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Choosing Brave: Janelle Washington's 2023 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
I express my deepest appreciation to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards judges Erica Marks, Martha V. Parravano, and Roger Sutton for choosing Choosing Brave for a 2023 Nonfiction Honor Book award. It’s a tremendous honor to have Choosing Brave acknowledged among such a talented and passionate community of authors and...
Choosing Brave: Angela Joy's 2023 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
I am thrilled today to accept a 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Award for Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement. I am truly appreciative of this lovely award. A few weeks ago, I was asked to record a simple anecdote of hope...
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Review of Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson
Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson by Angela Joy; illus. by Jacqueline AlcántaraPrimary, Intermediate Roaring Brook 32 pp.10/23 9781250797032 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250357663 $11.99This lyrical look at the young life of an enigmatic musician follows Prince through his challenging youth and shows how community support...
Presenting the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners
On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2023 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious Program Honors...
Seeing Ourselves: All Books for All
My hope for the future of diverse children’s literature is that one day, the segregating qualifiers will fall away for good. When my daughter was eight, I remember the two of us combing the library stacks, searching for an appropriate middle-grade book. At some point, a sympathetic librarian asked if...
Choosing Brave
[Many Calling Caldecott posts this season will begin with the Horn Book Magazine review of the featured book, followed by the post's author's critique.] Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy; illus. by Janelle Washington Primary, Intermediate Roaring Brook 64 pp. ...
Review of Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy; illus. by Janelle Washington Primary, Intermediate Roaring Brook 64 pp. g 8/22 978-1-250-22095-0 $19.99 This powerful picture-book biography reverently portrays the life of Mamie Till-Mobley (1921–2003), whose defiant act of bravery following the 1955...
Angela Joy and Janelle Washington Talk with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by With Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement, author Angela Joy (Black Is a Rainbow Color) and debut illustrator Janelle Washington collaborate to...
Review of Black Is a Rainbow Color
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy; illus. by Ekua Holmes Primary Roaring Brook 40 pp. 1/20 978-1-62672-631-4 $17.99 A young girl sits on her stoop contemplating the colors of the rainbow, then notes, “But my color is black…and there’s no black in rainbows.” There is, however, black in...
Publishers' Preview: Picture Books: Five Questions for Angela Joy
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by “Black is a...
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