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March/April Cover Madness, Round 2!
The votes are in for the first round of March/April 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...
Pick Your Favorite March/April Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Next up are twenty-four years of March/April covers. 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. Click on any magazine cover to...
The Books My Parents Read to Me
In 2014, Katie Bircher wrote this Out of the Box post about "a cause dear to my dance-lovin' heart: The Dance Happy Project..The project was initiated by eleven-year-old Georgia Bernbaum, who writes on the Dance Happy site that her goal is to "bring dance classes to more children, children who would not...
Profile of 2020 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Kevin Henkes
Dudley Carlson: The farmers’ market was a riot of color. Red and green lettuces, orange carrots, blue and purple berries, and breads in rich browns and tans stretched for two blocks. At one end, a single booth held only green. Beautiful green beans were neatly bundled and stacked like a...
Horn Book Magazine Covers
Randolph Caldecott was The Horn Book Magazine‘s first — and for decades only — cover artist. Then in 1985 another picture book master, Maurice Sendak, took over the task for a few issues, leading the way for a whole new crop of talented contributors. Much of their work is on view...
Holiday High Notes 2018
Deck the halls! It's time for our annual selection of fa-la-la-lots of new (and one reissued) holiday books, with reviews written by the Horn Book staff.Carols and Chaosby Cindy AnsteyHigh School Swoon/Feiwel 284 pp. g10/18 Paper ed. 978-1-250-17487-1 $10.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-17486-4 $7.80In 1817 England, eighteen-year-old Kate Darby, lady’s maid to...
The Book That Changed My Life: Barbara’s Book
I decided when I was a teenager that I wanted to write and illustrate children’s books. I’d always considered myself an artist, but when I was in high school I narrowed my focus. Children’s books would be my life’s work. This decision came to me, in part, because of Barbara...
New for New Readers: An Easy Reader Renaissance
In this first entry in a series, the Horn Book editors look at some of the new (and newish) easy readers that we’ve been enjoying while revisiting some old favorites. Recommendations are from The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide Online. You can find more on easy readers...
Reading for Groundhog Day
Six more weeks of winter?! Say it ain't so!Groundhog Day Winter End GIF from Groundhogday GIFsWarm up (and cheer up) with these Groundhog Day–themed books. All of the titles below were recommended for by The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide at the time of their publication; reviews...
Horn Book reviews of ImPress's inspirations
New small publisher ImPress adapts children’s books for grown-ups (without any of that embarrassing kid stuff). Here’s how The Horn Book Magazine reviewed the original titles. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 48 pp.9/13 978-0-316-20063-9 $18.00Mr. Tiger walks upright and...
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