From the Editor – February 2015

by Roger Sutton
Feb 09, 2015 | Filed in Articles & Opinion

The ALA has spoken, and this year’s roster of awards for children’s and young adult books is impressively diverse and Diverse.

The ALA has spoken, and this year’s roster of awards for children’s and young adult books is impressively diverse and Diverse. The forthcoming issue of The Horn Book Herald includes all the lowdown about the Newbery, Caldecott and other book awards announced earlier this month in Chicago — and 2015 Newbery medalist Kwame Alexander gets the Horn Book’s five-question treatment. Look for the Herald in your inbox next week.

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Roger Sutton,
Editor in Chief

From the February 2015 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

Roger Sutton

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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