Profiles

Newbery | Caldecott | Wilder | Boston Globe–Horn Book | Interviews

Brief biographical essays about newly honored Newbery and Caldecott medalists (and Wilder winners, on appropriate years) are annually published in the July/August issues ofThe Horn Book Magazine. Available here are all the essays published since 2000. Also here are Boston Globe–Horn Book Award acceptance speeches and noteworthy interviews conducted by editor Roger Sutton.

Newbery Medalists

Neil Gaiman by Elise Howard (July/August 2009)

Laura Amy Schlitz by Mary Lee Donovan (July/August 2008)

Susan Patron by Virginia A. Walter (July/August 2007)

Susan Patron by Richard Jackson (July/August 2007)

Lynne Rae Perkins by Virginia Duncan (July/August 2006)

Cynthia Kadohata by Caitlyn M. Dlouhy (July/August 2005)

Kate DiCamillo by Jane Resh Thomas (July/August 2004)

Avi by Donna Bray (July/August 2003)

David Wiesner by Anita Silvey (July/August 2002)

Richard Peck by Marc Talbert (July/August 2001)

Christopher Paul Curtis by Wendy Lamb (July/August 2000)

Madeleine L'Engle by Hugh Franklin (August 1963)

Caldecott Medalists

Beth Krommes by Ann Rider (July/August 2009)

Brian Selznick by Tracy Mack (July/August 2008)

David Wiesner by Dinah Stevenson (July/August 2007)

Chris Raschka by Richard Jackson (July/August 2006)

Kevin Henkes by Susan Hirschman (July/August 2005)

Mordicai Gerstein by Elizabeth Gordon (July/August 2004)

Eric Rohmann by Philip Pullman (July/August 2003)

Linda Sue Park by Dinah Stevenson (July/August 2002)

David Small by Patricia Lee Gauch (July/August 2001)

Simms Taback by Reynold Ruffins (July/August 2000)

Wilder Medalists

Ashley Bryan by Caitlyn Dlouhy (July/August 2009)

ames Marshall by Regina Hayes (July/August 2007)

Laurence Yep by Joanne Ryder (July/August 2005)

Eric Carle by Ann Beneduce (July/August 2003)

Milton Meltzer by Wendy Saul (July/August 2001)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award speeches

Interviews

An Interview with Katherine Paterson by Roger Sutton (March/April 2010)
The new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

An Interview with Sarah Dessen by Roger Sutton (May/June 2009)
Where the girls are.

An Interview with Rudine Sims Bishop by Kathleen T. Horning (May/June 2008)
Talking with the foremost scholar of African American children's literature

An Interview with Maurice Sendak by Roger Sutton (November/December 2003)
A conversation on life, death, dreams, and plankton.

An Interview with Virginia Euwer Wolff by Roger Sutton (May/June 2001)
Talking about poetry and prose with the author of Make Lemonade and True Believer.