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Hung, left, and Lin stand in front of a gate that mimics Chinatown entryways. Photo courtesy of Melissa Hung. In the pages of Grace Lin’s books, young protagonists might spend the day with their families building kites to fly. Or, they might journey through a mythical world where dragons talk....
Earlier this fall, I was able to see Hamilton on Broadway, with Leslie Odom Jr., thrillingly, reprising his role of Aaron Burr. I will forever associate Odom with my unforgettable experience of accepting the Mentor Award on behalf of The Horn Book at The Carle Honors Benefit Gala in fall...
Cover from The Giving Flower by Alda P. Dobbs. Illustration © 2025 by Emily Mendoza. Features Curating The Art of Grace Lin by Melissa Hung A look at an exhibit on view at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Won't You Miss the Polar Bears? by Martha Meyer Examining the...
(c) 2025 by Shawn Harris. From the September/October 2025 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Single copies of this issue are available for $15.00 including postage and may be ordered from: Horn Book Magazine Customer Service magazinesupport@mediasourceinc.com Full subscription information is here....
The November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine has gone to press, with its hopeful, looking-ahead cover image (by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower, written by Alda P. Dobbs and reviewed in our Holiday High Notes column). And we’re looking ahead ourselves to a busy fall. On October 25, come see...
Cover art by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower written by Alda P. Dobbs. Melissa Hung on curating The Art of Grace Lin for The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Martha Meyer examines the Blueberry Awards Committee’s anti-anxiety criteria for nature and climate books. A Publisher’s Perspective: Jason Low...
Children are highly attuned to human emotions, curiously observant, and intuitively responsive to their environments. They begin to form ideas of fairness in early childhood. While they don’t yet understand all the complexities of the world, children are more aware than adults realize and could actually benefit from learning the...
I started writing books for very young children in anger. A strange admission, I know. I was receiving a wobbly stack of board books to review for Kirkus each month, and I often vented about how developmentally inappropriate many were. I got holiday titles that read like extra-thick greeting cards...
I started writing books for children because I love reading picture books out loud to kids. But I started loving reading because my mom read picture books out loud to me. My mom and dad divorced when I was one, and she took being a single mom very seriously. She...
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