Deck your shelves with Holiday High Notes, the Horn Book’s selection of the best Hanukkah* and Christmas books of the year. (*or Chanukah. Jane, Yolen, if you’re there, we notice your new Dinosaurs book uses this spelling. Mistle-tov!)
Do I know it’s Christmas?
December 13, 2011 By 4 Comments
So I’m rocking my Christmas tie and going to see The Nutcracker tonight (live from Lincoln Center at a theater near you) but the spirit of the season is eluding me. Not that I’m unhappy, just Not in the Mood. I shall have to take a leaf from Miss Fitzhugh: “Sport wrote back: I have [...]
You’d better watch out
December 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Megan Lambert has a great take on belief in Santa Claus in our November/December issue. As Robin Robinson can tell you, the devout can be fierce.
O Christmas Books!
December 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
I was the type of kid who lingered in stairwells trying to overhear adult conversation and who sneaked downstairs to catch my babysitter making out with her boyfriend. As a six-year-old, I blew Santa’s cover after noticing that “his” handwriting on gift labels was just like my dad’s. My mother was aghast to learn I’d told [...]
>Merry Christmas, now shut up.
December 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
>I’m over at Out of the Box today opining on Wild About Books, my favorite thus far of the book apps I have read/heard/fingered/etc. A larger question here, though–why are the narrators for these things so annoying? Thank God you have the option to shut them up and read aloud for yourself because I haven’t [...]
>If Jim Carrey says it’s Christmas now, who are we to argue?
November 6, 2009 By 2 Comments
>While we’ve already given you our choice of the best holiday-themed books of the season, Deborah Stevenson and her elves at BCCB offer a handy handout of more than three hundred recent titles suitable for gift-giving. Deborah and I both learned our trade from Zena Sutherland and Betsy Hearne, so you know she has excellent [...]
>Why Such a Lonely Beach?
November 1, 2009 By 1 Comment
>From Cape Cod to Christmas
August 19, 2009 By 13 Comments
>My mini-break at the Cape was lovely for all kinds of reasons, most notably the best ice cream I’ve had in a long time, at Four Seas in Centerville. I tried the chocolate, peppermint, peach and butter crunch–all sublime. Closes September 13th for the winter so hurry on down. Richard and I stayed just a [...]
>Christmas koan
December 19, 2008 By 3 Comments
>Monday catch-up
December 15, 2008 By 8 Comments
>–Claire has a new booklist of fairy tales up on our site. –Cynsations interviews my pal Cathie Mercier, director of the terrific Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, which includes among its founders Horn Book editors Paul and Ethel Heins, and for which I will be leading a seminar next summer. –Mother [...]
