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Editorial: Together Again (January/February 2026)
“Gee, it’s good to be / Together again.” Kermit the Frog said it best, and being at this year’s Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony was a real reminder. For the first time since before COVID-19 (and only our second time back in person since 2019), every award winner and honoree...
Happy World Read Aloud Day
...one of our favorite days of the year! To help you celebrate, here are some recommended books, Horn Book Fanfare 2024 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners 2025 ALA Youth Media Award winners Board Book Roundup: A Golden Age of Board Books by Rachel G. Payne (September/October 2024 Magazine) The...
Black Means: Roll Call & Rap: A Found Poem of Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Book Titles (for 3 voices)
Black Means The People Remember The Creation The Origin of Life on Earth All the Days Past, All the Days to Come Before the Ever After. Do you feel me? Black Means I Have Heard of a Land. Africa Dream The Captive The Middle Passage Working Cotton Black Hands, White...
Three Editors in Chief: A Conversation
Earlier this year, the Horn Book's eighth (and current) editor in chief, Elissa Gershowitz, spoke with longtime editors in chief numbers six and seven: Anita Silvey (from 1985–1995) and Roger Sutton (from 1996–2021). Currently an adjunct professor at Simmons University, Silvey is an author (Everything I Need to Know I...
Blowing the Horn: My First Horn Book Visit
The memory of my first trip to the Horn Book offices is both hazy and vividly clear. I had to do a bit of detective work to figure out the date, but I’ve deduced that it must have been in July of 1991. I’d gone with editor Susan Hirschman to...
Board Book Roundup: Mirrors and Holes and Flaps, Oh My!
Board books often include features that entice little fingers to pull, twist, and lift, sometimes blurring the line between book and toy. This is fine by me; little ones should play with their books! Although such board books are often called “novelty books” and derided as gimmicky, they don’t have...
Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners
2023 Fiction & Poetry Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group) Honor Books: Promise Boys by Nick Brooks (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group); When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhhà Lại (Harper/HarperCollins Children’s Books) Nonfiction Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix/Scholastic...
Judith Kerr (1923-2019)
Author/illustrator Judith Kerr has passed away at the age of ninety-five. Kerr's first book was the picture-book classic The Tiger Who Came to Tea. She is also the creator of a long-running series about Mog, the Forgetful Cat; and more recently Mister Cleghorn's Seal, The Crocodile Under the Bed, One...
Earth Day 2019
Today (as every day should be!) is Earth Day, and this year's theme is: "Protect Our Species."The books below celebrate our precious planet, educate about the crises it faces, and offer age-appropriate models for environmental activism. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction titles for a range of ages, all...
Earth Day 2018
This year's observation of the annual Earth Day takes place on April 22. The campaign focus for Earth Day 2018 is "End Plastic Pollution."The books below celebrate our precious planet, educate about the crises it faces (including plastic pollution), and offer age-appropriate models for environmental activism. The list includes both...
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