From the Editor - August 2023

by Elissa Gershowitz
Aug 16, 2023 | Filed in Newsletters

We book people can be suckers for books about book people. See “Make way for...book-makers,” featuring seven picture-book biographies about authors, illustrators, editors, and a sculptor of literary ducklings. Visitors can quack at those famous creatures at the Boston Public Garden year-round; a little farther north, in Brunswick, Maine, visit the Curtis Memorial Library to see Robert McCloskey: The Art of Wonder Exhibit. Editorial Assistant Monica de los Reyes went last weekend — and was able to share a Horn Book Magazine (featuring Robert McCloskey's illustration) with the artist's daughter, “the actual Sal!” 

From the August 2023 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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