Publications about books for children and young adults
I was pleased to see that the 2012 Newbery committee displayed such excellent taste in its choice of a winner (Jack Gantos’s Dead End in Norvelt), and that for one of only two Honor Books it chose a book (Eugene Yelchin’s Breaking Stalin’s Nose) I thought no one but us had even read much less [...]
Developer Nosy Crow just won a Publishing Innovation Award for their app-only fairy tale retelling Cinderella: A 3-D Fairy Tale (September). Like their Three Little Pigs, this digital interpretation has plenty of charm. The app’s “read to me” and “read and play” options are refreshingly narrated by a cast of British child actors, with dialogue [...]
Congratulations to all the winners! Here’s some extra credit reading from our archives. Caldecott honor Five questions for Patrick McDonnell (from May 2011 Notes from the Horn Book) Me…Jane discussion on Calling Caldecott CSK Author Award winner and CSK Illustrator honor Roger Talks with Kadir Nelson (from a November 2011 interview) [...]
There’s still time to vote in our Calling Caldecott mock Caldecott awards—the second round of voting closes at 9AM tomorrow (Thursday). The medal and honor books will be posted around noon. Our sister publication SLJ announced the winners of their mock Newbery at Heavy Medal yesterday, but voting at Someday My Printz Will Come is [...]
The 2012 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction goes to Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt, published by Farrar Straus Giroux. The award, created by Scott O’Dell and Zena Sutherland in 1982 and now administered by Elizabeth Hall, carries with it a prize of $5000, and goes to the author of a distinguished work [...]
As we all await the announcements of the ALA book awards from the Midwinter Conference in Dallas on January 23rd, don’t miss the betting and brawling at the Horn Book’s Calling Caldecott blog and School Library Journal’s Heavy Medal, scoping out all things Newbery. Both blogs seem to have done their darnedest to appraise all [...]
The Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction committee is soliciting nominations for the 2012 Award, a $5000 prize. To quote from the criteria, “a book must have been published as a book intended for children or young people; it must be set in the New World (Canada, Central or South America, or the United States; [...]
Back in 2003 and again in 2004, picture books featuring the Twin Towers were honored with Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. To mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, we’ve posted Maira Kalman‘s and Mordicai Gerstein‘s acceptance speeches, originally published, respectively, in the January/February 2004 and 2005 issues of The Horn Book Magazine.
2011 Picture Book Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor (Houghton) Honor Books: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton); Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Putnam) Fiction Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick) Honor Books: [...]
