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Editorial: Book Lives (May/June 2023)
The May/June issue of the Horn Book is customarily our themed “special issue,” in which we explore one topic in depth and from many angles. There are special issues and special special issues, and this one falls into the latter category. “Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future” is the conversation...
Table of Contents: May/June 2023 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future
Cover and “Seeing Ourselves” header art © 2023 by Bryan Collier. Features We Need Diverse Books by The WNDB team A decade of action. CCBC and Diverse Books by Merri V. Lindgren, Megan Schliesman, Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, and Madeline Tyner Numbers are just part of the story. The Mary...
May/June 2023 Horn Book Magazine cover surprise
Peek-a-boo! It's the complete May/June Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future cover. Art by Bryan Collier, gif by Scholastic. Single copies of this special issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from: Horn Book Magazine Customer Service magazinesupport@mediasourceinc.com Full...
Preview May/June 2023 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future
Special Issue: Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future Original cover art by Bryan Collier. The We Need Diverse Books Team looks back on a decade in books. “Numbers are just part of the story”: Merri V. Lindgren, Megan Schliesman, Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, and Madeline Tyner on the Cooperative Children’s Book...
Tu Bishvat is here
Today is Tu Bishvat*! The holiday, whose name just means “the fifteenth day of the month of Shvat,” is a Jewish holiday considered the New Year of the Trees. It’s a day to celebrate all things tree-related. Need a book recommendation? How about a whole forest of them? As others have...
The Book That Made Me Hate the Newbery
It took only one book to make me hate all things Newbery. It was autumn 1975, and my sixth-grade teacher assigned us Paula Fox’s The Slave Dancer, which had won the Newbery Award the previous year. Set in 1840, the novel follows Jessie Bollier, a white thirteen-year-old boy kidnapped from...
Black Girlhood and Newbery Winners
Virginia Hamilton (left) and Mildred D. Taylor (right). Taylor photo: Jack Ackerman, The Toledo Blade. As a Black woman, African American children’s books scholar, and educator, I am dismayed that there have only been two Black women to win the Newbery Medal in its one hundred years. Virginia Hamilton was...
From Trend to Norm: How the Last Twenty Years of the Newbery Can Guide Us
Newbery Award titles are among the more visible of books for young readers. As such, they provide the opportunity to explore in microcosm a potential template that can be applied to the entire arena of books for children and teens. My book A Single Shard won the Newbery Medal in...
Field Notes: Teaching Flying Lessons & Other Stories
In a foreword to the paperback edition of the groundbreaking anthology Flying Lessons & Other Stories — edited by Ellen Oh, first published in 2017 in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, and dedicated to the late Walter Dean Myers — Christopher Myers writes, “Imagine…this book you are holding, Flying...
Five Questions for Maxine Beneba Clarke about When We Say Black Lives Matter
When Kitty and I visited All She Wrote Books last week, it was the first time we were able to see "in person" some of our recent favorite new picture books. Some of them even came home with us — including When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke, winner of...
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