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Review of The Newest Gnome
The Newest Gnome by Lauren Soloy; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Tundra 72 pp.10/25 9781774887202 $19.99This follow-up to The Hidden World of Gnomes re-introduces the gnomes who call their forest home “The Pocket.” No white beards or red caps here: these hand-holding gnomes look a bit like children (with a...
Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz’s imagination has created books ranging from the Newbery-winning verse novel Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! to the multi-award-winning historical YA novel The Hired Girl. Her latest, The Winter of the Dollhouse (Candlewick, 9–12 years), is a doll story — with human and doll points of view. Can’t get...
Publishers' Preview: Debut Authors: Five Questions for C. M. Cornwell
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Debut Authors, 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 In The Memory Spinner, first-time novelist...
2025 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by Rebecca Lee Kunz
Under the white eyelet drapery of my canopy bed, I sat, naming my dolls: Annabelle, Clara, Elizabeth. My dolls and I traveled to worlds within worlds that stretched far beyond our peaceful cul-de-sac in Norman, Oklahoma. Cabbage Patch Kids and China dolls: the first characters in my paintings. Every night...
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2024: Five Questions for Christie Matheson
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2024, 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 In A Mischief of Mice, an...
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...
Virtual History Exhibit Scrapbook
MENU People Clippings Bookshop Art Book Caravan Miscellaneous Click on any image to view a larger-sized version. Elinor Whitney Field Bertha Mahony Miller Horn Book Magazine founders Read about Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field Anne Carroll...
Field Notes: I Gave My Life to Books: A Journey Through the World of Children's Literature
Maurice Sendak once said, “As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.” That’s how I have always felt as a teacher and parent too. I began my teaching career in Newark, New Jersey,...
Together again 2021
The Horn Book editors have been together exactly twice since March 2020: at Katie Bircher's beautiful wedding; and last week (masked and vaxxed), when we saw the magnificent special exhibit Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (we just missed her next-day, in-person visit to the...
Holiday break TV binging 2021
Congrats! You’ve made it to winter break. It’s time to relax, sit down with a delicious hot beverage, and crack open a good book — or maybe binge-watch all the movies and shows you couldn’t get to the rest of the year. If that last part sounds more your style,...
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