From the Editor - July 2025

by Elissa Gershowitz
Jul 23, 2025 | Filed in Newsletters

If you’re in the Boston area this weekend, join me at the Boston Public Library on Saturday, July 26, in conversation with Awkward author-illustrator Svetlana Chmakova, as part of Boston Reads Comics. On Sunday, July 27, I’ll be leading a lunchtime seminar at the Summer Children’s Literature Institute, “Are We There Yet?” at Simmons University. A weekend with children’s lit people: balm for the soul and a chance to process, commiserate, and mobilize around mind-boggling national dictates and to celebrate (not-so) small victories.

From the July 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

Elissa Gershowitz

Elissa Gershowitz is editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc. She holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons University and a BA from Oberlin College.

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