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Field Notes: I Gave My Life to Books: A Journey Through the World of Children's Literature
Maurice Sendak once said, “As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.” That’s how I have always felt as a teacher and parent too. I began my teaching career in Newark, New Jersey,...
In Memoriam: Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020)
It’s a trick of the human mind that we rarely remember experiences in sequence. Rather, our brain does something scattershot, collaged. When emotion inflects memory, as happens at the death of a friend, it can be a struggle to organize the onrush of the past into narrative coherence. The news...
R.I.P. Jill Paton Walsh
We're sad to have lost Jill Paton Walsh yesterday. I only met her once, at a 1990s CLNE gathering at Radcliffe, but Jill was a longtime friend of the Horn Book dating back to the 1970s, when Paul and Ethel Heins were running things here, and they and Jill and...
What is Kathy Ishizuka Wearing?
Kathy Ishizuka is my opposite number at SLJ, (and you should go look at all the great Covid-19 resources they are offering). I don't know if she's archived her selfie series of "Tall Guys Next to Kathy" but I'm in there. For working at home, she sports an insouciant gracenote...
Review of The Summer of the Swans
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars 142 pp. Viking 3.95 Library edition 3.77 Illustrated by Ted CoConis. The demand for realism in children’s fiction continues to call forth a spate of problem books, some of them relatively successful, some scarcely more literary than case histories. But seldom are...
Editorial: My Friend Susan Bloom (September/October 2019)
I have my own version of the Anthony Browne story Cathie Mercier tells on page 26 in commemorating her great colleague and friend Susan P. Bloom, who died on June 7th at the age of eighty. In my version, it is the summer of 1989 and I am at Boston's...
Controversies & Kerfuffles
From its earliest days, the Horn Book has stood up for its principles, sometimes fighting Goliaths like the U.S. Government (during the 1940s Japanese internment) and Walt Disney. We blush to admit that we were sometimes wrong, too: check out NYPL librarian Anne Carroll Moore’s infamous tirade against Charlotte’s...
Horn Book Magazine
As soon as our first issue appeared in 1924, The Horn Book Magazine established itself as the place where everyone who worked with children’s books — writers, artists, editors, librarians, educators, and parents — came together to share their experiences and deepen their knowledge. Our archives overflow with treasures,...
Our Roots
In 1916, when there were no superstores, no thought of Internet shopping, and few notable children’s books for sale anywhere, Bertha Mahony opened a children’s bookshop in Boston. Searching for a wider audience, she sent out traveling book exhibits and launched one of the first bookmobiles. The Horn Book was...
Coming soon: Blowing the Horn: The Horn Book Musical!
April Fools'! Sad to say, there's no Horn Book musical in our future (YET 😉). But just imagine the possibilities for a showstopping tap-shoes-and-bow-ties dance number! Thanks as usual to resident prankster/punster Shoshana Flax.Musicals are everywhere these days, and we’re thrilled to announce that the Horn Book is getting in...
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