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Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson: Scenes from a Remarkable Marriage
I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three...
Review of Ten Little Rabbits
Ten Little Rabbits by Maurice Sendak; illus. by the authorPreschool Harper/HarperCollins 32 pp.2/24 9780062644671 $19.99The jacket copy of this very simple, essentially wordless counting story calls its young protagonist Mino, but the M emblazoned on his stage podium could just as well stand for Max or Mickey or Maurice, as...
A Note from Me (Mar 19, 2021)
Dear friends: Happy anniversary? This week marks a year now that the Horn Book has been working from home, and I remain grateful and amazed that we’ve done it at all, much less as well as we have, thanks to our determined editors, Our Al, and our coworkers from the...
A Note from Me (June 12, 2020)
Dear friends: Yes, everything is still terrible out there, and I am glad that this morning’s psalm (37) had these words: A little longer — and the wicked shall have gone. Look at his place, he is not there. I wonder if those Horn Book readers who cancelled their Magazine...
Picture books | class #1, fall 2017
For our first class on September 6, we will be reading two picture books and three articles.Where the Wild Things Are is a classic in the US now, but when it was first published in 1963, it was controversial. If you knew this book as a child, what did you...
Outside Over There and Gay Pride
Jonathan Cott’s new book There’s a Mystery There (Doubleday) is a terrific examination of what its subtitle calls “The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak.” It accomplishes this by focusing on a single book, Sendak’s masterpiece, Outside Over There (1981), winner of a Caldecott Honor and a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award....
Review of There’s a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
There’s a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendakby Jonathan CottDoubleday 242 pp.5/17 978-0-385-54043-8 $30.00e-book ed. 978-0-385-54044-5 $15.99Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak for Rolling Stone in 1976 and again for Cott’s book Pipers at the Gates of Dawn (1983), in which the two first discussed...
Picture books | class #1, fall 2016
For our first class on October 12, we will be reading two picture books and three articles.Where the Wild Things Are is a classic now, but when it was first published in 1963 it was controversial. If you knew this book as a child, what did you notice this time...
Ain't no party like a Sendak party...
...'cause a Sendak party's full of Wild Things.* Photo by Richard AschLast weekend Roger attended a celebration of the life of Maurice Sendak, on the occasion of what would have been the incomparable author/illustrator's 88th birthday. He brought back a few Sendak-themed party favors to share with the office: tableware...
Where the Wild Things Are | Class #1 2016
For our first class this year, we are again reading Where the Wild Things Are, a picture book that is now a classic, but was controversial in its day.Every year there are a handful of students who have never read this book. For those who know it well, I'm interested...
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