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...
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...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by When ninth-grader Dayton, on a dare, shouts out a slur at a visiting poet, another boy, Farshid, wonders what that word — One Word, Six Letters — means for himself. Below,...
Hyewon Yum is a prolific picture-book creator, both as a solo author-illustrator and as an illustrator of books written by other authors (including one Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book!). In A Spoonful of the Sea (Norton, 4–8 years), which she both wrote and illustrated, the main character’s “birthday soup is...
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, 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 When The Polar Bear...
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, 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 poet and...
This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books and Graphic Novels, 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 Ethan and his...
In Conversation with The Horn Book is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Horn Book Herald. This interview originally appeared in the October 2025 Horn Book Herald. To receive the Herald, sign up here. Sponsored by Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz: Grownups/authority figures as kids can be mind-blowing to...