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Belated welcome, 2024! Our year-long centennial celebration means that we'll be doing a lot of reminiscing this year, including our usual annual Horn Book Year in Review. Enjoy this look back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA literature!

2023 ALA Awards coverage

May/June 2023 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future

2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards coverage, including our first-ever virtual live awards ceremony 

Summer Reading

Horn BOO!

Holiday High Notes

Fanfare

Farewell Editorial: What a Gift That Is by Horn Book MVP Awardee Martha V. Parravano

News about HB at home

2023 Horn Book Magazine features

• The Roots of Storytelling by Pamela S. Turner
• We Need Diverse Books: A Decade in Action by The WNDB team
• CCBC and Diverse Books: Numbers Are Just Part of the Story by Merri V. Lindgren, Megan Schliesman, Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, and Madeline Tyner
• Lost & Found: Recover, Discover, Uncover Through Sharing Our Stories — The Mary Nagel Sweetser Lecture by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
• Complicated Feelings: Thoughts on Being a Diverse Writer by Cece Bell
• What "They" Want by Tom Angleberger
• We Need Diverse Muslim and Jewish Books: An Update by Sadaf Siddique and Heidi Rabinowitz
• GTFOH with Magical Headaches: Chronic Pain in YA Fantasy by Katie Bircher
• Getting There: Taking a Trip Through Queer Kidlit by Alec B. Chunn and Anastasia Collins
• Loving Langston & Learning from Literary History by Dianne Johnson-Feelings
• Inclusive Imprints: An Update by Shoshana Flax
• Caldecott at Eighty-Five: A Decade in Review by Ramona Caponegro and Rob Bittner
• The Writer's Page: How Did I Get Here?: From Picture Books to a Graphic Memoir by Marisabina Russo
• An Excerpt from "I Am Myrtilla's Daughter" — The Zena Sutherland Lecture by Zetta Elliott

2023 Horn Book Magazine columns

• New for New Readers: Beginning-Reader Comics Roundup by Adrienne L. Pettinelli
• The Illustrator's Eye: Illustrating in Layers: The Wonder of Preseparation Art by JooHee Yoon
• Field Notes: I Gave My Life to Books: A Journey Through the World of Children's Literature by Dean Schneider
• Seeing Ourselves: Listen to the Kids by Christina Soontornvat
• Seeing Ourselves: When I Read by Janelle Washington
• Field Notes: Beyond the "Hero's Journey": We Need Diverse Curricula by Julie Hakim Azzam
• Seeing Ourselves: Correcting the Landscape by Andrea L. Rogers
• Seeing Ourselves: Stories Worthy of Being Told by Rajani LaRocca
• Seeing Ourselves: All Books for All by Angela Joy
• Seeing Ourselves: QTBIPOC in Abundance by Sonora Reyes
• A Publisher's Perspective: Three Decades of Inclusive Publishing by Jason Low
• Seeing Ourselves: Our Stories Could Fly: The Future of Books for Black Children by Ibi Zoboi
• Seeing Ourselves: The Mannequin of Charles Towne by Eden Royce
• Seeing Ourselves: Cherokee DNA Tree of Life: Our Syllabary by Jeff Edwards
• Seeing Ourselves: Write to Preserve, Edit to Protect by Angeline Boulley
• Field Notes: Hosting a Middle-Grade Graphic Novel Club by Amanda Lawrence
• New for New Readers: Beginning Reader Roundup Fall 2023 by Adrienne L. Pettinelli
• The Writer's Page: Not-Quite-All-of-a-Kind: Seeking My Jewish Life in Books by Laurel Snyder
• Field Notes: Teaching News Literacy by Pamela Brunskill

hbook.com articles

• Baby-Testing Board Books: A Report and a Roundup from a Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award Jury Member by Rachel G. Payne
• The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Emma A. Shacochis

Interviews

• Why the Hell Haven't More Beginning Readers Won the Caldecott Medal? by Patrick Gall and Jonathan Hunt
• When the Angels Left the Old Country: Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour 2023 by Shoshana Flax
• Five questions for Joy McCullough by Shoshana Flax
• On Audiobooks: From Page to Mic: An Interview About Adaptations by Kate Smith
• Five Questions for Librarian Akunna Eneh by Elissa Gershowitz
• Reflections on the Pura Belpré Award: An Interview with Sandra Ríos Balderrama by Alicia K. Long
• Five Questions for Gail Carriger About Divinity 36 by Elissa Gershowitz
• A Conversation with Doug Salati by Julie Hakim Azzam
• Five Questions for Remy Lai by Shoshana Flax
• Calde-folklore: there's a hell of a lot of it by Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt
• Dare Coulter
• Joseph Bruchac
• Jerry Craft
• Vashti Harrison
• Jack Wong
• Kerascoët
• Maxwell Eaton III
• Pedro Martin
• Clar Angkasa

Talks with Roger

• Nick Brooks
• Marla Frazee
• Caren Stelson and Selina Alko
• Liesa Abrams
• Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin
• Chrystal D. Giles
• Thien Pham
• Michaela Goade
• Jesús Trejo and Eliza Kinkz
• Dashka Slater
• Lauri Hornik
• Melissa de la Cruz
• Raj Haldar
• Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann
• Amber McBride
• Saadia Faruqi
• Michael Datcher and Frank Morrison
• Nikki Grimes and Brian Pinkney
• Joanna Ho
• Gary Schmidt
• Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Publishers' Previews

January/February: Books in the Middle

Misa Sugiura | Willie Mae Brown | Karuna Riazi | Leah Johnson | Kiyash Monsef

March/April: Spring 2023

Thanhhà Lại | Angeline Boulley | DK Dyson and Rudy Gutierrez |  Marni Fogelson and Mahani Teave | Vincent Tirado | Kelly Yang

May/June: Diverse Books

Sharon G. Flake | Mariama J. Lockington | Sarwat Chadda | Carole Boston Weatherford | Juno Dawson | Emily Bowen Cohen 

July/August: Debut Authors

Arya Shahi | X. Fang | Taylor Tyng | Shadra Strickland | Tim Fischer

September/October: Fall 2023

Carole Lindstrom and Bridget George | Carl Hiaasen | Jen Ferguson | Roshani Chokshi | Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey, and Jarrett Pumphrey | Gwendolyn Wallace

November/December: Picture Books and Graphic Novels

Chris Grabenstein | Lauren Castillo | Kristina McMorris and Amanda Yoshida | Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham

In memoriam

• Christine Baker
• Byron Barton
• Echo Brown
• Eve Bunting
• Kitty Donohoe
• Ian Falconer
• Keith Giffen
• Mary Ann Hoberman
• Joan M. Lexau
• Janet Taylor Lisle
• Ellen Loughran
• Ian McGinty
• Casey McIntyre
• Louise Meriwether
• Susan Patron
• Julie Anne Peters
• Rachel Pollack
• John Romita
• Gerald Rose
• Amy Schwartz
• Nicky Singer
• Ed Young

Blogs

Calling Caldecott | Family Reading |Out of the Box

Miscellaneous

Booklists and resources

Book Reviews of the Week

Editorials

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