From the Editor - April 2017

by Roger Sutton
Apr 11, 2017 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
may2017magazine_300Don't miss the annual special issue of The Horn Book Magazine, this year on the theme of humor. Wow, that sounds deadly. But it isn't, trust me! Along with mostly-serious articles about how and why to be funny in books for young people, we've also solicited some of our author and illustrator friends to tell us and you some jokes. Missing, and thus I share with you, is my favorite joke with which to torment seven-year-olds. It's a knock-knock joke; you start.

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Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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