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Review of The New Friend

The New Friend by Charlotte Zolotow; illus. by Benjamin Chaud Primary    Milky Way    48 pp.    g 11/21    978-1-990252-01-3    $17.99 The narrator of this picture book had a dear friend and reminisces about the ordinary things they used to do together — until the “dear friend” found a “different friend.” Zolotow’s...
      

Women's History Month 2017

March is Women's History Month, and now seems like an especially important time to celebrate the achievements of women and girls. Look for the hashtag #HBWomensHistory17 on Facebook and Twitter and here at hbook.com.We want to call your attention to the gorgeous cover of the just-published March/April issue of The...
      

On Crescent Dragonwagon's "Over and Over"

Published on our website in 2012 as part of The Horn Book's celebration of Picture Book Month, Over and Over is Crescent Dragonwagon's achingly beautiful tribute to her mother, legendary children's book editor and author, Charlotte Zolotow. When Crescent wrote this piece, Charlotte was ninety-seven and in failing health; her...
      

"One common gift": a direct line to childhood

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Picture book author and editor extraordinaire Charlotte Zolotow died yesterday at the age of 98. The children's literature world is mourning her death but celebrating, as well, her enormous contributions to the field.Here on Calling Caldecott our focus is a narrow and intense one: we devote our time and energy to looking at this year's —...
      

R.I.P. Charlotte Zolotow

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illustration by Maurice Sendak, from Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present.Former publisher of children's books at HarperCollins and immortal author of picture books Charlotte Zolotow has died at the age of 98. As an editor and publisher she was quite a force, bringing us such revelations as The Pigman and...
      

Making Picture Books: The Words

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The beginning of a picture book comes before the pictures. In Margaret Wise Brown’s beautiful Goodnight Moon, it was the magic of her words, their simplicity and the music in them, that made Clement Hurd’s now-famous visual interpretation possible. Unless the writer is also an illustrator, the writing always comes...
      

Over and Over

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“Once there was a little girl who didn’t understand about time.”So, with deceptive simplicity — for who, of any age, does understand time? — did my mother, Charlotte Zolotow, begin her book Over and Over, first published in 1957.As I write these words today, Charlotte is ninety-seven and I am...
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