Newsletter Archives

NotesTHB Newsletter Archives

March 2008
• The Horn Book at Home
• Awards
• Five questions for Jon Scieszka
• Three books to get you outside
• Picture book heroes return
• Ask the Horn Book
April 2008
• Baseball books
• Family reading
• Five questions for Françoise Mouly
• Books you’ve been waiting for
• Ask the Horn Book
• From the Editor
May 2008
• Brothers and sisters
• Jazzy picture books
• Five questions for Mary Downing Hahn
• Summer suspense
• Ask the Horn Book
• From the Editor
June 2008
• Five questions for Alexandra Day
• Join the dog and pony show
• From the headlines
• Books you’ve been waiting for
• Three for the Fourth
• Ask the Horn Book
• From the Editor
July 2008
• Olympic hopefuls
• Welcome to China
• Five questions for R. L. Stine
• Toddler truck stop
• Audiobooks
• From the Editor
August 2008
• Backyard safari
• Books for your space chimps
• One question for five writers (and an editor)
• The next chapter
• Back to school, for the first time
• From the Editor
September 2008
• Five questions for two teachers
• Just a few more school books
• Reading road to the White House
• Books you’ve been waiting for
• Into the fall
• From the editor
October 2008
• Five questions for David Macaulay
• The body electric
• Elementary spooks
• Beyond chicklit
• Stories behind the stories
• From the Editor
November 2008
• Five questions for Mini Grey
• Fair fights
• Larger than life
• Heroines and anti-heroines
• Town and gown trouble
• Thirty‑nine shopping days to go
• From the Editor
December 2008
• Horn Book Fanfare
• Best books for preschoolers
• Five questions for Kevin Henkes
• Best picture books for the early grades
• Best fiction for middle graders
• Best fiction for teens
• Best nonfiction
January 2009
• From the Editor
• Five questions for Sally Nicholls
• Four more first novels
• First chapters
• Pioneers
• Which came first?
February 2009
• Hail to the chiefs
• Five questions for Betty Carter
• African American heroes
• Love stories
• Baby animals
• From the Editor
March 2009
• Five questions for Mo Willems
• Outside adventures
• Chapter book friends
• Playing with words
• You’ve been waiting for . . .
• From the Editor
April 2009
• Fly me to the moon
Five questions for Buzz Aldrin
Books to crow about
Listening to a mockingbird
Digging into the past
From the Editor
May 2009
• Five questions for Margaret Mahy
• Picture book animals
• New frontiers
• Where the boys are
• Young adult retellings
• From the Editor
June 2009
• From the Editor
• Five questions for Gene Luen Yang
• Gifts for grads
• Middle-grade menagerie
• Pictures of summer
• Things that go
• Audiobooks
July 2009
• Five questions for Rebecca Stead
• New York, New York
• Summer reading for middle schoolers
• Snack attack!
• Coretta Scott King Book Awards
• From the Editor
August 2009
• Five questions for Ken Roberts
• Back to school novels
• School daze
• YA summer shorts
• Beyond Goodnight Moon
• From the Editor
September 2009
• Five questions for Richard Peck
• You’ve been waiting for…
• Great minds
• Eye-popping illustrations
• Graphic round-up
• From the Editor
October 2009
• Five questions for Kristin Cashore
• More “You’ve bee  waiting  for . . .”
• Realistic chapter books
• State of the artists
• Seasonal picture books
• From the Editor
November 2009
• Five questions for Jim Murphy
• War stories
• Saddle up!
• Good for a laugh
• It’s beginning to look a lot like . . .
• From the Editor
December 2009
• Horn Book Fanfare
• Best books for preschoolers
• Five questions for Jerry Pinkney
• Best picture books for primary graders
• Best fiction for middle graders
• Best fiction for teenagers
January 2010
• Five questions for Katherine Paterson
• Five great books by Katherine Paterson
• Stormy weather
• Picture book biographies
• Animal tales
• From the Editor
February 2010
• Five questions for Matt Phelan
• Newbery winners
• Caldecott winners
• Coretta Scott King and Pura Belpré winners
• Sibert winners
• Printz winners
• From the Editor
March 2010
• Marching toward spring
• Five questions for Joanna Cole
• More books for young scientists
• Hang on to your hats
• YA picks for girls
• From the Editor
April 2010
• Animals on parade!
• Real kids
• Stones and bones
• Five questions for Rita Williams-Garcia
• Out of this world
• From the Editor
May 2010
• Five questions for Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• Have you got the concept?
• You’ve been waiting for…
• War stories
• YA smorgasbord
• What makes a good graduation gift?
June 2010
• Five questions for Sy Montgomery
• Calling all naturalists
• Get outside
• Family listening
• Writers worth watching
• From the Editor
July 2010
• Five questions for Grace Lin
• Easy readers for everyone
• New picture books
• New books for boys
• New books for teens
• From the Editor
August 2010
• Five Questions for Jan Greenberg
and Sandra Jordan
• More nonfiction
• Preschool picture books
• New books for middle schoolers
• YA road trip novels for summer reading
• From the Editor
September 2010
• Five questions for Russell Freedman
• More nonfiction by Russell Freedman
• Old friends in new picture books
• Chapter books you’ve been waiting for
• New books for teens
• From the Editor
October 2010
• Five questions for Rosemary Wells
• New picture books
• New chapter books
• New nonfiction
• Middle school and YA series
• From the Editor
November 2010
• Five questions for Lincoln Peirce
• More comic novels
• Poems and pictures
• Nonfiction for older readers
• Deck the halls
• From the Editor
December 2010
• Horn Book Fanfare
• Best books for preschoolers
• Best picture books for primary graders
• Best fiction for middle graders
• Best fiction for teenagers
• Five questions for Megan Whalen Turner
January 2011
• Five questions for Jeannie Baker
• Middle grade armchair travelers
• Read it again!
• Nonfiction picture books
• Out of this world YA
• From the Editor
February 2011
• Five questions for Tomie dePaola
• Newbery winners
• Caldecott winners
• Coretta Scott King and Pura Belpré winners
• Sibert winners
• Printz winners
• From the Editor
March 2011
• Five questions for Lee Bennett Hopkins
• Passing the poetry
• Newbooks for younger readers
• Four American legends
• Young adult historical fiction
• From the Editor
April 2011
• Five questions for Franny Billingsley
• Fantasy for older readers
• Animal Antics
• Nonfiction picture books
• Truthiness in middle-grade fiction
• From the Editor
May 2011
• Five questions for Patrick McDonnell
• Nonfiction picture books for nature lovers
• Chapter books for young readers
• Middle-grade audiobooks
• New young adult fiction
• From the Editor
June 2011
• Five questions for Jeanne Birdsall
• Middle-grade novels you’ve been waiting for
• Summer picture books
• Middle school biographies
• YA trilogy enders
• From the Editor
July 2011
• Five questions for Sophie Blackall
• Sophie Blackall, illustrator
• Fifteen more minutes
• New middle-grade fiction
• New takes on tough YA topics
• From the Editor

September 2011
• Five questions for Leo Landry
• Back to school
• Size matters in picture books
• Illustrated middle grade fiction
• YA historical fiction (and one biography)
• From the Editor

November 2011
• Five questions for Melissa Sweet
• Picture book biographies
• Listen up, middle-graders
• Page-turners for older readers
• Holiday High Notes
• From the Editor

January 2012
• Five questions for Jane Yolen
• More fantastic books for older readers
• Snow daze
• On black history
• Picture books for Presidents’ Day
• From the Editor

August 2011
• Five questions for Marc Aronson
• More new nonfiction
• Dot-dot-dash — concept books with a twist
• YA novels you’ve been waiting for
• Of interest to adults
• From the Editor

October 2011
• Five questions for Claire Nivola
• Artist memiors
• Finding home
• Boo to you!
• Superior supernaturals
• From the Editor

December 2011- Fanfare edition
• From the Editor
• Picture books
• Fiction
• Nonfiction

February 2012
• Five questions for Rick Bowers
• Race relations
• Nonfiction for primary-age readers
• Chapter books you’ve been waiting for
• Young (adult) love
• From the Editor