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Preview November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine

Cover art by Kerilynn Wilson from One Foggy Christmas Eve. Final issue of our centennial year! (But the celebration continues: stay tuned!) The Zena Sutherland Lecture: An excerpt from Meg Medina’s “Finding Hope in the Abyss.” Viviane Ezratty and Hélène Valotteau on the centennial of L’Heure Joyeuse, the first children’s...

Much Ado About Middle Grade

When we set out to write a few pages about this issue’s centennial mini-theme of middle grade, we were somewhat daunted, and with good reason. We’ve said this before, but — it’s a huge topic, and one we’ve covered extensively throughout our hundred years. Our first recommended booklists, in October...

2024 Mind the Gap Awards: The books that didn't win at ALA

Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. The books that didn’t win.   Stopped Let’s Go! by Michael Emberley Elena Rides by Juana Medina     Eclipsed Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka When the Stars Came Home by Brittany Luby; illus. by Natasha Donovan     Wilted My Baba’s...

Preview September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine

Cover art by Garth Williams from Charlotte’s Web, written by E. B. White. Cover art © renewed 1980 by Estate of Garth Williams. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Fifth issue of our centennial year! HB100: Much Ado About Middle Grade: Continuing our centennial coverage with discussion of this issue’s...

The Robin Smith Picture Book Prize

Photo courtesy of Dean Schneider. I bet I’m the only grown person (near-elderly, actually) to have burst into tears in a Mac Barnett signing line. The book was The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse written by Barnett and illustrated by Jon ­Klassen, and it was the inaugural winner of...

Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: Expect the Unexpected

Dare Coulter. Photo: Joshua Steadman for WALTER Magazine. The first thing one learns about working with Dare Coulter is to expect the unexpected. Her beautiful world has its own rules of order and its own rhythms and rhymes. Adages, idioms, metaphors need to be rewritten. Case in point — for...

Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: A Higher Level

R. Alnita Coulter and Dare Coulter. Photo courtesy of R. Alnita Coulter. When my daughter Dare Coulter heard she had won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, she screamed. So did I, and the rest of our family, as we gathered around computer screens like they gathered around TV consoles...

Profile of 2024 CSK Author Award winner Ibi Zoboi

At Ibi Zoboi's 2014 graduation from the Writing for Children Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts: husband Joseph, son Zuber, daughters Abadai and Bahati, and mother Monique. Photo courtesy of Ibi Zoboi. My whole life, my mother has been an avid writer. Between leading writing workshops for teenage girls...

Big Life: A Profile of 2024 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Pam Muñoz Ryan

Tracy Mack and Pam Muñoz Ryan. Photo courtesy of Pam Muñoz Ryan. “When there’s room in the heart, there’s room in the house,” Rosa Maria proclaims in Pam Muñoz Ryan’s picture book Mice and Beans, illustrated by Joe Cepeda. Much like this lovable character, Pam makes space for all the...
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