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Fanfare 2019 -- more on!

by Horn Book
Dec 05, 2019 | Filed in Features & Opinion

Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2019 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2019 booklist here and our newly annotated list here.

 

Picture Books

Calling Caldecott: The Little Guys

Five Questions for Vera Brosgol about Leave Me Alone 

Family Reading: Happy Camping! Summer Camp Books 

 

Calling Caldecott: River

Elisha Cooper Talks with Roger 

 

Oge Mora Talks with Roger 

Video extra: Oge Mora Talks with Roger 

 

 

Five Questions for Isabel Quintero and Zeke Pena about My Papi Has a Motorcycle 

Calling Caldecott: My Papi Has a Motorcycle 

Isabel Quintero’s BGHB Award speech for Photographic 

Zeke Pena’s BGHB Award speech for Photographic 

 

Five Questions for Raúl the Third about ¡Vamos!: Let's Go to the Market!

 

Calling Caldecott: Another

Five Questions for Christian Robinson about Another 

Christian Robinson’s BGHB Honor speech for When’s My Birthday? 

 

Sydney Smith’s BGHB Honor speech for Town Is by the Sea 

 

Fiction

Elizabeth Acevedo’s BGHB speech for The Poet X 

 

An Interview with Kate DiCamillo 

A Profile of Kate DiCamillo 

Five Questions for Kate DiCamillo about Louisiana’s Way Home 

Kate DiCamillo gives a lecture, answers a billion questions from kids, and signs until the cows come home 

 

“The Book That Changed My Life: Barbara’s Book” by Kevin Henkes 

Kevin Henkes Talks with Roger 

 

Publishers’ Preview: Diverse Voices: Five Questions for Cynthia Kadohata about A Place to Belong 

 

Erin Entrada Kelly Talks with Roger 

Erin Entrada Kelly’s Newbery speech for Hello, Universe

A Profile of Erin Entrada Kelly 

 

Amy Sarig King Talks with Roger 

Field Notes: On Propagating Literacy by A.S. King 

 

Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Remi Lai  

 

Five Questions for Juana Medina about Juana & Lucas 

 

Lift Every Voice: “Four Women and Me” by Jason Reynolds 

 

Angie Thomas’s BGHB Award speech for The Hate U Give 

 

Poetry

Calling Caldecott: The Undefeated

Fresh Ginger and Garlic: A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni by Kwame Alexander 

“A Thousand Winters”: Kwame Alexander’s CSK Honor speech 

May/June 2019 Special Issue: CSK at 50 cover art by Kadir Nelson 

 

Nikki Grimes Talks with Roger 

Lift Every Voice: “Seeing Stars” by Nikki Grimes 

Nikki Grimes’s BGHB Honor speech for One Last Word 

Nikki Grimes’s Children’s Literature Legacy Award speech 

"To Know Nikki Grimes Is to Know an Artist"

 

Nonfiction

Lift Every Voice: “You Are the Author!” by Ashley Bryan 

Ashley Bryan’s BGHB Award speech for Freedom over Me 

Make Way for Ashley! A Birthday Tribute by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson with Drew Nelson 

 

Calling Caldecott: Two Brothers, Four Hands 

 

Deborah Heiligman Talks with Roger 

“The Book That Changed My Life: A Lifelong Journey” by Deborah Heiligman 

Deborah Heiligman’s BGHB Award speech for Vincent and Theo 

 

Calling Caldecott: Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born

 

Five Questions for Raina Telgemeier about Guts 

 

Publishers’ Previews: Five Questions for Jerry Pinkney about A Place to Land 

Jerry Pinkney’s Children’s Literature Legacy Award speech 

Jerry Pinkney’s CSK-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award speech 

A Profile of Jerry Pinkney 

 

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