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National Siblings Day
April 10 is National Siblings Day (the picture above is Roger's brother with his bloopah). Here are some booklists and articles that highlight "siblings doing what siblings do best." Find more at Horn Book Family Reading blog; at Siblings tag; and lots and lots more at the Guide/Reviews Database subject Family--Siblings. From Notes from...
Make a Circle
Children’s books are better today than they were when my own children were small. At least, I think they are. It’s possible that good books existed in the late- to mid-1970s and 1980s, and I lacked the leisure to find them on the shelves. Going to the library in those...
Mitali Perkins at Belmont Books
I don't usually fangirl out (though, yes, when I do I go hard). In fact I can be downright mean about books! But last night Martha and I went to Belmont Books to see Mitali Perkins, author of one of my favorites from last year You Bring the Distant Near,...
From The Guide: Family Matters
Julie Roach’s “BGHB at 50” column, “Amber and Essie and Vera and Me" (January/February 2018 Magazine) looks back at Vera B. Williams’s classic Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart, about “two sisters who take care of each other while missing their incarcerated father and overworked mother.” Williams offers readers an...
On Rudine Sims Bishop's "The Pinkney Family: In the Tradition" (from 1996)
"With their art and their writing, the Pinkneys have enriched American children’s literature by illuminating the experiences of African Americans and of others as well. They are committed to telling the untold stories of African Americans, to making connections across cultures, to demonstrating, as Jerry says, that 'we as a...
Family Reading: A place for ALL families
This has been a rough week for a lot of us. We’ve read in the news and heard firsthand stories of uncertainty and fear from our children and their classmates and from neighbors and friends. The presidential election’s hateful rhetoric has prompted kids to worry about what is to come...
On Patricia and Fredrick McKissack's "You can be president" (from March 1997)
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack“Our Sunday evening news conferences with the presidents were always intense, informative, and a whole lot of fun.”I don't know about you, but on this Monday before election day, I'm in dire need of something hopeful. “You can be president,” from the March/April 1997 issue of The...
On Angela Johnson's "Family Is What You Have" (from March/April 1997)
Award-winning author Angela Johnson (three Coretta Scott King awards, the Michael L. Printz Award in 2004, the 1991 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award—not to mention being a 2003 MacArthur Fellow), contributed "Family Is What You Have" to the Magazine's Family Reading issue in 1997.Her message of embracing difference is...
New Horn Book family blog - we have a name!
Without further ado, The Horn Book presents the name and logo of our upcoming new blog, "Family Reading: Reading to Children. Reading with Children. Children Reading." Here Roger talks about the inspiration behind the blog and about the wonderful logo art done by illustrator and friend-of-the-Horn-Book Liza Woodruff.Family Reading will...
Family Is What You Have
Last year, on a twenty-seater plane coming home from a speaking engagement, it became apparent that I was the only person on board not related to everyone else in the passenger section. My closest fellow passenger sat across the aisle singing a song about the purple dinosaur. She smiled at...
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