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A visit with Maurice Sendak
On July 19, 2003, Roger Sutton and Richard Asch visited Maurice Sendak at his home in Connecticut. Roger conducted an interview that appeared in the November/December 2003 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Sendak at 75. Here are three photos (taken by Richard) that chronicle this meeting of the minds.See more...
My friend Maurice
Maurice Sendak died last night at the age of 83. There will be many forthcoming tributes to this great artist, including quite a lot of material by and about him from The Horn Book Magazine, which we will be posting on our website for you as we can. But I...
Gaiman in Chicago
This isn't quite like the time Sammy Davis, Jr. landed one on Archie Bunker, but it's close. Neil Gaiman's Sutherland Lecture--"What the @#$%&*! Is a Children's Book, Anyway?"-- was a big sold-out success, and we'll be bringing it to you this fall in the Horn Book Magazine. Meanwhile, I thought...
Picture book conference at Yale
I got to take a road trip to Connecticut a week ago to attend a picture book conference at Yale. Sorry to say, I was not able to get to all of the sessions, but Roger asked me to write up what I could.The event was a fundraiser for the...
Dorothy, how does that make you feel?
The formidable Kenneth Kidd explores the entwined history of children’s literature and psychoanalysis in Freud in Oz: At the Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature (Univ. of Minnesota, November). Essays include “Three Case Histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and The Wizard of Oz,” “’Maurice Sendak and Picturebook Psychology,” and “T Is...
Must-see TV
This morning, shrieks of laughter filled our normally quiet office as the Horn Book staff watched The Colbert Report's Maurice Sendak interviews.If you haven't seen these, head right over to Comedy Central's website; they're not to be missed! Here's Night 1 and Night 2....
The Sign on Sendak's Door
Although grateful for the support of publishers who place advertisements in The Horn Book, I’ve never before felt the need to direct you to such from this page. But I do so now: please go and read the advertisement on page 57 and then come back here. I’ll wait.Imagine a...
Horn Book Magazine -- November/December 2011
Table of Contents FeaturesMo Willems11Why Books?An adaptation of the author’s 2011 Zena Sutherland Lecture.Jack Gantos18Mausoleum MadnessOr, children’s books six feet under.Barbara Bader41Nonfiction: What’s Really New and Different—and What Isn’tA response to The Horn Book’s special issue on nonfiction.Ron Koertge48LunacyIn which Mother Goose almost loses it. ColumnsRoger Sutton7EditorialThe Sign on Sendak’s DoorA proclamation...
Guiding the young
"This is a very good start, really. Now, you might want to move that line just a tad to the left, and think a bit about your colors."...
Rooms of their own
I was of course kidding when I characterized the Sendak Fellowship as a reality show, but there are some aspects of it that are similar. Four people whose only things necessarily in common are talent and an interest in creating picture books share a large house for a month. They...
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