10

Lydie Raschka

Nina Lindsay

Jack Gantos

Wesley Adams

Kathleen T. Horning

Kadir Nelson

Shane W. Evans

Taye Diggs

Ron Koertge

Roger Sutton

7

King of All the Caldecotts
Maurice Sendak, 1928–2012.

Roger Sutton

16

Leonard S. Marcus

32

Sight Reading
Chris Raschka Unleashed
An unusual capacity for curiosity.

T. A. Barron

85

145

From The Guide
Sports
A selection of reviews from
The Horn Book Guide.

152

Cadenza
2012 Mind the Gap Awards
The books that didn’t win.

Book Reviews
Audiobooks

Cover © 2012 by Melissa Sweet.
Art on pages 1–2 from A Hole Is to Dig.
Illustrations © 1952 by Maurice Sendak.

10

What Hath Harry Wrought?
How Harry Potter changed children’s publishing.

19

No Joke!
Yes, multicultural fiction can be funny.

Barbara Bader

Cleveland and Pittsburgh Create a Profession
Early children’s librarianship in
two cities of the industrial heartland.

Jane Yolen

Rebecca Donnelly

Hitting the Ground of Joy
Finding shared pleasures in children’s literature.

Roger Sutton

7

Editorial
We Belong Together
What will it mean to promote reading in a post-book world?

Leonard S. Marcus

44

Sight Reading
Good Vibrations
Picture books and color.

Hilary Rappaport

50

Books in the Home
On the Rights of Reading and Girls and Boys
Equality for all.

54

What Makes a Good…?
What Makes a Good YA Dystopian Novel?

122

From The Guide
Mythology
A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.

132

Cadenza
If Babies Ran the Horn Book
We go baby crazy, here and throughout the issue.

May/June Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed

Cover © 2012 by José-Luis Olivares.
Page 1 art from Ruby Lu, Brave and True.
Illustration © 2004 by Anne Wilsdorf.

10

The e-Future
Or is it the e-present? The brave
new world of digital publishing.

23

Martha! She’s Back and Bigger Than Ever!
Martha the dog speaks (and speaks)
about her move to TV.

M. T. Anderson

Acquiring the Headset
A writer’s travels with The Time Machine.

Roger Sutton

Virginia Duncan

The Making of Freight Train
…the app.

Cynthia K. Ritter

When the Name of the Game Is a Children’s Book
Children’s book–based board games.

Ann Dixon

From Touchstones to Touch Screens
The evolution of a book lover.

Roger Sutton

7

Editorial
Remixing Reading
It’s way more than e-books.

Horn Book staff and reviewers

15

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Old books, new media: our favorite (and not so)
remakes. Featured throughout the issue.

Leonard S. Marcus

51

Sight Reading
Medium Cool
Talking about e-books with Dan Yaccarino.

55

Borderlands
Sparks of Fiction
Flash fiction: uniquely suited to our times.

Angela J. Reynolds

61

Field Notes
Listen to the Books
Downloads or discs, and does it matter?

Katie Bircher

72

What Makes a Good…?
What Makes a Good Picture Book App?

138

From The Guide
Titanic
A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.

148

Cadenza
YA-Manji: The Game of Up-Market Places
Take your YA novel from slush pile to
bestseller with a roll of the dice!

Book Reviews
Audiobook Reviews

Letters to the Editor
March/April Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed

Cover design by Lolly Robinson

10

Horn Book Fanfare
Our choices for the best books of 2011.

18

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Gallery 2011
Celebrating this year’s winners and honor books.

Steve Sheinkin

Salley Mavor

Tim Wynne-Jones

Blink & Caution

Richard Peck

Books to Unite the Digitally Divided Family
An author asks, Is there still room for books
for young people in a text-and-tweet world?

Deirdre F. Baker

Roger Sutton

7

Editorial
In Which We’ve Done Only Half the Work
We’ve chosen our 2011 Fanfare
books—now it’s your turn.

Leonard S. Marcus

47

Sight Reading
Picture Book Parade
Some favorite picture books of 2011.

Leonard S. Marcus

56

What Makes a Good…?
What Makes a Good Rock-and-Roll Book?
On the highway to heck with younger readers.

122

From The Guide
Paranormal Romance
A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.

132

Cadenza
The Chocolate Games
Author Jennings (We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes)
presents Team Charlie Bucket.

Letters to the Editor
January/February Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed

Cover © 2012 by Salley Mavor.
Page 1 art from Me…Jane. Illustration
© 2011 by Patrick McDonnell.

Mo Willems

11

Why Books?
An adaptation of the author’s 2011 Zena Sutherland Lecture.

Jack Gantos

18

Mausoleum Madness
Or, children’s books six feet under.

Barbara Bader

Ron Koertge

Roger Sutton

7

Editorial
The Sign on Sendak’s Door
A proclamation to get behind.

Carmen Agra Deedy

Marc Aronson

Susan Patron

Malinda Lo

Rita Williams-Garcia

15

38

46

56

63

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin.
Mukiwa by Peter Godwin.
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett.
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide /
When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.

Danielle J. Ford

28

What Makes a Good…?
What Makes a Good Space Book?

Leonard S. Marcus

34

Sight Reading
Touchy
Picture books and the feel of the page.

Sandra Dutton

51

The Writer’s Page
The Poetry of Talk
An author’s appreciation for dialect in children’s books.

Megan Lambert

58

Books in the Home
O Christmas Books!
Reading and the myth of Santa.

135

From The Guide
More Good Space Books
A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.

144

Cadenza
What’s Under the Tree?
A handful of children’s book characters get what they deserve.

65

75

133

Book Reviews

Audiobook Reviews

November/December Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed

Cover and page 1 art from The Money We’ll Save. © 2011 by Brock Cole.

Jon Scieszka

11

“Under the Rug”
An excerpt from The Chronicles of Harris Burdick illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.

Barbara Bader

15

Mildred Batchelder: The Power of Thinking Big
Third in a series paying homage to the post–Anne Carroll Moore generation of pioneering children’s librarians.

Elizabeth Thomas

Project Child’s Play
Designing a fresh new look for some children’s literature icons. Who vill be da vinner of this challenge?

Roger Sutton

7

Editorial
What Books Can Do
And what they can’t. Also: Heavy Medal, meet Calling Caldecott.

Leonard S. Marcus

24

Sight Reading
It’s My Party
A conversation with Maurice Sendak about his latest picture book.

Sonia Levitin

40

Borderlands
Why Vampires?
A YA author examines the paranormal craze.

Madelyn Travis

42

Books in the Home
Thank Heavens for Hugo, or When Size Matters
A parent learns to let go and let Hugo.

Carey E. Hagan

4

Field Notes
One Tough Cookie
How one librarian persuades boys to read books about girls.

Siobhán Parkinson

52

Foreign Correspondence
Flying Kites and Chasing White Rabbits:
Children’s Literature in Functional Times
Ireland’s first children’s laureate considers what literacy is for.

Susan Dove Lempke

56

What Makes a Good…?
What Makes a Good Book about Sharing?

121

From The Guide
Batchelder Award Winners
A selection of reviews from The Horn Book Guide.

128

Cadenza
Bumble-Ardy’s Beginnings
From animated short to picture book.

62

Book Reviews

Letters to the Editor
September/October Starred Books
Impromptu
Index to Advertisers
Index to Books Reviewed

Cover art from “Under the Rug” from The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg. Illustrations copyright © 1984 by Chris Van Allsburg. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.