The Horn Book » roger sutton http://www.hbook.com Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 13:27:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 From the Editor – October 2011 http://www.hbook.com/2011/10/news/notes-from-the-horn-book/from-the-editor-2-october-2011/ http://www.hbook.com/2011/10/news/notes-from-the-horn-book/from-the-editor-2-october-2011/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:31:23 +0000 Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/?p=5798 Martha Parravano’s reviews of superior supernaturals above reminds me that there will always be books that survive genre fatigue: just when you think you can’t look at another vampire (or dystopia, or fallen angel, or fantasy intrigue) story, one comes along to renew our understanding of just why these themes resonate with writers and readers. [...]

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]]> roger right2 From the Editor October 2011Martha Parravano’s reviews of superior supernaturals above reminds me that there will always be books that survive genre fatigue: just when you think you can’t look at another vampire (or dystopia, or fallen angel, or fantasy intrigue) story, one comes along to renew our understanding of just why these themes resonate with writers and readers. The trick is finding them, and I’m grateful to the Horn Book staff and reviewers who somehow manage to persevere through each new boxful of fat teen novels with misty photos of dreamy-eyed girls on their covers to unearth (heh) the ones that really matter.

Having seen previous reading trends come and go, I do wonder when the craze for YA vampire and other paranormal stories might change. It will; it always does. Will the current surfeit of the futuristic and fantastical make readers turn again to the here and now, or perhaps to historical fiction? We shall see.

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]]> http://www.hbook.com/2011/10/news/notes-from-the-horn-book/from-the-editor-2-october-2011/feed/ 0 From the Editor: August 2011 http://www.hbook.com/2011/08/news/notes-from-the-horn-book/from-the-editor-august-2011/ http://www.hbook.com/2011/08/news/notes-from-the-horn-book/from-the-editor-august-2011/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:59:16 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=2164 Katrina Hedeen, Cathie Mercier, and I are busy pulling together this year’s Horn Book at Simmons, a one-day colloquium on October 1st at Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. Held the day after the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, the colloquium, titled “Engaging Worlds, Real and Imagined,” brings participants together with the BGHB [...]

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]]> roger right2 From the Editor: August 2011Katrina Hedeen, Cathie Mercier, and I are busy pulling together this year’s Horn Book at Simmons, a one-day colloquium on October 1st at Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. Held the day after the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, the colloquium, titled “Engaging Worlds, Real and Imagined,” brings participants together with the BGHB winners and Honor Book recipients, Horn Book staff, and Simmons faculty to explore themes in literature, trends in publishing, and possibilities for bringing young readers and the award books together. Registration, which includes a ticket to the Awards ceremony on the evening of September 30th, is limited and filling up quickly.

I hope you will join us.

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Over at Read Roger, our indefatigable leader has been posting highlights from his nine Live Five interviews with the 2011 Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Wilder, Sibert, and Printz luminaries, plus bonus interviews with superstars Brian Selznick and Rick Riordan. Head over and learn whose dog Roger wants and what he and Rita Williams-Garcia were singing about.

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