Authors & Illustrators
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....
(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....
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...
Charles George Esperanza, C. G., has a gift for illustrating stories. His choice of palette paints the plot on canvas. His brushstrokes create characters so real and relatable, you feel like you’re a part of the setting, a character in the landscape. His thoughtful execution of the stories on the...
Jason Reynolds sits on the rooftop of his DC home, overlooking the warm sunset, telling me stories of his late father riding motorcycles, and says, “Build your archive.” He wears all black and hobbles up the winding staircase carrying a smooth bottle of water. He does not walk fast. Everything...
I fell in love with Black history at a very young age. I come from a family with roots in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Detroit. A family of Black cowboys, storytellers, landowners, entrepreneurs, gin makers, community leaders, and doctors. Unfortunately, I didn’t grow up seeing these stories told in the...
Photo: Jeremy Charles. In the early days of expanding her art business, the Tree of Life Studio, into the online frontier, my friend Rebecca Lee Kunz, the 2025 Caldecott Medal winner, did what everyone did circa 2008: she started a blog. It was called An Artful Way, and its banner...
Erin and Sharon at the 2021 launch of Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey at Hockessin BookShelf in Delaware. Photo courtesy of Sharon Huss Roat. Looking back on 2024, two-time Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly will tell you it was the worst year of her life. She spent most of it undergoing...
“As human beings, our real lives are our precious secret.” From Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan My dear friend, writer and artist Ashley Bryan (1923–2022), nicknamed me Sheila of Oz. Soon after OZ Children’s Bookstore opened, in June 1982,...
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