In support of the Massachusetts Freedom to Read bill, author Malinda Lo spoke with author and illustrator Mike Curato about his experiences with challenges to his graphic novel Flamer, whose protagonist realizes his queer identity during an intense summer at Boy Scout camp. See also our recent Banned Books Week...
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 Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group The Leaving Room doesn’t start with much—a girl in a room talking to herself. But I knew, from interviewing Amber McBride about Gone...
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 A Cat Nap turns into a fantastical museum tour for the titular feline and for child readers. Brian Lies uses “colored glass, lead, gold leaf, ink, graphite and colored pencil, plaster, wood, goatskin parchment,...
Meet Bean and Grandma, the heartwarming hedgehog protagonists of Stephanie Graegin’s Everyday Bean (Tundra, 4–7 years), the first book in the Tiny Bean’s Big Adventures series. With eleven brief stories, the book lives in a transitional space between beginning readers and younger chapter books — and is also great for...
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 With his national teacher-training program, The Innocent Classroom, Alexs Pate explores a new paradigm for learning. Good, Pate’s picture book for young children (illustrated by Tequitia Andrews), puts that paradigm into...
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 August 2025 Horn Book Herald. To receive the Herald, sign up here. Sponsored by Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz: How are you enjoying the children’s lit world? T.Z....
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Debut Authors, 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 Two Caldecott Medals, sure, but now...
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Debut Authors, 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 Ellie Has a Secret, and it...
This interview originally appeared in the July/August 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Debut Authors, 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 Memory Spinner, first-time novelist...