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Table of Contents: July/August 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards
Cover © 2020 by Kadir Nelson. Features A Year with Words and Pictures -- but No ALA Annual by the Horn Book editors Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Kevin Henkes A profile of Kevin Henkes by Dudley Carlson, Laura Dronzek, Virginia Duncan, and Susan Hirschman A profile of...
Editorial: Clearly Undefeated (July/August 2020)
Welcome to our annual ALA Awards issue. When it became clear that we would not be reopening the country anytime soon and that there would be no celebration of the ALSC and CSK awards at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago in June, I worried that there would...
From the Chair: Small Moments of Joy (2020 Caldecott Committee, ALA)
Readers of The Horn Book Magazine will have heard this before: a book has the power to change a person, and a person has the power to change a book. Depending on who you are at a given time and the experiences you have collected, the understanding of a book...
From the Chair: Continuing the Legacy (2020 CSK Book Awards Jury, ALA)
Since nervously accepting the appointment of jury chair from previous Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee chair Dr. Claudette McLinn, my goal has been to continue the legacy that the Coretta Scott King Book Awards have created of identifying quality children’s literature that features various narratives of the Black experience....
Read Kadir Nelson's 2020 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Acceptance Speech at ALA's Virtual Book Award Celebration
Good morning, or good afternoon, or good evening, depending on when or where in the world you are reading this. As I compose this speech, I am sitting at home under a nationwide quarantine in the midst of the proliferation of a remarkable novel virus that has commandeered the attention...
Read Kadir Nelson's 2020 Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech at ALA's Virtual Book Award Celebration
The year was 1999, and my very first picture book, Brothers of the Knight, was slated to be published by Dial Books for Young Readers. It was written by the actress and dancer Debbie Allen and based on a stage production of the same name that she had both written...
Preview July/August 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards
Special Issue: ALA Awards. Original cover art by 2020 Caldecott Medal winner Kadir Nelson. “A Year with Words and Pictures — but No ALA Annual”: The Horn Book editors discuss the children’s book landscape of 2019 and the unusual circumstances of 2020. Kevin Henkes’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance speech. A profile of Kevin Henkes by Dudley Carlson, Laura Dronzek, Virginia Duncan, and Susan Hirschman. A profile of Coretta Scott...
A Note from Me (June 19, 2020)
Dear friends, Beverly Sills famously opined that she wasn’t happy, she was cheerful, a sentiment that could perhaps serve us all well now. (Although if you want to hear Bev being beautifully sad and despairing, try her “Addio del passato” from La Traviata.) We do have some stuff to be...
2020 Caldecott Announcement
The wait is over! The 2020 Caldecott Medal Selection Committee has made its choices: one winner and three honor books. The winner is: The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander: The honor books are: Bear Came Along, illustred by LeUyen Pham and written by Richard T. Morris: Double Bass...
Results of the 2020 Calling Caldecott Mock Vote
The votes are in! And the results yielded a mock winner and four honor books. Our readers chose Oge Mora's Saturday as the winner. Bear Came Along, illustrated by LeUyen Pham; My Papi Has a Motorcycle, illustrated by Zeke Peña; Truman, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins; and The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, received the next highest number of...