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Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2021. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2022 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
Illustration from Little Red and the Cat Who Loved Cake by Barbara Lehman. The following books will receive starred reviews in the January/February 2022 Horn Book Magazine. Sato the Rabbit: The Moon by Yuki Ainoya; trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky (Enchanted Lion) Mina by Matthew Forsythe (Wiseman/Simon) Room for...
Dear friends: Today is my sixty-fifth birthday, and my present to myself (and maybe some of you!) is my retirement from the role of Editor in Chief of the Horn Book, Inc., effective December 31 of this year. Why? Because I’ve been at it for more than twenty-five years and...
Everybody here at the Horn Book is deeply saddened by the death of Jerry Pinkney, a great Friend of the Horn Book for many decades. I had just talked to Jerry, along with Rosemary Wells, for a Talks With Roger interview about their new picture book The Welcome Chair, which...
Hello my long-neglected friends: What’s that sad excuse for an excuse we use nowadays? Oh yes: “…but LIFE got in the way.” That. Sorry I have been absent from your inboxes these past several weeks. (I’m reminded of how Joan Didion would begin letters that had lain too long unanswered:...
Illustration from The Message: The Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Text Message by Michael Emberley. The following books will receive starred reviews in the November/December 2021 Horn Book Magazine: When I Wake Up by Seth Fishman; illus. by Jessixa Bagley (Greenwillow) The Big Bath House by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Gracey...
Dear friends: Happy Anniversary to me! Yes, Richard and I officially tied the knot* ten years ago today. And to continue in the same nuptial vein: congratulations to eternal friend of the Horn Book Katie Bircher, who got married** to her guy Wilber (who apparently has thus far successfully resisted...
Dear friends: While I wish I could tell you I’ve been off the grid for the past month in some fabulous wilderness outpost, the reasons for my absence from your inboxes are far more mundane: Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. I’m avoiding at least three more as I type. But that’s how...
Illustration from Dream Street by Tricia Elam Walker; illus. by Ekua Holmes. The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October 2021 Horn Book Magazine. Maybe… by Chris Haughton (Candlewick) A House by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow) Bright Star by Yuyi Morales (Porter/Holiday) Hurricane by John Rocco (Little, Brown) Oscar’s Tower of Flowers by Lauren Tobia (Candlewick) Dream Street by...
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