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Newbery Knowledge
Trivia about Newbery Award winners: At the Banquet When Marguerite Henry came to the 1949 ALA convention in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to accept the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, she brought her horse, Misty, the subject of 1948 honoree Misty of Chincoteague. The publicity stunt was a surprise...
Hitty Preble, Public Person
Hitty Preble — protagonist of the Newbery Medal–winning novel Hitty: Her First Hundred Years — is a doll with a history. Nothing is really known about her first hundred years, of course, but much has been written about her since. Her origin story was first told in the pages of...
Editorial: Newbery Forever? (May/June 2022)
We are tremendously grateful for the invaluable guidance and input of our illustrious consulting editor, Kathleen T. Horning, in creating this special issue on the centennial of the Newbery Award. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is a...
"Sometimes You Have to Lie": A Conversation with Leslie Brody
Nearly sixty years after the publication of Harriet the Spy (Harper, 1964) the book remains as fresh as ever, so it’s not surprising that Harriet’s author was just as captivating. In her new, thoroughly researched biography, Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author...
BGHB at 50: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Hamilton?: M. C. Higgins, the Great
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, established in 1967, we will be publishing a series of appreciations of BGHB winners and honorees from the past. This is the third in the series to be published in The Horn Book Magazine (see Gregory Maguire’s article...
Review of Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canalby Margarita EngleMiddle School Houghton 260 pp.3/14 978-0-544-10941-4 $17.99 gOf the thousands of people from around the world who helped build the Panama Canal, the voices of the dark-skinned workers have been seldom heard. Known as the “silver people” because they were paid in...
The Enduring Footprints of Peter, Ezra Jack Keats, and The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats.In the spring of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Ezra Jack Keats cut a series of black-and-white photographs out of Life magazine. The four photos showed a small African American boy in Liberty County, Georgia, reacting to a blood test being administered by a public health nurse. Prior to the test,...
Lenny & Lucy
It's hard to believe that there was once a time when full-color picture books were uncommon. It was usually an indication that the artist had somehow proved himself worthy (::cough:: Maurice Sendak) and was awarded with a full palette to use on his masterpieces (::cough:: ::cough:: Where the Wild Things...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
KT: I was excited to see this book come in because I have long been a fan of Gordon Parks's photography, and I was eager to learn more about him. Carole Boston Weatherford's book is less a biography than it is the story of how he found his calling. When...
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