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Nancy Drew and Her Rivals: No Contest (Part II)

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What seem to me to be the telling differences between Nancy and her cohorts fall, very roughly, into two categories. The first is autonomy; the second is a steady, profound, but largely covert and, I think, largely inadvertent feminism.Harriet Adams’s imitators didn’t miss the point about autonomy — which was,...

Nancy Drew and Her Rivals: No Contest (Part I)

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Harriet S. Adams may have been, next to Hemingway, the most sincerely flattered author of the 1930s. Though her father, Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, originated the Nancy Drew mystery series with three books published shortly before his death...

William Steig's Horn Book Magazine cover

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William Steig's Horn Book Magazine coverfrom November/December 1986 through September/October 1987...

Could Randolph Caldecott Win the Caldecott Medal?

by Anita SilveyWith this editorial I do not mean to cast aspersion on this year's Caldecott choice or on any particular choice of the Caldecott Committee over the past dozen years but to talk about a trend in the selection process. Since I worked with and supported Chris Van Allsburg...

Robert McCloskey interviewed by Anita Silvey

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      This program originally aired on National Public Radio in July or August of 1986. The Radio Review was moderated by Anita Silvey and produced by Greg Fitzgerald.    Listen to the program.       Child’s voice: The Horn Book Radio Review, commentary on books for children...

Horn Book Radio Review

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  Originally aired on National Public Radio in the summer of 1986, these interviews with renowned writers and illustrators were conducted by Anita Silvey, then the editor of the Horn Book, and produced by Greg Fitzgerald. Also broadcast was a review by school children of Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar...

Children review The Polar Express

      This program originally aired on National Public Radio in July or August of 1986. The Radio Review was moderated by Anita Silvey and produced by Greg Fitzgerald.    Listen to the program.     MUSIC   Child: The Horn Book Radio Review, commentary on books for children...

James Marshall interviewed by Anita Silvey

      This program originally aired on National Public Radio in July or August of 1986. The Radio Review was moderated by Anita Silvey and produced by Greg Fitzgerald.    Listen to the program.     MUSIC   Child’s voice: The Horn Book Radio Review, commentary on books for...

Uri Shulevitz interviewed by Anita Silvey

      This program originally aired on National Public Radio in July or August of 1986. The Radio Review was moderated by Anita Silvey and produced by Greg Fitzgerald.    Listen to the program.     Anita Silvey (AS): I’m Anita Silvey, editor in chief of Horn Book Magazine....
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