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Between Fiction and Reality: The Playground of Metafiction
In 2024, Mercier guest curated "Pictures at Play: Metafiction in Art" at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. It featured picture-book images that "illustrate how artists experiment with styles, typography, and page design to disrupt the rules of how books usually work." The following article is inspired by...
Week in Review, March 10th-14th
This week on hbook.com... From the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson: Scenes from a Remarkable Marriage by Betsy Groban Out of the Box: Auspicious occasions by Shoshana Flax Pi Day 2025 Women's History Month 2025, Week 2 Reviews of the Week:...
Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson: Scenes from a Remarkable Marriage
I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three...
Editorial: The Horn Book and... (March/April 2025)
We’ve retired the HB100 horn logo (HB200, here we come!), and I am a fan of designer Denise Maldonado’s digital illustration, above, with its similarly eye-catching graphic appeal. I read the image as: “The Horn Book and…” It is a theme that serendipitously runs throughout this issue of the magazine....
Table of Contents: March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from Head Full of Clouds by Joanne Schwartz. Illustration © 2025 by Afsaneh Sanei. Published by Tundra Books. Features Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson by Betsy Groban Scenes from a remarkable marriage. Generational Ties in Children’s Book Translation by Emma Otheguy An interview with translator Emily Carrero Mustelier....
Preview March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine
Cover from Head Full of Clouds by Joanne Schwartz. Illustration © 2025 by Afsaneh Sanei. Published by Tundra Books. Betsy Groban shares scenes from the remarkable marriage of Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson. Author Emma Otheguy interviews translator Emily Carrero Mustelier. “When Fingers Are Fearless”: a poem by Shifa Saltagi...
Horn Book Cover Madness round-up
Hooray, all the results are in for our Horn Book Cover Madness event! Congratulations to the six "winner" covers and artists: January/February = Salley Mavor March/April = Paul O. Zelinsky May/June = Grace Lin July/August = Kadir Nelson September/October = Crockett Johnson November/December = Art Spiegelman Thank you to everyone...
September/October Cover Madness Winner!
Congratulations to Crockett Johnson's 2012 September/October Horn Book Magazine cover! Come back next Monday, July 22 to vote for your favorites from twenty-four years of November/December covers. Read the Cover Madness rules here. ...
September/October Cover Madness, Round 3!
The votes are in for the second round of September/October Cover Madness, and we move on to round 3! Pick your favorite of the final two choices — let us know your choice in the comments! Come back next week to see which cover was voted the winning September/October cover from the last twenty-four years! ...
September/October Cover Madness, Round 2!
The votes are in for the first round of September/October Cover Madness, and we move on to round 2! Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your choices in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here....
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