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The author's Horn Book (and other) treasures. Photo: Celia C. Pérez. I keep a storage bin filled with ephemera from my writing life. It is a treasure chest of memories that includes everything from conference badges, event programs, and T-shirts from schools I’ve visited to letters and artwork I have...
As Simmons University celebrates its quasquicentennial, the Horn Book its first hundred years, and the Simmons graduate program in children’s literature its golden fiftieth birthday, I welcome this moment to thank all the Horn Book editors who have been teachers, mentors, and friends. The Horn Book has had only eight...
Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...
The first Horn Book Evening of Dialogue was held Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (415 Summer Street, Room 102A First Floor, Boston, MA 02210) during the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention November 21–24, 2024....
Telling my grandmother that I was going to be a Horn Book intern was comparable to what it would have been like telling other relatives that I was going to be working for the New England Patriots. Yaya (known to all but her grandchildren as Natalie Coleman) has her own...
We started our centennial year of mini-themed issues with picture books in the January/February issue, and now end, fittingly, with YA in November/December. It seemed like a natural progression — from “the early years,” as we were calling it, to young adult, with stops at poetry and folklore; nonfiction and...
We’re so excited for our upcoming in-person events in Boston, in commemoration of our hundredth birthday year. Join Roger Sutton and me — and three fab panels of authors and illustrators — this Thursday, November 21, for the Horn Book’s first-ever Evening of Dialogue, kicking off the NCTE Conference; then...
Exactly when is it “all calm,” amidst a soon-to-be bustling fall and winter holiday season and a fraught and consequential national election? For me, for a moment, there’s great calm in looking at this issue’s peaceful cover art, by Kerilynn Wilson, from One Foggy Christmas Eve. During this time of...
We've got four in-person events coming up over the next month and we hope you'll join us! Tomorrow, October 26, 2024, we'll be at the Boston Book Festival in Copley Square from 10am–6pm. We'll have free magazines, posters, and more to give away at The Horn Book's booth #16...