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Editorial: Another Letter to the First Librarian

Roger Sutton, Mar 03, 2005

Dear Mrs. Bush:This is the second time we’ve corresponded via this page; my last letter (see “The Truth’s Superb Surprise,” March/April 2003) concerned our mutual love of poetry, and I hope you’ll be pleased to hear that our next issue is a special one devoted to that genre, with contributions...

2004 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

Horn Book, Jan 09, 2005

I am privileged to stand here and talk to you because I told a story. It wasn't even an original or made-up story. I found it in a newspaper and it amazed me. Reading it made the soles of my feet tingle. The story made me happy and it made...

Horn Book Fanfare 2004

Horn Book, Nov 28, 2004

Best books of 2004Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksHome illustrated by Jeannie Baker (Greenwillow)An urban neighborhood’s dramatic change — for the better — is chronicled in this wordless picture book’s detailed collages....

Mordicai Gerstein Caldecott profile July/August 2004

Horn Book, Jul 31, 2004

By Elizabeth GordonOn the wall near my desk is a small framed pen-and-ink drawing of a boy, arms (or should I say wings?) outstretched, tousled head of feathers, surrounded by a paddling of helpful ducks. It is from Arnold of the Ducks, and in many ways it symbolizes for me...

Half the Story: Text and Illustration in Picture Books

Anne Hoppe, Jan 02, 2004

The two oldest forms of storytelling — words and images — meet and merge in picture books. A well-placed word can leave you elated or it can break your heart. Pictures can evoke peals of laughter or cries of outrage. A fundamental, some would argue inherent, understanding of both of...

An Interview with Maurice Sendak

Roger Sutton, Dec 01, 2003

In July 2003, Horn Book Editor Sutton talked with the artist in his Connecticut home in a conversation that covered life and death, ego and excavation, dreams and nightmares, Melville and Homer, and...plankton. For more on the great man, click the Maurice Sendak tag.ROGER SUTTON: Last night on that show...

Horn Book Fanfare 2003

Horn Book, Nov 28, 2003

Best books of 2003Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksThe Shape Game written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (Farrar)A family outing to the art museum looks unpromising, until the experience proves transformative in...

Teaching New Readers to Love Books

Robin Smith | Blogs, Sep 07, 2003

Packing and unpacking. Those were the governing actions of my Army brat childhood. I learned how to size up the fashion, the accents, the special vocabulary, and the social climate of every place I lived. I learned the bike and walking routes around all the Army bases and was a...

Editorial: The Truth's Superb Surprise

Roger Sutton, Mar 03, 2003

It’s hard to figure just who is more naive: Laura Bush or America’s poets. For her part, Mrs. Bush had invited several prominent American poets to the White House to participate in a symposium celebrating the work of Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman. But hearing that the symposium...

Horn Book Fanfare 2002

Horn Book, Nov 28, 2002

Best books of 2002Chosen annually by our editors, Fanfare is The Horn Book Magazine’s selection of the best children’s and young adult books of the year.Picture BooksA Bit More Bert written by Allan Ahlberg;illustrated by Raymond Briggs (Farrar)Our child-man hero is back in six more chapters — and we are...

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Editorial: Another Letter to the First Librarian