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On the Cover: Houses
My father’s house was made of sky.His bookcases stood twelve feet high.The snowy owl my father tamed,the stones he showed me, stars he named,agate, quartz, the Milky Way—“It’s good to know their names,” he’d say,“so when I’m gone and you are grown,in any world you’ll feel at home.”My mother’s house...
Carver: A Life in Poems: Author Marilyn Nelson’s BGHB 2002 Fiction and Poetry Award Speech
by Marilyn NelsonAbracadabra, alakazam, paz, salaam, shalom, amenMy deep thanks go to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award selection committee, and to Stephen Roxburgh of Front Street Books, who saw the potential of my manuscript. Thanks, too, to Helen Robinson of Front Street, whose design made the manuscript a beautiful and...
Horn Book Fanfare 2001
Best books of 2001Chosen 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 BooksMilo’s Hat Trick written and illustrated by Jon Agee (di Capua/Hyperion)The Adventures of Bert written by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Raymond Briggs (Farrar)My Car...
Childhood, Stories, and Politics
by Vera B. WilliamsOne of my childhood pleasures was riding on my father’s shoulders to see and be part of the great crowds gathered for the May 1st international workers’ celebration that was socialist in origin and long preceded our Labor Day. I also took part in the traditional May...
Horn Book Fanfare 2000
Best books of 2000Chosen 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 BooksButtons written and illustrated by Brock Cole (Farrar)A Cake for Herbie written and illustrated by Petra Mathers (Schwartz/Atheneum)Madlenka written and illustrated by Peter Sis...
Horn Book Fanfare 1999
Best books of 1999Chosen 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 BooksBenny’s Had Enough! written by Barbro Lindgren, illustrated by Olof Landström (R&S/Farrar)What! Cried Granny: An Almost Bedtime Story written by Kate Lum, illustrated by...
Who the Wild Things Are: The Feral Child in Fiction
by Mordicai GersteinStories about feral children have always fascinated me. As a child, I read what I could find, and as an adult I found myself writing them. For me, part of the purpose of writing is to find out why a subject intrigues me. Why the feral child?I first...
Realms of Gold and Granite
The Bookshop for Boys and Girls was born, in a twelvemonth, with a pedigree and a distinguished list of patrons. Its role was largely determined from the outset. But life, real life, is also a string of accidents. Bertha Mahony was thirty-three and restless after ten years as a good...
Horn Book Reminiscence from Lee Kingman
By Lee Kingman My earliest memory of Bertha Mahony, before she added Miller to her name, begins with her feet. Small feet, proportioned to her small frame. As I was a lanky nine-year-old, I was almost as tall as she was. Her lack of size, however, had nothing to do...
Realms of Gold and Granite
Bertha Mahony Miller in 1929 The Bookshop for Boys and Girls was born, in a twelvemonth, with a pedigree and a distinguished list of patrons. Its role was largely determined from the outset. But life, real life, is also a string of accidents. Bertha Mahony was thirty-three and restless after...
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