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Special Issue: ALA Awards. Original cover art by 2022 Caldecott Medal winner Jason Chin. “The Year in Words and Pictures—and Stories.” The Horn Book editors discuss the children’s book landscape in another groundbreaking year. Grace Lin’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance speech. A profile of Grace Lin by editor Alvina...
(c) 2022 by Jonny Hawkins. From the March/April 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine....
Special Issue: The Newbery Centennial Original cover art by 2010 Newbery honoree Grace Lin. Editorial page by special guest Kathleen T. Horning. A welcome letter from John Newbery 100th Anniversary Celebration Task Force Chair Susan H. Polos. Sue Melcher’s family memories of Newbery and Caldecott found Frederic G. Melcher. From...
Cover art by David Litchfield from Cress Watercress, written by Gregory Maguire. “The Shut Doors of Libraries”: Jeannine Atkins on acknowledging the history and legacy of segregation. Sylvie Kantorovitz on the value of graphic memoirs. Dean Schneider on teaching Flying Lessons and the art of the writing prompt, with thoughts...
Welcome to the 2021 edition of Fanfare, the Horn Book’s choices of the best books for children and teens published in the last year. As always the forty-four selections contain something for pretty much everybody — the single book on the list I’ve been touting for and to pretty much...
Original cover art by Sydney Smith. Roger Sutton’s final issue as editor in chief. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2021. Coverage of the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards virtual celebration: judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. David Wiesner’s Mary Nagel Sweetser lecture on how to read a...
Cover art by Paul O. Zelinsky from Red and Green and Blue and White, written by Lee Wind. Leonard S. Marcus remembers Eric Carle, 1929–2021. “When Failure Is Not an Option”: Christine Taylor-Butler on sparking creativity and making connections with diverse STEM experts. Eric Rohmann reflects on “Bad Books (and...
Cover art from Pumpkin Heads! by Wendell Minor. The Zena Sutherland Lecture: Jason Reynolds on his father’s final lesson. An excerpt from Eugene Yelchin’s forthcoming memoir, The Genius Under the Table. Author Ann Clare LeZotte recalls how she learned to love books as a prelingual deaf child. The Writer’s Page: Sayantani DasGupta on children’s literature and radical imagination. Horn BOO!: a roundup of Halloween books. ...
Special Issue: ALA Awards. Original cover art by 2021 Caldecott Medal winner Michaela Goade. “2020 in Pictures and Words”: The Horn Book editors discuss the children’s book landscape in an unusual and groundbreaking year. Michaela Goade’s Caldecott Medal acceptance speech. A profile of Michaela Goade by her agent, Kirsten Hall....
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