>Zoe has been poking around again.
>February Web Watch
February 4, 2008 By 2 Comments
>Going down a dark hall
January 30, 2008 By 47 Comments
>I’d like to second Elizabeth’s hopes (see comments in Monday’s post) for a Gothic revival. I’ve just finished listening to Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier, narrated by Tony Britton. When I told friends I was reading it, to a woman they started talking about their adolescent (around 10 up, I think) mania for Du [...]
>It’s better than the hanky code!
January 26, 2008 By 4 Comments
>Meg Cabot as Alistair Cooke
November 27, 2007 By 4 Comments
Boys and Girls
September 1, 2007 By 1 Comment
We have called this special issue “Boys and Girls” in tribute to where the Horn Book’s great adventure began, as the newsletter of Bertha Mahony’s Bookshop for Boys and Girls, est. 1916. But as someone who came of age with the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, I’m anxious that we not be seen as favoring [...]
>Hear Us Roar
August 29, 2007 By 3 Comments
>The inaugural Horn Book Podcast is up for your listening pleasure. Lolly is setting it up with iTunes so you’ll be able to subscribe; for now, go to the podcast page on our site to hear my interview with Jon Scieszka. I interviewed Jon for our special September issue, Boys and Girls. That too is [...]
>Lesbolicious is the word
August 24, 2007 By 4 Comments
>The delights of genre fiction
July 5, 2007 By 14 Comments
>Ah, the British boarding school novel–the chums and mates, midnight feasts, and thrilling escapes “over the wall” to go into town and swap cheeky badinage with the local rogues: “Oi, sweetheart!” shouted one, standing behind his friend and pointing at Jinx. “Wanna sit on my face?” Christ, she thought, what an invitation! Please do excuse [...]
