DJF) Danielle J. Ford is an associate professor of science education at the University of Delaware and a Horn Book Magazine reviewer.
(JF) Jack Forman is a reference and instruction services librarian at the San Diego (CA) Mesa College Library, which is part of the San Diego Community College District.
(SMG) Sheila M. Geraty is the library director at Brookwood School in Manchester, Massachusetts. She holds master’s degrees in library and information science as well as children’s literature, both from Simmons College.
(ERG) Elissa Gershowitz is senior editor of The Horn Book Magazine and online content editor of The Horn Book, Inc.
(NG) Natasha Gilmore has an MFA in writing for children from Simmons College and is a used book buyer at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Massachusetts.
(SG) Susan Graham is an editorial intern for The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
(MG) After many years with the Archdiocese of New York and the New York City public schools, Melinda Greenblatt is now director of the Briarcliff Manor Public Library in Westchester County, New York.
(CG) Claire E. Gross, a former associate editor of The Horn Book Magazine, is enrolled in the master’s program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
(RLH) Rebecca Hachmyer holds an MA in children’s literature from Simmons College. She is an educator and children’s bookseller in Sonoma County, California.
(SH) A freelance children’s book editor in the Boston area, Susan Halperin holds a master’s degree from the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College.
(SLH) Shara Hardeson is editorial assistant of The Horn Book Guide.
(KEH) Katrina Hedeen is assistant editor of The Horn Book Guide.
(GBH) Gail Hedges teaches children’s literature at Lesley University. She is a past president of the Foundation for Children’s Books and remains active on the Foundation’s Program Advisory Committee.
(CMH) Christine M. Heppermann, a freelance writer and former children’s bookseller based in Chicago, is a reviewer for The Horn Book Magazine.
(PIH) Pearl Higgins holds an MA in children’s literature from Simmons College.
(KTH) Kathleen T. Horning is the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books.
(NLH) Nancy Hull reviews young adult novels and children’s books for the The Christian Century and teaches children’s literature at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(JH) Jonathan Hunt, a school librarian for the Modesto City (CA) Schools District, is a Horn Book Magazine reviewer.
(MLI) Megan Lynn Isaac, an associate professor at Elon University, teaches and writes about Shakespeare, children’s literature, and young adult literature.
(KI) Kathleen Isaacs is a former middle school teacher.
(CJ) Formerly an editor, librarian, and children’s literature consultant, Cyrisse Jaffee is editorial project director in the educational department of WGBH. She holds an MLS from Simmons College.
(AK) Former Youth Services Coordinator for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Amy Kellman consults and teaches children’s literature. She is a past president of USBBY and has served on the Batchelder, Caldecott, and Newbery award committees.
(JSK) Juliet S. King holds an MEd in language and literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a reading specialist and literacy consultant in Vermont.
(RK) Rebecca Kirshenbaum is an editorial intern for The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
(BTK) Bethany Templeton Klem holds an MLIS from the University of Iowa and is the children’s librarian for the Saugus (MA) Public Library.
(MVK) Maeve Visser Knoth is a children’s librarian for the San Mateo (CA) County Library System. She is a former reviewer for The Horn Book Magazine.
(SDL) Susan Dove Lempke is assistant library director for youth, programs, and technology at the Niles Public Library in Illinois, and a Horn Book Magazine reviewer.
(SRL) Siena Leslie graduated from Harvard University and splits her time between writing and teaching English as a foreign language.
(LAL) Lauren Aimonette Liang is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Utah. Her research and teaching focus on children’s and adolescent literature and comprehension instruction.
(NL) Nina Lindsay is supervising librarian for children’s services at the Oakland Library in Oakland, California.
(CAL) Cindy Lombardo is Deputy Director/Chief Operations Officer for the Cleveland Public Library. She has served on numerous selection committees for ALSC and YALSA and is a member of the 2013 Printz committee.
(JRL) Joanna Rudge Long is former editor of Kirkus Reviews, a frequent lecturer on children’s books, and a reviewer for The Horn Book Magazine
(AMM) Amanda M. MacGregor holds an MA in children’s literature from Simmons College and has worked as a children’s bookseller and librarian.
(JM) Jenn Matters holds master’s degrees in young adult literature and library/information science. She currently works as the youth services manager for a small Illinois library.
(ARM) April Mazza holds an MLS from Simmons College and is a librarian and consultant at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
(BTM) Bridget McCaffrey holds master’s degrees in early childhood education and children’s literature.
(BCM) Barratt Miller holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As a graduate student, she assisted with collection development for the second largest collection of children’s literature in North America. She is the youth services librarian at Crook County Library in Prineville, Oregon.
(MVP) Martha V. Parravano is executive editor of The Horn Book Magazine.
(NCP) A former children’s bookseller with an MA in English literature, Norah Piehl is director of communications and development for the Boston Book Festival.
(RR) Randy Ribay holds an MEd in language and literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in English literature from the University of Colorado. He teaches high school English in Philadelphia.
(PR) Patricia Riley holds master’s degrees in writing and children’s literature. She has taught children’s book writing at continuing education programs.
(CR) Cynthia K. Ritter is editorial assistant of The Horn Book Magazine.
(JR) Julie Roach manages youth services at the Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also teaches children’s literature at Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science and at Lesley University.
(LR) Lolly Robinson is designer and production manager for The Horn Book, Inc. She teaches children’s literature at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
(BES) Bec Schaffner is a former editorial intern for The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
(BLS) Brittany Schlorff holds an MFA in writing for children from Simmons College. She works for a Catholic book publisher in Boston.
(DS) Dean Schneider teaches sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at the Ensworth School in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a Horn Book Magazine reviewer.
(BS) Barbara Scotto, a retired Brookline, Massachusetts, teacher, serves on the board of Children’s Literature New England.
(CLS) Carolyn Shute worked in educational publishing in Boston for seventeen years before becoming a freelance editor and writer. A longtime Horn Book Guide reviewer, she holds a master’s degree in children’s literature.
(MFS) For almost twelve years, Martha Sibert worked as children’s coordinator for the Roanoke County Public Library in Virginia. She holds an MA from the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and is a freelance writer in Brookline, Massachusetts.
(HMS) Henrietta M. Smith is professor emerita at the School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida, in Tampa. As a forty-seven-year member of the American Library Association, she has served on the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Wilder award committees and is editor of the four editions of The Coretta Scott King Awards Book: 1970–2009. She is a 2011 recipient of the Coretta Scott King/Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Lifetime Achievement Award.
(RLS) Rachel L. Smith, former marketing and circulation manager for The Horn Book, Inc., is an editor for an educational publisher. She is pursuing a master’s degree in library and information science at Simmons College.
(R. SMITH) Robin L. Smith teaches second grade at the Ensworth School in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a reviewer for The Horn Book Magazine.
(RSS) Rita Soltan holds BA and MLS degrees from Queens College of CUNY and an MAT in teaching reading and language arts from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She is the author of Reading Raps: A Book Club Guide for Librarians, Kids, and Families; Summer Reading Renaissance: An Interactive Exhibits Approach; and Solving the Reading Riddle: The Librarian’s Guide to Reading Instruction.
(AS) April Spisak is a former reviewer for The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. After working as a youth services librarian for several years, she returned to the University of Illinois for the PhD program and is currently a student.
(MJS) Miriam Steinberg-Egeth holds a master’s degree in creative arts in learning and elementary education from Lesley University. She is director of the Jewish Graduate Student Network in Philadelphia.
(CHS) Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan, formerly assistant editor of The Horn Book Guide, holds a master’s degree in children’s literature. She teaches language arts in Brunswick, Maine.
(RS) Roger Sutton is editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc.
(JLT) Jessica Tackett is an editorial intern for The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
(BT) Betsy Thomas has an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Hamline University. A former bookseller, she is a contributor to The Horn Book Magazine.
(AMT) Antonio Trujillo, a former test evaluator for an educational publisher, holds a degree in classics.
(TW) Tim Wadham, author and librarian, holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a PhD in comparative/children’s literature. He is the author of Programming with Latino Children’s Materials and Libros esenciales.
(AW) Ashley Waring is a children’s librarian at the Reading (MA) Public Library.
(RRW) Rebecca Reed Whidden is a member of Villanova University’s Falvey Library access services team specializing in course reserves. She is a former children’s bookseller and holds a master’s degree in elementary education from Lesley University.
(SJW) Sophie Williamson is a former editorial intern for The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.
