Happy New Year! We hope your year is full of great reads and good friends. As we kick off 2020, it's also a good time to take a stroll down memory lane at 2019. We had a very busy year, including our two newly revamped websites hbook.com and hornbookguide.com -- have a browse! We sadly said goodbye to three of our beloved longtime coworkers, Lolly Robinson, Katrina Hedeen, and Katie Bircher, and welcomed former School Library Journal and Library Journal editorial director Rebecca Miller as new Group Publisher for The Horn Book, SLJ, and LJ. Here's to a great future. Don't miss out -- subscribe to The Horn Book today.

2019 ALA Awards coverage

May/June 2019 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Coretta Scott King Book Awards at 50

2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards coverage

Summer Reading

Fanfare

2019 Horn Book Magazine article highlights

• "Why Stop at Windows and Mirrors?" by Uma Krishnaswami
• "'Speak with Us, Not for Us'" by Grace Lin
• "My Characters Don't Wear Shoes in the House" by Sayantani DasGupta
• "What (Exactly) Is an Easy Reader?" by Sylvie Shaffer
• "Lift Every Voice" series
• Mind the Gap Awards
• "Considering the Criteria" by Vicky Smith
• Horn BOO!
• "Why Do Comics Matter?" by Gene Luen Yang
• "Uneasy Reading" by Laurel Snyder
• "Board Books Build Brains" by Rachel G. Payne
• Holiday High Notes

Happy Anniversary

• I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. by Roger Sutton
• Stevie by Kim Parker
• Number the Stars by Marjorie Ingall
• It's Perfectly Normal by Kitty Flynn
• When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry... by Martha V. Parravano

Interviews

• Caroline Cala
• Meg Medina
• Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky
• Claire Hartfield
• Laurie Halse Anderson
• Christian Robinson
• Raúl the Third
• Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña
• George and Bernette Ford
• Mariko Tamaki
• Maxine Beneba Clarke and Van Thanh Rudd
• Nikki Giovanni (by Kwame Alexander)
• Kyle Lukoff
• George Takei
• Celia C. Pérez
• Raina Telgemeier
• Rainbow Rowell
• Susan Cooper

Talks with Roger

• Walter Wick
• David Elliott
• Andrea Beaty
• Kevin Henkes
• Christopher Myers
• Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli
• Sharon Robinson
• Duncan Tonatiuh
• Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
• Deborah Heiligman
• Nikki Grimes
• Elisha Cooper
• Pat Mora
• Jerry Craft

Publishers' Previews

January/February: Middle-Grade Novels

Dan Gemeinhart | Yoon Ha Lee | Erin Bow

March/April: Spring Preview

Jasmine Warga | Eloise Greenfield | Remy Lai | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

May/June: Diverse Voices: Redux

April Harrison | Kelly Starling Lyons | Tiffany D. Jackson | Cynthia Kadohata | Sarah & Ian Hoffmann | Jerry Pinkney | Aminah Mae Safi

July/August: Debut Authors

Kevin Noble Maillard | Christine Day | Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal | Kathryn Gonzales | Nicole Valentine | Dan Haring & MarcyKate Connolly | Rory Power | Gillian McDunn

September/October: Fall Preview

Paul Fleischman | Julie Dillemuth | Morgan Parker | Jen Wang | Sofiya Pasternack

November/December: Picture Books

Angela Joy | Minh Le | Gwendolyn Hooks & Simone Agoussoye | Evan Turk

In memoriam

• Audrey Geisel
• Jane Langton
• John Burningham
• Jan Wahl
• Tomi Ungerer
• Paul B. Janeczko
• Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
• Judith Kerr
• Susan P. Bloom
• Toni Morrison
• Lee Bennett Hopkins
• Mordicai Gerstein
• Richard Jackson
• Andrew Clements

Blogs

Calling Caldecott | Family Reading |Out of the Box |Read Roger

Miscellaneous

Booklists and resources

Book Reviews of the Week

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