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Are We There Yet? at Simmons University and Boston Reads Comics at the Boston Public Library
Shoshana Flax: "Are We There Yet?" was the theme of this year's Children’s Literature Summer Institute at Simmons University. I got to be there for Friday evening and most of Saturday, and heard different speakers consider different answers to the title question. Gregory Maguire introduced the Institute’s topic and reflected...
From the Editor - July 2025
If you’re in the Boston area this weekend, join me at the Boston Public Library on Saturday, July 26, in conversation with Awkward author-illustrator Svetlana Chmakova, as part of Boston Reads Comics. On Sunday, July 27, I’ll be leading a lunchtime seminar at the Summer Children’s Literature Institute, “Are We...
News about HB at home
Some of our home-sweet-home now-permanent offices. Photos courtesy of Shoshana Flax, Elissa Gershowitz, Monica de los Reyes, Cynthia Ritter, and Roger Sutton. As many of you may know, the Horn Book team has been working hybrid/remotely since March of 2020. As of June 30, 2023, it's official: the Horn Book's office...
KidLit for Ukraine event tomorrow night + Simmons "read-in" donations
Tomorrow night, March 22, at 7pm ET, KidLit TV will be hosting a virtual benefit to raise money for children of Ukraine. All proceeds will go to Save the Children, with nearly $10,000 raised as of this writing; a donation of any amount grants viewers access to the event. #KidLitForUkraine Logo designed by Mike Curato...
A Note from Me (Mar 19, 2021)
Dear friends: Happy anniversary? This week marks a year now that the Horn Book has been working from home, and I remain grateful and amazed that we’ve done it at all, much less as well as we have, thanks to our determined editors, Our Al, and our coworkers from the...
2019 Children's Literature Summer Institute follow-up
From July 25rd to the 28th, I had the honor of attending my first Children’s Literature Summer Institute at Simmons University. As a graduate student at Simmons, I enrolled in the two-week summer course tied to the institute, taught by this year's Carol S. Kline Visiting Professor, Eric Tribunella of...
Conference Report: 2019 Children's Literature Summer Institute at Simmons University: "Make Way"
This past weekend, Martha Parravano, Cynthia K. Ritter, and Shoshana Flax took turns attending “Make Way,” the 2019 Summer Children’s Literature Institute at Simmons University. Here are our (chronological) combined impressions from this weekend. Cindy: On Thursday night, Shoshana and I caught up over dinner with some of our Simmons...
Make Way for Simmons!
We welcome Simmons University's biannual Children's Literature Institute to campus today. This year's theme being "Make Way," the Institute begins tonight with Grace Lin and Alvina Ling in dialogue with and at Make Way for Dumplings: Twenty Years of the Art of Grace Lin exhibiting in the Trustman Gallery, fourth floor of the Main College...
My friend Susan
Flowers by Susan BloomWe said goodbye yesterday to a friend of mine and of the Horn Book, Susan P. Bloom. I met Susan thirty years ago, when she and Cathie Mercier invited me to teach Simmons's Summer Children's Literature Institute. That year's theme, "Masquerade" was aptly borne out when Susan...
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