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Cover art (with a surprise!) © 2026 by Jon Klassen from The Lions’ Run, written by Sara Pennypacker. Marjorie Ingall on “The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Picture-Book Biographies.” The Writer’s Page: Sara Pennypacker on writing fiction that shares difficult realities. Books in the Home: what Ann Dee Ellis learned from her mother,...
Thanks so much. I’m incredibly honoured to be here again! Wild. The last time I was here — for I Know Here, by Laurel Croza—I felt like a total outsider. Laurel and I were sitting next to legends: Peter Sís, John Burningham, and Helen Oxenbury — all these people whose work...
Thank you to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee for this wonderful and completely surprising award, and to the brilliance of Neal Porter and Matt James. Congratulations to everyone who is being honored here today and, as well, to all the authors and illustrators who have had the joy of...
In my decade-long journey to becoming a picture-book illustrator/author, I have learned many things. Photo: Shoshana Flax. I have learned how to rap a book on stage in front of an auditorium full of kids without fear! I have also learned how to go with the flow when the kid...
Thank you so much for this honor. I wrote My Daddy Is a Cowboy in 2020, which was a difficult year for all of us. In the midst of such suffering, I felt the need for joy more keenly than I ever had before. Out of that need came this...
Hello and thank you! I wish I could travel back in time twenty-five years and tell the high school version of me sitting in class right over there at CRLS [Cambridge Rindge and Latin School] that I’m getting this Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor today. Her mind would be blown. It’s...
Original cover art by Matt James. Horn Book Fanfare: Our choices for the best books of 2025. Coverage of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration (at the Cambridge Public Library”): judges’ remarks, speeches, photos. Field Notes: bookstore children’s events manager Hannah Peterson shares “Storytime Smash Hits.” Single copies of...
In August of 2024, Illinois passed HB 4895, a bill mandating climate education in public high schools by the 2026–2027 school year. Four other states (NY, CA, CT, NJ) already mandate climate education in their schools. Recent surveys, however, show that the majority of U.S. teachers don’t teach climate change...
Welcome to our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season's greetings from the Horn Book staff! The Birds of Christmas by Olivia Armstrong; illus. by Mira Miroslavova Preschool, Primary Eerdmans 40 pp. 8/25 9780802856470 $18.99 One cold night, Raven receives a celestial...
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