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Web Extras
Online connections to the May/June
2008 Horn Book Magazine
From
the current issue
• Rudine
Sims Bishop Interview
• Reading about
Families
• God Knows,
Philip Pullman
• More web
extras
Rudine
Sims Bishop Interview
Read Rudine Sims Bishop in
the Horn Book writing on Tom
Feelings and The Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo
(Dial), his ambitious wordless book about the horrors of the
African slave trade. We remember Virginia
Hamilton with three articles from our archives. Rudine
profiles two African American children's book creators' offspring:
Christopher Myers
and Javaka Steptoe.
Read author Janet McDonald
on writing for
and about black teens. For a taste of history, read a
brief 1938 letter from Arna
Bontemps. Our African
American booklist is updated regularly with recent recommended
titles.
In five far-reaching articles,
Barbara Bader surveys the landscape of African American children’s
literature. Read her pieces on Little
Black Sambo's legacy, the influence of Arna
Bontemps, multiculturalism
in children’s literature, the rise of romantic
racialism, and the contributions of Patricia
and Fredrick McKissack (plus reviews
of some of their books).
Reading
about Families
Megan Lambert’s article,
"Reading about Families in My Family," focuses on
her own multiracial, foster-adoptive, same-sex-parent household.
Our Family
Reading resource page provides links to Horn Book
articles on sharing books at home with your family, however
it’s constructed.
Author Lesléa
Newman reflects on reaction to her 1988 picture book,
Heather Has Two Mommies. K. T. Horning brings the gay
subtext in children’s books out of the closet.
God
Knows, Philip Pullman
Read Philip Pullman’s
Republic of Heaven
article and our reviews of the His Dark Materials trilogy:
The Golden Compass,
The Subtle Knife, and The
Amber Spyglass.
Listen to Roger Sutton’s
podcast conversation with Pullman on the opening of The
Golden Compass movie in December 2007.
More
web extras for May/June 2008
Susan Cooper's article, "Unriddling
the World," is adapted from a talk she gave in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, on November 15, 2007. On the occasion of that
speech, we gathered articles
about fantasy and children’s literature from the
Horn Book archives.
Also by critic Patty Campbell:
Who's Afraid
of the Big Bad . . . ? on sex and
the bookish teenager; Looking
for YA Literature in the Elysian Fields on the University
of Minnesota's Kerlan Collection; and The
Lit of Chick Lit seriously considers a frothy genre.
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