From the Editor - November 2025

From outer space to worlds almost like our own to realities in historical fiction, this issue of Notes offers a variety of settings and journeys. With Five Questions for Laura Amy Schlitz about her thought-provoking and enjoyable sentient-dolls-meet-plucky-and-complex-protagonist novel The Winter of the Dollhouse, there are many great recommendations with which to curl up as the weather gets chillier, at least here in New England. And speaking of New England: the Massachusetts Senate has now advanced its anti-book banning legislation (joining CT, RI, and VT; plus others)! Next step, the House.

From the November 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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