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Web Extras
Online connections to the March/April
2009 Horn Book Magazine
From
the current issue
• The
Campaign for Shiny Futures
• What Makes
a Good "Three Little Pigs"?
• More Web Extras

The
Campaign for Shiny Futures
Scholar Farah
Mendlesohn ponders why “science fiction for teens
[doesn’t] get the same attention or respect as fantasy.”
Her online-only annotated
bibliography highlights what’s good in kids’
SF. While the current climate of SF publishing is problematic,
Mendlesohn sees Philip Reeve’s Hungry City Chronicles
as a step in the right direction. Read Horn
Book reviews of the series and Reeve’s
own thoughts from our November/December 2007 issue. Finally,
Gregory Maguire suggests Jill Paton Walsh’s The
Green Book as a future science fiction classic.

What
Makes a Good “Three Little Pigs”?
Joanna
Rudge Long examines various versions of “The Three
Little Pigs”; we’ve gathered Horn
Book reviews of the nine books she features. And be sure
to take a look at other articles in our What
Makes a Good… series.
More
Web Extras
In “A Friendship of Words,”
Susan Fletcher writes of her epistolary relationship with
an Iranian translator. Read
reviews of her novels Shadow Spinner and Alphabet
of Dreams. For more on translation, publisher Arthur
A. Levine and translator Cathy
Hirano each look at the art of book translation, and we
recommend recent
translated books. Be sure to visit our Virtual History
Exhibit, where we’ve collected correspondence
from our archives.
Elizabeth E. Wein examines
the difficulty of classifying her books in “The Art
of the Possible.” From our November/December 2007 issue,
Wein discusses her Mark
of Solomon books; read Horn
Book reviews of The Lion Hunter and her Arthurian/sixth-century
Ethiopian trilogy. Read more
Writer’s Page contributions from our archives.
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