>Elizabeth Bluemle has a great lament up about not trusting–and feeding–children’s imaginations. The saddest line: “It used to be that naming your new stuffed animal was practically a sacred rite of passage in plush parenting; now, if the tag on the creature doesn’t provide a pre-fab name, we’re seeing kids at a loss, calling their [...]
>March/April 2009 Horn Book Magazine
March 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
>The Horn Book has a snow day today but our latest issue is out and, partly, up. We’ve posted an intelligently bristling argument from Farah Mendlesohn what’s wrong with contemporary YA SF as well as veteran Joanna Rudge Long’s thoughts on what to look for in a “Three Little Pigs.” The print Magazine also includes [...]
>Isn’t this why they brought us blue M&Ms?
February 26, 2009 By 10 Comments
>February Notes
February 11, 2009 By 6 Comments
>Still, it’s not like a book can give you polio.
January 18, 2009 By 20 Comments
>From the would-be author who insists to his would-be editor that “my grandkids love this story” to the award committee member who says “my ten-year-old thought this book was boooorrrring,” the children’s book world is replete with those who use their own children as test subjects. Expanding the notion of “my kids” to those children [...]
>New Notes from the Horn Book
January 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
>The latest issue of Notes celebrates the new year with a look at firsts: first novels, first chapters, pioneering thinkers, and that chicken-and-the-egg conundrum. We’ve also got an interview with first-time novelist Sally Nicholls. Also, Claire inaugurates her monthly booklists with American Presidents.
>Mice at the Movies
December 23, 2008 By 1 Comment
>New Notes from the Horn Book–Fanfare Edition
December 10, 2008 By 2 Comments
>Take my kid–please.
October 20, 2008 By 5 Comments
>I keep imagining how different writers might approach making a story out of the unintended consequences of Nebraska’s “safe haven” law. The idea that your parents could give you up–or give up on you–so capriciously (and lawfully) is like a Maurice Sendak Nyquil nightmare. In The Grounding of Group Six Julian F. Thompson found a [...]
>Check your in-box
September 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
