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What Makes a Good Storytime?
Storyteller Julie uses her eyes, ears, voice, body, and sense of humor. Photo: Shara Hardeson.Storytellers and story lovers know that that the essence of collaboration lies in the “Stone Soup” tale — everyone gives a little something (carrots, a potato, some salt and pepper) to achieve a common goal (a...
Brown Girl Dreaming: Author Jacqueline Woodson’s 2015 BGHB NF Honor Speech
Hey Everybody. I want to thank the committee for choosing Brown Girl Dreaming as a Boston Globe–Horn Book honor book. It wasn’t an easy book to write — I know no book is easy — but Brown Girl Dreaming took me on a writing journey like no other. And while...
3 terrible truths about NaNoWriMo (that prove you should absolutely do it)
We’re a little over a week into National Novel Writing Month, and it seems an excellent time to let a few terrible secrets out of the box. For those curious outsiders, NaNoWriMo is a thirty-day writing challenge to produce a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 pm on November 30th. But when...
Rumpeta-ing through Reading: Picture Books for the Very Young
My daughter Emily has always been a reading omnivore: we have photos of her poring over books from the time she could first sit up. Everything was of interest: catalogs featuring photographs of children; books verging on toys, with flaps or holes or even wheels; concept books; story books. Gradually,...
Camp Sendak
Scotch Hill Farm. Map by Doug Salati.When I was fourteen years old, I went away to Camp Tamarack near Hinckley, Minnesota. It was a beautiful place, set along the wooded banks of the St. Croix River. I loved it there.Flash forward to this past July. I'm a man of fifty and...
Sago Mini Monsters app review
When I opened the Sago Mini Monsters app (Sago Sago, 2014), a blank-faced turquoise monster’s head was poking out of green goo. I dragged her from the muck and named her Lucy. (Just in my head. There’s no reading or writing involved in this app.)Five different-colored circles appeared at the...
Week in Review, June 8th-12th
This week on hbook.com…Starred reviews coming up in the July/August Horn Book MagazineJune's issue of Notes from the Horn Book: five questions for Ann Bausum on Stonewall, more YA narrative nonfiction, picture books for Father's Day, summery primary adventures, wacky intermediate audiobooksFrom the May/June 2015 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue:...
Week in Review, March 30th-April 3rd
This week on hbook.com…The Horn Book Guide Online just passed an amazing milestone: 100,000 reviews! Demo or subscribe to the database here.From the March/April 2015 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: "'This Is Too Much!' Why Verse Novels Work for Reluctant Readers" by Dorie RaybuckPreview the May/June 2015 Horn Book...
You may be a boy but HEY
On my post the other day about gender representation in books, I mentioned as an afterthought the problem wordless picture books present in identifying gender. I thought the topic deserved a post of its own.It's not some kind of queer-theory intellectual problem, either, as books that don't identify the gender of its characters...
Horn Book reviews of ImPress's inspirations
New small publisher ImPress adapts children’s books for grown-ups (without any of that embarrassing kid stuff). Here’s how The Horn Book Magazine reviewed the original titles. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 48 pp.9/13 978-0-316-20063-9 $18.00Mr. Tiger walks upright and...
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