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From the Editor - September 2024

In my house, baseball season never really ends, and September, with its lead-up to the MLB playoffs, is clutch. Sunday, September 15, was the annual celebration of Roberto Clemente Day — all players wear #21 — and the start of National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month (September 15–October 15). What...

Editorial: Some Magazine! (September/October 2024)

For this centennial-year entry, with its mini-theme of middle grade, the Horn Book editors put our heads together to brainstorm cover art. We came up with a few ideas, in conjunction with our designers, and even mocked them up. And then came Shoshana Flax’s suggestion of Charlotte and friends —...

From the Editor - August 2024

This issue of Notes takes readers to fantastical realms, on shipboard adventures, and alongside intergenerational companions — sometimes all at once. Our Five Questions interview with Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer delves into the alt-historical world of their graphic novel The Worst Ronin; and Tokuda-Hall, a cofounder of Authors Against...

From the Editor - July 2024

This week, my husband and I encouraged our two high schoolers to double-check what summer work they need to complete before school begins — no waiting until the last minute in this house! — and here at the Horn Book we’re helping everyone get ready with this annual Back-to-School edition...

Editorial: An Honor Indeed (July/August 2024)

The July/August issue of the Magazine is always tricky, logistically, as it goes to press early and then sits and waits for its close-up on the morning after the ­Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Awards Banquet at ALA Annual. By the time you’re reading this, hopefully you will have joined us at booth 1638...

From the Editor - June 2024

I know I said May was my favorite month, but hello June! Earlier this week The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art announced its 2024 Carle Honors Honorees — and, thrillingly, the Horn Book is among them, as MENTOR. Read the press release here; and, yes, we’re still pinching...

From the Editor - May 2024

I’m not one to pick favorites, but May (Mother’s Day! my birthday!) may be my favorite month. As may be the new May/June Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Our Centennial, with foldout cover by April Harrison from Go Forth and Tell, written by Breanna J. McDaniel. The Horn Book’s May/June...

Editorial: Bertha's Chair? (May/June 2024)

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Soon after his (semi)-retirement, Roger Sutton met me on the steps of Simmons University, where our offices were located, to hand off a chair. Not just any chair: Bertha’s chair, which had belonged to the Horn Book’s founder, Bertha Mahony Miller. It sat in Roger’s office, too rickety for people...

2024 Summer Reading Recommendations

Let's Go! © 2024 by Julie Flett. I’m not a skateboarder, but it sure looks like fun in Julie Flett’s picture book Let’s Go! (at right). It’s a story about a kid mustering the courage to try something new (using Mom’s childhood skateboard!) and then finding — and helping build...
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