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And this is funny
I was reading in the PRINT edition of American Libraries about how all the cool kids can't wait to use QR codes to access library programming via their smartphones. First: oh, sure. Second, who ever uses those things (or as Brian Kenney said on Facebook, "I think we should just...
Reviews of the 2012 Newbery winners
Winner: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Farrar)Starred review in The Horn Book Magazine, September/October 2011Who but Jack Gantos would get a summer job typing up obituaries for his arthritic neighbor, the town’s unofficial historian; have a best friend who “grew up in a house full of dead people”;...
Happy new year, and welcome to a perfect new-year baby
Here we are in Provincetown with friend Pam (other friend Lori was taking the picture), replete from days of Chex Mix and chocolate and Yahtzee, a game I thought I had mastered after years of battling AI opponents only to lose every time in this my first experience with the...
Present Tensions, or It's All Happening Now
When the 2010 Man Booker shortlist was announced in the UK, the Daily Telegraph ran this headline: “Philip Pullman and Philip Hensher criticise Booker Prize for including present tense novels.” In fact, what Pullman said, as he explained in an article in the Guardian, was that “the use of the...
Daniel Handler Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byRoger Sutton: We want to talk about Why We Broke Up. Why did we break up, Daniel? It’s still sad.Daniel Handler: I don’t know if you and...
Seriously, what the fuck is the point?
Akashic Books is releasing a "children's version" of Go the Fuck to Sleep. So now parents can harangue their children to sleep for realz....
Review of Bluefish
Bluefishby Pat SchmatzMiddle School Candlewick 229 pp.9/11 978-0-7636-5334-7 $15.99e-book ed. 978-0-7636-5614-0 $15.99“Stupid bluefish” Travis Roberts finds “lowlife trailer-trash loser” Vida “Velveeta” Wojciehowski in a lovely, understated book that celebrates the possibility of a kind and humane friendship between an eighth-grade girl and boy. Travis and Velveeta meet while both are...
Horn Book Fanfare 2011
Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s selection for the best books published for children and teens in 2011. Publishing trends being what they are, the editors make no attempt to provide a balanced list (where’s the folklore?), but you will find the thirty choices fairly evenly divided among picture books,...
2011 NBA Finalists reviews
[scroll down for all six reviews]Chimeby Franny BillingsleyMiddle School, High School Dial 358 pp.3/11 978-0-8037-3552-1 $17.99Reviewed 3/11“Ooze and muck and the clean muddy smell of life” suffuse Billingsley’s long-awaited third work of fiction, which mingles “Tam Lin,” “Lord Randall,” and its own swampy folklore into an...
Where are those famous fact-checkers NOW?
In a profile of fashionista Daphne Guinness, Rebecca Mead wrote in the 9/26/11 issue of The New Yorker that "even before J.K. Rowling came up with the idea, Guinness dreamed of wearing a cloak that would render her invisible."...
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