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The author's Horn Book (and other) treasures. Photo: Celia C. Pérez. I keep a storage bin filled with ephemera from my writing life. It is a treasure chest of memories that includes everything from conference badges, event programs, and T-shirts from schools I’ve visited to letters and artwork I have...
Today is Major League Baseball's Opening Day. The following exchange encapsulates my children's fandoms and their reading interests. Me: Are they playing at home? Older Child: Yes, look at their uniforms. Younger Child: There are unicorns?! For related book recommendations, visit the Guide/Reviews Database subjects: Sports--Baseball + Unicorns. See also previous years' posts about...
As Simmons University celebrates its quasquicentennial, the Horn Book its first hundred years, and the Simmons graduate program in children’s literature its golden fiftieth birthday, I welcome this moment to thank all the Horn Book editors who have been teachers, mentors, and friends. The Horn Book has had only eight...
We’ve retired the HB100 horn logo (HB200, here we come!), and I am a fan of designer Denise Maldonado’s digital illustration, above, with its similarly eye-catching graphic appeal. I read the image as: “The Horn Book and…” It is a theme that serendipitously runs throughout this issue of the magazine....
Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...
The first Horn Book Evening of Dialogue was held Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (415 Summer Street, Room 102A First Floor, Boston, MA 02210) during the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention November 21–24, 2024....
Telling my grandmother that I was going to be a Horn Book intern was comparable to what it would have been like telling other relatives that I was going to be working for the New England Patriots. Yaya (known to all but her grandchildren as Natalie Coleman) has her own...
I wish I was a star Not the kind on stage Where crowds and crowds Shouted and clapped And every time I looked around I had another photo shoot Or interview or somebody wanted me To do something important… But the kind floating Quietly around the sky Twinkling at the...
We started our centennial year of mini-themed issues with picture books in the January/February issue, and now end, fittingly, with YA in November/December. It seemed like a natural progression — from “the early years,” as we were calling it, to young adult, with stops at poetry and folklore; nonfiction and...
We’re so excited for our upcoming in-person events in Boston, in commemoration of our hundredth birthday year. Join Roger Sutton and me — and three fab panels of authors and illustrators — this Thursday, November 21, for the Horn Book’s first-ever Evening of Dialogue, kicking off the NCTE Conference; then...