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Animal Masquerade; by Marianne Dubuc; trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione (Kids Can)

Demolition; by Sally Sutton; illus. by Brian Lovelock (Candlewick)

The Drowned Cities; by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)

Dying to Know You; by Aidan Chambers (Amulet/Abrams)

A Confusion of Princes; by Garth Nix (Harper/HarperCollins)

Code Name Verity; by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)

Forget-Me-Nots:Poems to Learn by Heart; selected by Mary Ann Hoberman; illus. by Michael Emberley (Tingley/Little, Brown)

The President’s Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems about the Presidents; by Susan Katz; illus. by Robert Neubecker (Clarion)

A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole; by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano; illus. by Michael Carroll (Charlesbridge)

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Art: Ed Briant

Welcome to the Horn Book’s new digital home; please take a look around. Among the features I would like to point your attention to are our new blog, Calling Caldecott, as well as content from the just-published September-October issue of The Horn Book Magazine. One of the things I like most about the new hbook.com is the ability it gives readers to engage in dialogue with us and each other; just about every post and article ends with a spot for you to tell us what you think. Please do so.

As you poke around you will soon notice that this is a work in progress.  The structure is in place as are our most current articles, but the prodigious riches of our old site are being added gradually. (You can still access everything published there at archive.hbook.com) We hope you find the new framework helpful: above the logo are links to each of our publications and information about subscribing and advertising, below it are seven  categories (we call ‘em buckets) which, hopefully, organize the contents of the site in a logical way. (Of course, the beauty of art and progress alike is their ability to surprise us, so I’d like to challenge you all to submit articles that speak to the Horn Book’s mission–to “blow the horn for fine books for boys and girls”–but also blow our organizational scheme out of the water.)

Let me know–right here, in the comments to this post–what you like and what you don’t about the new site. One of the ambiguously great things about digital publishing is that nothing is written in stone, and I find the WordPress platform almost perilously flexible. As is the terrific team who pulled this all together: Lolly Robinson and Kitty Flynn here at the Horn Book, and Guy Gonzalez, Michael Bearse, Josh Hadro, and Ashley MacDonald in the New York offices. All of us hope this site is as helpful, accessible, and forward-looking as our first home was (see below) and our readers continue to be.

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One thing I’m most looking forward to is the ability to make and respond to comments about any articles, not just blog posts, we put on the site, and I’m hoping you will, as Quentin Blake had it, all join in.

Here’s a preview of my new look, courtesy of designer Lolly Robinson and illustrator Ed Briant:

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Ohio-based Media Source Inc. announces today that it has acquired Library Journal and School Library Journal from Reed Business Information-US. The acquisition includes all print and Web products, services, supplements, and newsletters, including Library Hotline. With this purchase, Media Source, best known for its ownership of Junior Library Guild and The Horn Book, Inc., adds substantially to its product offerings in the library market.

“Library Journal and School Library Journal are valuable magazines that deserve a corporate home focused on libraries,” said Randall Asmo, CEO of Media Source. “We respect the history and contribution of LJ and SLJ. Our goal is to build upon those strengths to provide a vital and comprehensive service to the librarian community.”

The Editorial and Advertising Sales groups of the acquired publications will continue operations in New York City. Asmo continues, “Editor-in-Chief Brian Kenney and Publisher Ron Shank are important to the success of SLJ and LJ, and they will remain in their current roles. We believe that the combined businesses of SLJ, LJ, Junior Library Guild, and The Horn Book will create a myriad of new opportunities in the marketplace. At the same time, our plan is to have each business unit continue to operate with complete editorial independence.”

About Media Source Inc.: Media Source, with headquarters just outside Columbus, Ohio, is the parent company of Junior Library Guild (JLG) and The Horn Book, Inc. JLG is a review and collection development service that provides new release children’s and young adult books to more than 17,000 school and public libraries. The Horn Book, Inc. reviews children’s and young adult books in two print publications, The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide.

About School Library Journal (SLJ): Each monthly issue of SLJ includes reviews of children’s and young adult books, audio, and multimedia products, as well as news, features, and columns that deliver the perspective, resources, and leadership tools necessary for its readers to become indispensable players in their schools and libraries. More than 100,000 librarians who work with students in public and school libraries read School Library Journal.

About Library Journal (LJ): Founded in 1876, Library Journal is the oldest and most respected publication covering the library field. Over 100,000 library directors, administrators, and staff in public, academic, and special libraries read LJ. In its twenty annual issues, LJ reviews nearly 7000 books and provides coverage of technology, management, policy, and other professional concerns.

About Reed Business Information-US: Reed Business Information-US (www.reedbusiness.com/us) is a leading business-to-business information provider of publications and web sites, as well as custom publishing, directories and research. Reed Business Information-US is part of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK and ENL), a world leading provider of professional information and workflow solutions in the Science, Medical, Legal, Risk Management and Business sectors.

Reed Business Information-US and Reed Elsevier were represented by The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc., a New York City-based investment bank that specializes in the media and information industries.

Media Contact:
Andrew Thorne, VP Marketing, Media Source Inc.
athorne@mediasourceinc.net
614.873.7956

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Lolly took this neat picture of what our book collection looks like during remodeling. I can’t quite tell where in the alphabet this is.

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