Welcome, 2022! 2021 wound up being another highly unusual year like 2020. Revisit the past twelve months — is that all it has been?! — and lose yourself in the world of children's and YA literature with our annual Horn Book Year in Review.  

2021 ALA Awards coverage

May/June 2021 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: The Pura Belpré Award at 25

2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards coverage, including our virtual celebration throughout October 

Summer Reading

Horn BOO!

Holiday High Notes

Fanfare

HBTV by Elissa Gershowitz

Memorial Day 2021: The Great Reset and Tomb Guard Values by Jeff Gottesfeld

O Say Can You See by Henry Lyman

Pop! Goes the E-book by Shoshana Flax

COVID-19 coverage

2021 Horn Book Magazine features

• The CCBC's Diversity Statistics: New Categories, New Data by Madeline Tyner
• Nonfiction Windows So White by Marc Aronson
• More Than a Footnote: Challenges for BIPOC Nonfiction Authors by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Why Read Books from the Past? by Mitali Perkins
• My Father's Final Lesson: The Zena Sutherland Lecture by Jason Reynolds
• How a Prelingual Deaf Child Learned to Love Books by Ann Clare LeZotte
• Caterpillar Man: Remembering Eric Carle by Leonard S. Marcus
• When Failure Is Not an Option: Connecting the Dots with STEM by Christine Taylor-Butler
• Bad Books (and How I've Learned to Love Them) by Eric Rohmann

2021 Horn Book Magazine columns

• In Memoriam: Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020) by Gregory Maguire
• Field Notes: "But Are They Level O?": Leveled Reading and Antiracism by Maeve Visser Knoth
• The Writer's Page: Hello Again by Kimberly Willis Holt
• The Writer's Page: Imagining Our Way to the Other Side: Children's Literature and Radical Imagination by Sayantani DasGupta
• Happy Anniversary: All-of-a-Kind Family by Emily Schneider
• Board Book Roundup: Young at Heart by Rachel G. Payne

Interviews

• "Sometimes You Have to Lie": A Conversation with Leslie Brody by Kathleen T. Horning
• Dancing at the Pity Party: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2021 by Shoshana Flax
• ABC Your Way to Confidence by Elissa Gershowitz
• Megan Whalen Turner
• Frank Morrison
• Lesa Cline-Ransome and Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Linda Sue Park
• Angeline Boulley
• Matt Ringler
• Sarah Miller
• Emily Jenkins
• Marcie Colleen and Aaron Becker
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson, and Nikkolas Smith
• Thomas King

Talks with Roger

• Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
• Jennifer L. Holm
• Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk
• Lisa Fipps
• Kosoko Jackson
• Nidhi Chanani
• Rita Williams-Garcia
• Crystal Marie Fleming
• Jerry Spinelli
• Wendy Wan-Long Shang
• Larry Dane Brimner
• Alda P. Dobbs
• Arthur A. Levine
• Rosemary Wells and Jerry Pinkney
• Cherie Dimaline
• Wade Hudson
• Sara Pennypacker
• Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes
• Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock
• Julian Randall
• Christy Ottaviano
• Leslie Connor

Publishers' Previews

January/February: Middle-Grade

B. B. Alston | Gary Paulsen | David Levithan | Hena Khan

March/April: Spring 2021

Karen Cushman | Justina Ireland |  Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Graci Kim | Carole Boston Weatherford

May/June: Diverse Books Spotlight

Chrystal D. Giles | Tahereh Mafi | Donna Barba Higuera

July/August: Debut Authors and Illustrators

Loveis Wise | Areli Morales | Priya Huq

September/October: Fall 2021

Karla Arenas Valenti | Katherine Applegate | Mark Oshiro | Mem Fox & Mark Teague | Veronica Chambers

November/December: Picture Books and Graphic Novels

Dung Ho | Angela De Vito | George O'Connor | Kayla Miller & Jeffrey Canino | Ruth Behar | Alphabet Rockers

In memoriam

• George Ancona
• Kathleen Krull
• Anne Irish
• Laban Carrick Hill
• Marianne Carus
• Norton Juster
• Norma Jean Sawicki
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Ann K. Beneduce
• Beverly Cleary
• Constance C. Greene
• Henrietta M. Smith
• Arnold Adoff
• Robert Quackenbush
• Eric Carle
• Lois Ehlert
• Byrd Baylor
• Bernette Ford
• Patricia Reilly Giff
• Ann Rinaldi
• Barbara Bader
• Floyd Cooper
• Ted Lewin
• Doris Orgel
• Eloise Greenfield
• Jill Murphy
• Gary Paulsen
• Ann A. Flowers
• Jerry Pinkney
• April Pulley Sayre
• Steve Jenkins

Blogs

Calling Caldecott | Family Reading |Out of the Box |Read Roger

Miscellaneous

Booklists and resources

Book Reviews of the Week

Editorials

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