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Silver medals
Hello, everyone. I'm back from ALA's annual conference, which began (for me) with the devastatingly sad news that Robin Smith, co-author of this blog, had died, and ended (for me) with the Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder banquet. I will be using this space to remember our beloved Robin in the near future — oh, let's...
Reviews of the 2017 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction and Poetry Winner The Hate U Giveby Angie ThomasHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 453 pp.2/17 978-0-06-249853-3 $17.99Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a life many African American teenagers can relate to: a life of double consciousness. Caught between her rough, predominantly black neighborhood and the “proper,” predominantly...
Review of One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissanceby Nikki Grimes; illus. by various artistsIntermediate, Middle School, High School Bloomsbury 120 pp.1/17 978-1-61963-554-8 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-61963-555-5 $12.99The vibrancy of the Harlem Renaissance is illuminated in Grimes’s provocative poetry collection. In a tribute to the great poets of the...
Black History Month, Week 5 / Women's History Month, Week 1
Throughout February, we're celebrating Black History Month by highlighting articles, speeches, and reviews from The Horn Book archive that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field. Look for the social media tag #HBBlackHistoryMonth17 on Facebook.com/TheHornBook and @HornBook.This week's articles: "Young Dreamers" by Christopher Myers...
More Horn Book goodies about YMA 2017 winners
To accompany our 2017 ALA-themed Horn Book Herald e-newsletter (sign up!), here are some extra goodies about this year's Youth Media Award winners.Talks with RogerRoger Talks with Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Award winnerRoger Talks with Caren Stelson, Sibert Honor winner Horn Book Magazine Q&AJavaka Steptoe, Caldecott Medal winner and Coretta Scott King...
On Rudine Sims Bishop's "Following in Their Fathers' Paths" (from March 1998)
If you don't already know, the American Library Association's Youth Media Awards were announced this morning at the ALA Midwinter conference in Atlanta. Among the honorees is Javaka Steptoe, who will receive the Caldecott Medal for Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (read the starred review from the...
2016 in review
Happy New Year! We hope your year is full of great reads and good friends.Before we ring in 2017, though, let’s take a look back at 2016 — we had a very busy year!BGHB 2016 coverageFanfare 2016ALA 2016 coverageRemembering children's lit Great Ladies Lois Duncan, Anna Dewdney, and Natalie Babbitt;...
Family Reading: A place for ALL families
This has been a rough week for a lot of us. We’ve read in the news and heard firsthand stories of uncertainty and fear from our children and their classmates and from neighbors and friends. The presidential election’s hateful rhetoric has prompted kids to worry about what is to come...
Books in the Home: "Mommy, Do I Have White Skin?": Skin Color, Family, and Picture Books
When my son was five, he was watching TV when a commercial came on that showed a woman slathering her peach-colored arms with lotion. He glanced down at his own brown arm. After poking it with a finger, he asked: “Mommy, do I have white skin?”It was a moment that...
Talented tweens
Discovering new talents — from running to writing to pranking — helps these middle-school protagonists figure out who they are and what their futures could be.In Ghost, the first volume of Jason Reynolds's Track series, seventh grader Castle "Ghost" Cranshaw has a talent for running as well as a tendency...
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