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The author, in red sweater, in the Horn Book office circa 2012. Photo: Cynthia K. Ritter from her March/April 2012 Horn Book Magazine article "When the Name of the Game Is a Children's Book." I hated school as a child. I always earned good grades, but classrooms were like hell...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 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 My Lost Freedom: A Japanese...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 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 Author, athlete, and global health advocate...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 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 Thrown a Curveball when an injury...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 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 The Yellow Bus doesn’t look down...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 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 the debut YA novel Looking...
In improv comedy there is a hard and fast rule: whatever your scene partner asks you to do, no matter how ridiculous or outrageous, you always answer, “Yes, and…” Saying no ends the scene and cuts off all possibilities. Saying yes continues the scene and provides infinite opportunities. It’s a...
The Horn Book is 100! Hoorah and Hooray! To celebrate I’ll poe out a poem! If I can think what to say… After my uninspiring, hum-drummish day. I woke feeling “blah,” For the sky, it was gray. And I tread the same boring path, In the same boring way. Is...
It’s not just for nurseries. It’s not just for rhymes. It’s stories. It’s feelings. It’s wonders and crimes. Poetry’s for you. You read it. You hear it. You rap or you slam. So be into meter (as iamb, iamb!)— jump into the bounce that a pattern contains— or throw out...
“Why,” I am asked, “is it so important for children to have poetry in their lives?” Not just “Important,” but “so important,” emphasis on that “so.” As if I knew. Is it? Is it really important for children to have poetry in their lives? In their lives how? Where would...