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Web Extras
Online connections to the November/December
2008 Horn Book Magazine
From
the current issue
• When
e- Is for Reading
• Holiday High
Notes
• Recommended
Reissues
• To Anne Shirley
on Her Hundredth Birthday
• More Web
Extras
When
e- Is for Reading
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.
More
Web Extras
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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