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Book Caravan Publicity

All the major newsreel companies ran features on Horn Book Magazine founder Bertha Mahony Miller's bookmobile—dubbed the Book Caravan. Below are transcriptions of those newspaper articles.      Book Caravan Is Local Girl’s Idea   Miss Bertha Mahony, the Gloucester girl who is the originator and director of the Bookshop for...

Week in Review, May 6th-10th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Our Centennial: Three Editors in Chief: A Conversation by Elissa Gershowitz, Anita Silvey, and Roger Sutton Blowing the Horn series Blowing the Horn by Horn Book editors Make Your Mark! 100 Years of The Horn Book by...

Teacher Appreciation 2024

The late, beloved Robin Smith's rocking chair. This year May 6-10 is Teacher Appreciation Week, with today, May 7, 2024, marked as National Teacher Day. Please #ThankaTeacher — including teacher librarians, if your district is lucky enough to have them — and remember the extreme difficulties, unique challenges, and seeming near-impossibilities that our educators face on...

Blowing the Horn

From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from: Horn Book Magazine...

Week in Review, April 29th-May 3rd

  This week on hbook.com... John Mendelson Talks with Roger about UK publisher Nosy Crow's new company in the U.S.   From the May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Our Centennial: Table of Contents Editorial: Bertha's Chair? by Elissa Gershowitz Nonfiction & HB History by Horn Book editors   Calling Caldecott ...

Cinco de Mayo 2024

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Celebrate with three updated booklists from the Guide/Reviews Database starring the holiday itself, Mexican and Mexican American protagonists, and the Spanish language. We've got recommended fiction and nonfiction titles for primary, intermediate, and older readers. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion....

Nonfiction & Horn Book History

The mini-theme of this HB100 special issue is Nonfiction & Horn Book History, and this issue is a form of nonfiction in itself. Here people share their reminiscences and recollections alongside articles focused more directly on the topic. Nonfiction seems so ­straightforward — i.e., not fiction — but is intriguing...

Table of Contents: May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Our Centennial

Cover from Go Forth and Tell. Illustration © 2024 by April Harrison.   Features   Three Editors in Chief by Elissa Gershowitz, Anita Silvey, and Roger Sutton A conversation. “With a Salute to All Children’s Librarians” by Sujei Lugo Amplifying the work of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in...

May Day

In commemoration of International Workers' Day, or May Day, here are some book reviews and links to amplify the fight of workers and their efforts to secure better working conditions for all.  Review of I’m Gonna Paint: Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People by Anne Broyles; illus. by Victoria Tentler-Krylov Review of...
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