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From The Guide: Be an Everyday Un-Hero
Sometimes it feels like the average person can’t make much of an impact on the world. But in her Writer’s Page column, “The Un-Hero’s Journey”, Kekla Magoon says, “The key to making a difference is to be someone who participates, someone who tries hard to do the right thing. It...
Week in Review, May 28th-June 1st
This week on hbook.com… Yesterday, May 31st, editor in chief Roger Sutton and Boston Globe Foundation president Emily Procknal announced the 2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners and honorees! Watch the announcement video, see the press release, and read the Horn Book's reviews here. From the May/June 2018 Horn Book...
The Writer's Page: The Un-Hero's Journey
Kekla Magoon at the Allen County Public Library's Pontiac Branch in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Photo: Benita BrowningMy very first author presentation was in a library branch in my hometown, the Allen County Public Library’s Pontiac Branch in Fort Wayne, Indiana. My first book, The Rock and the River, had just...
Horn Book Magazine — May/June 2018: Special Issue: Making a Difference
Table of ContentsFeatures"Making a Difference in Our Nation’s Library:
An Interview with Dr. Carla Hayden" by Roger SuttonThe first female and first African American
Librarian of Congress talks about mirror books, youth librarianship, and nonpartisanship.“'To Be Great, Heroic or Beautiful': The Enduring Legacy of The Brownies’ Book" by Jonda C....
Editorial: “Get Up from the Chair!”
Welcome to our seriously special issue on the theme of “making a difference.” With a deep sense of history and purpose and interconnection (how many times is Virginia Hamilton cited?), and with some thirty contributors, from Susan Cooper (on Ursula K. Le Guin) to Dhonielle Clayton (on Hamilton’s Willie Bea)...
Preview May/June 2018 Horn Book Magazine
Special Issue: Making a DifferenceCover by Yuyi Morales.Carla Hayden, the first female and first African American Librarian of Congress, talks with Horn Book editor in chief Roger Sutton -- her library school classmate! -- about Bright April, mirror books, and nonpartisanship in the library.Jonda C. McNair and Rudine Sims Bishop...
Five questions for Ilyasah Shabazz with Renée Watson
Ilyasah Shabazz. Photo courtesy of Candlewick Press.Malcolm X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz presented a fictionalized account of her father's young-adulthood in 2015's X: A Novel (Candlewick, 14 years and up; written with Kekla Magoon). Her new book, Betty Before X (Farrar, 11–14 years), written with 2018 CSK Author Award winner Renée...
Books mentioned in the February 2018 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Ilyasah Shabazz & Renée WatsonX: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon, Candlewick, 14 years and up.Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson, Farrar, 11–14 years.When the weather outside is frightful…Chirri & Chirra: The Snowy Day by Kaya Doi, trans. by Yuki Kaneko, Enchanted...
Reviews of the 2018 Printz Award winners
WinnerWe Are Okayby Nina LaCourHigh School Dutton 234 pp.2/17 978-0-525-42589-2 $17.99Alone on a snowy campus for winter break during her first year of college, Marin — who abruptly fled her California home for reasons that only gradually become clear — anxiously awaits the arrival of her best...
Reviews of the 2018 CSK Author Award winners
WinnerPiecing Me Togetherby Renée WatsonMiddle School, High School Bloomsbury 264 pp.2/17 978-1-68119-105-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-68119-106-5 $12.99At her mother’s prodding, Jade has spent her high school career preparing herself for success. That has included taking every opportunity offered to her: a scholarship to the prestigious (and mostly white; Jade is African...
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