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Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Five Questions for Oge Mora
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2020 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by...
Preview January/February 2021 Horn Book Magazine
Original cover art by Oge Mora. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2020. Coverage of the 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards virtual celebration: judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Kathleen T. Horning interviews Leslie Brody, author of the Louise Fitzhugh biography Sometimes You Have to Lie. An update on the CCBC’s diversity statistics from Madeline Tyner. Gregory Maguire remembers Jill...
BGHB 2020: Saturday
We've reached the culmination of Picture Book week in our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Leo Landry introduces the 2020 BGHB Picture Book Winner Saturday: The 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book is presented to Oge Mora for Saturday published by Little,...
Review of The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard; illus. by Oge Mora Primary Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp. g 1/20 978-1-5247-6828-7 $17.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-6829-4 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-6830-0 $10.99 As an enslaved child on an Alabama plantation, Mary Walker would look up at the...
Oge Mora at Frugal Books
On Friday afternoon, several of us from the office went over to Frugal Bookstore (where I’d never been before. If you’re in the Boston area, go!) and got to hear Oge Mora read from The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Schwartz & Wade/Random), written by Rita Lorraine...
Results of the 2020 Calling Caldecott Mock Vote
The votes are in! And the results yielded a mock winner and four honor books. Our readers chose Oge Mora's Saturday as the winner. Bear Came Along, illustrated by LeUyen Pham; My Papi Has a Motorcycle, illustrated by Zeke Peña; Truman, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins; and The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, received the next highest number of...
Saturday
In a December 2018 interview at the site Art of the Picture Book, Oge Mora mentions that a quote from her favorite painter Jacob Lawrence — "when the subject is complex, simplicity is the only way to treat it" — inspires her. She praises Lawrence's playful style, as well as the way he created...
Review of Saturday
Saturday by Oge Mora; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. g 10/19 978-0-316-43127-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-43126-2 $9.99 Mora (Thank You, Omu!, rev. 11/18) follows up her Caldecott Honor winner with another story built around family and community connection. On Saturdays, Ava and her mother (who...
Review of Thank You, Omu!
Thank You, Omu!by Oge Mora; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 32 pp.10/18 978-0-316-43124-8 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-43123-1 $9.99Grandmotherly Omu (a brief note on the front endpapers explains that the name is pronounced “AH-moo” and is “the Igbo term for ‘queen’”) seasons and stirs her “thick red stew in a big...
Thank You, Omu!
We sometimes think of collage as an art form that we learned in elementary school — cut or torn pieces of paper, pictures from magazines, newspapers, etc., all pasted together to convey a message or paint a picture. Few of us have ever used collage to tell an entire story,...
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