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Thanks so much. I’m incredibly honoured to be here again! Wild. The last time I was here — for I Know Here, by Laurel Croza—I felt like a total outsider. Laurel and I were sitting next to legends: Peter Sís, John Burningham, and Helen Oxenbury — all these people whose work...
Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this wonderful and completely surprising award, and to the brilliance of Neal Porter and Matt James. Congratulations to everyone who is being honored here today and, as well, to all the authors and illustrators who have had the joy of...
In my decade-long journey to becoming a picture-book illustrator/author, I have learned many things. Photo: Shoshana Flax. I have learned how to rap a book on stage in front of an auditorium full of kids without fear! I have also learned how to go with the flow when the kid...
Thank you so much for this honor. I wrote My Daddy Is a Cowboy in 2020, which was a difficult year for all of us. In the midst of such suffering, I felt the need for joy more keenly than I ever had before. Out of that need came this...
Hello and thank you! I wish I could travel back in time twenty-five years and tell the high school version of me sitting in class right over there at CRLS [Cambridge Rindge and Latin School] that I’m getting this Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor today. Her mind would be blown. It’s...
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New 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 A journalist and a graphic...
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New 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 In The Curse Breaker, sequel...
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New 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 In Squirrel Lock Holmes: The...
Winner All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson Middle School Bloomsbury 208 pp. 2/25 9781547605897 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781547605903 $12.59 “I didn’t know / best friends could die.” From the very first line, Watson takes a deep dive into the intricacies of grief and healing. On her thirteenth...
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2026 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: New Year, New 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 Whether competing in a...