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As a child, I loved reading biographies of famous women. I wanted strong, nuanced, and passionate women to look up to, and I found them throughout history. They were writers, politicians, explorers, and so much more, and learning about them allowed me to imagine a broad future for myself. The...
This month we're celebrating people who have Made a Difference through their good work. Each day, we'll highlight a book about someone who has effected positive change, with a roundup on Fridays. Follow the hashtag #HBMaDJan17 @HornBook and Facebook.com/TheHornBook. This week's picks: Review of Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer,...
Roald Dahl wrote a lot, from short stories for adults to fantastical novels for kids. But what I love best about his work is the poetry, which he often tucked into his novels in the form of characters bursting into song. (Those Oompa Loompas had songs in the books with...
For Roger's twentieth anniversary as The Horn Book's editor in chief, we asked some of his favorite illustrators to decorate his favorite fashion item. Now you can, too! Click on the picture of the PDF below to print out a life-sized Roger head (illustration by Ed Briant), ideally on card...
Alexander Hamilton got a lot farther by working a lot harder, and wrote like he was running out of time. Lin-Manuel Miranda turned the world of theater upside down. And recently, Jack and Holman Wang, creators of the Cozy Classics series, paid tribute to Miranda’s final performance as Hamilton with...
In our July/August 2016 issue, reviewer Betty Carter asks author Jennifer L. Holm about the inspiration for her new novel Full of Beans. Read the full starred review.Betty Carter: You have a knack of making a story so time-specific (the Great Depression in Full of Beans, for example), yet so...
All week we've been celebrating the 2016 ALA Youth Media Award–winning authors and illustrators. Here are the winners' acceptance speeches and profiles; stay tuned for more next week!Newbery Medal: Matt de la Peña's Newbery acceptance speech for Last Stop on Market Street Profile of Matt de la Peña by Jennifer...
Dear Mr. Silverstein,dear Ms. Goose,dear Mr. Prelutsky,dear Dr. Seuss,dear Mr. Hughes,and dear Ms. Frost,I’m writing to confessthat I’ve sometimes lostwhatever connects meto a chapbook or a slamthough a big fan of poetryI am. Iamb!It’s just that the volumeof volumes of plotcan fill every bookshelfand schedule slotand sequels and prequelsin pages...
A quick search of the Horn Book Guide/Reviews Database shows three picture book biographies of Hillary Clinton, including two new ones (both published in January 2016). And this one from 2008, revised in August 2015: Then there's this new YA biography: UPDATED: And this new middle-grade biography (which I missed...
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