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Who says you can’t curl up with an e-book? Stephen Roxburgh, Sheila Ruth, and Bill Ferriter are besotted with their Kindles, but e-readers aren’t the only electronic marvels available to bibliophiles these days. Author-artist Jean Gralley championed digital picture books in 2006, and Horn Book designer Lolly Robinson surveyed in 2000 what was then “The Newest Medium: Illustrating with Save and Undo.” Editor-in-Chief Roger Sutton also weighs in on the question, with an editorial looking to the future and plenty of blog posts on digital reading.

Holiday High Notes

If you’re searching for gold amongst all the holiday dross, our editors have found seventeen of the brightest new titles for the season. And since good books never go out of style, we’re reposting our holidays picks for 2007 and 2006. Also handy is Roger Sutton’s guide to “What Makes a Good Gift Book.”

Recommended Reissues

What keeps Terri Schmitz in the children’s bookselling business? Hint: it’s not the money, but it may be these recent reissues. Read more about the books she loves to sell (and some she doesn’t). For additional reissues, consult these reviews compiled from recent issues of The Horn Book Guide.

To Anne Shirley on Her Hundredth Birthday

We’ve kept an admiring eye on Anne of Green Gables, now celebrating a century in print, for quite some while. Be sure to read what Canadian novelist Sarah Ellis has to say about her countrywoman L. M. Montgomery. And if you haven’t discovered the author’s later series about another Prince Edward Island lass, take a peek at Norma Fryatt’s second look at Emily of New Moon.

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Early expert readers have particular needs, as Christine McDonnell
explains in the newest addition to our What Makes a Good . . . series. Find our reviews of the titles she recommends, and don’t miss the earlier columns in the series.

Those of us who weren’t early experts at anything should take comfort from Daniel Greenstone’s article on the pitfalls of self-esteem. For a similar sort of diagnosis, consult Maeve Visser Knoth on bibliotherapy.

Where does novelist Tim Wynne-Jones get his ideas? From fantasy icons and great thinkers, as he reports in his most recent article, as well as from young bowlers, as he revealed in 2002. We’ve also posted reviews of several of his books.

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