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Web Extras
Online connections to the March/April
2008 Horn Book Magazine
From
the current issue
• Authors
and editors
• The ABCs
of alphabet books
• Britain’s
new Children’s Laureate
• More web
extras
Authors
and editors
Read reviews
of Sara Pennypacker’s Clementine and Talented
Clementine; listen
to (or read)
her remarks from the 2007 Boston Globe–Horn Book awards
ceremony.
Novelist Mary
Stolz on legendary editor Ursula Nordstrom; Karla
Kuskin, another Nordstrom author, on reviewing picture
books. Dear Clueless
offers a tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale for aspiring editors.
The
ABCs of alphabet books
We've gathered reviews
of recent ABC books, as well as Betty
Carter's 1994 article, which shines a spotlight on alphabet
books from previous years. Looking for more concepts? Try
this booklist
for recommended titles. For titles to avoid, we submit Abecedarians
Badly Conceived.
Also by Lolly Robinson: The
Newest Medium (on digital illustration), What
Do You See? (on the opening of The Eric Carle Museum),
Bertha &
Beatrix (Beatrix Potter and the Horn Book), Illustrating
Mama Bear (a new illustrator’s point of
view of the publishing process).
Britain’s
new Children’s Laureate
We’ve collected reviews
of some of Michael Rosen’s books and posted audio of
his acceptance
remarks from the 2005 Boston Globe–Horn Book awards
ceremony (read by Deborah Wayshack of Candlewick Press). Also
available is a sampling of reviews of books by the first
four laureates (Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo,
Jacqueline Wilson) and Brian Alderson’s glowing
report on Quentin Blake’s tenure in the position.
More
web extras for January/February 2008
Be sure to sign
up for our new e-venture, Notes
from the Horn Book, for brief book reviews, an interview
with our Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jon
Scieszka, and more.
Back in 1963, Horn Book editor
Ruth Hill Viguers spoke out against the Modern Masters series.
Read her Not
Recommended column and the subsequent flurry of letters
to the editor (“early reactions . . .
were many — more than any previous article has drawn . . .”).
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