On March 9, 1960, Alice M. Jordan died peacefully in her sleep. She had just written, “I have had a good winter without colds or other ills. I am going strong in my ninetieth year.” Thus a quiet, beloved, and widely influential woman passed out of life in the fullness...

Ever since the September-October issue of The Horn Book for 1939, Alice Jordan has edited the Booklist regularly. Her editorship marked a real advance in the value of the magazine, for her judgment of books has always been based upon her close association with children and their books. Moreover her notes have...

We chose this title — THE HORNBOOK — because of its early and honorable place in the history of children’s literature, but in our use of it we are giving it a lighter meaning, as Mr. Caldecott’s three jovial huntsmen on the cover suggest. Just as they are so full...