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Original cover art and artist’s statement by Charly Palmer. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2024. Coverage of the 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (once again in person, and including rare Special Citation!): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. A conversation between Jonda C. McNair and Dianne...
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...
Cover art by Kerilynn Wilson from One Foggy Christmas Eve. Final issue of our centennial year! (But the celebration continues: stay tuned!) The Zena Sutherland Lecture: An excerpt from Meg Medina’s “Finding Hope in the Abyss.” Viviane Ezratty and Hélène Valotteau on the centennial of L’Heure Joyeuse, the first children’s...
For this centennial-year entry, with its mini-theme of middle grade, the Horn Book editors put our heads together to brainstorm cover art. We came up with a few ideas, in conjunction with our designers, and even mocked them up. And then came Shoshana Flax’s suggestion of Charlotte and friends —...
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...
The votes are in for the second round of November/December 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 November/December cover from the last twenty-four years! ...