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Table of Contents: May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Our Centennial
Cover from Go Forth and Tell. Illustration © 2024 by April Harrison. Features Three Editors in Chief by Elissa Gershowitz, Anita Silvey, and Roger Sutton A conversation. “With a Salute to All Children’s Librarians” by Sujei Lugo Amplifying the work of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in...
Preview May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Our Centennial
Special Issue: Our Centennial Cover art by April Harrison from Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller, written by Breanna J. McDaniel. Elissa Gershowitz, Anita Silvey, and Roger Sutton discuss their experiences in the role of Horn Book editor in chief. Sujei Lugo offers...
Horn Book Reminiscences: The Heart of the Horn Book
While it has been two years since relinquishing the Horn Book editorship, and two more since getting to work meant going to work, I dream almost every night about being back in the office. Recently, identical twins dressed like Stanley Kubrick’s came to visit me there. A few weeks ago,...
Editorial: "What a Gift That Is" (July/August 2023)
Greetings, fellow inhabitants of the world of children’s literature! And welcome to our annual special issue covering the ALA Awards — the umpteenth one I’ve helped shepherd through, and my last. Here you’ll find the usual lineup of acceptance speeches, profiles of award winners, and our own analysis of the...
Review of The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales
The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales compiled and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen Intermediate NYRB 136 pp. g 11/21 978-1-68137-582-3 $24.95 e-book ed. 978-1-68137-604-2 $14.99 Here are collected (and reissued from the 1971 original) twelve literary fairy tales from several different European traditions, including Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale”;...
Editorial: The Best Job in the World (January/February 2022)
Back in 1996, when I accepted the position of editor in chief at the Horn Book, I told my new boss Duncan Todd that I would stay for five years. Ha! It’s been more than twenty-five years since then, and it’s time for someone else to have a go. By...
Reviews of 2021 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2021 winners. The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Preschool, Primary Norton 40 pp. 1/20 ...
A Note from Me (May 28, 2021)
Dear friends: ALA is upon us! At least in HB land — I was just looking at layouts of The Speeches, gorgeous, and great speeches as well. That’s all you’ll get out of me. In her tenure as HB editor, Anita Silvey limited herself to saying “they aren’t too long,”...
Review of Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 336 pp. g 10/20 978-0-374-31371-5 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-374-31370-8 $9.99 Shulevitz was just four when the Nazis invaded Poland in September of 1939, forcing his family members to flee their homeland. Thus began nearly...
Fanfare 2020 extras
Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2020 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2020 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James What the Hell Is Didactic Intent Anyway? by Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt Family...
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