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Belated welcome, 2023! We know we're late to the party revisiting everything that happened in 2022 — how is it already the end of February?! — but we always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA literature with our annual Horn Book Year in Review. We hope you do too.

2022 ALA Awards coverage

May/June 2022 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: The Newbery Centennial

• May/June 2022 Horn Book Magazine Newbery cover key by Cynthia K. Ritter

2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards coverage, including our virtual celebration throughout October 

Summer Reading

Horn BOO!

Holiday High Notes

Fanfare

So Long, Farewell: A Salute to Roger Sutton by Horn Book editors

Elissa Gershowitz Named Editor in Chief of The Horn Book

2022 Horn Book Magazine features

• How to Read a Wordless Picture Book — The Mary Nagel Sweetser Lecture by David Wiesner
• The Shut Doors of Libraries by Jeannine Atkins
• Graphic Memoirs: Why We Read Them. Why We Need Them. by Sylvie Kantorovitz
• A Journey of Transformation — The Zena Sutherland Lecture by Yuyi Morales
• The Art of Visual Storytelling in Long-Form Nonfiction by Tanya Lee Stone
• Ashley Bryan and Jerry Pinkney: Unfettered Artists Sharing Their Talents, Visions, and Joys by Violet J. Harris

2022 Horn Book Magazine columns

• Field Notes: A Temporary Expert: Fact-Checking for the Horn Book by Anita L. Burkam
• Field Notes: Teaching Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Dean Schneider
• The Writer's Page: "Why Don't You Write About White People?" by Mildred Pitts Walter
• Cadenza: "The Horn Book" by Jonny Hawkins
• Field Notes: The Day the Book Banners Came for Us by Adrienne L. Pettinelli
• The Writer's Page: A Chorus of Storytellers: Mythology and Comics by George O'Connor
• Board Book Roundup: Mirrors and Holes and Flaps, Oh My! by Rachel G. Payne

hbook.com articles

• The “Vaccine” Is Here: Reading as a “Social Inoculation” for the Future of STEM by Kim Tomsic
• Mirrors, Windows, Sliding Glass Doors; Prisms…Curtains…Starting Blocks…and More! by Christina Dorr
• Fables, Folktales, and Puppets for the Pandemic by Helen Kelly
• Learning to Read Upside Down by Amanda Lawrence
• Board Book Roundup Plus Five Questions: Summer 2022 by Rachel G. Payne
• Board Book Roundup: Baby Horn BOO! 2022 Edition by Sarah Threlkeld
• Introducing...Reviews Remix! by Mark Tuchman

Interviews

• Board Books Get an Award of Their Own by Rachel G. Payne
• On Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Ellen Oh
• An Interview with Ginny Moore Kruse by Nina Lindsay
• A Conversation with Jason Chin by Martha V. Parravano
• Five Questions for the Boston Book Festival's Gina Gagliano
• Five Questions for Christina Pascucci Ciampa of All She Wrote Books by Elissa Gershowitz
• Five Questions for Maxine Beneba Clarke about When We Say Black Lives Matter by Elissa Gershowitz
• Five Questions about Laundromat Libraries by Kitty Flynn
• The Passover Guest: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2022 by Shoshana Flax
• Five Questions for Lizzo's Library of Congress Hosts by Nicholas A. Brown
• Marilyn Nelson
• Christine McDonnell and Victoria Tentler Krylov
• Kevin Young
• Kat Fajardo
• Ruta Sepetys
• Talia Dutton
• John Cho and Sarah Suk
• Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki
• Margi Preus
• Andrea L. Rogers
• Anthony Perry and Alexis Bunten

Talks with Roger

• Avi
• Lisa Yee
• Bill Richardson
• Michael Sampson
• Maggie Stiefvater
• Minh Lê and Dan Santat
• Alex Boersma and Nick Pyenson
• Lauren Wolk
• Angela Joy and Janelle Washington
• Gordon Korman
• Margaret Quinlin
• Dan Gemeinhart
• Christina Diaz Gonzalez
• Jodi Lynn Anderson
• Liza Baker
• Carolyn Yoder
• Bao Phi
• Jas Hammonds

Publishers' Previews

January/February: Diverse Books Spotlight

Lisa Stringfellow | Daniel Minter | Eva Chen and Sophie Diao | Victor Piñeiro | Jetta Grace Martin

March/April: Spring 2022

Layla F. Saad | Dhonielle Clayton | Phil Stamper |  Stephen Briseño | Vincent Tirado | Kelly Yang

May/June: Middle-Grade Fiction

Tae Keller | J. A. White | Derrick Chow

July/August: Debut Authors

C. C. Harrington | Mylisa Larsen | Andrea Beatriz Arango | Adrea Theodore

September/October: Fall 2022

Tziporah Cohen | David Barclay Moore | Tae Keller | Maya Prasad | Meghan McCarthy

November/December: Picture Books and Graphic Novels

Dan Santat | Frank Morrison | Loren Long | Jamie Green | Jonathan Case | Cat Min | Dan Yaccarino | Matt Tavares

In memoriam

• Ashley Bryan
• Jan Pieńkowski
• Shirley Hughes
• Patricia MacLachlan
• David McKee
• Patricia A. McKillip
• Jim Murphy
• Betty Levin
• Bobby Byrd
• Charlotte Pomerantz
• Jeanne Steig
• Raymond Briggs
• Joseph Delaney
• Jerry Griswold
• Jill Pinkwater
• Marcus Sedgwick
• Ellen Wittlinger
• Marijane Meaker
• Phyllis Fogelman
• Natalie S. Bober

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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