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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...
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...
Pollen in the Wind
By Ann DurellFirst I want to apologize for giving such an embarrassingly fancy title for such a plain little talk. But you know how it is when someone asks you to make a speech. You say "yes" with the comfortable assurance that you will either have been killed in a...
Reviews of select books by Ursula K. Le Guin
EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea [winner of the 1969 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award]205 pp. ParnassusIllustrated by Ruth Robbins. Maps by the artist show the islands and seas that make up Earthsea. Sparrowhawk, the son of a bronze-smith, was born on Gont, famous for wizards who had gone...
Reviews of select titles by Peter Dickinson
Heartseaseby Peter Dickinson; illus. by Nathan GoldsteinLittle 223 pp.1969 $4.95A companion to The Weathermonger, set in a future time in England after the "Changes" which caused man to retrogress to dark medieval ways and to outlaw machines. Again, witchcraft is an element in the story, and again some of the...
Horn Book Magazine articles in the Virtual History Exhibit
Hazel Rochman on multicultural children’s literature, Jon Scieska on hard to pronounce names, Lois Lenski on Christmas, and Eleanor Cameron on why Roald Dahl is bad for civilization — the range of Horn Book articles has always been impressively broad. Discover more for yourself in this sampling from our archives, arranged in reverse chronological order of publication....
Haunted home
With the theme "Homecoming," Simmons College's Center for the Study of Children's Literature held its biennial Institute this weekend; the Horn Book staff provides an excellent summary. (And Shoshana Flax has written a poem in its honor, too.)The funniest moment was when Jack Benny Gantos quipped about Go Set a Watchman,...
The Voice of Reason
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to The Horn Book’s July/August 2014 editorial (“Don’t Speak!”) regarding the ALSC Policy for Service on Award Committees that was revised during the 2014 ALA Midwinter meeting.In response to the ever-increasing number of requests regarding the appropriate use of social media from conscientious...
Week in Review, July 21st-25th
This week on hbook.com…Summer 2014 Board Book RoundupLet's Get Lost author Adi Alsaid Talks with RogerReviews of the Week: Picture Book: Pom and Pim by Lena Landström; illus. by
Olof Landström; trans. from
the Swedish by Julia Marshall Fiction: Like No Other by Una LaMarche Nonfiction: Little Roja Riding Hood by...
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